第3讲 数据保护 RAID.ppt

Copyright ? 2009 EMC Corporation. Do not Copy - All Rights Reserved. Data Protection: RAID - * Mirroring is a technique whereby data is stored on two different HDDs, yielding two copies of data. In the event of one HDD failure, the data is intact on the surviving HDD and the controller continues to service the host’s data requests from the surviving disk of a mirrored pair. When the failed disk is replaced with a new disk, the controller copies the data from the surviving disk of the mirrored pair. This activity is transparent to the host. In addition to providing complete data redundancy, mirroring enables faster recovery from disk failure. However, disk mirroring provides only data protection and is not a substitute for data backup. Mirroring constantly captures changes in the data, whereas a backup captures point-in-time images of data. Mirroring involves duplication of data — the amount of storage capacity needed is twice the amount of data being stored. Therefore, mirroring is considered expensive and is preferred for mission-critical applications that cannot afford data loss. Mirroring improves read performance because read requests can be serviced by both disks. However, write performance deteriorates, as each write request manifests as two writes on the HDDs. In other words, mirroring does not deliver the same levels of write performance as a striped RAID. Mirroring can be implemented with striped RAID by mirroring entire stripes of disks to stripes on other disks. This is known as nested RAID. Copyright ? 2009 EMC Corporation. Do not Copy - All Rights Reserved. Data Protection: RAID - * Mirroring is a technique whereby data is stored on two different HDDs, yielding two copies of data. In the event of one HDD failure, the data is intact on the surviving HDD and the controller continues to service the host’s data requests from the surviving disk of a mirrored pair. When the failed disk is replaced with a new disk, the controller copies the data from the s