How many of you use S.A.M.E?

Hi

Anyone here use Stripe.All.Mirror.Everything methology? The one claimed by Mr Loaiza 6 years ago?

Not long ago I posted to list several I/O problems I have with Storage. I was told yesterday that the EMC we have is using Meta Devices, some sort of SAME. I was told by the EMC guy that the SAN has 120 disks with RAID 1+0, 256GB disks. In the factory it is configured with a internal stripe, 256GB disk is divided into slices of 8GB. So we have 120 disks each disk with 32 slices.

With that configuration you take slices from several physical disks to form LUNs. He syas that this is what they call Mete Devices and usually they do that only when the customer is in a hurry and needs the disks badly and dont have time to make a better planning. He further said that this sort of configuration he has seen response times of over 120ms and it is not unusual. The porblem with our disks is that sometimes we get like 80ms responsetime and most of time beteen 25 and 60.

I wonder, is Mete Device a SAME configuration? Sure it is deadly easy to configure and maintain but then we are suffering performance problems. The EMC box is used by over 10 databases, from OLTP to DWH and some of them Hybrid configuration. So the chance that a disk is used by all 10 databases is quite easy. Wont the disk head go crazy when 10 databases is asking for data in several sectors in the same disk? May the chance of that is quite small however I would not be surprised that a disk is being used by 3, 4 databases concurrently.

TIA Alex

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