DEFAULT STORAGETEK 6140 STORAGE PROFILES
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Name, RAID Level, SegmentSize, ReadAhead, DiskType, Num Disks
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Default, RAID 5, 512 KB, Enabled, ANY, Variable
High_Capacity_Computing, RAID 5, 512 KB, Enabled, SATA, Variable
High_Performance_Computing, RAID 5, 512 KB, Enabled, FC, Variable
Mail_Spooling, RAID 1, 512 KB, Enabled, FC, Variable
Microsoft_Exchange, RAID 5, 32 KB, Enabled, FC, 4
Microsoft_NTFS, RAID 5, 64 KB, Enabled, ANY, 4
Microsoft_NTFS_HA, RAID 1, 64 KB, Enabled, FC, Variable
NFS_Mirroring, RAID 1, 512 KB, Enabled, FC, Variable
NFS_Striping, RAID 5, 512 KB, Enabled, FC, Variable
Oracle_10_ASM_VxFS_HA, RAID 5, 256 KB, Enabled, FC, 5
Oracle_8_VxFS, RAID 5, 128 KB, Enabled, FC, 4
Oracle_9_VxFS, RAID 5, 128 KB, Enabled, FC, 4
Oracle_9_VxFS_HA, RAID 1, 128 KB, Enabled, FC, Variable
Oracle_DSS, RAID 5, 512 KB, Enabled, FC, Variable
Oracle_OLTP, RAID 5, 512 KB, Enabled, FC, Variable
Oracle_OLTP_HA, RAID 1, 512 KB, Enabled, FC, Variable
RAID1-512KB-ReadAhead, RAID 1, 512 KB, Enabled, ANY, Variable
Random_1, RAID 1, 512 KB, Enabled, FC, Variable
Sequential, RAID 5, 512 KB, Enabled, FC, Variable
Sun_SAM-FS, RAID 5, 128 KB, Enabled, ANY, 4
Sun_ZFS, RAID 5, 128 KB, Enabled, ANY, 4
Sybase_DSS, RAID 5, 512 KB, Enabled, FC, Variable
Sybase_OLTP, RAID 5, 512 KB, Enabled, FC, Variable
Sybase_OLTP_HA, RAID 1, 512 KB, Enabled, FC, Variable
VxFS, RAID 5, 128 KB, Enabled, ANY, 4
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by: meyersdPosted on 2009-09-03 at 22:36:40ID: 25257030
Use High_Performance_Computing , RAID 5, 512 KB, Enabled, FC, Variable for VMware. VMware presents a highly random workload, so you must provision appropriately. Because RAID 6 generates two parity blocks, it is not suitable for a high performance requirement, especially a highly random one.