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1 StorTrends RAID Considerations MAN-RAID 04/29/2011 Copyright American Megatrends, Inc. All rights reserved. American Megatrends, Inc Oakbrook Parkway, Building 200 Norcross, GA Revision History This publication contains proprietary information that is protected by copyright. No part of this publication can be reproduced, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, translated into any language or computer language, or transmitted in any form whatsoever without the prior written consent of the publisher, American Megatrends, Inc. All trademarks and trade names used in this document refer to either the entities claiming the marks and names or their products. American Megatrends, Inc. disclaims any proprietary interest in trademarks and trade names other than its own. 02/26/2010 Preliminary release 04/07/2010 RAID 0 support removed on all 2400 models 10/23/2010 Updated product matrix and RAID level support 04/29/2011 Added support for the 2450 model StorTrends RAID Considerations 1
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3 RAID Considerations NOTE: RAID levels differ depending on your StorTrends storage appliance. Some StorTrends storage appliances have software only RAID support, which typically means that it supports RAID level 0, 1 and 5. StorTrends RAID Level Support Matrix See the following table for more information on what RAID level is supported by the model number of your storage appliance: Feature NAS IP-SAN 3200n 1300i 2400i 2401i 2450i 3200i Hardware RAID yes no no yes yes yes Supported RAID Levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60 0, 1, 5 1, 5 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, , 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60 NOTE: RAID support listed in the StorTrends RAID Level Support Matrix are subject to change without notice. StorTrends RAID Considerations 3
4 Introduction to RAID RAID Benefits Improved I/O Increased Reliability RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) is an array of multiple independent hard disk drives that provide high performance and fault tolerance. A RAID disk subsystem improves I/O (input/output) performance over a system using only a single hard disk drive. The RAID volume appears to the StorTrends server as a single storage unit or as multiple logical units. I/O is expedited because several hard disk drives can be accessed simultaneously. RAID systems improve data storage reliability and fault tolerance compared to single hard disk drive systems. Data loss due to a hard disk drive failure can be prevented by regenerating missing data from the remaining data and parity information stored on other hard disk drives in the volume. RAID has gained popularity because it improves I/O performance, and increases storage subsystem reliability. RAID provides data security through fault tolerance and redundant data storage. Although hard disk drive capabilities have improved drastically, actual performance has improved only three to four times in the last decade. Computing performance has improved over 50 times during the same time period. RAID allows you to access several hard disk drives simultaneously. The electromechanical components of a hard disk drive operate more slowly, require more power, and generate more noise and vibration than electronic devices. These factors reduce the reliability of data stored on a hard disk drive. RAID systems improve data storage reliability and fault tolerance compared to single hard disk drive systems. The additional hard disk drives make it possible to prevent data loss from a hard disk drive failure. You can regenerate missing data from the remaining data and parity stored on other hard disk drives in the volume. 4 StorTrends RAID Considerations
5 RAID Overview Disk Striping RAID is a collection of specifications that describes a system for ensuring the reliability and stability of data stored on large hard disk drive subsystems. A RAID system can be implemented in a number of different versions (or RAID Levels). The standard RAID levels are 0, 1, 3, and 5. Disk striping writes data across multiple hard disk drives instead of just one hard disk drive. Disk striping involves partitioning each hard disk drive storage space into stripes that can vary in size. These stripes are interleaved in a repeated sequential manner. The combined storage space is composed of stripes from each drive. StorTrends itx Software supports stripe size of 56 KB. For example, in a four hard disk drive system using only disk striping (as in RAID level 0), segment one is written to hard disk drive one, segment two is written to hard disk drive two, and so on. Disk striping enhances performance because multiple hard disk drives are accessed simultaneously; but disk striping does not provide data redundancy. Terminology Stripe Width Stripe Size Stripe width is the number of hard disk drives involved in a volume where striping is implemented. For example, a four hard disk drive volume with disk striping has a stripe width of four. The stripe size is the length of the interleaved data segments that are written across multiple hard disk drives. Disk Mirroring With mirroring (used in RAID 1), data written to one hard disk drive is simultaneously written to another hard disk drive. If one hard disk drive fails, the contents of the other hard disk drive can be used to run the system and regenerate the failed hard disk drive. The primary advantage of disk mirroring is that it provides 100% data redundancy. Since the contents of the hard disk drive are completely written to a second hard disk drive, it does not matter if one of the hard disk drives fails. Both hard disk drives contain the same data at all times. Either hard disk drive can act as the operational hard disk drive. Disk mirroring provides 100% redundancy, but is expensive because each hard disk drive in the system must be duplicated. StorTrends RAID Considerations 5
