Understanding of storage I/O control?

Hi all

We have several virtual machines in our environment that periodically generate a lot of e/s on our SAN - and thus creating the standby time for the other virtual machines on the same disk groups.

That's why we are looking at implementing the storage i/o control.

But I am a bit in doubt as the impact since SIOC is listed as wide control (VMFS). In other words: by the data store in the cluster.

What happens if the latency on a data store is actually induced by the virtual machines running on another data store?

All the virtual machines will be strangled? (given that the latency occurs on all data warehouses) Or limitation will only occur for data warehouses where the "rogue" VMs?

Hypothetical example:

  • Two data warehouses on the same group of SAN disks.
  • Datastore1 contains VM1a and VM1b
  • Datastore2 contains VM2a and VM2b
  • Four virtual machines have the same drive actions and each has need of 25% of the available IO disk group

VM2b suddenly consumes 80% of the available IO, three other virtual machines are "hungry" and latency occurs.

What will happen?

SIOC will review the need for I/O to all virtual machines and throttle according to share - through data warehouses?

Or he'll be watching the e/s consumed within each store of data and accelerator to something like that?

  • VM1a and VM1b - 10% each
  • VM2a and VM2b - 40% of each

Hope someone can clarify.

Best regards

Martin

It should be less than 8 seconds, more than likely same 4. I saw some tests around it and don't worry too much. The alarm is more annoying that the impact of the throttle could cause.

Duncan (VCDX)

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