Your customer wishes to deploy a new streaming media application using large multimedia files.
These files will be used to provide training to employees. The customer would like to store the media files on its CLARiiON CX3 array.
The application performance in a proof of concept has not been acceptable, and the customer has narrowed the problem down to a disk. The customer deployed the application and data files on a single RAID 5 4+1 LUN. The application data has various I/O sizes, and the media file I/O size is 1024 Kb.
The customer is confident the application will perform adequately on the CLARiiON, but is unsure what changes should be made to the configuration. The customer also wants the best balance of performance and cost.
What would you recommend the customer change in its configuration to achieve the highest performance?
A.
Place the media files and application files on separate RAID 1 groups.
B.
Place the media files on a RAID 3 group and the application files on a RAID 5 group.
C.
Place the media files and application files on separate RAID 5 4+1 groups.
D.
Place the media files on a RAID 5 group and the application files on a RAID 3 group.