Plan How You Want To Configure Your Storage; System Priorities - HP storageworks msa1000 Installation Manual

Installation Procedures - for all MSA1000 Deployments

Plan How you Want to Configure your Storage

Proper planning for system storage and performance is critical to a successful
deployment of your MSA1000. Improper planning or implementation can result
in wasted storage space, degraded performance, or inability to expand the system
to meet growing storage needs.
Key points to consider include:

System Priorities

To help you determine the best way to configure your storage, you must first rank
the following three storage characteristics in order of importance:
With your priorities established, you can determine which striping method and
RAID level to use.
As highlighted in the following sections on
some configuration methods offer greater fault tolerance, while other
configuration methods offer better I/O performance or capacity utilization.
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System Priorities
Striping Methods
RAID Types
Hard Drive Sizes and Types
Spare Drives
LUN Sizing
Fault tolerance
I/O performance
Capacity utilization
Striping Methods and
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RAID Types,