HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform Manager User Guide (5697-0454, May 2010)

6 Working with stripe sets
Striping helps with load distribution, which might improve performance in some cases. With striping,
an application can concurrently write data on multiple back-end LUs. Striping is appropriate for
applications with predictable, close to uniform input/output (I/O) size.
You implement striping by creating a stripe set, or a set of back-end LUs across which data can be
striped. The stripe set is then used to create a storage pool, which is then used to allocate one or
more virtual disks.
NOTE:
If a stripe set is added to an existing storage pool, then the capacity is appended to that pool, and
no additional striping is performed.
For best performance results, use physically independent back-end LUs of similar performance, serviced
by different storage systems. For best utilization of storage capacity, use back-end LUs of similar
capacity.
You can:
• View the stripe sets list
• View stripe set information
• Create stripe sets
• Add back-end LUs to stripe sets
• Remove back-end LUs from stripe sets
• Add stripe sets to storage pools
• Remove stripe sets from storage pools
• Delete stripe sets
Viewing the stripe sets list
The stripe sets list displays all stripe sets defined in the local domain.
To view the stripe sets list:
1. In the navigation tree, expand the Entities node.
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