HP LeftHand SAN Solutions Support Document - Application Notes - Best Practices for Enabling Microsoft Windows with SAN/iQ®

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Transfer
Request
Size
Percent
Random/
Sequential
Distribution
Percent
Read/Write
Distribution
Why this
specification
matters
Typical results for
3 DL320s SAS in
RAID 5 with 2 way
replication Your test results
MB/s IOPS MB/s IOPS
64K 50% Random 50% Write
50% Read
This
specification
is similar to a
heavily used
file share
38 600
4K 100% Random 20% Write
80% Read
This
specification
is similar to a
Microsoft™
Exchange
Database
23 6000
8K 100% Random 33% Write
67% Read
This
specification
is similar to a
Transactional
Database
33 4200
4K 100%
Sequential
100% Write This
specification
is similar to a
Microsoft™
Exchange
log files
34 8700
64K 100%
Sequential
100% Read This
specification
is similar to a
backup of
data from the
ISCSI SAN
110 1700