"Week 12 posting"

This weeks chapter on performance and troubleshooting was very in-depth. There was a lot of information dealing with proper optimization and performance with storage devices that used within the storage area network. One of the things I thought was interesting was the way IOPS (output operations per second) is used to measure storage performance. Pending on the type of drive is being used, IOPS measures the performance speed of your system to determine if the required performance is provided by a system for an application.  Synchronization and proper bandwidth gives your storage device the best chance of optimal performance.