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17 BP1038| Best Practices and Guidelines for Integrating the Dell EqualLogic FS7600 and FS7610 into an Existing SAN
Figure 6 Throughput (MB/sec) with 128K I/O request in separate pool
For workloads consisting of mostly large files (128KB) and with random access patterns, configuring
separate pools for block and file workloads delivers better aggregate performance and scalability. If more
of the workload results from file clients, or if file clients are used exclusively, then a single shared pool may
provide better performance.