Problem iSCSI is much more flexible and easy to manage then a fibre channel (FC) infrastructure. There is a performance penalty of course, but in many cases the performance penalty is well worth the management benefits. This article will show how to set up the NetApp as a target and the AIX or VIOS host [...]
Fiber Channel (FC / SAN) Performance Tuning on AIX 6.1
Introduction In large data-warehousing applications, the efficiency of storage systems is critical. With the same hardware and software release, we have seen queries that never terminate (i.e. still runs after a week) under one configuration to be able to finish within hours after optimizations. Of course in the case of a database like DB2, there [...]