Orion disk utility on Windows
lrpOct 3 2007 — edited May 19 2008I'm trying to test RAID disk efficiency with the ORION tool (provided unsupported from the OTN website).
My test environment is a Windows 2003 SP2 server with direct attached disks running in RAID 1+0 configuration.
Based on the orion user guide , we're supposed to test on raw partitions. Is this a requirement? Could I have ntfs formatted blank disks with a specific stripe width given to me, that I test with?
The user guide states to temporarily map the partitions to drive letters and specifying the drives themselves in the Orion test.lun file like so:
\\.\x:
\\.\y:
I had setup my test.lun file as follows, and noted the failure, so it obviously didn't work:
c:\program files\oracle\orion\mytest.lun
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\\.\k:
\\.\l:
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cd C:\Program Files\Oracle\Orion
orion -run simple -testname mytest -num_disks 1
ORION: ORacle IO Numbers -- Version 10.2.0.1.0
Test will take approximately 9 minutes
Larger caches may take longer
storax_aiowait: IO returned an error 27070
lun_aiowait: storax_aiowait failed.
rwbase_run_test: rwbase_reap_req failed
rwbase_run_process: rwbase_run_test failed
rwbase_rwluns: rwbase_run_process failed
orion_thread_main: rw_luns failed
Test error occurred
Orion exiting
Does anybody have experience with running the orion test with drives on windows?