performance very slow in new server HP DL360 G8

Yes ,everything is fine.We try before during install antivirus also same.

A Smart Array configuration with 2 logical drives will improve the speed.
You might also have a look at your RAID cache read/write settings.
Do you know the amount of memory of your Smart Array controller ?
You might also try to change the Power settings in the BIOS to "High performance mode" and do the tests again to see if this makes a difference.
P.S. You probably mean 15000 RPM

I believe the DL360 Gen8 has a P420 controller, that being said, if you have mirrored your two drives (RAID 1) and you have created two logical volumes, copying data from C: to D: will result in a lot of IO. The P420 can handle it but with RAID 1, the disk, even spinning at 15K has to read and write to itself multiple times and the controller has to duplicate the traffic to the mirror. Technically you really are only running on one disk.

Probably we need a little bit info about your environment such as:

- It's a brand new server or not?
- Have you checked HP agents for any troubles in the RAID controller o spindles?

But my workaround is this:

- Why did you partitioned your RAID hard drive? Was it necessary for your environment?

This is probably the cause of dead of your server.....if you're trying to copy a file from C to D in the same RAID level you're really stressing your spindles because in RAID 1 all data in one drive has to be copied in the other immediately! So, if source and destination are in the same RAID, this is really stressing and time consuming!

Why don't you try to copy a big file from a USB o Ethernet device into your C or D drive? Is it still time consuming?

Let us know!

We are partition it because we has installed hyper-v manager in this server all the hyper-v machine is pointed to D:\virtualmachine\domino server
D:\virtualmachine\domain controller

OK, so you are running virtual machines on the RAID drive as well?

Outline: 1 RAID array (2 disks RAID 1 Mirrored)
2 Logical Drives from the array running a virtual environment.

Your problem is that you are running on one disk, and stressing it with IOPs. ALL of your actions are going through one channel and being duplicated to the other disk.

As I said above, the disk on its own can't handle all of this throughput.

I am forgot answer zalazar .We just created one volume and we partition in OS lever.

open performance monitor and have a look at the physical disk counters. these should give you an indication of how busy the disks are during normal usage and while copying a test file.
start with:


it sounds like your overloading them, but this should help confirm. as you've now noted you're running VMs on it, I think we've already confirmed it.

please advice what we can do now ? Buy another two 2TB HDD configure as Raid 1 and
move all the virtual machine to new disk ?I think my customer is thinking to do that.is that work

DL360e or DL360p ? There's a big difference on the RAID controller.
Also there's no such thing as 1TB 15K, please read the part no from the front of the caddy so we can see what they really are.

Copying from C: to D: will involve long seeks so isn't a good estimate of normal performance.

It's indeed advised to run the Virtual servers on seperate disks.
So buying 2 new disks is a good idea.
You might consider to buy smaller disks and then place the OS on the new disks and use the current ones for the Virtual servers but this involves re-installing the OS.

@YaYangTeah

Your solution sounds great! Buy another 2x 2TB SAS spindles and make another RAID 1 for them.

Your data moving from C (or D) to E (your new RAID 1 drive) would go better for sure!

To answer andyalder the server model is :HP DL360p Gen8 8-SFF CTO Server .May i know what is the different there ?

How do i confirm is the disk I/O issue ?

DL360p has proper Smart Array P420, DL360e has "dynamic" Smart Array which is just the Intel chipset controller with HP's firmware on it.

You haven't confirmed the hdd part numbers so can't verify the spin/seek rate. Can you also tell us how much cache there is on the controller and what percentage read/write it is set to using Smart Storage Administrator or Array Configuration Utility under Windows.

How do i confirm is the disk I/O issue ?

See my post https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28632193/performance-very-slow-in-new-server-HP-DL360-G8.html?anchorAnswerId=40654016#a40654016 for info on how to confirm it using basic performance monitoring.

Actually this project is my senior set-up ,he said there is nothing wrong with the disk I/O ,could be some other reason, because he closed other VM and just leave one VM running is still same .

Are you saying has he used the performance monitors and confirmed there is no disk io issue?
If not, just shutting down a VM and seeing what happens is not a definitive test on its own.

your original post stated

I tried to open the task manager the disk I/O always is high load

which suggests otherwise.

I don't have chance to visit my customer site to test in the disk issue but above already give me idea what i need to do .Thanks

Let's hope it all goes slow and you get sacked because of that.

@andyalder - That's a pretty shameful attitude... especially since he said it was his senior's project and he is trying to resolve it... You should be embarrassed... as another Expert on this site I know I am by your comment.