6 Selecting a RAID Level There are six official RAID levels (RAID 0 through RAID 5). The StorTrends itx Software supports RAID levels 0, 1 and 5. NOTE: StorTrends storage appliances that have hardware RAID cards support more RAID levels. RAID Level Type 0 Standard 1 Standard 5 Standard To ensure the best performance, you should select the optimal RAID level when you create a system volume. The optimal RAID level for your volume depends on a number of factors: the number of hard disk drives in the StorTrends itx Storage Appliance the capacity of the hard disk drives in the StorTrends itx Storage Appliance the need for data redundancy the hard disk drive performance requirements The factors you need to consider when selecting a RAID level are listed below: Level and Use Pros Cons Max. Hard Disk Drives 0 Data divided in blocks and distributed sequentially (pure striping). Use for non-critical data that requires high performance. 1 Data duplicated on another hard disk drive (mirroring). Use for readintensive fault-tolerant systems 5 Disk striping and parity data across all hard disk drives. Use for high read volume but low write volume, such as transaction processing. High data throughput for large files 100% data redundancy Achieves data redundancy at low cost No fault tolerance. All data lost if any hard disk drive fails. Reduces total hard disk drive space by half. Reduced performance during rebuilds. Loss of a single disk due to parity. one to 64 two three to 64 Fault Tolerant no yes yes 6 StorTrends RAID Considerations
7 RAID 0 RAID 0 provides disk striping across all hard disk drives in the volume. RAID 0 does not provide any data redundancy, but does offer the best performance of any RAID level. RAID 0 breaks up data into smaller blocks and then writes a block to each hard disk drive in the volume. The size of each block is determined by the stripe size parameter, set during the creation of the RAID set. RAID 0 offers high bandwidth. By breaking up a large file into smaller blocks, StorTrends itx Software can use multiple hard disk drives to read or write to the file faster. RAID 0 involves no parity calculations to complicate the write operation. This makes RAID 0 ideal for applications that require high bandwidth but do not require fault tolerance. weak points hard disk drives RAID 0 provides high data throughput, especially for large files. Any environment that does not require fault tolerance. Provides increased data throughput for large files. No capacity loss penalty for parity. Does not provide fault tolerance. All data lost if any hard disk drive fails. One to 64 hard disk drives RAID 1 RAID 1 duplicates all data from one hard disk drive to a second hard disk drive. RAID 1 provides complete data redundancy, but at the cost of doubling the required data storage capacity. weak points hard disk drives Use RAID 1 for small databases or any other environment that requires fault tolerance but small capacity. RAID 1 provides complete data redundancy. RAID 1 is ideal for any application that requires fault tolerance and minimal capacity. RAID 1 requires twice as many hard disk drives. Performance is impaired during hard disk drive rebuilds. Two hard disk drives StorTrends RAID Considerations 7
8 RAID 5 RAID 5 includes disk striping at the byte level and parity. In RAID 5, the parity information is written to several hard disk drives. RAID 5 is best suited for networks that perform a lot of small I/O transactions simultaneously. RAID 5 addresses the bottleneck issue for random I/O operations. Since each hard disk drive contains both data and parity numerous writes can take place concurrently. In addition, robust caching algorithms and hardware based exclusive-or assist make RAID 5 performance exceptional in many different environments. weak points hard disk drives RAID 5 provides high data throughput, especially for large files. Use RAID 5 for transaction processing applications because each hard disk drive can read and write independently. If a hard disk drive fails, the StorTrends itx Software the parity stored on each of the other hard disk drives to recreate all missing information. Use also for office automation and online customer service that requires fault tolerance. Use for any application that has high read request rates but low write request rates. Provides data redundancy and good performance in most environments Hard disk drive performance will be reduced if a hard disk drive is being rebuilt. Environments with few processes do not perform as well because the RAID overhead is not offset by the performance gains in handling simultaneous processes. Three to 64 hard disk drives RAID 6 RAID 6 distributed parity, with two independent parity blocks per stripe, and disk striping. A RAID 6 virtual disk can survive the loss of two disks without losing data. RAID 6 is similar to RAID 5 (disk striping and parity), except that instead of one parity block per stripe, there are two. With two independent parity blocks, RAID 6 can survive the loss of two disks in a virtual disk without losing data. Provides a high-level of data protection through the use of a second parity block in each stripe. Use RAID 6 for data that requires a high-level of protection from loss. In the case of a failure of one drive or two drives in a virtual disk, the RAID controller the parity blocks to recreate the missing information. If two drives in a RAID 6 virtual disk fail, two drive rebuilds are required, one for each drive. These rebuilds do not occur at the same time. The controller rebuilds one failed drive at a time. weak points hard disk drives Use for office automation and online customer service that requires fault tolerance. Use for any application that has high read request rates but low write request rates. Provides data redundancy, high read rates, and good performance in most environments. Can survive the loss of two drives or the loss of a drive while another drive is being rebuilt. Provides the highest level of protection against drive failures of all of the RAID levels. Read performance is similar to that of RAID 5. Not well suited to tasks requiring lot of writes. It is better than a RAID 1, but worse than a RAID 5. A RAID 6 virtual disk has to generate two sets of parity data for each write operation, which results in a significant decrease in performance during writes. Disk drive performance is reduced during a drive rebuild. Environments with few processes do not perform as well because the RAID overhead is not offset by the performance gains in handling simultaneous processes. RAID 6 costs more because of the extra capacity required by using two parity blocks per stripe. Three to 64 hard disk drives 8 StorTrends RAID Considerations
