Yes, that should behave similarly and rules out a lot of the previous suggestions as to the possible cause.
When you say server to server (in your original post), do you mean using a server as an intermediary but reading and writing from the same place as with NDMP?
We’ve tested single stream performance on a variety of storage platforms and were surprised by some of the results.
Do you have any information about the NDMP TCP stream that could help here? Looking at the TCP window size, packet delivery reliability etc may give you some more clues. Even using NFS on a local LAN, it’s pretty easy to hinder performance due to client mount options as well as the networking stack configuration on the source and destination machines. I’m not sure how NDMP behaves on a high speed network, but it’d be interesting to look at a packet trace to see. I’d do it myself, but just don’t have the time.
From: Scott Eno [mailto:s.eno@me.com] Sent: 20 February 2013 20:29 To: Darren Sykes Cc: tmac; Jeff Mohler; toasters@teaparty.net Subject: Re: NDMP speed question
The tests I performed were from an aggregate of 46 10k drives to another identical aggregate on the other controller. We used a 500g tar.gz file. Should be comparable to a lun, ya think?
1.5Gb was the steady transfer rate. 1500 mtu, of course.
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On Feb 20, 2013, at 12:13 PM, Darren Sykes <Darren.Sykes@csr.commailto:Darren.Sykes@csr.com> wrote: If someone could get >5Gb/s (say) backing up a large iSCSI LUN on a dedicated volume then it’d be fairly easy to determine there isn’t an inherent limit in using NDMP.
From: toasters-bounces@teaparty.netmailto:toasters-bounces@teaparty.net [mailto:toasters-bounces@teaparty.net] On Behalf Of tmac Sent: 20 February 2013 16:31 To: Jeff Mohler Cc: toasters@teaparty.netmailto:toasters@teaparty.net Subject: Re: NDMP speed question
Adding to my list:
Collecting and disseminating File History (which takes significantly longer the more files there are in the file system).
As a point of reference, I *cannot* do any NDMP backups on nearly all of my filesystems.
I have so many files that it takes over 8 hours to do the file history phase and the NDMP backup simply aborts.
--tmac
Tim McCarthy Principal Consultant
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On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Jeff Mohler <speedtoys.racing@gmail.commailto:speedtoys.racing@gmail.com> wrote: NDMP has phases, and other work to do. I think with the info here, its far too early to declare NDMP at fault.
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Christopher S Eno <s.eno@me.commailto:s.eno@me.com> wrote: Thanks Tim!
The thought here was that NDMP was “built for speed” and should be taking all it can get from the 10GbE pipe. I was wondering if I was missing some hidden setting that was capping or throttling or “nice”-ing the NDMP process.
From: tmac [mailto:tmacmd@gmail.commailto:tmacmd@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 9:31 AM To: Christopher S Eno Cc: toasters@teaparty.netmailto:toasters@teaparty.net Subject: Re: NDMP speed question
DUMPing data is historically a slow process. There is much more involved than simply FTP'ing data to the NetApp.
The filesystem is walked inode by inode and archive bits are set among other things.
--> A highly fragmented data set will also slow down any potential dumps. --> Wide directories (large file counts in a single directory) significantly slow down dumps --> Small files slow down dumps.
*--> qtree dumps seem to be a little better for dump speed
--tmac
Tim McCarthy Principal Consultant
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On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Christopher S Eno <s.eno@me.commailto:s.eno@me.com> wrote: Hi,
In testing NDMP dumps over 10GbE, I am seeing it max out at 1.5Gb/s. Some here are thinking that NDMP should be using more of that pipe. Anyone know about, or have numbers of NDMP transfer rates over 10GbE? Any caps or thresholds in OnTap that keep NDMP from gobbling up resources on the controller? I have run tests over the 10GbE connection from controller to controller, 10k drives to 10k drives, sata drives to sata drives, and always 1.5Gb/s is the ceiling. FTP'ing data from server to server across the same 10GbE network shows rates of 2.5Gb/s or higher.
My NDMP options:
ndmpd.access all ndmpd.authtype challenge ndmpd.connectlog.enabled off ndmpd.data_port_range all ndmpd.enable on ndmpd.fh_node_retry_interval 250 ndmpd.ignore_ctime.enabled off ndmpd.maxversion 4 ndmpd.offset_map.enable on ndmpd.password_length 16 ndmpd.preferred_interface e1a (value might be overwritten in takeover) ndmpd.tcpnodelay.enable on ndmpd.tcpwinsize 65534
IF e1a configuration:
e1a: flags=0x5f4e867<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,TCPCKSUM,NOWINS> mtu 1500 inet x.x.x.x netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast x.x.x.x partner e1a (not in use) ether 00:07:43:08:98:ae (auto-10g_sr-fd-up) flowcontrol none
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