EonStor S12F-R1432/G1433 Installation and Hardware Reference Manual
throughput on these data paths, it is necessary to apply Infortrend’s
EonPath multi-pathing software.
3.1.5.3 Other
Concerns
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performance of individual disk disks should be
considered.
ay, the bandwidth of the two host ports can
When you select the number of hard drives to be included in a
logical configuration, the host channel bandwidth and the
mechanical
It is advisable to calculate performance against the host port
bandwidth when you design an application topology. As shown
below, if a RAID5 logical drive consisting of six (6) member
drives is associated with a host ID and made available through a
host channel, it would exceed the bandwidth of a single channel.
In this case, it will be a good practice to map this logical drive to
another host channel and use multi-pathing mechanism
(EonPath) to manage the redundant paths and do load-
balancing. In this w
be fully exploited.
Figure 3-1: Drive Mechanical Speed and Logical Drive Speed
Besides the above, there are still other considerations. For
example, a spare drive carries no data stripes and will not
contribute to disk-level performance. Please refer to the
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