Slow SnapMirror transfers due to network loss
Applies to
- SnapMirror
- ONTAP 9
Issue
- Slow SnapMirror updates are being seen, and replication is not keeping up.
- A new SnapMirror initialization is too slow.
- ONTAP may show good response time in the command
qos statistics workload latency show -workload _SNAPMIRROR
- CPU and disk utilization on the source and destination are low further indicating there is not a performance issue
- The full link speed may not be utilized
- Example: Only seeing total interface throughput of 1 MB/s on a 1 Gb/s Ethernet link