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Is SSD read cache going to help?
Have a Hyper-V environment - 4 hosts sharing a single Powervault md3800f with 10 x 15k SAS in RAID10 connected via redundant fibre channel.
Average IOPS, latency, throughput, queue depths etc. all very much acceptable and actually lower than expected. But I'm seeing regular spikes and the odd complaint of slowdowns.
I've noticed on the SAN that it's showing 100% write cache hit but most of the time less than 50% read cache hit.
So would we benefit from putting in an SSD drive to use as read cache, bearing in mind that the read percentage is around 40% ?
Average IOPS, latency, throughput, queue depths etc. all very much acceptable and actually lower than expected. But I'm seeing regular spikes and the odd complaint of slowdowns.
I've noticed on the SAN that it's showing 100% write cache hit but most of the time less than 50% read cache hit.
So would we benefit from putting in an SSD drive to use as read cache, bearing in mind that the read percentage is around 40% ?
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I've just noticed something I don't quite understand.
The disk latency on a particular VM is jumping up to around 700ms at times.
Yet at the same time the SAN is reporting a maximum latency of 40ms on the virtual disk that the host is using.
Virtual disk is not shared, all VHDs are on the same virtual disk.
Where have those 660ms gone?
The disk latency on a particular VM is jumping up to around 700ms at times.
Yet at the same time the SAN is reporting a maximum latency of 40ms on the virtual disk that the host is using.
Virtual disk is not shared, all VHDs are on the same virtual disk.
Where have those 660ms gone?
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Ok - I'm going off topic a bit. Specific question has been answered so I'll move to another post.
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Just reading the associated documentation for the high performance tier and wondering if we're not getting the best out of the base system. Generally the SAN hasn't been tweaked out of the box - so this might be the first place to start looking.