One of the “key features” of XIV is the wide striping of data across all spindles, a concept we’re seeing more and more. Have you ever wondered what the point is?
The Wide Striping Debate
July 12, 2009 By 2 Comments
I’ve read with interest this week the posts on wide striping and the consequent expansion to thin provisioning. Here are some of the highlights:
First there’s Martin Glasborow’s post, which discusses whether wide striping and thin provisioning should be chargeable items. I’d go a step further than Martin and suggest that thin provisioning (TP) should also [...]
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Storage Automation
February 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The first storage performance horseman is spindles: If you don’t have enough disk units, performance will suffer. I have been laying out storage on enterprise arrays since the dark ages, and one of the first lessons I learned was allocating data to avoid hotspots. I remember spending hours back in the 1990’s hunched over custom Excel spreadsheets trying to get my storage layout just right, balancing the workload across every available disk.