hi,<div><br></div><div>i have a customer who will be using multistore/vfilers of random workloads all over nfs.</div><div><br></div><div>my view for an overall performance perspective is two controllers and multiple raid groups per aggregate evenly spread. &nbsp;ie, if i had 5 FCAL shelves i could create 2 aggregates comprised of 2 16 disk raid groups spread across both controllers and all shelves</div>
<div><br></div><div>however their budget can at max allow 4 shelves which would leave one aggregate with 2 raid groups, the other with one and more spares since i would not want to add a half sized raidgroup.</div><div><br>
</div><div>the idea being that the vfilers would be split evenly across aggregates to better spread ops load across the drives</div><div><br></div><div>but realistically will that gain better performance versus a single aggregate with 3 raidgroups spread across both controllers and all drives?</div>
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