ADP (advanced drive partitioning), which eases capacity management on smaller capacity platforms. Great performance for OLTP systems.
Senior Storage Engineer (3rd level) at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Great performance for OLTP systems.
What is most valuable?
How has it helped my organization?
The Oracle workload, which was previously deployed on physical servers with direct-attached storage, has greatly improved mostly with transaction processing speed. Latency has been almost eliminated on protocol and physical disk layer.
What needs improvement?
Mostly security-related bugs on various DATA ONTAP for c-DOT versions. No comments on the physical platform itself.
For how long have I used the solution?
Since October 2015 (10 months).
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What was my experience with deployment of the solution?
Configuring ADP seemed a bit more difficult than traditional aggregate setup.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Most of our current solutions are based on spinning media and hybrid solutions. Due to the greater performance improvement on flash systems, the higher number of IOPS and less latency on the storage back end, I would recommend deploying performance-dependent workloads on SSD platforms.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was straight-forward with the exception of the ADP aggregate setup and spare drive management.
What about the implementation team?
Implemented in-house.
What other advice do I have?
Carefully estimate the IOPS profile of the workload that is going to be deployed on AFF as it is optimized for random I/O.
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