Re: I/O tuning... Allocating spindles to databases

On 9/14/05, Marquez, Chris <cmarquez_at_collegeboard.org> wrote:
>
> I have seen to big SAN implementations.
> The prevailing wisdom (sales pitch) is "the SAN is huge and everything will
> be cached"
> and "you will have more I/O than you can imagine".
>

One of the key statements in the 'SANE SAN' paper is that you should just pretend the cache doesn't exist.

It isn't too difficult to write a simulation that will render the cache useless.

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