I got a 4 nodes VSAN Cluster VSphere 6.7.0 8169922:
Model: HP DL380 GEN10
RAM/node: 164 GB
1 disk group per host, w. 1 INTEL OPTANE P4800X 375 GB for caching plus 7 SSD 1,8 GB for capacity.
All the health checks passed.
Using HCIBench the performance is:
100% Read, Random , 4k up to : 280K iops , 1080 MBs throughput , 2,8 ms latency
70/30% R/W Random , 4k up to: 180K iops , 700 MBs throughput, 4,4 ms latency
100% Write, Random , 4k up to: 38K iops , 150 MBs throughput, 20ms latency
The intel optane documentation sais:
Throughput iops random 4kB R/W: Up to 550/550k
Throughput iops random 4kB 70/30 R/W: Up to 500k
So 4 Optane * 550k gives around 2200 K >> 280 K iops
Then I must have some problems with my setup.
Someone is using Optane disk and can share his performance results to compare with mine? or give me some advices with
the VSAN configuration and Optane disks?
Hello fjmatos,
You can't reach the pure HW metrics due the VSAN SW stack and checksum calculation and .....
Your disk group design isn't so good. A lot of capacity Flash Disks.
Better choose a design with two or three DGs.
If you have 250K front end IOs you have mor than 500k Backend IOs.
Configure HCIBench to produce 10000 IOs and than see R/W latency....
best regards,
Mike
Thanks mschubi
I have in mind in the near future, split the discs into two disk groups, adding another cache disk.
I don´t understand well when you say:
"If you have 250K front end IOs you have mor than 500k Backend IOs."
I think that 250K iops (using 4 optane P4800X 375GB from caching) , is a poor performance, don´t you think?
These optane disk promisse a much better performance than standard SSD disk , but in this case a don´t get great results.