Best practices for I/O performance tuning

SFW enables administrators to "tune" any type of striped volume, including RAID-5 and mirrored striped volumes, by adjusting the stripe unit size. This feature is particularly useful for optimizing the I/O performance of these volume types.

Most I/O-bound applications can be characterized as one of the following:

If a striped volume will be used predominantly for one or the other of these I/O load types, the stripe unit size can be set at volume creation to optimize I/O performance.