High CPU iowait after SANtricity upgrade on StorageGRID Appliances
Applies to
- StorageGRID Appliances SG6060
- StorageGRID Appliances SG6160
Issue
After upgrading SANtricity OS on StorageGRID appliances (SG6060 and SG6160), the following symptoms were observed in Support--Metrics--Node(Internal Use):
- CPU utilization and iowait remained high
- Disk and metadata volume read latency increased significantly
- IOPS and read throughput remained unchanged
- SSD cache hit rate reset to zero after SANtricity upgrade and gradually increased over time


