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| 1331278 | 2013-03-06 19:43:00 | Hi Gary, yeah I still have the server at work, what im saying is I have a 5 port gigabit desktop switch to multiply my single gigabit port back that goes to the network backbone....I dont think the traffic is using least cost and is going back to the backbone then back to switch again then server rather than straight to it from the desktop switch....I think the failed battery on the RAID5 array has also degraded the disk performance but are just about to check that... | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1331279 | 2013-03-06 20:20:00 | Yeah a lot will turn off write caching without a battery, for "safety". | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1331280 | 2013-03-06 20:45:00 | Yeah, not sure what going on Chill, we burst up to 90mb/s then peter out rather quickly down to 3 or 4MB/s on a 1gb file...I thought it was the disk, but a single disk on the same controller does the same thing.... | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1331281 | 2013-03-06 21:11:00 | Let's start where HP would, is all the firmware up to date? | WarNox (8772) | ||
| 1331282 | 2013-03-06 21:56:00 | Easy way to figure it out, copy from one disk to another disk, within the OS. Easy test ;-) | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1331283 | 2013-03-06 22:56:00 | I'm guessing you put all the disk in a single array once you went to 5.1? If so can't really do that test. I had a G4 going for a year or so in RAID1 with dead write cache, didn't seem to affect performance noticeably. Maybe you should try a RAID1 or 10. Are you running VMware from a USB stick or have you installed it on your datastore? | Alex B (15479) | ||
| 1331284 | 2013-03-06 23:26:00 | Hi guys....I did have a single disk and a RAID 5 array, I also have a couple of 80GB SATAs in a mirror which has ESXi on it...have to LOL, just got the DL380 G8 in and noticed it has an internal SD card slot, so was quiet pissed I spend a grand on a mirror array for ESXi!!......***, how did I miss that!.... Anyway, back to G5, and now have 4 x single disks, which I will play around with copy tests inside the VM, may have a go at presenting FreeNAS with single disks to use for ZFS, but have to do a bit of reading on it first....I guy has a refurbished controller on trademe for like$60!, i have messaged him Ill give him $25...7 year old product FGS! Anyway, get back to you when I have some more info... |
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| 1331285 | 2013-03-06 23:46:00 | Old server gear sometimes keeps it's value OK, people will pay whatever if their data is stuck on a 7 year old production server (It happens :P) Yeah our G8's have no disk at all, just ESXi on a USB stick using the internal usb slot, then all fiber attached storage to SAN. | Alex B (15479) | ||
| 1331286 | 2013-03-06 23:57:00 | Old server gear sometimes keeps it's value OK, people will pay whatever if their data is stuck on a 7 year old production server (It happens :P) Yeah our G8's have no disk at all, just ESXi on a USB stick using the internal usb slot, then all fiber attached storage to SAN. Yeah, but i meant say $60 battery, not the full controller....will see what he says! |
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| 1331287 | 2013-03-07 01:14:00 | Okay, single disk write performance is also fubared......appears the battery on the cache memory plays a big part...I start off at close to 60-70MB/s then it just dies... 4832 |
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