To determine the optimal stripe size you need to analyze whether you will
read and write large data chunks or smaller data chunks. Then opt for
either a larger or smaller stripe size. Remember though that the larger a
stripe the more potential for wasted disk space.
In general you can either manage RAID in the hardware, or in the hardware
along with some OS compatible software. Running RAID 10 with hot spares
makes the OS management piece not terribly necessary except to see the
array status and any RAID failures. These will also show up on the console
when the system is booted. If this server will be remotely managed you
will want to use software from within the OS to manage the RAID.
-Derek
At 10:29 PM 2/14/2007, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote:
At 02:54 PM 2/14/2007, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote:
Hi Freebsd
We have DELL/EMC CX-300 storage array hardware , Navisphere. , which consist
of 15 Disks 320GB, I am planning to use this for Oracle( Linux) + SQL
server(M$) purpose.
We need to get that redundancy using RAID 10 and striple for the best
performance.
My thoughts are take most even number of possible disks( leaving private
system partition area) and create the raid groups and kick a separate LUNS
for MSSQL purpose.
With this hardware config, Do you have any suggestion on getting the best
performance and redundancy in place
Thanks
Dak
On 2/14/07, Derek Ragona
<<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
RAID 10 uses even numbered drive sets, usually in 4's, so 4 drives, 8
drives, 12 drives, etc. Depending on how 24/7 self-managed you want the
array, you should plan for at least 2 hot spare drives for fail over.
So in your setup you could have one logical array made up of 12 drives,
with 2 spares, and one left for the OS. One consideration in striping is
the stripe size. Stripe size effects performance but also storage
efficiency. So you want to balance those factors in choosing a stripe size.
How to determine the stripe size Dell recommends the OS striped across 5
disks and calls itself system private paritition
How to determine the optimal stripe size, will I be able to ditch the
current navisphere the Storage Array OS( which is now windows based I
t and stick Freebsd in its place. We have got nice GEOM ability now.
Thanks
Dak
One last issue, is make sure you have enough cache on the RAID controller.
-Derek
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