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yaroslav (staff)
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Tue Jul 20, 2021 4:07 am

Hi,

Could you please run the benchmarks for the StarWind HA device while it is formatted as NTFS? Please also try connecting 2x or 3x local and 2x partner iSCSI sessions.
Regarding the VM performance, you will not be able to saturate the storage performance with just one Guest. You will need 4 VMs running (2 each node) and tests are to be ran simultaneously.
Also, do you have any antivirus on your server? Do your HA devices have any L2 or L1 cache enabled?
fritte
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Thu Jul 22, 2021 8:42 am

yaroslav (staff) wrote:Hi,

Could you please run the benchmarks for the StarWind HA device while it is formatted as NTFS? Please also try connecting 2x or 3x local and 2x partner iSCSI sessions.
Regarding the VM performance, you will not be able to saturate the storage performance with just one Guest. You will need 4 VMs running (2 each node) and tests are to be ran simultaneously.
Also, do you have any antivirus on your server? Do your HA devices have any L2 or L1 cache enabled?

I allready written on HADevice in formated NTFS:

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[Read]
  SEQ    1MiB (Q=  8, T= 1):  2802.211 MB/s [   2672.4 IOPS] <  2990.68 us>
  SEQ    1MiB (Q=  1, T= 1):   556.583 MB/s [    530.8 IOPS] <  1882.40 us>
  RND    4KiB (Q= 32, T= 1):   314.350 MB/s [  76745.6 IOPS] <   413.13 us>
  RND    4KiB (Q=  1, T= 1):     8.352 MB/s [   2039.1 IOPS] <   489.83 us>

[Write]
  SEQ    1MiB (Q=  8, T= 1):   340.181 MB/s [    324.4 IOPS] < 23333.82 us>
  SEQ    1MiB (Q=  1, T= 1):   489.050 MB/s [    466.4 IOPS] <  2140.08 us>
  RND    4KiB (Q= 32, T= 1):   187.068 MB/s [  45670.9 IOPS] <   699.73 us>
  RND    4KiB (Q=  1, T= 1):     6.639 MB/s [   1620.8 IOPS] <   615.50 us>

I ran the test on each VM at the same time, two on each node
Node 01:

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VM 01
[Read]
  SEQ    1MiB (Q=  8, T= 1):  1492.480 MB/s [   1423.3 IOPS] <  5450.02 us>
  SEQ    1MiB (Q=  1, T= 1):   387.095 MB/s [    369.2 IOPS] <  2622.56 us>
  RND    4KiB (Q= 32, T= 1):   121.093 MB/s [  29563.7 IOPS] <  1040.35 us>
  RND    4KiB (Q=  1, T= 1):     1.819 MB/s [    444.1 IOPS] <  2205.49 us>

[Write]
  SEQ    1MiB (Q=  8, T= 1):   305.811 MB/s [    291.6 IOPS] < 26754.73 us>
  SEQ    1MiB (Q=  1, T= 1):   238.712 MB/s [    227.7 IOPS] <  3522.03 us>
  RND    4KiB (Q= 32, T= 1):    66.929 MB/s [  16340.1 IOPS] <  1815.72 us>
  RND    4KiB (Q=  1, T= 1):     2.551 MB/s [    622.8 IOPS] <  1553.36 us>

VM 02
[Read]
  SEQ    1MiB (Q=  8, T= 1):  1610.129 MB/s [   1535.5 IOPS] <  5201.40 us>
  SEQ    1MiB (Q=  1, T= 1):   812.413 MB/s [    774.8 IOPS] <  1165.12 us>
  RND    4KiB (Q= 32, T= 1):   212.641 MB/s [  51914.3 IOPS] <   615.40 us>
  RND    4KiB (Q=  1, T= 1):    21.847 MB/s [   5333.7 IOPS] <   186.83 us>

[Write]
  SEQ    1MiB (Q=  8, T= 1):   353.291 MB/s [    336.9 IOPS] < 20459.01 us>
  SEQ    1MiB (Q=  1, T= 1):   115.542 MB/s [    110.2 IOPS] <  7247.80 us>
  RND    4KiB (Q= 32, T= 1):    37.476 MB/s [   9149.4 IOPS] <  3490.53 us>
  RND    4KiB (Q=  1, T= 1):     6.165 MB/s [   1505.1 IOPS] <   663.01 us>
Node 02:

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VM 03
[Read]
  SEQ    1MiB (Q=  8, T= 1):  6210.557 MB/s [   5922.8 IOPS] <  1346.99 us>
  SEQ    1MiB (Q=  1, T= 1):  3628.800 MB/s [   3460.7 IOPS] <   287.93 us>
  RND    4KiB (Q= 32, T= 1):   367.757 MB/s [  89784.4 IOPS] <   355.49 us>
  RND    4KiB (Q=  1, T= 1):    35.786 MB/s [   8736.8 IOPS] <   113.87 us>

[Write]
  SEQ    1MiB (Q=  8, T= 1):   125.046 MB/s [    119.3 IOPS] < 58533.24 us>
  SEQ    1MiB (Q=  1, T= 1):   100.933 MB/s [     96.3 IOPS] < 10376.80 us>
  RND    4KiB (Q= 32, T= 1):    94.868 MB/s [  23161.1 IOPS] <  1380.04 us>
  RND    4KiB (Q=  1, T= 1):     6.280 MB/s [   1533.2 IOPS] <   650.75 us>

VM 04
[Read]
  SEQ    1MiB (Q=  8, T= 1):  2474.579 MB/s [   2359.9 IOPS] <  3377.33 us>
  SEQ    1MiB (Q=  1, T= 1):  1212.276 MB/s [   1156.1 IOPS] <   863.25 us>
  RND    4KiB (Q= 32, T= 1):   263.471 MB/s [  64324.0 IOPS] <   496.14 us>
  RND    4KiB (Q=  1, T= 1):    38.899 MB/s [   9496.8 IOPS] <   104.78 us>

[Write]
  SEQ    1MiB (Q=  8, T= 1):   208.907 MB/s [    199.2 IOPS] < 38644.59 us>
  SEQ    1MiB (Q=  1, T= 1):   140.987 MB/s [    134.5 IOPS] <  7422.65 us>
  RND    4KiB (Q= 32, T= 1):    81.531 MB/s [  19905.0 IOPS] <  1605.81 us>
  RND    4KiB (Q=  1, T= 1):     6.067 MB/s [   1481.2 IOPS] <   673.83 us>

I dont have any AV software on my two nodes, just the default defender
I dont have any Cache enable which im aware
My HADevice is on a Raid5 SSD only
yaroslav (staff)
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Sat Jul 24, 2021 7:18 am

Hi,

VHDX limits VM performance itself. You can try using SCSI controller for VM disks. Also, make sure to use FIXED disks.
Also, you need to add up the READ performance for all your VMs. VMs are running tests at a time, hence their read performance is to be added up. If you do so, read performance is pretty much what you get closer to RAID 5 read performance.
Please contact us at support@starwind.com use this thread and 544336 as your references.
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