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We provide general and layer-by-layer comments on how to perform storage benchmarking
along with some background information, practical benchmarking tips and examples
as well as links to the external sources.
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Layer
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Placement in the system
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Clients and applications layer
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- Client network *
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- Filesystem and cluster nodes... *
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- Storage front-end connectivity *
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- Storage controllers *
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- Storage back-end connectivity *
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System layers
Typical storage environment is composed of layers similar to presented above.
It is important to understand, that each of these layers can have important influence of the data access performance.
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