I'm running a FAS3140 with a 256 GB PAM II card.
This specific 3140 mostly runs VMWare NFS shares and iSCSI LUNs for Exchange 2010.
The Flexcache options with flexscale.lopri_blocks have been turned on and off and below is a sample statistic for each setting.
What I wonder is if the "Disk Reads Replaced" is the most important number to consider.
What are your thoughts?
I put about 100 readings of each into Excel, and found that turning off the lopri_blocks settings gave me a much lower hit percentage, but the "disk reads replaced" average was higher by about 10.
Here are stats for lopri_blocks set to off:
stats show -p flexscale-access -i 4
Cache Reads Writes Disk Reads
Usage Hit Meta Miss Hit Evict Inval Insert Chain Blocks Chain Blocks Replaced
% /s /s /s % /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s
90 581 66 9643 5 0 1 15 88 199 0 15 88
90 320 48 8852 3 0 6 0 45 124 0 0 45
90 365 58 11284 3 6 1 509 75 173 7 509 75
90 206 70 8846 2 2 1 128 64 139 2 128 64
90 1016 84 12190 7 0 8 0 302 569 0 0 302
90 804 127 12520 6 36 7 1404 155 394 21 1404 155
90 319 75 8569 3 0 6 0 108 210 0 0 108
90 426 141 9220 4 16 6 799 128 269 12 799 128
90 395 50 9931 3 7 1 255 88 228 3 255 88
90 199 45 10401 1 0 4 0 47 118 0 0 47
90 347 61 9870 3 0 0 0 69 152 0 0 69
90 333 113 7005 4 2 1050 127 107 226 1 127 107
90 296 34 8622 3 0 1 0 68 191 0 0 68
90 437 56 11550 3 0 924 15 74 185 0 15 74
Here are stats for lopri_blocks set to on:
Cache Reads Writes Disk Reads
Usage Hit Meta Miss Hit Evict Inval Insert Chain Blocks Chain Blocks Replaced
% /s /s /s % /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s
94 21 19 11 65 0 0 0 19 21 0 0 19
94 27 22 10 71 0 0 0 25 27 0 0 25
94 147 140 90 62 234 4008 4064 131 145 63 4064 131
94 27 4 9 74 50 3977 2288 10 27 35 2288 10
94 36 12 217 14 0 3 0 15 34 0 0 15
94 22 12 72 23 0 0 0 15 22 0 0 15
94 128 98 116 52 58 56 2976 109 127 46 2976 109
94 11 10 7 60 39 3979 2144 11 11 33 2144 11
94 19 15 33 37 0 0 0 16 19 0 0 16
94 202 193 16 92 0 1 0 190 202 0 0 190
94 154 163 267 36 31 3973 2512 149 152 39 2512 149
94 69 19 87 44 27 0 2272 34 64 35 2272 34
94 89 43 115 43 0 1 0 50 87 0 0 50
94 27 14 11 70 0 0 0 20 27 0 0 20
94 52 49 104 33 93 3990 2560 48 52 40 2560 48
94 29 12 155 15 155 0 2704 15 27 42 2704 15