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Performance guidelines

VxVM allows you to optimize data storage performance using the following two strategies:

• Balance the I/O load among the available disk drives.
• Use striping and mirroring to increase I/O bandwidth to the most frequently accessed data.

VxVM also provides data redundancy (through mirroring and RAID-5) that allows continuous access to data in the event of disk failure.