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

Not sure about my current customer SAN setup.

But I think ASM is based on SAME! I read Juan Loaiza presentation in the past, certainly he made things look easy but I would say too easy. Not sure if he was talking about ideal world or real world.

On 2/1/07, amonte <ax.mount_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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