… been working for a customer benchmarking insert performance on Amazon EC2, and I have some interesting results that I wanted to… First of all let me describe the EC2 instance type that I used. EC2 Configuration I chose m2.4xlarge instance as that…: m2.4xlarge As for the IO configuration I chose 8 x 200G EBS volumes in software RAID 10. Now let’s come…
Post: EC2/EBS single and RAID volumes IO benchmark
August 6, 2009 By 13 Comments
… to run in RightScale environment, I noticed that IO performance on EBS volume in EC2 cloud is not quite perfect. So I… steps: mdadm -v –create /dev/md0 –chunk=256 –level=raid1 –raid-devices=2 /dev/sdj /dev/sdk mdadm -v –create /dev… if you are looking for IO performance in EC2/EBS environment it’s definitely worth to consider some RAID setup. RAID5 does not…
Post: Dissection of EC2 / EBS volume
August 7, 2009 By 4 Comments
… for EC2 I wanted to understand what IO characteristics we can expect from EBS volume ( I am speaking about single volume, not RAID… volume. Let me show you. I did sysbench random read IO benchmark on files with size from 256M to 5GB with… performance as from single HDD, and you may consider some RAID setup, see my previous post EC2/EBS single and RAID volumes IO benchmark
Comment: Death match! EBS versus SSD price, performance, and QoS
February 26, 2011 By 54 Comments
… deployment stack. If I *had* to run an a large IO intensive application in the Amazon cloud there are various engineering… good raid array, I don’t have to make any of those tweaks b/c I’ll have a local IO subsystem…, I’ve never personally tried to run anything big on EC2 (a few test boxes is about it), so all I…
Comment: Dissection of EC2 / EBS volume
August 16, 2009 By 4 Comments
Your link to your previous post on “EC2/EBS single and RAID volumes IO benchmark” doesn’t seem to work.
