CDOT 8.2: How to Demonstrate QoS

The following post briefly details how to demonstrate QoS on NetApp Clustered ONTAP 8.2. A cluster called cluster1 has been configured, along with a CIFS enabled Vserver with volume and share. The demonstration is run from a Windows Server 2012 Domain Controller in the lab.

1) Map a drive to the CIFS volume

net use V: \\vserver1\vs1_vol1

2) Iometer Setup

Download iometer from http://www.iometer.org and install.

i) Run Iometer

ii) Select the server (in this case ADDC1010)

iii) ‘Disk Targets’ tab, tick V only, and configure:

Maximum Disk Size = 20000

Starting Disk Sector = 0

No. of Outstanding IOs = 16

Image: Configuring Iometer 1 - ‘Disk Targets’ tab

iv) ‘Access Specifications’ tab, choose “4K; 50% Read; 0% random”

Image: Configuring Iometer 2 - ‘Access Specifications’ tab

v) ‘Test Setup’ tab

Test Description = QoS Test

Ramp Up Time = 4 seconds

Record Results = none

Image: Configuring Iometer 3 - ‘Test Setup’ tab

vi) ‘Results Display’ tab

Change ‘Update Frequency’ to 4 seconds, and click the Green flag to start.

Image: Configuring Iometer 4 - ‘Results Display’ tab

NOTE: Iometer creates at 80’000KB (20’000 x 4KB) file called iobw.tst in the V drive.

3) QoS Configuration

NOTE: PuTTY output from this step is in the APPENDIX B.

i) Login as admin to the Cluster Management IP of cluster1

ii) Run these commands:

cluster1::> QoS

cluster1::qos> policy-group show

cluster1::qos> statistics performance show -iterations 4

NOTE: The IOPS you see here should be close to what Iometer is showing.

cluster1::qos> policy-group create -policy-group pg_vserver1 -vserver vserver1 -max-throughput 1000iops

cluster1::qos> policy-group show

cluster1::qos> vserver modify -vserver vserver1 -qos-policy-group pg_vserver1

cluster1::qos> statistics performance show -iterations 4

NOTE: The IOPS you see now should be close to the policy-group setting.

iii) Notice that the IOPs as registered by Iometer are declining

iv) Stop Iometer

APPENDIX A: QoS Test Output

cluster1::> QoS

cluster1::qos> policy-group show

This table is currently empty.

cluster1::qos>

cluster1::qos> statistics performance show -iterations 4

Policy Group           IOPS      Throughput   Latency

-------------------- -------- --------------- ----------

-total-                  4709       18.02MB/s     2.71ms

User-Best-Effort         4581       17.89MB/s     2.78ms

_System-Best-Effort        93      141.86KB/s   535.00us

_System-Background         35           0KB/s        0ms

-total-                  4424       17.13MB/s     2.67ms

User-Best-Effort         4366       17.04MB/s     2.68ms

_System-Background         35           0KB/s        0ms

_System-Best-Effort        23       87.90KB/s     4.85ms

-total-                  4934       19.10MB/s     2.86ms

User-Best-Effort         4881       19.06MB/s     2.85ms

_System-Background         35           0KB/s        0ms

_System-Best-Effort        18       42.70KB/s     9.61ms

-total-                  4356       16.85MB/s     2.96ms

User-Best-Effort         4314       16.84MB/s     2.96ms

_System-Background         35           0KB/s        0ms

_System-Best-Effort         7       12.11KB/s    18.13ms

cluster1::qos> policy-group create -policy-group pg_vserver1 -vserver vserver1 -max-throughput 1000iops

cluster1::qos> policy-group show

Name             Vserver     Class        Wklds Throughput

---------------- ----------- ------------ ----- ------------

pg_vserver1      vserver1    user-defined -     0-1000IOPS

cluster1::qos> vserver modify -vserver vserver1 -qos-policy-group pg_vserver1

cluster1::qos> statistics performance show -iterations 4

Policy Group           IOPS      Throughput   Latency

-------------------- -------- --------------- ----------

-total-                  1099        4.10MB/s    15.24ms

pg_vserver1              1047        4.08MB/s    16.00ms

_System-Background         30           0KB/s        0ms

_System-Best-Effort        22       14.87KB/s   283.00us

-total-                  1100        4.09MB/s    15.21ms

pg_vserver1              1044        4.06MB/s    16.02ms

_System-Background         28           0KB/s        0ms

_System-Best-Effort        28       25.13KB/s   111.00us

-total-                  1109        4.08MB/s    15.05ms

pg_vserver1              1043        4.07MB/s    16.00ms

_System-Background         35           0KB/s        0ms

_System-Best-Effort        31       12.56KB/s    99.00us

-total-                  1096        4.09MB/s    15.35ms

pg_vserver1              1051        4.09MB/s    16.01ms

_System-Background         35           0KB/s        0ms

_System-Best-Effort        10           0KB/s        0ms

APPENDIX B: Some Useful Space Reporting Commands

cluster1::> volume show

cluster1::> volume show -vserver vserver1 -volume vs1_vol1 -field space-guarantee,space-guarantee-enabled

cluster1::> volume show-space -vserver vserver1 -volume vs1_vol1

cluster1::> volume show-footprint -vserver vserver1 -volume vs1_vol1

cluster1::> volume show-space vs1_vol1

NOTE: The above commands provide tons of information such as how to find - Inodes, Inodes Percent, Filesystem Metadata size... and on and on...