Hi All,
I have the following setup for my NAS box.
My VmWare hosts
I did not breakout dedicated cache or log stores and i wonder how much of an improvement i could gain by doing so?
i did a disk throughput test and got the following at a 1gb sample
zpool status
I have the following setup for my NAS box.
- Tyan S7012 motherboard (LGA1366)
- Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-8100 CPU @ 3.60GHz
- 16GB memory
- LSI 9211 HBAs in IT mode
- 12 Crucial MX500 500GB 3D NAND SATA 2.5 Inch Internal SSD
- 1x OCZ Vertex 2 boot drive for free-nas
- Intel 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection. This is the dual port version in a LAG - so 20Gbit to the UniFi switch
- NFS shares out to each VmWare host
My VmWare hosts
- Vmware 6.5 SU2
- 6 core - 12 TH processor
- 64GB memory
- Intel 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection. - Single port connection
- Local Cache drive equal to or large than the local ram size
I did not breakout dedicated cache or log stores and i wonder how much of an improvement i could gain by doing so?
i did a disk throughput test and got the following at a 1gb sample
Code:
----------------------------------------------------------------------- CrystalDiskMark 6.0.2 x64 (C) 2007-2018 hiyohiyo Crystal Dew World : https://crystalmark.info/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s] * KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 1122.746 MB/s Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 64.847 MB/s Random Read 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 305.169 MB/s [ 74504.2 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 2.379 MB/s [ 580.8 IOPS] Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 309.609 MB/s [ 75588.1 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 2.340 MB/s [ 571.3 IOPS] Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 30.896 MB/s [ 7543.0 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 1.122 MB/s [ 273.9 IOPS] Test : 1024 MiB [C: 38.9% (15.4/39.7 GiB)] (x5) [Interval=5 sec] Date : 2019/01/29 13:48:14 OS : Windows Server 2012 R2 Server Standard (full installation) [6.3 Build 9600] (x64)
zpool status
Code:
root@freenas:~ # zpool status pool: RaidZ-SSD state: ONLINE scan: scrub repaired 0 in 0 days 00:05:37 with 0 errors on Sun Jan 20 00:05:37 2019 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKS UM RaidZ-SSD ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz1-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/9d87ed1c-85eb-11e8-b7d4-001b21a7c63c ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/9db768be-85eb-11e8-b7d4-001b21a7c63c ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/9de87a5e-85eb-11e8-b7d4-001b21a7c63c ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/9e195c36-85eb-11e8-b7d4-001b21a7c63c ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/9e563029-85eb-11e8-b7d4-001b21a7c63c ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/9e8b976e-85eb-11e8-b7d4-001b21a7c63c ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz1-1 ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/9ecceb86-85eb-11e8-b7d4-001b21a7c63c ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/9f0802d3-85eb-11e8-b7d4-001b21a7c63c ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/9f4216be-85eb-11e8-b7d4-001b21a7c63c ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/9f7dc472-85eb-11e8-b7d4-001b21a7c63c ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/9fb7456b-85eb-11e8-b7d4-001b21a7c63c ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/9ff49624-85eb-11e8-b7d4-001b21a7c63c ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors pool: freenas-boot state: ONLINE scan: scrub repaired 0 in 0 days 00:00:06 with 0 errors on Sat Jan 26 03:45:06 2019 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM freenas-boot ONLINE 0 0 0 ada2p2 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors
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