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17 Best Practices for Deploying a Mixed 1Gb/10Gb Ethernet SAN using Dell Storage PS Series Arrays | BP1008
10Gb host pool performance comparison: Mixed speed targets in separate pools versus targets in
a single mixed speed pool
Comparison of 10Gb initiator connecting to separate pools and mixed pools
The information shown in Figure 14 indicates a significant decrease in performance with a 10Gb initiator when
using mixed speed pools for sequential IO workloads versus separate speed pools.
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10Gb host: Pool performance
Separate pools Mixed pool