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NCP-US-6.10 · Question #16

An administrator has been tasked with troubleshooting a storage performance problem for a large database VM with the following configuration: - 16 vCPU - 64 GB RAM - One 50 GB native AHV virtual…

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Question

An administrator has been tasked with troubleshooting a storage performance problem for a large database VM with the following configuration:

  • 16 vCPU
  • 64 GB RAM
  • One 50 GB native AHV virtual disk hosting the guest OS
  • Six 500 GB virtual disks containing database files connecting via

iSCSI to a Nutanix volume group

  • One NIC for client connectivity
  • One NIC for iSCSI connectivity

In the course of investigating the problem, the administrator determines that the issue is isolated to large block-size I/O operations. What step should the administrator take to improve performance for the VM?

Options

  • AAdd an additional NIC for iSCSI connectivity and enable MPIO
  • BAdd additional virtual disks to the volume group
  • CIncrease the iSCSI adapter maximum transfer length
  • DLocate the iSCSI NIC on the same VLAN as the cluster DSIP

How the community answered

(34 responses)
  • A
    85% (29)
  • B
    9% (3)
  • C
    3% (1)
  • D
    3% (1)

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Topics

#iSCSI MPIO#large block I/O#storage performance#volume group

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