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тАО02-19-2010 07:37 AM
тАО02-19-2010 07:37 AM
I'm getting transfer speeds in the 40-80MB/s range. I was going to use this as a backup to disk solution but backing 100gb in 4hours is slower than tape.
Things i've tried:
-Every cache/rebuild priority setting
-every raid type with multiple number of drives
-updated drivers / firmware
-reformatted / downloaded newest drivers
-replaced fiber
-removed 2nd enclosure
-tried each fc link independently
-attached to an identical server
-enabled optimum performance in windows
I think thats all...
I've been on the phone with HP, but they wont troubleshoot performance issues. They did find a drive throwing errors, but i pulled the drive out and no performance gain.
I'm leaning torward a FC issue, perhaps on the switches. I inherited this array and i'm not familiar with hp nor FC.
I've read people having similiar problems, but none had a solution. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Solved! Go to Solution.
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тАО02-19-2010 07:50 AM
тАО02-19-2010 07:50 AM
Re: MSA1000 is sloooooow
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тАО02-19-2010 08:01 AM
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Re: MSA1000 is sloooooow
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тАО02-19-2010 09:35 AM
тАО02-19-2010 09:35 AM
Re: MSA1000 is sloooooow
I found a error in my writing.
I stated that an average speed of 40-80 MB/s is bad. But it not bad.
When you have a card, scsi 2 with a max transfer of 40 MB/s or SCSI3 with a maw transfer of 80 MB/s, an average between 40 or 80 MB/s is verry good.
It is not so when plugging disk U320 15 krpm there performing faster. I don believe that you can achief a higher speed than this.
Dany
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тАО02-19-2010 09:57 AM
тАО02-19-2010 09:57 AM
Re: MSA1000 is sloooooow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI
have i totally just lost my mind?
Ok, I just ran the same utility on a dell Scsi array (ultra 320) much older than this MSA. I got 167.5 MB/s, which i a little slow b/c its raid5.
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тАО02-19-2010 10:51 AM
тАО02-19-2010 10:51 AM
Re: MSA1000 is sloooooow
If there are U80 disks, the MSA will use that speed when talking to this disk, but it can use higher speeds to faster disks. In other words: it will not "slow down the whole bus". I've seen configurations where one disk was running the old at async. 5 MB/s while all others were running at 160MB/s.
Now, that is the speed during the data-in / data-out SCSI phase. Unless I mix something up, everything else (arbitration, command) runs at asynchronous 5 MegaBytes/second.
Being able to pull 80 MB/sec is a great value - especially if it is against a single logical disk. I've once run a host-based mirror verification with 6 mirrors on two MSA1000 each and got those 80MB/s, too.
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тАО02-19-2010 11:17 AM
тАО02-19-2010 11:17 AM
Re: MSA1000 is sloooooow
If thats true and the controller is 160... Making 80MB/s expected, then this thing is a paper weight to me
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тАО02-19-2010 12:04 PM
тАО02-19-2010 12:04 PM
Re: MSA1000 is sloooooow
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/11033_na/11033_na.HTML
States: "Performance ├в The MSA1000 and its components have been designed using the latest industry standard 2 Gb interconnects and Fibre Channel technology. Performance tests indicate a data transmission rate of up to 30,000 IOPS and bandwidth of up to 200 MB per second."
I found this by doing a google search on the part number of one of the controllers (218231-B22)
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тАО02-19-2010 12:11 PM
тАО02-19-2010 12:11 PM
Re: MSA1000 is sloooooow
> Performance tests indicate a data transmission rate of up to 30,000 IOPS
The MSA1000 can manage up to 42 disk drives. The slightly younger MSA1500 (which uses the same MSA1000 controller module) can manage up to 56 disk drives.
Let's do a little math:
30,000/42 ~= 715
30,000/56 ~= 535
Do you really expect that a single disk dive can do that many I/Os in a 'real life'?
> and bandwidth of up to 200 MB per second."
Note that it says "bandwidth", not "throughput". The former is the maximum capacity of the data path.