Very poor iSCSI write performance with delayed Ack
Applies to
- ONTAP
- VMware ESXi
- Windows Server
Issue
- iSCSI LUN performance is not meeting expectations for its hardware , disk and network performance
- There s no indication of general latency on the volume or network layers
- iSCSI configuration, MPIO, connections and sessions tests do not infdicate the root cause
- VMWare ALUA PSP is round robin and default IOP's per path is 1 or 1000 with vmk / vmnic 1 to 1 mapping
- Delayed ack and Bus overruns is observed on iSCSI network
- Performance degradation correlates with snapmirror replication
EMS error example:
vifmgr: vifmgr.bcastDomainPartition:error]: Broadcast domain Replication is partitioned into 2 groups on node one. The different groups are. LIFs hosted on the ports in this broadcast domain may be at the risk of seeing connectivity issues.
vifmgr: vifmgr.bcastDomainPartition:error]: Broadcast domain Replication is partitioned into 2 groups on node two. The different groups are. LIFs hosted on the ports in this broadcast domain may be at the risk of seeing connectivity issues.