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by Thoro
Thu Oct 13, 2011 3:29 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free], StarWind x Proxmox VE SAN Integration Services
Topic: Starwind/iSCSI and small block sizes
Replies: 14
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Re: Starwind/iSCSI and small block sizes

Okay so after reading a little bit it seems ATTO is not really an appropriate benchmark (only a queue of 4) So I've tried SQLIO with two threads and a queue of 8 per thread Sizes of: 1k 4k 64k Command Line: (once for size for local and once for each size for remote) sqlio.exe -kR -s60 -fsequential -...
by Thoro
Thu Oct 13, 2011 12:15 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free], StarWind x Proxmox VE SAN Integration Services
Topic: Starwind/iSCSI and small block sizes
Replies: 14
Views: 17804

Re: Starwind/iSCSI and small block sizes

yes that's why I made the first tests with the local hard disk test and the networked test to see what the difference is - I've read somewhere that the difference should be about ~10% - is that correct? then I made the RAM Disk test to completly ignore the physical disk hardware - but also that driv...
by Thoro
Thu Oct 13, 2011 11:40 am
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free], StarWind x Proxmox VE SAN Integration Services
Topic: Starwind/iSCSI and small block sizes
Replies: 14
Views: 17804

Re: Starwind/iSCSI and small block sizes

Hi Lodiver,

i've applied the change but it didn't change ANYTHING

to check it again, I've tested with a RAMDRIVE of 5 GB here are my results:

the Access Time is quite good with 0.5 ms, but the small reads/writes just plain suck :(
by Thoro
Wed Oct 12, 2011 8:45 am
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free], StarWind x Proxmox VE SAN Integration Services
Topic: Starwind/iSCSI and small block sizes
Replies: 14
Views: 17804

Re: Starwind/iSCSI and small block sizes

Here are the other 3 test runs

I've no problem to provide you remote access additional images etc. I just need to know what you'd like to have, because I don't really know what exactly to look for
by Thoro
Wed Oct 12, 2011 8:41 am
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free], StarWind x Proxmox VE SAN Integration Services
Topic: Starwind/iSCSI and small block sizes
Replies: 14
Views: 17804

Re: Starwind/iSCSI and small block sizes

Okay, the images are all from Server 1 Starwind_local.PNG Screenshot of the "storage.img" configuration starwind_local.PNG Second Screenshot of the "storage.img" config iSCSI.PNG Image of the iSCSI Window where 5 connections are made locally and 5 remote to the second server iSCS...
by Thoro
Tue Oct 11, 2011 6:01 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free], StarWind x Proxmox VE SAN Integration Services
Topic: Starwind/iSCSI and small block sizes
Replies: 14
Views: 17804

Re: Starwind/iSCSI and small block sizes

1) I use: Hard Disk / High Availability - write back cache is enabled with 1024 MB, and 5000 ms cache expiry period MPIO is activated and all connections say "Active/optimized" there are 5 to each server - the MPIO Policy is set to Round Robin 2) I'm using Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise...
by Thoro
Mon Oct 10, 2011 9:09 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free], StarWind x Proxmox VE SAN Integration Services
Topic: Starwind/iSCSI and small block sizes
Replies: 14
Views: 17804

Starwind/iSCSI and small block sizes

Hi, I've two completly identical servers both with 2 x 300 GB SSDs the following are the local transferrates with ATTO Disk Benchmark: 256MB Total Length and QD: 4 0.5: 22912 22854 1.0: 43008 45965 2.0: 79908 79933 4.0: 138990 142054 8.0: 222188 241302 16.0: 227721 289383 32.0: 222564 324967 64.0: 2...