Chapter 11.1.1. Transaction-based processes (IOPS)

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202 SAN Volume Controller: Best Practices and Performance Guidelines 11.1 Application workloads In general, there are two types of data workload ( processing): Transaction- based Throughput- based These workloads are very different in their nature and must be planned for in quite different ways. Knowing and understanding how your host servers and applications handle their workload is an important part of being successful with your storage configuration efforts and the resulting performance. To best understand what is meant by transaction- based and throughput- based workloads, we must first define a workload. The workload is the total amount of work that is performed at the storage server ...

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