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Re: [Xen-users] Xen - AoE benchmarks
Coraid SR1521's allow you to use two ethernet ports. I would suggest
you give that a try with 2 x 1Gb NICs.
They provide a tool called ddt to do tests with.
Here are some results I got a couple of weeks ago.
- Mike
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# Xen guest on sm02 with lvm filesystem on 4 disk RAID5
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root@x4:~/ddt-6# time ddt -t 8g /
Writing to /ddt.3159 ... syncing ... done.
sleeping 10 seconds ... done.
Reading from /ddt.3159 ... done.
8192 MiB KiB/s CPU%
Write 52009 7
Read 105424 1
real 4m26.415s
user 0m0.044s
sys 0m11.017s
On Jan 1, 2008 10:57 PM, Ofek Doron [Ofek BIZ] <doron@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> You can find a few benchmarks that I did in the past.
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> I used 1Gbps Ethernet card (on board in t42 IBM thinkpad and intel pci
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> I used regular linux distro (Fedora, RHEL, SLES and Open SuSE) and I worked
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> forgive me if this question has already been answered (i couldnt find any
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> I am working on some xen based cluster where we were thinking of using AoE
> for storage management -rather than pinning a DomU's data partition to the
> same host (same stuff which everybody does)
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> here comes my question:
> I have read in several places that AoE is sleek and fast for certain
> conditions,etc etc. But i couldnt find any real Xen-AoE combination (or
> atleast linux AoE) benchmarks in the internet.
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> I managed to stumble upon several Coraid benchmarks - but they arent useful
> at all. because the coraid disks are connected by a MyriNet NIC (i guess
> 1/10 Giga bit nic card) and its their implementation.
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> I am looking at benchmarks for a simple 100 MBps ethernet lan (or a 1GBps
> ethernet lan) - Dedicated for Aoe, based on the vblade/aoe kernel modules..
> There are no racks/special storage servers. Its just a set of commodity
> machines in the cluster. each machine has a dedicated nic card for aoe
> tasks, while the other is used for cluster communication/ communication to
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> -----Note that these machines are also performing computationally intensive
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> -----Some things i would definitely like to know are ,
> --If a host A is busy, does it affect the host B's AoE data fetch
> from host A its hard drive significantly?
> --What kind of bandwidths (atleast a ballpark number) can i expect,
> when compared between a in host hard disk access and remote host AoE based
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> If such bench marks are available anywhere, would somebody please point me
> to the links or any such source where i can dig it from?
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> thanks in advance.
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> cheers
> shriram
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