Performance Tuning; Striping Size Expansion; Table 36 Available Stripe Depth - Fujitsu ETERNUS DX100 S4 Design Manual

2. Basic Functions

Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning

Striping Size Expansion

Striping Size Expansion is a function to expand the stripe depth value by specifying the stripe depth
when creating a RAID group.
Expansion of the stripe size enables advanced performance tuning. For normal operations, the de-
fault value does not need to be changed.
An expanded stripe depth reduces the number of drives that are accessed. A reduced number of
commands to drives improves the access performance of the corresponding RAID1+0 RAID groups.
However, it should be noted that an expanded stripe depth may reduce the sequential write per-
formance for RAID5.
The stripe depth values that are available for each RAID level are shown below.

Table 36 Available Stripe Depth

RAID level
Mirroring (RAID1)
High performance (RAID1+0)
Striping (RAID0)
High capacity (RAID5)
Reliability (RAID5+0)
High reliability (RAID6)
High reliability (RAID6-FR)
*1: D: Data, M: Mirror, P: Parity
• The read/write performance of the random access can be enhanced by changing the setting,
however, note that the performance can be degraded, depending on the used system.
• The following restrictions are applied to the RAID groups with expanded stripe sizes:
Encryption and Logical Device Expansion cannot be performed on the volumes which belong
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to the RAID group.
RAID groups with different stripe sizes configured cannot coexist in the same TPP or FTSP
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pools.
A WSV cannot be configured by concatenating RAID groups with different stripe sizes.
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"Stripe Depth 512KB" cannot be specified for a "RAID5 (4D+1P)" configuration that is used for
•
TPPs and FTSPs.
• "Stripe Depth 256KB" cannot be specified for a "RAID5 (8D+1P)" configuration that is used for
TPPs and FTSPs.
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Drive configuration (*1)
1D+1M
All drive configurations
2D+1P – 4D+1P
5D+1P – 8D+1P
9D+1P – 15D+1P
All drive configurations
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Available stripe depth
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64KB, 128KB, 256KB, 512KB, and 1,024KB
64KB, 128KB, 256KB, and 512KB
64KB, 128KB, and 256KB
64KB and 128KB
64KB
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