Abstract
The SNIA defines tiered storage as “storage that is physically partitioned into multiple distinct classes based on price, performance or other attributes.” Although physical tiering of storage has been a common practice for decades, new interest in automated tiering has arisen due to increased availability of techniques that automatically promote “hot” data to high performance storage tiers – and demote “stale” data to low-cost tiers.
Learning Objectives
Fundamentals of Storage Tiering
Recent innovations in logical and virtual tiering techniques
Tiering best practices