Storage
Abstract
This chapter covers the initial indicators of storage performance problems and various analysis tools to assist with root cause.
Keywords
Storage
Disk
Response times
IOPS
Performance counter thresholds
Tools
Do not offend the testing gods by saying something like we don’t need a backup because it's stored on the SAN.
Robert George (Microsoft Testing Consultant)
Introduction
The disk drive is arguably the slowest resource in a computer system. Therefore, the Windows operating system is tuned to avoid it at all costs. Inevitably though, data must be read from or written to disk to persist it before power is removed. The point of this chapter is to help you understand disk-related concepts, bring the concepts together to create an initial ...
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