The default stripe breadth on a metadata storage pool is 256 blocks. However, this is way, way too high. Quantum recommends using a 16 or 64 block stripe breadth for metadata storage pools. If you have a relatively small volume with a small number of files then use 16 and if you have a larger environment with big files use 64. As with many things re: Xsan the tuning per environment is where you will get the biggest bang for your buck, but it is worth noting that no matter which way you go, this is a setting that should be changed on each deployment in order to keep with…
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Xsan: Storage Pools
Earlier, we described a LUN. In Xsan you can take multiple LUNs and stream data to them in a round-robin fashion. When doing so you will group them together in what Xsan calls Storage Pools. Each Storage Pool has a maximum throughput of about 4 LUNs worth of storage. Each of the LUNs (in Xsan 1.0) has a maximum of about 2TB in capacity. Therefore each Storage Pool can typically net you around 4gbps of speed and about 8TB in capacity. You can then lump multiple Storage Pools into a given Volume to obtain volume sizes of 32, 40, 48, etc. TB. However, when you do so you will not…