EMC_CLARiiON的光纤通道存储最佳实践En.pdfVIP

Engineering White Paper EMC CLARiiON Best Practices for Fibre Channel Storage CLARiiON Firmware Release 13 Update (non-Confidential) Abstract This paper presents the best performance and redundancy practices for implementing CLARiiON storage systems. The paper concentrates on system settings, RAID types, metaLUNs, and the impact of host I/O patterns on performance. Published 3/16/2004 3/16/2004 Copyright © 2004 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. EMC believes the information in this publication is accurate as of its publication date. The information is subject to change without notice. THE INFORMATION IN THIS PUBLICATION IS PROVIDED “AS IS.” EMC CORPORATION MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND WITH RESPECT TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PUBLICATION, AND SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Use, copying, and distribution of any EMC software described in this publication requires an applicable software license. Part Number H5 19.4 EMC CLARiiON Best Practices for Fibre Channel Storage 2 3/16/2004 Table of Contents Executive Summary 5 What’s New in Release 13 5 Intended Audience5 Introduction 5 Considerations for Performance 6 Defining Performance 6 Application Design 6 Application Efficiency 6 Host File System Impact 8 File System Buffering and Coalescing 8 Minimum I/O Size: The File System Request Size 8 Maximum I/O Size 9 File System Fragmentation 9