Configure flash drives in High I/O instances as data drives
The two 1.6 TB PCIe flashcards included with the OnMetal I/O flavor come unformatted. Use the following steps
to configure your flashcards for use as a data disk.
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Determine what devices are the PCIe block devices.
Note: Find the high performance PCIe cards by running
lsblk -oNAME, MODEL
and looking for
devices listed with modelNWD-BLP*
orXP6302*
. -
Apply best SSD settings for each devices (sub DEVICENAME with name
identified in step 1).echo noop | sudo tee /sys/block/DEVICENAME/queue/scheduler echo 4096 | sudo tee /sys/block/DEVICENAME/queue/nr_requests echo 1024 | sudo tee /sys/block/DEVICENAME/queue/max_sectors_kb echo 1 | sudo tee /sys/block/DEVICENAME/queue/nomerges echo 512 | sudo tee /sys/block/DEVICENAME/device/queue_depth
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(Optional) Partition the created Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) device if you prefer, or you can create
a file system (FS) directly. -
Create an ext4 FS on it.
mkfs.ext4 /dev/md0
Updated 12 months ago