Chapter 7.1. Availability considerations for planning MDGs

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98 SAN Volume Controller: Best Practices and Performance Guidelines 7.1 Availability considerations for planning MDGs While the SAN Volume Controller ( SVC) provides many advantages through the consolidation of storage, it is important to understand the availability implications that storage subsystem failures can have on availability domains within the SVC cluster. In this section, we point out that while the SVC offers significant performance benefits through its ability to stripe across storage arrays, it is also worthwhile considering the effects that various configurations will have on availability. When selecting MDisks for inclusion in an MDG, performance is often the primary ...

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