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When designing the underlying storage infrastructure for a set of applications, several metrics are important. First, there’s capacity. How much storage do you need? This is a metric that’s well understood by most people. People see GBs and TBs on their own devices and subscription plans on a daily basis, so they’re well…
Total IOs/sec by Storage Processor by Array Total IOs/sec by Storage Processor for Multiple Arrays We use this to compare performance across Storage Processors to ensure they are balanced. Read IOs/Sec by Storage Processor Write IOs/Sec by Storage Processor Top XX LUNS Read IOs/Sec Top XX LUNS Write IOs/Sec These are…
It seems like you can't talk to anyone in IT without hearing about "software-defined" something these days. Ever since Software-Defined Networking (SDN) burst on the scene, it's the hot trend. My world of storage is just as bad: It seems as if every vendor is claiming to sell "Software-Defined Storage" without much clarity…
Many of my blog posts and live talks focus on the changing nature of storage. Traditional storage architectures are giving way to dispersed arrays and even software-defined storage. And traditional storage arrays are giving way to things that don't really look like storage arrays at all. But what does this mean for the…
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