topic Re: Upgrade to 7.3.1P3 - CPU Improvement in ONTAP Discussions

Upgrade to 7.3.1P3 - CPU Improvement

BrendonHiggins — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:28:12 GMT

This graph is from Operations Manager of a FAS3070 which is under constant heavy load. The change is from when we installed DoT 7.3.1P3 on the 2nd May. The load is still the same...

Can anyone do better?

Bren

Re: Upgrade to 7.3.1P3 - CPU Improvement

peluso — Wed, 13 May 2009 15:26:31 GMT

Wow! This is a huge improvement. Thanks for sharing with the community! I wonder if anyone else has a similar experience?

thanks again Brendon - awesome job!

Terri

Re: Upgrade to 7.3.1P3 - CPU Improvement

sojdehei — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:43:16 GMT

Hi Bren

IHAC that is planning on upgrading from 7.3.Px to 7.3.1P3 to be able to take advantage of OSSV data compression. So, did you have data compression turned on? what level did you set it to ("low" "medium" "high")? Thank you for your post!

- Mitchell

Re: Upgrade to 7.3.1P3 - CPU Improvement

pascalduk — Thu, 14 May 2009 06:22:53 GMT

Very impressive. Which version of ontap where you using before?

Re: Upgrade to 7.3.1P3 - CPU Improvement

BrendonHiggins — Thu, 14 May 2009 08:34:00 GMT

NetApp Release 7.2.4P8

Re: Upgrade to 7.3.1P3 - CPU Improvement

BrendonHiggins — Thu, 14 May 2009 08:36:00 GMT

We are not using OSSV yet but will be looking into it as we have 70+

machines backed up this way.

Re: Upgrade to 7.3.1P3 - CPU Improvement

pascalduk — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:33:11 GMT

Was hoping you were on 7.2 before, because I have some FAS6080's on 7.2 that could potentially get a performance boost.

So the gain is from more cpu domains and more efficiently use of the available cpu cores in the new ontap version?

Re: Upgrade to 7.3.1P3 - CPU Improvement

BrendonHiggins — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:36:00 GMT

Yes and the box has a high snapmirror / snapvault load. I believe

NetApp have also rewritten much of this code and it is more efficient

now.

Re: Upgrade to 7.3.1P3 - CPU Improvement

amiller_1 — Thu, 14 May 2009 22:22:45 GMT

Fantastic....makes me feel even better about 7.3.1.1 (or 7.3.2 -- i.e. hopefully GD).

Re: Upgrade to 7.3.1P3 - CPU Improvement

tyeoman_swinton — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:09:24 GMT

Yep, this version of OnTap did indeed give great performance improvements on our FAS3140. We had to regress for a short while to an early version due to 10GbE firmware issues, the performance reduction was considerable!

Definately worth upgrading!

Re: Upgrade to 7.3.1P3 - CPU Improvement

BrendonHiggins — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:18:41 GMT

A couple of people have asked about the performance over time. Yes we are still happy....

Re: Upgrade to 7.3.1P3 - CPU Improvement

jeffshelly — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:29:42 GMT

Upgraded our R200 on September 2nd from 7.2.4 to 7.3.1.1

Very pleased with the results

Re: Upgrade to 7.3.1P3 - CPU Improvement

lasswellt — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:42:38 GMT

from what i understand the big improvement was the ability to use the multi-cores better and going to 64-bit code.