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Summary
This chapter detailed the features and keycomponents of modern intelligent storage systems. The different types of storage systems, high-end and midrange, and their characteristics were also
explained. An intelligent storage system provides the following benefits to an organization:
Increased storage capacity
Improv ed I/O perf ormance
Easier storage management
Improv ed data av ailability
Improv ed scalability and f lexibility
Improv ed business continuity
Improv ed security and access control
An intelligent storage system is an integral part of every data center. The large capacity and high performance supported by the intelligent storage system makes it necessary to share it
among multiple hosts. Intelligent storage systems enable enterprises to share data easilyand securely.
Storage networking is a flexible information-centric strategythat extends the reach of intelligent storage systems throughout an enterprise. It provides a common wayto manage, share, and
protect enterprise-information assets. Storage networking is detailed in the next part of this book.
Exercises
1. Research Cache Coherency mechanisms, and explain how they address the environment with multiple shared caches.
2. Which type of application benefits the most by bypassing write cache? Justify your answer.
3. Research various cache parameters: cache page size, read versus write cache allocation, cache prefetch size, and write aside size.
4. An Oracle database uses a block size of 4 KB for its I/O operation. The application that uses this database primarily performs a sequential read operation. Suggest and
explain the appropriate values for the following cache parameters: cache page size, cache allocation (read versus write), prefetch type, and write aside size.
5. Research and prepare a presentation on EMC VMAX architecture.