
Digital Media Storage Solution Installation Guide 7
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SAN Architecture must meet RPQ criteria
• Limit number of paths for Xsan/StorNext clients to four
• This is to limit both complexity and the amount of time required to initialize clients
on the SAN
• Redundant Meshed Fibre Channel SAN (cross-connected)
• RDAC MPP supports this configuration
• Some IBM documentation may seem to preclude this, but those documents are
based on an old non-“mpp” version of RDAC
• Limits cause for failover to Controller failure
• Specific Firmware, software, and Operating System Levels
IBM Storage
• DS5100/DS5300
• DS5020
• DS4700
• DS3400
• Future
DS5300
enhanced
performance
Burst I/O rate
cache reads
(IOPS)
Sustained I/O rate
disk reads
Sustained I/O rate
disk writes
448
FC/SATA/FDE
/SSD*
(480) SATA*
Burst throughput
cache read
Sustained
throughput
disk read
Sustained
throughput
disk write
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