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Striping and mirroring in the same storageset –17 – HP Array Controller HSG V8.7 Software User Manual

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Creating Storagesets

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High read request rates

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Inquiry-type transaction processing

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RAIDsets are not particularly well-suited for the following:

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Write-intensive applications

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Applications that require high data transfer capacity

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High-speed data collection

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Database applications in which fields are continually updated

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Transaction processing

Using Striped Mirrorsets for Highest Performance and Availability

As illustrated in Figure 3–8, striped mirrorsets are simply stripesets
whose members are mirrorsets. Consequently, this kind of storageset
combines the performance of striping with the reliability of mirroring.
The result is a storageset with very high I/O performance and high data
availability.

Figure 3–8

Striping and Mirroring in the Same Storageset

The failure of a single disk drive has no effect on this storageset’s
ability to deliver data to the host and, under normal circumstances, it
has very little effect on performance. Because striped mirrorsets do not

Disk 10000

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Disk 20000

Disk 30000

Disk 10100

Disk 20100

Disk 30100

Mirrorset1

Mirrorset2

Mirrorset3

Stripeset

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