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by Zlika
Fri May 08, 2020 9:20 am
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: Unexpected stat reading
Replies: 1
Views: 1173

Unexpected stat reading

Hello all,

I am sometimes seeing an unexpected number of Defferred Blocks, larger than 100% :
unexpected Deferred Blocks
unexpected Deferred Blocks
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Any insight on what that might mean?

Z.
by Zlika
Sun Oct 14, 2018 8:05 pm
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: HPE Smart Array + PrimoCache
Replies: 2
Views: 2550

Re: HPE Smart Array + PrimoCache

I should add that I've had bad experiences with SmartCache in this setup (before even installing PrimoCache). Might have something to do with my SSD not being HPE branded.
I've also played with Smartpath, found best performance was obtained by disabling it.
Z.
by Zlika
Sun Oct 14, 2018 8:01 pm
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: HPE Smart Array + PrimoCache
Replies: 2
Views: 2550

Re: HPE Smart Array + PrimoCache

Using it at the moment (and for monthes) on the following setup: ML110 Gen10 + SmartArray P408i-p 4 platter disks configured as RAID 5, plus two SSDs, each one in a single-disk RAID 0 array. Each SSD is caching a different partition of the RAID 5 array. WS 2016 as a host OS and two WS2016 guests. Wo...