Configure flash drives with IBM FlashSystem 5200

[PatoGB]

Dear forum,

Is there a setting to tell Proxmox VE 9.1 to treat the disks in a storage device as flash, or is it unnecessary?

The IBM FlashSystem storage system only has flash disks, but Proxmox doesn't recognize them as flash.

The Lenovo SR630 servers are connected via iSCSI (10Gbps and JumboFrames=9000) to the IBM Flash System. Multipath is installed and redundancy is tested.

 

[bbgeek17]

Hi @PatoGB ,
You don't need to change anything, the system will work just fine.

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[PatoGB]

Hi @PatoGB ,
You don't need to change anything, the system will work just fine.

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Blockbridge : Ultra low latency all-NVME shared storage for Proxmox - https://www.blockbridge.com/proxmox

Great, thanks for replying. Now I'm going to run I/O tests to maximize performance. If you happen to have any best practices for iSCSI, I'd really appreciate it if you could share them.

 

[bbgeek17]

If you happen to have any best practices for iSCSI, I'd really appreciate it if you could share them.

You've asked the right person! We created a few performance oriented articles that may be useful:
https://kb.blockbridge.com/technote/proxmox-tuning-low-latency-storage
https://kb.blockbridge.com/technote/proxmox-aio-vs-iouring
https://kb.blockbridge.com/technote/proxmox-optimizing-windows-server/part-1.html
https://kb.blockbridge.com/technote/proxmox-iscsi-vs-nvmetcp

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Blockbridge : Ultra low latency all-NVME shared storage for Proxmox - https://www.blockbridge.com/proxmox