Leyne, Sean wrote: >> >So, it is possible that you can get significantly faster disk IO from such a >> >solution. At last year's MS NA TechEd, several vendors where showing >> >Windows 2012 Storage Clusters which had Disk IO throughput of 5*GBytes* >> >per second!!! > A clarification/correction. > > The actual numbers were > > 512KB block size = 5792 MB/sec or 11,565 IO/s > 8KB block size = 2683 MB/sec or ***343,388 IO/s***
I get the distributed disk structure thing. I'm using that already locally, but my network pipes can't cope with maximum rates :) But if it's serving 1000 different 'sites' in parallel ? My own sites are all cached across machines and are all generally in memory on the machines they are running from so no disk traffic is needed? I can't imagine that all of the sites will be 'live' on the cloud, so need to be loaded every time they are accessed? Surely the trade-off is between time it takes to reload an application and data to a location that can run it against simply accessing a real machine that has it available locally? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk
