March 2004
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
14h 38m
English
The use of SCSI buses or Fibre Channel allows for configuration of data storage with access by more than one system at a time. The type and number of buses used, particularly in mirrored configurations, can affect performance considerably.
A single-initiator configuration is one in which a single SPU initiates access to a disk. An example is shown in Figure 9-9. This figure shows two configurations. At the top is a configuration with disks for two applications attached to the same SCSI bus, and the mirrors on a separate bus for high availability. At the bottom is a better performing configuration, in which the disks for the different applications are separated from each other. ...
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