What is your gluster setup? Please share volume details where vms ate
stored. It could be that the slow host is having arbiter volume.

Alex

On Feb 26, 2018 13:46, "Ryan Wilkinson" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Here is info. about the Raid controllers.  Doesn't seem to be the culprit.
>
> Slow host:
> Name PERC H710 Mini (Embedded)
> Firmware Version 21.3.4-0001
> Cache Memory Size 512 MB
> Fast Host:
>
> Name PERC H310 Mini (Embedded)
> Firmware Version 20.12.1-0002
> Cache Memory Size 0 MB
> Slow host:
> Name PERC H310 Mini (Embedded)
> Firmware Version 20.13.1-0002
> Cache Memory Size 0 MB
> Slow host:
> Name PERC H310 Mini (Embedded)
> Firmware Version 20.13.3-0001 Cache Memory Size 0 MB
> Slow Host:
> Name PERC H710 Mini (Embedded)
> Firmware Version 21.3.5-0002
> Cache Memory Size 512 MB
> Fast Host
> Perc H730
> Cache Memory Size 1GB
>
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 9:42 AM, Alvin Starr <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I would be really supprised if the problem was related to Idrac.
>>
>> The Idrac processor is a stand alone cpu with its own nic and runs
>> independent of the main CPU.
>>
>> That being said it does have visibility into the whole system.
>>
>> try using dmidecode to compare the systems and take a close look at the
>> raid controllers and what size and form of cache they have.
>>
>> On 02/26/2018 11:34 AM, Ryan Wilkinson wrote:
>>
>> I've tested about 12 different Dell servers.  Ony a couple of them have
>> Idrac express and all the others have Idrac Enterprise.  All the boxes with
>> Enterprise perform poorly and the couple that have express perform well.  I
>> use the disks in raid mode on all of them.  I've tried a few non-Dell boxes
>> and they all perform well even though some of them are very old.  I've also
>> tried disabling Idrac, the Idrac nic, virtual storage for Idrac with no
>> sucess..
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 9:28 AM, Serkan Çoban <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I don't think it is related with iDRAC itself but some configuration
>>> is wrong or there is some hw error.
>>> Did you check battery of raid controller? Do you use disks in jbod
>>> mode or raid mode?
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 6:12 PM, Ryan Wilkinson <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Thanks for the suggestion.  I tried both of these with no difference in
>>> > performance.I have tried several other Dell hosts with Idrac
>>> Enterprise and
>>> > getting the same results.  I also tried a new Dell T130 with Idrac
>>> express
>>> > and was getting over 700 MB/s.  Any other users had this issues with
>>> Idrac
>>> > Enterprise??
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 12:16 AM, Serkan Çoban <[email protected]>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> "Did you check the BIOS/Power settings? They should be set for high
>>> >> performance.
>>> >> Also you can try to boot "intel_idle.max_cstate=0" kernel command line
>>> >> option to be sure CPUs not entering power saving states.
>>> >>
>>> >> On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 9:59 AM, Ryan Wilkinson <[email protected]>
>>> >> wrote:
>>> >> >
>>> >> >
>>> >> > I have a 3 host gluster replicated cluster that is providing
>>> storage for
>>> >> > our
>>> >> > RHEV environment.  We've been having issues with inconsistent
>>> >> > performance
>>> >> > from the VMs depending on which Hypervisor they are running on.
>>> I've
>>> >> > confirmed throughput to be ~9Gb/s to each of the storage hosts from
>>> the
>>> >> > hypervisors.  I'm getting ~300MB/s disk read spead when our test vm
>>> is
>>> >> > on
>>> >> > the slow Hypervisors and over 500 on the faster ones.  The
>>> performance
>>> >> > doesn't seem to be affected much by the cpu, memory that are in the
>>> >> > hypervisors.  I have tried a couple of really old boxes and got
>>> over 500
>>> >> > MB/s.  The common thread seems to be that the poorly perfoming
>>> hosts all
>>> >> > have Dell's Idrac 7 Enterprise.  I have one Hypervisor that has
>>> Idrac 7
>>> >> > express and it performs well.  We've compared system packages and
>>> >> > versions
>>> >> > til we're blue in the face and have been struggling with this for a
>>> >> > couple
>>> >> > months but that seems to be the only common denominator.  I've
>>> tried on
>>> >> > one
>>> >> > of those Idrac 7 hosts to disable the nic, virtual drive, etc, etc.
>>> but
>>> >> > no
>>> >> > change in performance.  In addition, I tried 5 new hosts and all are
>>> >> > complying to the Idrac enterprise theory.  Anyone else had this
>>> issue?!
>>> >> >
>>> >> >
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