I work for a small VAR that does a fair amount of low end virtualization -- 2-3 ESX hosts, Equallogic (PS4xxx and occasionally a PS6xxx) and I've always been puzzled about the use of IOPS as a measure ...

Delivering efficient and optimised storage performance for virtual environments can be difficult to achieve because so many components in the infrastructure stack must interact. But optimum storage ...

Guys I would like to ask how does one go about calculating disk IO? For example, I would like to be able to say I have 4 15k fiber drives in a raid 10 and it does x amount of iops. I assume there is ...

Monitoring and analyzing performance is an important task for any System Administrators. Disk I/O bottlenecks can bring applications to a crawl. Some of the common questions for anyone embarking on a ...

A performance measurement commonly used to benchmark hard disk drives, solid state drives, and storage area networks is called Input/Output Operations Per Second, or IOPS. Each type of storage device ...