They are our old systems. Specifically, FAS3240's with 512GB Flash Cache. They service mostly NFS and Fibre Channel workloads. A fair amount of CIFS and very little iSCSI. All of them are running deduplication jobs against 15-20 volumes with a decent change rate. All the 3240's serve as both the source and destinations for snapmirror relationships.
We get pretty good use out of the 3240's but we'll be happy when it is time to replace them. In the meantime, it would be nice if we could get them to 8.2 like our newer 7-mode systems. Worst case scenario is we upgrade to 8.2 and performance is terrible due to the increased CPU utilization.
It is difficult to label the workloads they service. The heaviest hitters are Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server and vSphere. We host a range of virtual machines on this filer, including virtualized SQL servers. A diverse set of workloads is probably the best I can do to describe the workload.
Thank you much for the response! -Phil
On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Michael Bergman michael.bergman@ericsson.com wrote:
Philbert Rupkins wrote:
We've been hesitant to upgrade to an 8.2.X release because our average controller utilization is 40-45% (avg_processor_busy) and, as I understand it, we can expect a bump of 10-20% CPU utilization on account of new code/features that have been introduced in 8.2.x.
What (which) FAS models is this..?
As you'd expect the 10-20% CPU util increase, well, it depends :-) On which protocols are in use and the workload parameters
Oh and: Happy new year, close now!
Regards, /M
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