Tuning your storage infrastructure is not just another daily routine, it’s a critical task that has a very strong impact on your organization’s performance. Proper professional storage tuning will bring your applications to peak performance. Superficial storage tuning can lead to poor performance and
underutilization of your hardware resources.
WUC specializes in storage tuning. Our engineers know that each environment is unique, with different settings, configurations and operational goals. Their vast professional expertise enables them to understand and control the interacting components and accurately tune them for maximum performance.
Tuning shared storage to match the requirements of each specific application workloads is a complex task. Since the performance of the storage array accounts for only a portion of the overall application performance, tuning must be performed considering the I/O characteristics of the application and all of the components involved in the data path.
With so many correlated elements that impact the performance of one application, the storage tuning task for achieving peak performance may look as an exhaustingly daunting challenge. When tuning the system for multiple applications that may share a single storage array, the challenge may become a technological nightmare.
That’s when you need the professional and knowledgeable support of an experienced and skilled team of engineers, which is exactly what WUC Technologies offers its clients!
Not all disks have been born equal. For example, the cheaper SATA/ NL-SAS drives have been assigned mainly for basic backup and archive workload and not for mission critical workload. To use them for mission critical oracle or SAP workload without using advanced auto-tiering technology can significantly compromise application performance.
Modern caching solutions have been designed to optimize the use of more expensive resources like flash drives, to significantly improve performance. If a particular chunk of data is accessed frequently by the user application, the system automatically promotes that chunk into Cache.
FLASH drives are great in terms of speed and low power consumption but are by far the most expensive media. In most cases, buying All Flash Arrays may turn to be an unnecessary and expensive perk. The optimal option is to create a flexible balance between your business goals, required applications and hardware budget. To determine this optimal option and avoid the lure of the one-size-fit-all waste, let WUC Technologies help you! Our skilled and experienced engineers will save you big money, eliminating the potential damages of endless performance incidents.
Tuning Fiber Channel and Ethernet networks is imperative for maximizing performance. Tuning Fiber Channel means to upgrade from 4Gbps port to 8Gbps, 16 Gbps or even to 32 Gbps, setting buffer credits. Tuning Ethernet means to monitor packet size and leverage jumbo frames wherever applicable. Tuning Ethernet also means to upgrade port speed from 10GB to 40Gbps. Sharing port isn’t complicated, so leveraging LACP appropriately can vastly improve performance and eliminate bottlenecks.
Not all disks have been born equal. For example, the cheaper SATA/ NL-SAS drives have been assigned mainly for basic backup and archive workload and not for mission critical workload. To use them for mission critical oracle or SAP workload without using advanced auto-tiering technology can significantly compromise application performance.
FLASH drives are great in terms of speed and low power consumption but are by far the most expensive media. In most cases, buying All Flash Arrays may turn to be an unnecessary and expensive perk. The optimal option is to create a flexible balance between your business goals, required applications and hardware budget. To determine this optimal option and avoid the lure of the one-size-fit-all waste, let WUC Technologies help you! Our skilled and experienced engineers will save you big money, eliminating the potential damages of endless performance incidents.
Modern caching solutions have been designed to optimize the use of more expensive resources like flash drives, to significantly improve performance. If a particular chunk of data is accessed frequently by the user application, the system automatically promotes that chunk into Cache.
Tuning Fiber Channel and Ethernet networks is imperative for maximizing performance. Tuning Fiber Channel means to upgrade from 4Gbps port to 8Gbps, 16 Gbps or even to 32 Gbps, setting buffer credits. Tuning Ethernet means to monitor packet size and leverage jumbo frames wherever applicable. Tuning Ethernet also means to upgrade port speed from 10GB to 40Gbps. Sharing port isn’t complicated, so leveraging LACP appropriately can vastly improve performance and eliminate bottlenecks.
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