Performance Tuning; Striping Size Expansion; Table 35 Available Stripe Depth - Fujitsu ETERNUS DX500 S4/DX600 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 creat-
ing a RAID group.
Expansion of the stripe size enables advanced performance tuning. For normal operations, the default 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 performance for RAID5.
The stripe depth values that are available for each RAID type are shown below.

Table 35 Available Stripe Depth

RAID type
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
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that the performance can be degraded, depending on the used system.
The following restrictions are applied to the RAID groups with expanded stripe sizes:
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Encryption and Logical Device Expansion cannot be performed on the volumes which belong to the RAID
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group.
RAID groups with different stripe sizes configured cannot coexist in the same TPP or FTSP pools.
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- A WSV cannot be configured by concatenating RAID groups with different stripe sizes.
"Stripe Depth 512KB" cannot be specified for a "RAID5 (4D+1P)" configuration that is used for TPPs and
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FTSPs.
"Stripe Depth 256KB" cannot be specified for a "RAID5 (8D+1P)" configuration that is used for TPPs and
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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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