Slow Disks After Cluster Creation

  • Hi there,

    I have a Windows cluster, consisting of two VMWare virtual servers, which is experiencing very slow disk performance (~10mb/s when copying to or from any of the cluster disks). If I destroy the cluster and bring the disks online on a standalone server I can get over 200mb/s.

    Could anyone explain why disk performance could become so poor as soon as the cluster is created? All the tests in the cluster validation report passed....

    Thanks,

    Matt

  • Are these presented as Raw Device Mappings to the host server?

    Are the cluster nodes on the same host?

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  • Perry Whittle (1/13/2014)


    Are these presented as Raw Device Mappings to the host server?

    Are the cluster nodes on the same host?

    Hi Perry,

    Thanks for responding - yes the disks are presented as RDMs. There are two nodes on separate ESX hosts and the disks are in Physical Compatibility mode.

    Not sure if this helps, but I have also noticed that when I turn maintenance on for each of the disks in Failover Cluster Manager, their performance improves dramatically.

    Matt

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