How to best tune my SAN/Initiators for best performance?
- by Disco
Recent owner of a Dell PowerVault MD3600i i'm experiencing some weird results.
I have a dedicated 24x 10GbE Switch (PowerConnect 8024), setup to jumbo frames 9K.
The MD3600 has 2 RAID controllers, each has 2x 10GbE ethernet nics. There's nothing else on the switch; one VLAN for SAN traffic.
Here's my multipath.conf
defaults {
udev_dir /dev
polling_interval 5
selector "round-robin 0"
path_grouping_policy multibus
getuid_callout "/sbin/scsi_id -g -u -s /block/%n"
prio_callout none
path_checker readsector0
rr_min_io 100
max_fds 8192
rr_weight priorities
failback immediate
no_path_retry fail
user_friendly_names yes
# prio rdac
}
blacklist {
device {
vendor "*"
product "Universal Xport"
}
# devnode "^sd[a-z]"
}
devices {
device {
vendor "DELL"
product "MD36xxi"
path_grouping_policy group_by_prio
prio rdac
# polling_interval 5
path_checker rdac
path_selector "round-robin 0"
hardware_handler "1 rdac"
failback immediate
features "2 pg_init_retries 50"
no_path_retry 30
rr_min_io 100
prio_callout "/sbin/mpath_prio_rdac /dev/%n"
}
}
And iscsid.conf :
node.startup = automatic
node.session.timeo.replacement_timeout = 15
node.conn[0].timeo.login_timeout = 15
node.conn[0].timeo.logout_timeout = 15
node.conn[0].timeo.noop_out_interval = 5
node.conn[0].timeo.noop_out_timeout = 10
node.session.iscsi.InitialR2T = No
node.session.iscsi.ImmediateData = Yes
node.session.iscsi.FirstBurstLength = 262144
node.session.iscsi.MaxBurstLength = 16776192
node.conn[0].iscsi.MaxRecvDataSegmentLength = 262144
After my tests; i can barely come to 200 Mb/s read/write.
Should I expect more than that ? Providing it has dual 10 GbE my thoughts where to come around the 400 Mb/s.
Any ideas ? Guidelines ? Troubleshooting tips ?
