Hi Edward,

Just to put it in perspective: we had a 3210, that did 38.000+ IOPs in our VMware environment.
I also heard about a 3250, that did more than 1 Mio real world IOPs with the help of a batch job pre-warming the FlashCache every morning (98% hit rate, they happened to interview him on the NetApp podcast). So it really depends on what you're doing... (e.g. big sequential read/write: expect low IOPs)

As to the 'hot disk', sysstat gives you 'the disk with the highest utilization'. So if the number sysstat gives as disk utilization is 'low', it's unlikely, that you have a hot disk problem.

To prevent allocation/fragmentation problems I usually advise to turn on automatic reallocate options, like
my 2c...

Sebastian


On 2/12/2015 2:11 AM, Klise, Steve wrote:

I agree with Jeff… Could be a bunch of things.. I know in the past if you added storage and didn’t do a reallocate, could be the cause.. Could be lots of things, but a perfstat is a good 1st pass.  Look at performance advisor if you have it.. Maybe you have some hot disks.. A little more info such as “what’s slow” would be appreciated to assist further. 

 

From: toasters-bounces@teaparty.net [mailto:toasters-bounces@teaparty.net] On Behalf Of Jeff Mohler
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 5:00 PM
To: Edward Rolison
Cc: toasters@teaparty.net
Subject: Re: IOPs from a controller

 

I suppose, somewhere between 1 and 100,000 would be about right.

I would call your sales machine, and ask for a PS Performance Review.

Not that Support cant say what its doing, but PS will tell you where it's been...and where it's going.


 

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 5:54 PM, Edward Rolison <ed.rolison@gmail.com> wrote:

Does anyone have a very rough rule of thumb as to IOPs you might expect out of a controller? 

I've got a FAS6280 that's starting to 'be a bit sluggish'. I'm inclined to shrug and say 'yes, it's doing 20K IOPs'. 

I know there's very much an 'it depends' in there - but 'very rough' is good enough for me here. (Disk wise - it's not particularly high on disk utilisation, nor is the network bandwidth particularly full). 


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