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I have done some testing for our newly built VSAN 6. I used VMware I/O Analyzer to do testing. Its all flash Vsan environment and currently have 7 nodes in the cluster. when I did 4k_50read_100rand testing, I found that there are 5x more adapter reads/writes than VM reads/writes.Could it be that all the VSAN overhead is consuming that much bandwidth. I have attached my results.
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Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

Did you complete the Health Checks in the Web Client, and is all well ?
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All the 7 health tests passed in the web client.
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vsan does mirroring of data between nodes.
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yes I have ftt set to 2 and Raid-5/6 set for failure tolerance method.
Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

So what's your issue ?
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when I did 4k_50read_100rand testing via VMware I/o analyzer, I found that there are 5x more adapter reads/writes than VM reads/writes.Could it be that all the VSAN overhead is consuming that much bandwidth
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Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

Are your VMs and vSAN networking sharing the same nics ?

So you traffic is mixed between VM, and vSAN replication traffic.

replication between nodes, as was previously posted.
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we have enabled nic portioning.  and using explicit failover order load balancing. active uplink0 and a standby uplink1 for VM port group. and then a active uplink1 and standby uplink0 for VSAN port group.
Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

have you looked at the stats using Ruby Console ?
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yes I have. my only concern is that the results which I am getting is normal or am I missing something?
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thanks for the comments.