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enabling sioc in datastore cluster_powercli

Hi Luc ,

if yu can check following script  i am planning to  configure sioc on all datastores belonging to datastore cluster .

one of the prerequistes we have is to have only one extent in datastors .also the congestion threshold default value value to be 30

would yu like to add more to it in terms of vmdk shares .

$datastoreclusters=Get-DatastoreCluster

foreach($dcluster in $datastoreclusters)

{

$datastorecluster=Get-DatastoreCluster $dcluster

foreach($data in $datastorecluster)

{

$datastores = Get-Datastore -Location $data

foreach($d in $datastores )

{

$datastore = Get-Datastore $d

$freespaceGB=$datastore.FreeSpaceGB

$capacityGB=$datastore.CapacityGB

$freespaceratio=$freespaceGB/$capacityGB

$freespacepercent=$freespaceratio*100

$freespacepercentround=[math]::Round($freespacepercent)

[pscUSTOMoBJECT]@{

                datastoreclustername = $datastorecluster.name

                datastore = $datastore.name

                extents=($datastore.ExtensionData.Info.Vmfs.Extent).Count

                freespacepercentround = $freespacepercentround

                storageiocontrolenabled = $datastore.StorageIOControlEnabled

                congestionthreshold = $datastore.CongestionThresholdMillisecond

               

             

}

}

}}

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LucD
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Your script will work, but there is some duplication of cmdlets in there.

I would do something like this

Get-DatastoreCluster -PipelineVariable dsc |

ForEach-Object -Process {

    Get-Datastore -Location $dsc -PipelineVariable ds |

    ForEach-Object -Process {

        New-Object -TypeName PSCustomObject -Property ([ordered]@{

            DSCname = $dsc.Name

            Datastore = $ds.Name

            Extents = $ds.ExtensionData.Info.Vmfs.Extent.Count

            FreeSpacePerc = [math]::Round($ds.FreespaceGB/$ds.CapacityGB*100)

            SiocEnabled = $ds.StorageIOControlEnabled

            CongestionThreshold = $ds.CongestionThresholdMillisecond

        })

    }

}


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LucD
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Your script will work, but there is some duplication of cmdlets in there.

I would do something like this

Get-DatastoreCluster -PipelineVariable dsc |

ForEach-Object -Process {

    Get-Datastore -Location $dsc -PipelineVariable ds |

    ForEach-Object -Process {

        New-Object -TypeName PSCustomObject -Property ([ordered]@{

            DSCname = $dsc.Name

            Datastore = $ds.Name

            Extents = $ds.ExtensionData.Info.Vmfs.Extent.Count

            FreeSpacePerc = [math]::Round($ds.FreespaceGB/$ds.CapacityGB*100)

            SiocEnabled = $ds.StorageIOControlEnabled

            CongestionThreshold = $ds.CongestionThresholdMillisecond

        })

    }

}


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thanks luc but i wanted to know if we should configure shares also to vmdk to make it more effective .or this is sufficient enough .

also if yu could suggest what duplicates yu are referring .i understand pipeline variable makes it concise in case of nested loops as yu mentioned .

but the one which i posted should be correct also as im getting proper output .

please suggest if there is any major flaw using foreach loop besides little more code to it.

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LucD
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Not sure what you mean by "configure shares also to vmdk"

You are using Get-DatastoreCluster twice.


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well what i meant when there is a situation of contention (and congestion theshold exceeds 30 ms the default value)in datastore high priority vms can be given high shares

by configuring shares .

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LucD
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Afaik disk shares (if that is what you mean), prioritise disk access on a LUN.
The system organises the bandwidth distribution based on those relative shares.

This has nothing to do with SDRS, which uses space and IO on the datastore level.


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Storage I/O Control, the basics | Yellow Bricks

as per this sioc uses disk shares to assgin i/o q slots.

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Yes, but this has, as I said, nothing to do with the SDRS SIOC setting.

What Duncan describes is that VMs, based on their disk share, will get proportional IO bandwidth to the LUN.

The SDRS SIOC will move VMs off from a datastore when the SIOC count exceeds a threshold.


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