We are looking at creating an HA webserver cluster of 4 host and DRBD as the common shared storage on 3 hosts.
Our infrastructure has made of 4 xcp-ng host and 1x EqualLogic SAN (all ssd).
All the host run 6x ssd hdd on raid5 hardware clustered together using XOSTOR.
For the purpose of this webserver setup, we are trying to determine if we will get better performance out of using EqualLogic SAN or the XOSTOR storage as XOSTOR is already running DRBD itself on 3 hosts so I am not sure. In order to find out, I will create my cluster first on the XOSTOR SR, do the test and them move the VM to the EqualLogic SR and test again.
The only issue (big one) is that I have never done benchmarking before. Could anyone please advice on the tools to use? All the VM in the cluster are centos 8 with no GUI, CLI only
The easiest way to do it would be with https://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/ the specific benchmark for disk testing is FIO and the command is: phoronix-test-suite benchmark pts/fio
The more complex way is using FIO directly, but you won’t get the fancy comparison charts
@LTS_Tom Thank you very much for the quick reply. Will I get the same result using any of the 2 ways? If so then the first methode might be better for me
I have never tried installing it on TrueNAS directly, not sure if it would work. If you install it in a VM just remember you are added the overhead of the VM to the stat.
When you do your test, what does Phoronix run on? I want to answer this question, so to test which pool layout ies best, am I correct to think that I need to test it inside the VM residing on that pool?
