Re: Of SANS and IOS

[Andrew Miehs <andrew@2sheds.de>]

Normally when you buy expensive hardware the saleman should come to 
you. :-)

Had a quick look in google for IOs and it seems that it is also refered 
to as IOPs
Input Output Per second... And seems to refer to the controller, and 
not the disks.

And after my quick look, the where talking about cached 20,000 - 
150,000 per second.
(Very Very small emc from dell)...

Regards

Andrew

On Saturday, September 20, 2003, at 08:37AM, Russell Coker wrote:

> On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 08:08, Alex Borges wrote:
> > Anyone knows What The FARKS is that IOs unit the HP SAN folk keep
> > talking about? Like in, yeah, this thing can take 2000 IOS per second.
> > How many bytes is an IOs supposed to be? An IO==Device blocksize or 
> > WTF?
> When buying serious hardware the vendor is usually happy to allow you 
> to test
> it out before you buy.  They should have some sort of demo-room in the
> nearest major city where you can plug in your own server and test it 
> out.