Monitoring and analyzing performance is an important task for any System Administrators.
Disk I/O bottlenecks can bring applications to a crawl. Some of the common questions for anyone embarking on a disk I/O analysis
What are IOPS?
Should I use SATA, SAS, or SSD?
What RAID level should I use?
Is my system read or write-heavy?
Disclaimer: I do not consider myself an expert in storage or anything for that matter. This is just how I have done I/O analysis in the past. I welcome additions and corrections
What are IOPS?
They are input-output (I/O)... Read More