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November 27th, 2024 16:39
ME5024 ControllerA slower IOPS than ControllerB
Dear Team.
Help me understand the strange behavior of the new storage system ME5024!
The situation is as follows, IOPS for random write and read on controllerA is much lower than on controllerB, with the same configurations.
Moreover, on any type of RAID arrays (RAID1, 10, 5, 6).
For testing, there is the following test
Array type virtual
PoolA x2 SSD disks: SAMSUNG MZILG7T6HBLAAD3 in RAID1 Volume 200GB
PoolB x2 SSD disks: SAMSUNG MZILG7T6HBLAAD3 in RAID1 Volume 200GB
Maping Volume SAS Connector on one Windows Server 2019 DELL HBA 355e SAS 2 cable: port0 ControllerA and port0 ControllerB
Windows Volume 64k format
ControllerA
[Read]
SEQ 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 3136.548 MB/s [ 2991.2 IOPS] < 2672.27 us>
SEQ 128KiB (Q= 32, T= 1): 2109.784 MB/s [ 16096.4 IOPS] < 1984.08 us>
RND 4KiB (Q= 32, T=16): 98.544 MB/s [ 24058.6 IOPS] < 21222.46 us>
RND 4KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 14.290 MB/s [ 3488.8 IOPS] < 286.51 us>
[Write]
SEQ 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 1956.307 MB/s [ 1865.7 IOPS] < 4277.23 us>
SEQ 128KiB (Q= 32, T= 1): 1571.438 MB/s [ 11989.1 IOPS] < 2665.46 us>
RND 4KiB (Q= 32, T=16): 60.171 MB/s [ 14690.2 IOPS] < 34711.56 us>
RND 4KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 9.099 MB/s [ 2221.4 IOPS] < 449.90 us>
Profile: Default
Test: 16 GiB (x5) [E: 0% (0/186GiB)]
Mode: [Admin]
Time: Measure 5 sec / Interval 5 sec
Date: 2024/11/27 19:23:23
OS: Windows Server 2019 Standard 1809 [10.0 Build 17763] (x64)
ControllerB
[Read]
SEQ 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 3018.420 MB/s [ 2878.6 IOPS] < 2776.17 us>
SEQ 128KiB (Q= 32, T= 1): 2642.712 MB/s [ 20162.3 IOPS] < 1586.41 us>
RND 4KiB (Q= 32, T=16): 642.105 MB/s [ 156763.9 IOPS] < 3263.58 us>
RND 4KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 108.439 MB/s [ 26474.4 IOPS] < 37.69 us>
[Write]
SEQ 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 1956.071 MB/s [ 1865.5 IOPS] < 4270.24 us>
SEQ 128KiB (Q= 32, T= 1): 2005.109 MB/s [ 15297.8 IOPS] < 2087.38 us>
RND 4KiB (Q= 32, T=16): 402.703 MB/s [ 98316.2 IOPS] < 5201.16 us>
RND 4KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 62.178 MB/s [ 15180.2 IOPS] < 65.77 us>
Profile: Default
Test: 16 GiB (x5) [D: 0% (0/186GiB)]
Mode: [Admin]
Time: Measure 5 sec / Interval 5 sec
Date: 2024/11/27 19:13:29
OS: Windows Server 2019 Standard 1809 [10.0 Build 17763] (x64)
DELL-Charles R
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November 27th, 2024 21:31
Hello,
Can you confirm for us if the ME5024 controller firmware and disk firmware are up to date?
You may try swap controller slot and see if the issue follows.
The images you tried to upload didn't make it. Could you try again?
alexeysorok
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December 5th, 2024 13:07
Hello, firmware and disk firmware latest firmware
I found the reason for the decrease in productivity
The thing was that when mapping the LUN, the array was on a controller that was not the one it belonged to.
Thus, it is important to maintain the correspondence when connecting, so that if the array belongs to controllerA and the mapping is done according to controllerA
ControllerA->DG1->Vol1<->Mapping on server ControllerA
ControllerB->DG2->Vol2<->Mapping on server ControllerB
Only max IOPS
DG2<-> Mapping ControllerA = SLOW IOPS