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тАО05-22-2007 01:00 AM
тАО05-22-2007 01:00 AM
MSA1500 A/A
Two Clusters (each with 2 nodes)and 2 standalone servers are connected to MSA1500
Each server has 3 fiber cards.Zoning is configured so that the first card of each server is connected to the first controller through the first switch and the second card to the second controller through the second switch.Third card is for backup purposes and is connected to another switch zoned properly with a tapelibrary.
Recenty we migrated from Active/Passive to Active/Active firmware. However now we are facing some serious performance issues mainly with the backup. (The SQL users still continue to complain as before).I have some questions.
1)Do we need to keep zoning in the fiber switches now with A/A firmware?
2)In the ACU, setting the preferred logical paths to each controller will cause temporal failover to the clusters?
3)We have installed SanSurfer. Should we change the rate settings of the fibercards from Auto to 2GB.Is it going to help? Are there any other parameters we could change there to increase performance.
4)Yesterday we run HPReadData and the results we got were frustrating
Server1 D: 3.69MB/Sec
Server1 ╬Х: 1,59╬Ь╬Т/Sec
Server2 D: 9.76MB/Sec
Clusternode2 H: 0.43MB/Sec
5) The problem seems to be more intense with the cluster nodes running SQL.Now we need almost double time to backup sql databases.
Any suggestions or ideas would be very helpful.
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тАО05-22-2007 02:06 AM
тАО05-22-2007 02:06 AM
Re: MSA1500 A/A
There are couple of things you should keep in mind, here.
I am assuming that there is no ISL between the 2 switches.
1) Earlier since you had A/P firmware, and had 2 paths from each host to the MSA, neways one path was leading to a passive controller and thus was not seeing any LUNs, therefore only one path was active at a time, now because you have an A/A firmware, both the controllers can see the LUNs, thus you need to have a multipathing software on your Host Machines, eg: MPIO.
MPIO gives you an oppurtunity to do either Load balancing or choosing one of the 2 paths to do I/O
This is where the second point comes in the picture.
2) If you have both the Controllers on the MSA as active, have you enabled Prferred path settings? if you have then that leads to Explicit A/A configuration. which means, that one specific controller will manage some specific set of LUNs.
Now lets assume that if the I/O is happening from a 1st FC-HBA of a Host leading to Controller 1 of the MSA, but the LUN you are trying to acees is managed by Controller 2 (because of the explicit prefered path configuration in ACU), then Controller 1 has to communicate to Controller 2 through the Inter Controller Link and to talk to the LUN. now since Inter Controller Link is a serial communication, thus this could be a reason for the bottleneck.
Changing the the settings in HBA, should not make any difference. I would suggest to disable the Preffered path selection (not SSP-selective storage presentation) in ACU, or , Manage the same using the Multipathing software in such a way that it matches your prefered path selection.
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тАО05-23-2007 11:21 PM
тАО05-23-2007 11:21 PM
Re: MSA1500 A/A
In the ACU we have set manually all the LUNS to be managed from Controller1. Also in the HP DSM Manager we have set as the preferred path Controller1. So i guess that traffic from all LUNS pass through Controller1.
Back to the Backup issue now. As i said all servers have 3 fiber cards 2 of which are connected to MSA1500 through SanSwitch1 and the other one through SanSwitch2 to the TapeLibrary.So data to be backed up go like this
MSA1500 -> SanSwitch1 -> HBA1 -> Server -> HBA3 -> SanSwitch2 -> Tapelibrary.
HBA1=Qlogic 2Gb
HBA3=Adaptec 1Gb
I tried to backup local disk C of Server and the speed was almost double. So I suppose that the bottleneck is between MSA1500, SanSwitch1 and HBA1.
Any suggestions?
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тАО05-24-2007 12:27 AM
тАО05-24-2007 12:27 AM
Re: MSA1500 A/A
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тАО05-24-2007 12:32 AM
тАО05-24-2007 12:32 AM
Re: MSA1500 A/A
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тАО05-25-2007 12:13 AM
тАО05-25-2007 12:13 AM
Re: MSA1500 A/A
At the connections options in the HBAs there are three choises.
1)Loop Only
2)Point to Point Only
3)Loop preferred- Otherwise Point to Point
By default the third is chosen.
I read somewhere that when the Fiber Card is connected to a switch first and not directly to the MSA1500 Point to Point Only should be used otherwise performance is degraded. Could that be true and how Loop preferred is working?
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тАО05-25-2007 12:25 AM
тАО05-25-2007 12:25 AM
Re: MSA1500 A/A
Point to Point otherwise loop preferred is the default option because it is similar to auto negotiate option.
You may need to select point to point explicitly only in case the auto negotiation fails,
As far as I am aware there would be no performance degradation if auto negotiation is selected provided the neogitation is correct which means if an HBA is rated as 2Gbps and it has negotiated at that speed then there shouldn't be any issues,
Thanks & Regards
Rajiv Kulkarni
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тАО05-25-2007 12:31 AM
тАО05-25-2007 12:31 AM
Re: MSA1500 A/A
That because, when you connect a FC-HBA to a SAN Switch, it goes through a F Login process, which doesnt happen in case of Loops (LIP happens in that case. This let the FC-HBA know that its a part of point to point connection not loop.
In your case if the 3rd option is choosen then FC-HBA will work in case of Loop as well as Point to Point, depending on what is the HBA is connected to.
Now if you want, you can try moving from 3rd to 2nd, which is Point to Point. See if thats the reason for bottleneck.
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тАО06-08-2007 03:14 AM
тАО06-08-2007 03:14 AM
Re: MSA1500 A/A
Performance is still very poor. It got worse after migrating to A/A.
I have a question about HBA FC2214 drivers.We are using 9.1.0.13 version and i found 9.1.3.11 version but hesitate to update as we dont know if there is compatibility with MSA1500 A/A.
Server is HP DL585 Windows 2000 SP4 Cluster.
After migrating to A/A HP did not mention anything about updating HBA drivers.
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тАО06-11-2007 03:07 PM
тАО06-11-2007 03:07 PM
Re: MSA1500 A/A
Could you login to the MSA 1500 using Serial console (hyperterminal) and type "Show tech_support" at the prompt.
Capture the configuration using Capture Text option in hyperterminal and post the same.
We could then analyse the log file and found that what could be broken.
Thanks & Regards
Rajiv Kulkarni