Classification of Storage

RanjnaAggarwal · ‎08-28-2013

What is Criteria for the Storage Classification as Gold, Silver, Bronze? and are these the predefined standards?

Regards, Ranjna Aggarwal

f10 · ‎08-28-2013

I have used the following categories in the past:

Storage Type (FC, iSCSI)

Storage Performance (SSD, SAS, STAT)

Replication - Volumes/LUNs that are being replicated

Storage Efficiency enabled - Dedupe, Compression & Thin Provisioning

Space

Storage Cost

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RanjnaAggarwal · ‎08-28-2013

which storage is categorized as Gold?

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weinstein5 · ‎08-28-2013

typically Gold, SIlver and Bronze classifications are an indication of the performance of the underlying disk infrastructure

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RanjnaAggarwal · ‎08-28-2013

that means there is no such predefined that we can use to say it is gold or silver or bronze. Am i right?

Regards, Ranjna Aggarwal

admin · ‎08-28-2013

Name	Description
GOLD	Storage pool based on solid-state drives (SSDs) that delivers high performance for I/O intensive applications
SILVER	Fibre Channel Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) storage (RAID 5)
BRONZE	iSCSI Serial ATA (SATA) storage (RAID 5)

RanjnaAggarwal · ‎08-29-2013

is this standard explanation of this classification

Regards, Ranjna Aggarwal

admin · ‎08-30-2013

yes it is the standard way of this classification.

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Classification of Storage