Chapter 6. Storage Performance Design

In this chapter, we will cover the tasks related to storage performance design. You will learn the following aspects of storage performance design:

• Designing the host for a highly available and high performing storage

• Designing a highly available and high performance iSCSI SAN

• Designing a highly available and high performing FC storage

• Performance impact of queuing on storage array and host

• Factors that affect storage performance

• Using VAAI to boost storage performance

• Selecting the right VM disk type

• Monitoring command queuing

• Identifying a severely overloaded storage