PRIMECLUSTER Global Disk Services Configuration and Administration Guide 4.1 (Solaris(TM) Operating System)
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Chapter 1 Function> 1.3 Functions for High Manageability> 1.3.6 Realizing Large Capacity and I/O Load Balancing

1.3.6.3 Disk Striping

Disk striping maps equal-sized data units on multiple disks so that the data is interleaved in sequence among two or more physical disks.

Disk striping function can balance the I/O load by distributing the divided I/O requests to multiple physical disks simultaneously.

You can also stripe concatenated disks.


[Figure: Disk Striping]



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