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How can I check the physical write speed to the Gluster, StoragePool Network and the Physical Disk (Bricks) IOPS when troubleshooting performance issues?

  • 30 December 2020
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Encountering slow physical write speeds on backup. Need to test hyperscale performance. 

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Best answer by Aristo 30 December 2020, 23:58

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Hi Ron, 

To test Hyperscale performance you can leverage FIO (a tool that will spawn a number of threads or processes doing a particular type of I/O action as specified by the user).

  • Test Read Performance to Gluster 
    • [root@win-hs1 ~]# fio --name=(name of the job) --rw=(Type of I/O pattern) --direct=1 --ioengine=libaio --bs=(buffer size) --numjobs=(number of process to run) --size=(size of the file to be created) --runtime=(t --group_reporting --iodepth=(Number of I/O units to keep in flight against the file)
      • Example (note - all parameters are tunable):
        • For writes you should change the "--rw=" to one of the following 
          • --rw=read (sequential read)
          • --rw=randread (random reads)
          • --rw=rw (mixed sequential reads and writes)
          • --rw=randrw (Mixed random reads and writes)
        • # fio --name=seqread --rw=read --direct=1 --ioengine=libaio --bs=32k --numjobs=1 --size=1G --runtime=600 --group_reporting --iodepth=8
  • Test Write Performance to Gluster 
    • [root@win-hs1 ~]# fio --name=(name of the job) --rw=(Type of I/O pattern) --direct=1 --ioengine=libaio --bs=(buffer size) --numjobs=(number of process to run) --size=(size of the file to be created) --runtime=(t --group_reporting --iodepth=(Number of I/O units to keep in flight against the file)
      • Example (note - all parameters are tunable):
        • For writes you should change the "--rw=" to one of the following 
          • --rw=write (sequential writes)
          • --rw=randwrite (random writes)
          • --rw=rw (mixed sequential reads and writes)
          • --rw=randrw (Mixed random reads and writes)
        • # fio --name=random_read_writes --rw=randrw --direct=1 --ioengine=libaio --bs=32k --numjobs=1 --size=1G --runtime=600 --group_reporting --iodepth=8

 

 Since gluster writes data over the network, its also important to test network performance. You can follow these instructions for network tests.

 

I hope this was useful 

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