November 2006
Intermediate to advanced
1232 pages
34h 10m
English
One of the most common performance problems that we experience in the field is an undersized I/O subsystem. However, unlike CPU and memory sizing, it is fairly easy to add more I/O capacity. The I/O subsystem should be monitored constantly, and more capacity should added as needed. As with any sizing and capacity planning exercise, care should be taken to carefully monitor and assess your changing needs. Unlike CPU, Memory, and Network, the I/O subsystem problems leave a very specific indication within perfmon counters. This will be discussed later in this section.
As you have seen in earlier in this chapter, a disk drive can handle only a finite number of IOPS (I/Os per second). By monitoring the I/O ...
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