
Dell™ PowerVault MD3000 and MD3000i Array Tuning Best Practices
December2008–RevisionA01 Page17
In the first generation of firmware (see Figure 5), this can be determined from the
‘Avg. Blocks’ row which represents the average I/O block size encountered. In
Generation One, the ‘Large IO’ field denotes a 4096 block or 2MiB size with zero
registered Large Reads or Writes during the sample period. Any single host
received I/O greater than the Large I/O size is broken down into chunks less than
or equal to the stated Large I/O value. It is extremely rare for a host to send such
large I/Os.
With second generation firmware (see Figure 6), the ‘Avg. Blks’ column
represents the average the I/O block size encountered. In Figure 6, the
‘LargeIoSize’ field denotes a 2MiB size with zero registered Large Reads or
Writes during the sample period.
Volume 0 Attributes:
Volume Type: RAIDVolume
User Label: MyRAID10_One
...
BlockSize: 512 bytes
LargeIoSize: 4096 blocks
...
Perf. Stats: Requests Blocks Avg. Blks IO Percent
Reads 67456452 5943724625 88 71.20%
Writes 27283249 1144902648 41 28.80%
Large Reads 0 0 0 0.00%
Large Writes 0 0 0 0.00%
Total 94739701 7088627273 74 100.00 %
Virtual Disk Unit 0 Configuration
Volume Type: 13+1 RAID 5
User Label: MyRAID5_1
Block Size: 512 bytes
Large IO: 4096 blocks
Segment Size: 256 blocks
Stripe Size: 3328 blocks
...
IO Statistics:
small small large large cache
reads writes reads writes total hits
requests 2028332119 147699066 0 0 2176031185 1289775370
blocks 3091968111 2518067526 0 0 1315068341 4019884678
avg blocks 4 17 0 0 0 3
IO pct. 93.21% 6.78% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 59.27%
Figure 6: Second Generation Firmware - Volume Attributes Performance Stats; taken
from RAID 1 volume. File: stateCaptureData.txt
Figure 5: First Generation Firmware - Stripe Size. File: stateCaptureData.txt
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