In my previous post with results for Fusion-io ioDrive we saw some instability in results, I was pointed that it may be fixed in new drivers VSL 3.1.1. I am not sure if this driver is available for everyone – if you are interested, please contact your Fusion-io support representative. I installed new drivers and firmware, and in fact, the result improved.
Information about driver and firmware: Firmware v6.0.0, rev 107006. Fusion-io driver version: 3.1.1 build 172.
Actually an upgrade was not flawless, after a firmware upgrade I had to perform low-level formatting, which erase all data. So if you want to do the same – make sure you copy your data.
So there are results for driver 3.1 (with comparison to previous driver 2.3)
Random writes:
For random writes there is not much improvements, the throughput is about the same.
Random reads:
But there is a significant improvement for random reads. The results is stable on 640 MiB/sec level and it is higher than previously.
Sync random reads per threads, throughput:
Response time:
Again, there is improvement in throughput, in both in quality and absolute value. For response time – in some cases, there is 2x improvement.
So it seems for Fusion-io ioDrive it is worth to consider upgrade to 3.1 Driver (remember to copy your data before).
Thanks for posting the benchmarks. They are very informative. One question: when you configure MySQL, what portion of it resides on the Fusion-IO card? Do you just have your datadir on there? Or is it more complex than that? I’m new to Fusion-IO and I am going to do some testing with a couple of MySQL servers with ioDrive2 cards (two in each) with the 3.1.1 driver. Thanks!
Rob,
Easiest way – just put everything on the Fusion-io card.
For more fine tuning it can be something more complex, but it is case-by-case.
Vadim,
You mention here that “just put everything on the Fusion-io card.” Since the Fusion-io cards are not bootable, are doing this through a VM environment or putting the MySQL program and everything associated with it on the card. What do you mean by putting everything on there?
I put the data directory and logs on the card and I am not seeing an improvement in my case using the percona mysql config wizard. Could you point me to some good MySQL config help?
Steve
Hi Steve,
Vadim will probably respond to this… but when I received his response, I took it to mean everything MySQL related. In my case, I just have the cards mounted as /mnt/iodrive and then have a symlink on my non-fusion-io filesystem linking /usr/local/mysql to /mnt/iodrive. It’s been working great for me. I’d actually have to change my system to have multiple MySQL instances to get full use of the IO performance available now (which I may do soon).
-Rob
thank you sir
but one question i cant find driver anywhere for my iodrive
i just bought it and cant use it with windows 7 because windows cant find it when i try reinstalling
thanks
Hi Vadim
It looks to me like I am getting similar results to you from my Fusion IO card, i.e. around 500Mb/s writes – I’ve bought the 640GB MLC btw.
How does this compare in any way to the stated 1GB/s 64k write bandwidth on their website? any ideas?
Also, they sell the SLC version that supposedly has a write bandwidth of 1.5GB/s. If we take yours and my results and try to calculate what they’d be, if we used an SLC card instead, would we simply imagine that the write speeds would be 50% more ??
Thanks in advance
Jonathan