topic Re: FAS2552 performance in ONTAP Hardware

FAS2552 performance

robc — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 14:58:42 GMT

If you look at the screenshot below, you can see that the aggregate na04_sata_aggr appears to be running at around about 4000 IOPS on average. But looking at the IOPS values for the volumes, they add up to well under 1000. So the question is, which stats are right, or maybe, where are the other 3000 IOPS going?

can anyone advise on how to decypher this?

Many Thanks

Re: FAS2552 performance

Ontapforrum — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 09:00:23 GMT

Hi,

Its a very good observation. I am sure this is something, people will observe if they are on cDOT 8.3 onwards.

According to NetApp KBID:1001962

Volumes that are polled for IOPS in CDOT versions 8.3 and above only show IOPS from the network blade (n-blade) or network IOPS of that cluster.

Aggregates that are polled for IOPS in CDOT in general only show IOPS from the data blade (d-blade) or disk IOPS of that cluster.

Thus in any CDOT version of 8.3 and above, summing up the volume IOPS values will not equate to the aggregate IOPS values.

Note: In the past (all the way up to CDOT version 8.2), volume Polling for IOPS included the d-blade So at that time, summing up all of the IOPS for volumes contained on an aggregate would match that aggregate’s IOPS.

Hope this information helps.

THanks,
-Ashwin

Re: FAS2552 performance

paul_stejskal — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 22:12:29 GMT

The aggregate layer and the volume layer are two completely different things. For example you can have 64kB read ops, but you might have writes at the same time, or two volumes reading at the same time, creating a lot of maybe 8k reads on disk. Also you have cpreads, and you can have snapshot creations, deletions, dedupe, and many other background things running on disk.

It is expected to have different IOP values at both layers since ONTAP/FAS/WAFL is way more feature packed than your standard storage device/OS and those features will cause different utilization issues.

Let me know if this helps.

Re: FAS2552 performance

robc — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 13:31:48 GMT

Thanks Aswin

but i cant seem to open KBID:1001962 or find it for that matter.

Re: FAS2552 performance

Ontapforrum — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 13:39:57 GMT

Can you now ?

https://kb.netapp.com/app/answers/answer_view/a_id/1001962

Re: FAS2552 performance

paul_stejskal — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 13:48:17 GMT

FYI to view the content you will have to push sign in at the top right, then go back to the KB in question again. Sorry that's something we plan to fix in the near future.

Re: FAS2552 performance

robc — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 14:02:10 GMT

thank you so much its really appreaciated