RAID Groups Vs.

Storage Pools
DRIVE TYPES
• FLASH – Extreme Performance Tier – great
for extreme performance.
• SAS – Performance Tier – perfect for
general performance. Usually 10k RPM or
15k RPM.
• NL-SAS – Capacity Tier – most cost
effective, for streaming, agining data and
archives and backups
RAID GROUPS
• RAID 1/0 – this RAID group is appropriate for heavy
transactional workloads with a high rate of random writes
(let’s say greater than 25-30%)
• RAID 5 – I would say this one is most common one. Works
best for medium to high performance, general-purpose
and sequential workloads. And it’s much more space
effective, since blocks are not mirrored, and parity takes
only one extra disk (distributed on all disks thru the RAID
group)
• RAID 6 – Most often used for NL-SAS. Works best with
read-based workloads such as archiving and backup to
disk. It provides additional RAID protection (two disk may
fail in one RAID group, instead of 1 with RAID5).
PREFFERED RAID CONFIGURATION

• RAID5 has a preference of 4+1 or 8+1

• RAID6 has a preference of 8+2 or 14+2
• RAID1/0 has a preference of 4+4
• Los RAID Groups pueden contener un máximo de
16 Drives.
STORAGE POOLs
• pool-based provisioning spreads workloads over
many resources requiring minimal planning and
management effort.
• RAID group can only contain up to 16 disks, pool
can contain hundreds of disks
• Pools can be homogeneous or heterogeneous.
• Homogeneous pools have a single drive type (e.g.
SAS or NL-SAS) whereas heterogenous pools
contain different drive types
HOMOGENEOUS POOLs

• Pools with single drive type are

recommended for application with similar
and expected performance requirements
• Only one drive (Flash, SAS, NL-SAS) is
available for selection during pool
creation.
HOMOGENEOUS POOLs (2)
HETEROGENEOUS POOLs

• heterogeneous pools can consist different

types of drives.
• VNX supports Flash, SAS, and NL-SAS drives in
one pool.
• Heterogeneous pools provide the
infrastructure for FAST VP (Fully Automated
Storage Tiering for Virtual Pools).
HETEROGENEOUS POOLs (2)
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