SAN Volume Controller: Best Practices and Performance Guidelines
by Jon Tate, Deon George, Thorsten Hoss, Ronda Hruby, Ian MacQuarrie, Barry Mellish, Peter Mescher
Chapter 11.5.1. Overview
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212 SAN Volume Controller: Best Practices and Performance Guidelines Therefore, we recommend SVC striping even when the application does its own unless you have carefully planned and tested the application and the entire environment. This approach adds a great deal more robustness to the situation. It now becomes easy to accommodate completely new databases and tablespaces with no special planning and without disrupting the balance of work. Also, the extra level of striping ensures that the load will be balanced even if the application striping fails. Perhaps most important, this recommendation lifts a significant burden from the database administrator, because good performance can be achieved with much less care ...
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