Not true. There are different ways that a storage array, and it's
controllers, connect to the host visible front end ports which might be
confusing the author but i/o isn't duplicated as he suggests.
On 4/4/2010 9:55 PM, Brad wrote:
I had always thought that with mpxio, it load-balances IO
On Sun, 4 Apr 2010, Brad wrote:
I had always thought that with mpxio, it load-balances IO request
across your storage ports but this article
http://christianbilien.wordpress.com/2007/03/23/storage-array-bottlenecks/
has got me thinking its not true.
The available bandwidth is 2 or 4Gb/s
I'm wondering if the author is talking about cache mirroring where the cache
is mirrored between both controllers. If that is the case, is he saying that
for every write to the active controlle,r a second write issued on the passive
controller to keep the cache mirrored?
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The author mentions multipathing software in the blog entry. Kind of
hard to mix that up with cache mirroring if you ask me.
On 4/5/2010 9:16 PM, Brad wrote:
I'm wondering if the author is talking about cache mirroring where the cache
is mirrored between both controllers. If that is the
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Brad bene...@yahoo.com wrote:
I'm wondering if the author is talking about cache mirroring where the
cache is mirrored between both controllers. If that is the case, is he
saying that for every write to the active controlle,r a second write issued
on the
I had always thought that with mpxio, it load-balances IO request across your
storage ports but this article
http://christianbilien.wordpress.com/2007/03/23/storage-array-bottlenecks/ has
got me thinking its not true.
The available bandwidth is 2 or 4Gb/s (200 or 400MB/s – FC frames are 10
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Brad bene...@yahoo.com wrote:
I had always thought that with mpxio, it load-balances IO request across
your storage ports but this article
http://christianbilien.wordpress.com/2007/03/23/storage-array-bottlenecks/has
got me thinking its not true.
The
