Re: Of SANS and IOS

Answer to self, now anyone that reads the list will know! According to this excelent (introductory) site: http://www.imperialtech.com/technology_whitepapers_Good_Performance.htm IOPs is a messure of the IO requests per second a device will give you. In the FC-SAN context, this IOps are actually

Re: Of SANS and IOS

Normally when you buy expensive hardware the saleman should come to you. :-) Had a quick look in google for IOs and it seems that it is also refered to as IOPs Input Output Per second... And seems to refer to the controller, and not the disks. And after my quick look, the where talking about c

Re: Of SANS and IOS

On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 08:08, Alex Borges wrote: > Anyone knows What The FARKS is that IOs unit the HP SAN folk keep > talking about? Like in, yeah, this thing can take 2000 IOS per second. > How many bytes is an IOs supposed to be? An IO==Device blocksize or WTF? For serious disk storage the bottlen

Of SANS and IOS

Anyone knows What The FARKS is that IOs unit the HP SAN folk keep talking about? Like in, yeah, this thing can take 2000 IOS per second. How many bytes is an IOs supposed to be? An IO==Device blocksize or WTF? It seems like most that have bought a SAN knows how many IOs it is worth, but noone kn