Chapter 6. Storage Performance Design

In this chapter, we will cover the tasks related to storage performance design. You will learn the following aspects of storage performance design:

  • Designing the host for a highly available and high performing storage
  • Designing a highly available and high performance iSCSI SAN
  • Designing a highly available and high performing FC storage
  • Performance impact of queuing on storage array and host
  • Factors that affect storage performance
  • Using VAAI to boost storage performance
  • Selecting the right VM disk type
  • Monitoring command queuing
  • Identifying a severely overloaded storage

Introduction

Storage can limit the performance of enterprise workloads. Storage is one of the most common bottlenecks in performance. You should know ...

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