19 Mar
2007
19 Mar
'07
1:46 p.m.
On 3/19/07, Darish Rajanayagam darishr@softcom.biz wrote:
Nils, I will have multiple volumes - we will be serving out data via LUNs/iscsi, NFS and CIFs - > my initial thought was to create raidgroups/aggregates based on Protocols - NFS, iscsi, etc., however, this will fragment my storage and by creating multiple raid groups, loose more disks to parity. This would also limit the number of spindles on some protocols and possibly cause performance issues later on.
It is generally a good idea to split at least blockbased IO (iSCSI/FCP) from filebased IO (CIFS/NFS) on the aggr level, since they use NetApp's resources in a different way and might actually interfere in some cases.
Gr,
Nils
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