MSA-1500 is an expensive dissapointment

[Gene Leybzon]

David, here is the info:

- Dual Controller?
Single

- Active/Active?
Active/Passive

- Controller firmware version?
MSA1500 Firmware Revision: 5.20b1500 (SGA074102X)
Build Time: 2007-01-24 16:03:28

FCA
- Native Red Hat driver or HP-driver?
Driver for HBA FC1142SR: Driver:8.01.03p5 and BIOS:1.09 (I think it is HP)

- Queue-depth?
1

[Gene Leybzon]

Can someone just execute
'time dd if= of=/dev/null bs=512'
against MSA 1500CS and post result to this forum?
That would be a great help.

[David Tapper_1]

Hi,

Increase the Queue-depth to 16 or 32 on the FCA and make another test.
You can use the set_parm-script to do this.
This change requires a reload of the driver.

Also make sure that you have the correct OS setting for the host in the MSA, It should be set to "Linux".

Regards,
David