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Configuring Cell Members with 4 CPU Sockets and NVMe Disks

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Configuring Cell Members with 4 CPU Sockets and NVMe Disks

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Last updated: Dec 19, 2023 by Avi Falah
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Overview

Physical DPOD Cell Members that are required to process high transactions per second (TPS) load include 4 CPU sockets and NVMe disks for maximizing server I/O throughput.

DPOD is using NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) technology to bind each of the Store's logical nodes to specific physical processor, disks and memory in a way that will minimize the latency of persisting data to disks.

Note: If the cell member server does not have 4 CPU sockets or does not have NVMe disks - do not perform the steps in this document.

Enabling NUMA in BIOS

Make sure to enable NUMA in the physical server's BIOS. You may need to consult with the hardware manufacturer documentation on how to achieve that.

Note: The number of NUMA nodes configured in BIOS should be 4 (should match the amount of physical CPU sockets in the server).
Some servers allow increasing the NUMA nodes number (e.g. double the number of CPU sockets), which is not suitable for DPOD.

Installing RAM Modules

Use the hardware manufacturer documentation to install the same amount of RAM for each one of the CPUs of the physical server.

Verify NUMA

Once NUMA has been enabled in BIOS and RAM modules have been installed, verify the installation using the following command:

/app/scripts/gather_nvme_info.sh


Expected output:

2023-12-19_15-16-52: INFO Gathers NVME Information 2023-12-19_15-16-52: INFO ======================== 2023-12-19_15-16-52: INFO Log file is /tmp/gatherNvmeInfo_2023-12-19_15-16-52.log 2023-12-19_15-16-52: INFO Identifying disk OS paths... 2023-12-19_15-16-52: INFO Identifying disk slot numbers... 2023-12-19_15-16-55: INFO Creating output... Serial Number | Disk OS Path | Disk Speed | PCI Slot Number | NUMA Code (Cpu #) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PHLE8221029C3P2EGN | /dev/nvme0n1 | 8GT/s | 5d:00.0 | 1 PHLE822100SM3P2EGN | /dev/nvme1n1 | 8GT/s | 5e:00.0 | 1 PHLE822100X83P2EGN | /dev/nvme2n1 | 8GT/s | ad:00.0 | 2 PHLE8221027N3P2EGN | /dev/nvme3n1 | 8GT/s | ae:00.0 | 2 PHLE822100X63P2EGN | /dev/nvme4n1 | 8GT/s | c5:00.0 | 3 PHLE822102CJ3P2EGN | /dev/nvme5n1 | 8GT/s | c6:00.0 | 3 2023-12-19_15-16-55: INFO Output file: /tmp/gatherNvmeInfo_2023-12-19_15-16-52.csv




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