Chapter 7
Tuning the Network
Abstract
Performance is the name of the game in the end, and it requires effort to achieve the best a configuration can deliver. This chapter examines the issues and how to move forward.
Keywords
Caching; File systems; NVMe; NVMe over fabrics; Performance; SSD; Tiers; Tuning
Getting up to Speed
Often in storage we hear comparisons between systems based on capacity or cost per terabyte. Using just these two measures, we lose sight of the fact that getting the job done quickly [1] can save substantial amounts of money, ranging from needing fewer servers to reducing the number of virtual machines in the cloud.
The reason the storage industry is capacity-centric is that capacity was the only real differentiator for any storage ...
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