Hyperconverged with Microk8s and Ceph 2
Part 2: Getting the Orange Pi to Boot from NVME
Tue Jun 20 2023
Now that I have the machines all ready to go with SD Cards and NVMe drives it’s time to get the Orange Pi’s to boot from the NVME drives.
Pay no mind to the missing power button and terrible shape of the cord on the leftmost Orange Pi 5. I am well aware of the jankiness and it will be fixed in due time. I was just too lazy to fix it for this photo.
To get these to boot off of NVME I followed this Crosstalk Solutions guide to the letter and it worked perfectly. The only thing I’ll add to the guide here is what my performance looked like before and after moving to the NVME:
SD Card
Category Test Result
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HDParm Disk Read 45.51 MB/s
HDParm Cached Disk Read 60.40 MB/s
DD Disk Write 40.1 MB/s
FIO 4k random read 3050 IOPS (12203 KB/s)
FIO 4k random write 767 IOPS (3071 KB/s)
IOZone 4k read 12542 KB/s
IOZone 4k write 2660 KB/s
IOZone 4k random read 9747 KB/s
IOZone 4k random write 2578 KB/s
Score: 1409 NVME
Category Test Result
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HDParm Disk Read 364.93 MB/s
HDParm Cached Disk Read 370.01 MB/s
DD Disk Write 257 MB/s
FIO 4k random read 48530 IOPS (194123 KB/s)
FIO 4k random write 34829 IOPS (139319 KB/s)
IOZone 4k read 16734 KB/s
IOZone 4k write 108688 KB/s
IOZone 4k random read 39095 KB/s
IOZone 4k random write 80000 KB/s
Score: 18873 Many times better!