Configuration Planning
Keywords: Nytro SW UG

> Configuration Planning

> Factors to consider when planning a configuration are the number of drives the Nytro controller card can support, the purpose of the drive group, and the availability of spare drives.

> Each type of data stored in the disk subsystem has a different frequency of read and write activity. If you know the data access requirements, you can more successfully determine a strategy for optimizing the disk subsystem capacity, availability, and performance.

> Servers that support video-on-demand typically read the data often, but write data infrequently. Both the read and write operations tend to be long. Data stored on a general-purpose file server involves relatively short read and write operations with relatively small files.

DB15-001059-00-April 2013
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