9 RAID 10 RAID 10 is a combination of RAID 0 and RAID 1. RAID 10 has mirrored drives. RAID 10 breaks up data into smaller blocks, and then stripes the blocks of data to each RAID 1 raid set. Each RAID 1 raid set then duplicates its data to its other drive. The size of each block is determined by the stripe size parameter, which is set during the creation of the RAID set. RAID 10 can sustain one to n (where n is the number of different RAID 1 sets in the RAID 10) drive failures while maintaining data integrity if each failed disk is in a different RAID 1 array. RAID 10 works best for data storage that must have 100% redundancy of mirrored arrays and that also needs the enhanced I/O performance of RAID 0 (striped arrays). RAID 10 works well for medium-sized databases or any environment that requires a higher degree of fault tolerance and moderate to medium capacity. RAID 10 provides both high data transfer rates and complete data redundancy. weak points RAID 10 requires twice as many drives as all other RAID levels except RAID 1. hard disk drives 2n, where n is greater than 1. StorTrends RAID Considerations 9
10 RAID 50 RAID 50 provides the features of both RAID 0 and RAID 5. RAID 50 includes both parity and disk striping across multiple drives. RAID 50 is best implemented on two RAID 5 disk arrays with data striped across both disk arrays. RAID 50 breaks up data into smaller blocks, and then stripes the blocks of data to each RAID 5 raid set. RAID 5 breaks up data into smaller blocks, calculates parity by performing an exclusive-or on the blocks, and then writes the blocks of data and parity to each drive in the array. The size of each block is determined by the stripe size parameter, which is set during the creation of the RAID set. RAID 50 can sustain one to n (where n is the number of different RAID sets in the RAID 50) drive failures while maintaining data integrity if each failed disk is in a different RAID 5 array. RAID 50 works best when used with data that requires high reliability, high request rates, and high data transfer and medium to large capacity. RAID 50 provides high data throughput, data redundancy, and very good performance. weak points Requires 2 to 4 times as many parity drives as RAID 5. hard disk drives Six to StorTrends RAID Considerations
11 RAID 60 RAID 60 distributed parity, with two independent parity blocks per stripe in each RAID set, and disk striping. A RAID 60 virtual disk can survive the loss of two disks in each of the RAID 6 sets without losing data. It works best with data that requires high reliability, high request rates, high data transfers, and medium-to-large capacity. RAID 60 provides the features of both RAID 0 and RAID 6 and includes both parity and disk striping across multiple arrays. RAID 6 supports two independent parity blocks per stripe. RAID 60 is best implemented on two RAID 6 disk arrays with data striped across both disk arrays. RAID 60 divides data into smaller blocks, then stripes the blocks of data to each RAID 6 disk set. RAID 6 divides the data into smaller blocks, calculates parity by performing an Exclusive-Or (XOR) on the blocks, then writes the blocks of data and parity to each drive in the array. The size of each block is determined by the stripe size parameter, which is set during the creation of the RAID set. RAID 60 can support up to 8 spans and tolerate up to 16 drive failures, though less than total disk drive capacity is available. Provides a high-level of data protection through the use of a second parity block in each stripe. Use RAID 60 for data that requires a very high-level of protection from loss. In the case of a failure of one drive or two drives in a RAID set in a virtual disk, the RAID controller the parity blocks to recreate all the missing information. If two drives in a RAID 6 set in a RAID 60 virtual disk fail, two drive rebuilds are required, one for each drive. These rebuilds do not occur at the same time. The controller rebuilds one failed drive, and then the other failed drive. weak points hard disk drives Use for office automation and online customer service that requires fault tolerance. Use for any application that has high read request rates but low write request rates. Provides data redundancy and good performance in most environments. Each RAID 6 set can survive the loss of two drives or the loss of a drive while another drive is being rebuilt. Provides the highest level of protection against drive failures of all of the RAID levels. Read performance is similar to that of RAID 50, though random reads in RAID 60 might be slightly faster because data is spread across at least one more disk in each RAID 6 set. Not well suited to tasks requiring lot of writes. Better than RAID 1. Comparable to RAID 10 on writes. A RAID 60 virtual disk has to generate two sets of parity data for each write operation, which results in a significant decrease in performance during writes. Disk drive performance is reduced during a drive rebuild. Environments with few processes do not perform as well because the RAID overhead is not offset by the performance gains in handling simultaneous processes. RAID 6 costs more because of the extra capacity required by using two parity blocks per stripe. A minimum of eight hard disk drives. StorTrends RAID Considerations 11
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