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December 30th, 2010 01:00

vertical or horizontal RAID group

create a RG in one DAE or a RG across many DAE, for performance, which is better?

  • fredh77

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    Posted December 30th, 2010 07:00

    Exactly for the response from Spril1967.

    To resume (if i remember) :

    Raid (3,5,6)

    Horizontal RG is simple for administration and better in case of DAE, LCC goes down

    Vertical RG : a too little additionnaly performance and not good in case of hardware (LCC, DAE) problem

    So Horizontal RG is better for Parity Raid.

    Raid (1, 1/0)

    Horizontal RG is simple for administration

    Vertical RG : is very good to minimize rebuild time and little additionnaly performance, even if DAE gos down, you have access to your data

    So Vertical RG (create in CLi Mirror on a buses and original on other buses) is better for mirror raid.

    Don't forget to balance between performance, redundancy and time to administrate....

    There are no only ONE solution but many solution with advantages and disadvantages...

    Why lost time to adminsitrate to win a little % of performance for example ?

    Regards

  • Spril1967

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    Posted December 30th, 2010 02:00

    Hi dingding

    there is a hole section about this in

    EMC CLARiiON Best Practices for Performance and Availability: Release 30.0 Firmware Update Applied Best Practices WP

    page 54

    There should be a slight performance benefit of doing vertical raidgroups, as you load more LLC's and busses, but there are some considerations about this i a case of a faulty LCC og back-end bus

    Kenneth Hansen

  • sidanat

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    Posted December 30th, 2010 11:00

    I pretty much agree with the last contribuitor Raid 1/0 would be my preferred raid choice for veritcal provisioning