Configuring software raid – HP xw4400 Workstation User Manual
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Several RAID levels offer improved performance relative to a standalone disk. If the disk throughput is
lessened by a single disk controller, there is probably little you can do with RAID to improve the
performance without adding another controller. On the other hand, if the raw disk performance is the
bottleneck, a tuned software RAID solution can dramatically improve the throughput. The slower the
disk is relative to the rest of the system, the better RAID performance will scale, because the slowest
piece of the performance pipeline is being directly addressed by moving to RAID.
Configuring software RAID
See the following links for additional resources on how to configure software RAID on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux or SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED):
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5— Deployment Guide Software RA
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4— System Administrator Guide Software
RAID:
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SLED 11— Guide Software RAID
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SLED 10 SP2— Deployment Guide Software RAID:
See the following websites for more information:
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Open Source and Linux at HP:
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Linux operating systems for HP workstations:
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Chapter 5 Software RAID in HP Linux Workstations
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