Ray Lucchesi, President of
Silverton Consulting has created a series of podcasts on
storage array performance. These were originally created
for TechTarget.com and were originally available on thier
website. They are now available below for free download.
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As data wends it way from hosts, through the fabric and to the array, it
encounters many potential bottlenecks. But that also means there are a
number of ways to improve storage subsystem performance. The key to the
tuning process is a thorough understanding of your application requirements.
This podcast series uncovers those helpful tips and tricks.
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As data wends it way from hosts, through the fabric and to the array, it
encounters many potential bottlenecks. But that also means there are a
number of ways to improve storage subsystem performance. The key to the
tuning process is a thorough understanding of your application requirements.
This podcast series uncovers those helpful tips and tricks.
SUMMARY: Understanding the types of available arrays
and what the particular performance metrics of those
arrays are, can help you gain a better understanding of
how to optimize your storage operation. In this podcast
with president of Silverton Consulting, Ray Lucchesi,
you'll quickly learn the very technical merits of
different types of disk. Ray uncovers throughput, seek
times, capacity and other disk specs in a side-by-side
comparison of disk classes. Ray also touches on disk
caching and transfer speeds.
SUMMARY: What can shatter your disk performance?
President of Silverton Consulting Ray Lucchesi covers
-- in technical detail -- where performance hits may
strike. In this short podcast Lucchesi explains how
caching functionality, RAID and replication can all
impact I/O. Ray will also look at the subsystem
features or options that have the largest impact on I/O
performance. A good deal of this podcast is devoted to
response time improvements and throughput.
SUMMARY: There are more subtle performance inhibitors
in the array and network that you may not be aware of.
In lesson three of SearchStorage.com's array
performance podcast series, Ray Lucchesi exposes you to
these hard to quantify areas which can impact I/O
performance. Once you have optimized the primary
performance drivers, you might want to look at these
secondary points that can be used to produce additional
performance gains and insights into your workload
performance.
SUMMARY: In the last part of the array performance
podcast series, Ray Lucchesi discusses tools used to
monitor subsystem performance and what you should be
looking for. Also, Ray will guide you through when you
should make performance decisions and choices. Finally
Ray talks about subsystem performance benchmarks,
current issues and places to go for more performance
information.