
Open systems hypervolumes
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Performance and Optimization
A customer can reconfigure metavolumes. While the Symmetrix
system is online to the host, the customer can:
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Expand both concatenated and striped metavolumes.
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Convert an unused volume to a concatenated or striped
metavolume.
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Convert a populated volume to a concatenated or striped
metavolume.
Striping data across the multiple drives is designed to benefit random
reads by avoiding stacking multiple reads to a single spindle and disk
director. This scheme creates a large volume, but also balances the
I/O activity between the disk drives and the Symmetrix disk
directors.
Summary of Contents for Symmetrix DMX-3
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