Re: suse_enterprise_storage3_rbd_LIO_vmware_performance_bad

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ceph-users [mailto:ceph-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Lars Marowsky-Bree
> Sent: 04 July 2016 11:36
> To: ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: 
> suse_enterprise_storage3_rbd_LIO_vmware_performance_bad
> 
> On 2016-07-01T19:11:34, Nick Fisk <nick@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > To summarise,
> >
> > LIO is just not working very well at the moment because of the ABORT
> > Tasks problem, this will hopefully be fixed at some point. I'm not
> > sure if SUSE works around this, but see below for other pain points
> > with RBD + ESXi + iSCSI
> 
> Yes, the SUSE kernel has recent backports that fix these bugs. And there's
> obviously on-going work to improve the performance and code.
> 
> That's not to say that I'd advocate iSCSI as a primary access mechanism
for
> Ceph. But the need to interface from non-Linux systems to a Ceph cluster
is
> unfortunately very real.
> 
> > With 1GB networking I think you will struggle to get your write latency
> much below 10-15ms, but from your example ~30ms is still a bit high. I
> wonder if the default queue depths on your iSCSI target are too low as
well?
> 
> Thanks for all the insights on the performance issues. You're really quite
spot
> on.

Thanks, it's been a painful experience working through them all, but have
learnt a lot along the way.

> 
> The main concern here obviously is that the same 2x1GbE network is
carrying
> both the client/ESX traffic, the iSCSI target to OSD traffic, and the OSD
> backend traffic. That is not advisable.
> 
> 
> Regards,
>     Lars
> 
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