World Wide Name Naming Conventions - HP P2000 G3 MSA Technical White Paper

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Table 2. Optimizing performance for your application
Application
Default
High-Performance
Computing (HPC)
Mail Spooling
NFS_Mirror
Oracle_DSS
Oracle_OLTP
Oracle_OLTP_HA
Random 1
Random 5
Sequential
Sybase_DSS
Sybase_OLTP
Sybase_OLTP_HA
Video Streaming
Exchange Database
SAP
SQL
For SQL server and Microsoft® Exchange Best Practices and Performance on the P2000 G3 MSA, consult ActiveAnswers at:
h71019.www7.hp.com/ActiveAnswers/us/en/aa-categories.html

World Wide Name naming conventions

A best practice for acquiring and renaming World Wide Names (WWN) for the P2000 G3 MSA is to plug-in one cable
connection at a time and then rename the WWN to an identifiable name.
The procedure below outlines the steps using the P2000 G3 SAS model as an example.
Procedure
1.
2.
RAID level
5 or 6
5 or 6
1
1
5 or 6
5 or 6
10
1
5 or 6
5 or 6
5 or 6
5 or 6
10
1 or 5 or 6
5 for data; 10 for logs
10
5 for data; 10 for logs
Login to the Storage Management Utility (SMU). The Status Summary page will be displayed.
Click "+" next to "Hosts" from the left Windows frame. This will expand the list to show all connected hosts.
Read ahead cache size
Default
Maximum
Default
Default
Maximum
Maximum
Maximum
Default
Default
Maximum
Maximum
Maximum
Maximum
Maximum
Default
Default
Default
Cache optimization
Standard
Standard
Standard
Standard
Standard
Standard
Standard
Standard
Standard
Super-Sequential
Standard
Standard
Standard
Super-Sequential
Standard
Standard
Standard
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