E-Series and IBM GPFS cluster have performance issue
Applies to
- NetApp E-Series
- GPFS Cluster
- Linux DM-MP (Kernel 3.9 or earlier)
Issue
- Two LUN's causing extreme performance degradation across the IBM GPFS cluster
- Controller A had multiple exceptions (panic/crash) every time the LUN's were brought back in to the cluster
- A side effect of this situation was also an error
volume not on preferred path ( VNOPP )