Sun Microsystems 3510 manual High-Performance SAN Configurations

High-Performance SAN Configurations

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TABLE 7

Typical High-Performance SAN Configurations

Configuration Overview for High-Performance SAN

	Small Configuration	Medium Configuration	Large Configuration
Number of Servers	2 to 4	2 to 14	2 to 62
RAID Enclosures	1	1	1
Expansion Units	As needed	As needed	As needed
Number of	2	2	2
Controllers
Number of Disks	12 or more	12 or more	12 or more
Cache Optimization	Random or sequential	Random or sequential	Random or sequential
RAID Levels	Application-dependent	Application-dependent	Application-dependent
Fibre connection	Loop only	Loop only	Loop only
option
Drive Configuration	Two LUNs with two global	Two LUNs with two global	Two LUNs with two global
	spares	spares	spares

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