
Chapter 5. Storage Subsystem Design
This chapter covers the issues and considerations involved in designing storage
subsystems. Guidance on actually implementing the ideas set out here can be
found in Chapter 6, “General AIX Storage Management” on page 95, and
Chapter 8, “Practical Examples” on page 185.
5.1 Introduction
Designing storage subsystems involves evaluating the requirements that the
business processes that will be executed on the machine have, in terms of data
access and availability. Systems will generally be used for more than one
purpose (database applications may compete for resource with word processing
and image based applications for ...