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Thứ Năm, 7 tháng 7, 2011

6 Guidelines For Improving Storage System Efficiency

By Molly Webster


1.)Connectivity - Ensure bottlenecks do not exist inside your SAN fabric. Often we find customers who have 4Gbps disk systems connecting to 2Gbps SAN switches or HBAs. A smart notion is to speedily review all pieces of your SAN fabric to identify possible bottlenecks.

2.)Drive Count - System performance is frequently easily fixed by adding further disk drives to the storage configuration. The reason this fix works is that by spreading out the workload, you acquire the benefit of having a lot more drives/arms/spindles accessing and retrieving data, and feeding that data to the storage controller.

3.)Drive Size - By employing smaller faster drives for high performance environments including Oracle, you stay away from disk drive contention. Contention can manifest itself when an excessive amount of information is placed on larger drives. An example would be trying to place 2.5TB of data on 10x 300GB Drives.

4.)Drive Type - SATA drives are an outstanding format for archive or low I/O applications such as file servers or imaging, but turn out to be less ideal for bigger VMWare, Oracle or Exchange Environments. Be sure you invest within the right technology based on application and workload

5.)Controller Segregation - As storage requirements continue to grow, little storage shops can ultimately morph into significant storage shops. If multiple high performance applications are placed on a single modular array it might overwhelm the method. Think about a second array or perhaps a tiered architecture really should your array have a high combination of performance-oriented applications

6.)RAID Level - Raid 10, Raid 1, Raid 6, RAID-DP, Raid5 as well as other parity combinations all have their strength and limitations. Do your research to make certain the RAID configuration you are considering will support and maintain application efficiency for the long term.

Speak with an skilled information specialist today, they are able to assist you to lessen the cost and complexity of building high performing storage environments.




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