Method to Enhance the Performance of a Storage Array System with SSD Drives

As the enterprise adoption of SSD in the datacenter continues to accelerate, the need to further understand SSD characteristics with various enterprise workload has become more critical to the success of an all flash storage platform. For the NetApp EF-Series of all SSD storage arrays, we have been studying and analyzing different methods on how our customers can fully realize overall application performance gains after deploying EF-Series arrays into their datacenters by enhancing how we approach array performance optimization to guarantee consistency low latency I/O performance.

Implementing a hybrid solution to optimize the high traffic component of a customer configuration In this presentation we will be covering the various workload that was benchmarked and the results of the various optimization done and their impact to the overall performance of the NetApp E-series arrays

Learning Objectives

Improve performance by dynamically disabling of full stripe writes
Improve performance by disabling of write caching under certain conditions
How to design the volume to establish a high I/O rate with a low latency
Implement a hybrid solution to optimize high traffic component of a customer CF
How the mix of array features can optimize and impact overall performance