I am recommending that we change our Raid Configuration on some of our
Servers from Raid 5 to Raid 0+1; we are experiencing severe IO
bottlenecks.
Our hardware guys are pushing back a bit. They claim that Dell has a
weird implementation of 0+1 and told me something about one drive
filling up before it begins to write to the next. They claimed that
this gets rid of most of the benefits of 0+1.
I know that 0+1 is not as good as 10 for availability, fault tolerance,
and rebuilding, but shouldn't the write throughput be about the same?
Setup:
Poweredge 2850
Powervault 220S
Perc 4/DC Controller 1
Perc 4e/DI Controller 0 5 1836
Hi
I don't know about the Dell configuration but you would probably want to
look at all the other alternatives before doing this.
For instance, you don't say exactly what the disc configuration is for
instance have you put database data files and database log files on separate
spindles? Have you got different filegroups on different spindles? Have you
split filegroups into multiple files on different spindles? Are the system
database on different spindles? Is tempdb on different spindles? Have you
thought about adding extra discs to the current array? Have you checked to
see if rewriting the code would reduce the I/O?
John
"Dave" <da******@gmail .com> wrote in message
news:11******** **************@ e56g2000cwe.goo glegroups.com.. . I am recommending that we change our Raid Configuration on some of our Servers from Raid 5 to Raid 0+1; we are experiencing severe IO bottlenecks.
Our hardware guys are pushing back a bit. They claim that Dell has a weird implementation of 0+1 and told me something about one drive filling up before it begins to write to the next. They claimed that this gets rid of most of the benefits of 0+1.
I know that 0+1 is not as good as 10 for availability, fault tolerance,
and rebuilding, but shouldn't the write throughput be about the same?
Setup: Poweredge 2850 Powervault 220S Perc 4/DC Controller 1 Perc 4e/DI Controller 0
Very good suggestions John! I agree that log files should be on a
separate spindle, and that I should break down the file groups into
multiple physical files, etc, etc.
I will implement all of these suggestions as soon as I get the
opportunity, however I do not think they will increase the throughput
enough to meet our needs.
We are only using 2 Raid 5 arrays right now. That somewhat limits the
load balancing options. I am really pushing for another Raid
Controller card or even 2 so I can properly balance the system.
There is some bad code out there, but I have re-written most of it and
I'm sure I can make further improvements, though I do not think it is
a major issue anymore.
Hi Dave
Use perfmon to get the information you require regarding disc performance,
that will show if new hardware is needed. Look at disc queue length, idle
time, read/write rates etc see http://www.sql-server-performance.co...nce_audit2.asp for
more.
John
"Dave" <da******@gmail .com> wrote in message
news:11******** **************@ i39g2000cwa.goo glegroups.com.. . Very good suggestions John! I agree that log files should be on a separate spindle, and that I should break down the file groups into multiple physical files, etc, etc.
I will implement all of these suggestions as soon as I get the opportunity, however I do not think they will increase the throughput enough to meet our needs.
We are only using 2 Raid 5 arrays right now. That somewhat limits the load balancing options. I am really pushing for another Raid Controller card or even 2 so I can properly balance the system.
There is some bad code out there, but I have re-written most of it and I'm sure I can make further improvements, though I do not think it is a major issue anymore.
I have already done that. I am getting numbers around 50K on % write
time while I run my ETL.
John Bell wrote: Hi Dave
Use perfmon to get the information you require regarding disc performance, that will show if new hardware is needed. Look at disc queue length, idle time, read/write rates etc see http://www.sql-server-performance.co...nce_audit2.asp for more.
John
"Dave" <da******@gmail .com> wrote in message news:11******** **************@ i39g2000cwa.goo glegroups.com.. . Very good suggestions John! I agree that log files should be on a separate spindle, and that I should break down the file groups into multiple physical files, etc, etc.
I will implement all of these suggestions as soon as I get the opportunity, however I do not think they will increase the throughput enough to meet our needs.
We are only using 2 Raid 5 arrays right now. That somewhat limits the load balancing options. I am really pushing for another Raid Controller card or even 2 so I can properly balance the system.
There is some bad code out there, but I have re-written most of it and I'm sure I can make further improvements, though I do not think it is a major issue anymore.
Hi Dave
I am not sure where 50K comes in when you are talking about a percentage?
John
"Dave" <da******@gmail .com> wrote in message
news:11******** *************@t 31g2000cwb.goog legroups.com... I have already done that. I am getting numbers around 50K on % write time while I run my ETL.
John Bell wrote: Hi Dave
Use perfmon to get the information you require regarding disc performance, that will show if new hardware is needed. Look at disc queue length, idle time, read/write rates etc see http://www.sql-server-performance.co...nce_audit2.asp for more.
John
"Dave" <da******@gmail .com> wrote in message news:11******** **************@ i39g2000cwa.goo glegroups.com.. . > Very good suggestions John! I agree that log files should be on a > separate spindle, and that I should break down the file groups into > multiple physical files, etc, etc. > > I will implement all of these suggestions as soon as I get the > opportunity, however I do not think they will increase the throughput > enough to meet our needs. > > We are only using 2 Raid 5 arrays right now. That somewhat limits the > load balancing options. I am really pushing for another Raid > Controller card or even 2 so I can properly balance the system. > > There is some bad code out there, but I have re-written most of it and > I'm sure I can make further improvements, though I do not think it is > a major issue anymore. > This thread has been closed and replies have been disabled. Please start a new discussion. Similar topics |
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