The best scenario for high perf /o read on HA

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OIMJB
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Tue Sep 03, 2013 2:53 pm

Question is simple: For HA target
What is the best scenario to support high performance read i/o operations for multiple HA targets - 2 node:
- Hardware RAID level
- MPIO mode and settings
- Network type and tweaks

In real world, read i/o seems to be the real reason of many poor vm performance and host performance stall.

We talk for about 30 HA targets and so many vm.

Best regards.
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Tue Sep 03, 2013 8:48 pm

Create a RAID group of as many nodes as you have. With our current RAID 0+1 recommended (RAID0 on every node and RAID1 done over network)
you'll have performance increase with every single node added to MPIO StarWind cluster. So 3 is a way to go now (4 is coming).

RAID0 with 3 nodes for sure. RAID10 with 2 node cluster (or have a decent backup to re-provision node from scratch, then maybe you'll be fine with RAID0 on a 2 node)

RAID0 or RAID10 on every node (see above)

Round Robin. StarWind is true Active-Active so scales out.

10 GbE for a backbone for sure. As many ports as you can afford (used for sync that's a bottleneck always).

That;s all... Network tweaks for HA and non-HA are the same.
OIMJB wrote:Question is simple: For HA target
What is the best scenario to support high performance read i/o operations for multiple HA targets - 2 node:
- Hardware RAID level
- MPIO mode and settings
- Network type and tweaks

In real world, read i/o seems to be the real reason of many poor vm performance and host performance stall.

We talk for about 30 HA targets and so many vm.

Best regards.
Regards,
Anton Kolomyeytsev

Chief Technology Officer & Chief Architect, StarWind Software

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