Re: RAID 5 7+1 with oracle
- From: "Jonathan Lewis" <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 09:44:10 +0100
I'm not convinced your interpretation of the graphs is correct.
Left graph p9: Total for 4 disks (2d + 2d)
Writes on the 10K rpm start to hit their catastrophe point at 400 IO/s
Writes on the 15K rpm start to hit their catastrophe point at 600 IO/s
Right graph p10: Total of 8 disks (7D + 1P)
Writes on the 10K rpm start to hit their catastrophe point at 400 IO/s
Writes on the 15K rpm start to hit their catastrophe point at 600 IO/s
Exactly the same limit despite having twice the spindles.
If you want to compare write TIMES, you should be looking at
the right graph on p9: 4D + 4D (eight disks) which get to the
catastrophe point at 800 and 1200 IO/S
The same applies with read TIMES - surely you should be comparing
the two right-hand graphs. (I'm a little surprised by the similarity of the
graphs for reads - in a simplistc queueing theory model I would approximate
the RAID-10 as 4 x M/M/2, and the RAID-5 as 8 * M/M/1 with 7/8ths
load - and expected the M/M/2 to outperform the other). But maybe it's not
really valid to call RAID10 M/M/2; maybe hp just have some dirty tricks
(or errors) in their algorithms that even things out.
If you want to compare volume of data stored, of course, that's a completely
different matter.
Regards
Jonathan Lewis
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Author: Cost Based Oracle: Fundamentals
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Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 17:35:14 -0700
From: "Greg Rahn" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: RAID 5 7+1 with oracle
In order to avoid a religious war I'll just offer this:
Look at:
http://h71028.www7.hp.com/ERC/downloads/4AA0-7923ENW.pdf
This document shows that RAID5 (7D+1P : page 10 right graph) is far
better than RAID 1(2D+2D : page 9 left graph) both on read and write
operation.
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