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Solving the IO Bottleneck in NextGen DataCenters ... - IMEX Research

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I/O Forensics for Auto Storage-Tier<strong>in</strong>g<br />

<strong>IMEX</strong><br />

RESEARCH.COM<br />

Storage-Tiered Virtualization<br />

Storage-Tier<strong>in</strong>g at LBA/Sub-LUN Level<br />

Physical Storage Logical Volume<br />

SSDs<br />

Arrays<br />

Hot Data<br />

HDDs<br />

Arrays<br />

Cold Data<br />

LBA Monitor<strong>in</strong>g and Tiered Placement<br />

• Every workload has unique I/O access signature<br />

• Historical performance data for a LUN can identify<br />

performance skews & hot data regions by LBAs<br />

Source: IBM & <strong>IMEX</strong> <strong>Research</strong> SSD Industry Report 2011 ©<strong>IMEX</strong> 2010-11<br />

© 2010‐11 <strong>IMEX</strong> <strong>Research</strong>, Copy<strong>in</strong>g prohibited. All rights reserved.<br />

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