{"id":1129,"date":"2016-03-12T11:50:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T09:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vioreliftode.com\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2016-04-14T12:50:13","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T10:50:13","slug":"microsoft-azure-iaas-storage-benchmarks-comparison-with-on-premises-part-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vioreliftode.com\/index.php\/microsoft-azure-iaas-storage-benchmarks-comparison-with-on-premises-part-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Azure IAAS \u2013 storage benchmarks, comparison with on-premises (part 7)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article is part of a series of 9 where I am talking about storage benchmarks performed on Microsoft Azure and on-premises. For a better understanding please make sure you read also the other parts:<\/em><\/p>\n

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  1. Describe what does the Iometer benchmarks will consist of.<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n
  2. Describe how I configured the Azure VM and the benchmark results for the A3 Standard VM using a single disk hosted by Standard Locally Redundant Storage (LRS).<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n
  3. Describe how I configured the Azure VM and the benchmark results for the A3 Standard VM using multiple (eight) disks in a RAID-0 (striped) configuration hosted by Standard Locally Redundant Storage.<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n
  4. Describe how I configured the Azure VM and the benchmark results for the DS3 Standard VM using a single Premium P10 disk hosted by Premium Locally Redundant Storage (LRS).<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n
  5. Describe how I configured the Azure VM and the benchmark results for the DS3 Standard VM using a single Premium P30 disk hosted by Premium Locally Redundant Storage (LRS).<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n
  6. Describe how I configured the Azure VM and the benchmark results for the DS3 Standard VM using multiple (two) disks in a RAID-0 (striped) configuration hosted by Premium P30 Locally Redundant Storage.<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n
  7. Describe how I configured the Azure VM and the benchmark results for the DS3 Standard VM using multiple (eight) disks in a RAID-0 (striped) configuration hosted by Standard Locally Redundant Storage.<\/em><\/li>\n
  8. Describe how I configured the Hyper-V on-premises VM and the benchmark results using local HDD and SSD.<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n
  9. IOPS benchmark detailed conclusions (on-premises and Azure IaaS).<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    DS3 Standard VM using multiple (eight) disks (in RAID-0 striped configuration) hosted by Standard Locally Redundant Storage – setup and benchmark results<\/h1>\n

    The MS Azure Standard Tier DS series Standard_DS3 VM<\/a> is limited to 128 MBps throughput, 12 800 IOPS and maximum 8 disks (premium or standard). The purpose of the following benchmark is to see if we register much better results when we attach eight standard disks to a DS3 VM. For this type of VM and storage, the default setting of the virtual disk host caching is set to None.<\/p>\n

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    The following PowerShell commands have been used to provision an DS3 Standard VM with multiple (eight) disks hosted by Locally Redundant Storage (benchmark setup).<\/p>\n

    \r\nAdd-AzureAccount\r\n$subscriptionName = '<YOUR SUBSCRIPTION NAME>'\r\n$VMOSPremiumStorageAccountName = 'azioospremiumdisks' \r\n$IOStressStorageAccountName = 'aziostressdisks'\r\n$location = 'West Europe'\r\n$adminName = '<YOUR ADMIN USER NAME>'\r\n$adminPassword = '<YOUR PASSWORD>'\r\n$vmName ='AZIODS3'\r\n$imageFamily = 'Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter'\r\n$vmSize ='Standard_DS3'\r\n\r\nSelect-AzureSubscription -SubscriptionName $subscriptionName -Current\r\n\r\nNew-AzureStorageAccount -StorageAccountName $VMOSPremiumStorageAccountName -Location $location -Type 'Premium_LRS'\r\nNew-AzureStorageAccount -StorageAccountName $IOStressStorageAccountName -Location $location -Type 'Standard_LRS'\r\n\r\n\r\n$imageName = Get-AzureVMImage | where { $_.ImageFamily -eq $imageFamily } | sort PublishedDate -Descending | select -ExpandProperty ImageName -First 1\r\nSet-AzureSubscription -SubscriptionName $subscriptionName -CurrentStorageAccount $VMOSPremiumStorageAccountName\r\n$OSDiskPath = "https:\/\/" + $VMOSPremiumStorageAccountName + ".blob.core.windows.net\/vhds\/" + $vmName + "_OS.vhd"\r\n$vm = New-AzureVMConfig -Name $vmName -ImageName $imageName -InstanceSize $vmSize -MediaLocation $OSDiskPath\r\nAdd-AzureProvisioningConfig -Windows -VM $vm -AdminUsername $adminName -Password $adminPassword\r\nNew-AzureVM -ServiceName $vmName -VMs $VM -Location $location\r\n\r\nSet-AzureSubscription -SubscriptionName $subscriptionName -CurrentStorageAccount $IOStressStorageAccountName\r\n\r\n#These will attach eight new data disks configured to use the default host caching (None) on Standard_LRS\r\nGet-AzureVM $vmName -Name $vmName | Add-AzureDataDisk -CreateNew -DiskSizeInGB 127 -DiskLabel "DATA01" -LUN 0 | Update-AzureVM\r\nGet-AzureVM $vmName -Name $vmName | Add-AzureDataDisk -CreateNew -DiskSizeInGB 127 -DiskLabel "DATA02" -LUN 1 | Update-AzureVM\r\nGet-AzureVM $vmName -Name $vmName | Add-AzureDataDisk -CreateNew -DiskSizeInGB 127 -DiskLabel "DATA03" -LUN 2 | Update-AzureVM\r\nGet-AzureVM $vmName -Name $vmName | Add-AzureDataDisk -CreateNew -DiskSizeInGB 127 -DiskLabel "DATA04" -LUN 3 | Update-AzureVM\r\nGet-AzureVM $vmName -Name $vmName | Add-AzureDataDisk -CreateNew -DiskSizeInGB 127 -DiskLabel "DATA05" -LUN 4 | Update-AzureVM\r\nGet-AzureVM $vmName -Name $vmName | Add-AzureDataDisk -CreateNew -DiskSizeInGB 127 -DiskLabel "DATA06" -LUN 5 | Update-AzureVM\r\nGet-AzureVM $vmName -Name $vmName | Add-AzureDataDisk -CreateNew -DiskSizeInGB 127 -DiskLabel "DATA07" -LUN 6 | Update-AzureVM\r\nGet-AzureVM $vmName -Name $vmName | Add-AzureDataDisk -CreateNew -DiskSizeInGB 127 -DiskLabel "DATA08" -LUN 7 | Update-AzureVM\r\n<\/pre>\n
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    The above PowerShell commands created two storage accounts:<\/p>\n