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SNIA Podcasts

SNIA is dedicated to bringing information about storage networking, information management, and other subjects of interest to our readers (and listeners).

We hope that you enjoy the podcasts below. Stop back occasionally (or subscribe to a real time syndication service feed from iTunesTM). We also encourage you to suggest additional topics and speakers. Please send your suggestions to podcasts@snia.org. To view our Podcast archive, click here.

 

Storage Developer Conference Podcast Series

Every week the Storage Developer Conference (SDC) podcast series presents important technical topics to the Storage Developer community. Each episode is hand selected by the SNIA Technical Council from the presentations at SDC.

This week’s highlighted Podcast: #31 Data Center Workload Analysis by Peter Murray, Principal System Engineer, Virtual Instruments (MP3, PDF of Slides)

For years, enterprises have desired a way to ensure that an application will operate properly at scale on a particular storage array and network infrastructure, and increasingly, ensure that multiple applications can safely run at capacity on an all-flash or hybrid architecture. Companies need an approach that enables users to reference detailed workload analysis profiles as they build and share workload models, and simulate performance across a variety of vendors, products and technologies.

Learning Objectives:

  • How to determine what the traffic related to an enterprise application implementation looks like from the perspective of the network infrastructure between application servers and storage arrays
  • How the application I/O workload can be modeled to accurately represent the application in production using storage analytics or vendor performance statistics to generate a synthetic workload model
  • How a statistical application model can be used to validate both array and network performance at varying traffic levels and rates to rapidly test if/then scenarios
  • How multiple application models can be combined to determine appropriate throughput and response time levels on a given array
  • How using these models can enable engineers and architects to cost-effectively test and confidently deploy new networked storage infrastructure

The Podcast can be downloaded at iTunes. Download a copy of the original presentation slides as well.

Episodes

 

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