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03-01-2012, 12:35 AM #1Web Hosting Evangelist
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Anyone using LSI Cachecade SSD caching?
Wondering what SSD raid configurations your using. Raid 1 or Raid 0, or what. Had it running in our SAN with Cachecade SSD drives set to Raid 0 (2 SSD drives) and we had one SSD drive fail this weekend. When it failed it took our RAID 10 volume offline. Would have thought if SSD caching failed it would degrade gracefully, but thats not what I'm seeing.
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03-01-2012, 01:34 AM #2Web Hosting Master
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Its a RAID0, think of it as a single drive.
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03-01-2012, 01:38 AM #3Web Hosting Evangelist
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Your saying you have a Cachecade SSD setup and your SSD drive (Do you have one or more?) is set as RAID 0?
Was looking for real world experience and how you deal with the loss of the SSD drive taking out your SAN.
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03-01-2012, 07:26 AM #4Web Hosting Master
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03-01-2012, 07:45 AM #5Web Hosting Master
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Interesting discussion actually. When we were shopping for storage solutions, I was told by Boston that STEC SSDs 'do not fail' and hence they were safe to be used in this sort of arrangement. I didn't believe them actually
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03-01-2012, 01:25 PM #6Junior Guru
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So the SSD disks in the Raid 0 were being used for caching in front of a separate Raid 10 array?
If so, i wouldn't think it would take the whole thing down, shouldn't it just lose it ability to cache?¦ Brendan - TeraSwitch Inc.
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03-01-2012, 01:37 PM #7Web Hosting Evangelist
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Thats what my thoughts were exactly. The RAID 10 drive was not accessable until the SSD caching was totally removed.
Why even make available an option like RAID 0 for SSD caching if its going to make your Primary volume inaccessble when it fails.
I will add that there were 2 choices for writing, Write Through and Write Back. I did choose Write Back. Not sure what would have happened if I chose Write Through. Thats why I was asking for real world experience with this product.
In my mind it setting it to Write Back and have a failed SSD drive take the primary volume offline seems like a silly idea to even make it an option.
I expect my vendors to protect me from myself.
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03-01-2012, 02:59 PM #8Russ
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My setup is a bit different, but accomplishes similar results (SSD buffering).
RAID1: x2 Intel SSD's
The intel SSD's are setup as Flashcache (kernel module) devices sitting in front of a RAID-10 SAS array.
Using write-back mode (riskier), but we have redundant power including battery units on the RAID controllers.
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03-02-2012, 08:08 AM #9Web Hosting Master
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03-02-2012, 07:50 PM #10Russ
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This is true. However this doesn't guarantee data is consistent. You're sending IO operations to a hardware raid controller with it's own subset of cache and IO scheduling. BBU provides safe guard on a very busy system that loses power with pending IO operations at the controller level. With a BBU we can ensure any pending operations at the controller level are satisfied.
We use noop without nr_requests value of 0 (among other similar settings), so operations go more quickly to the controller.
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