NTFS allocation units and PowerMax storage provisioning and performance considerations
NTFS allocation units and PowerMax storage provisioning and performance considerations Welcome to my blog and thanks for visiting!! For a while I was contemplating about developing a blog then finally, I came across the topic that certainly warrants writing one. I hope you find the content here useful and I will appreciate any comments you may have regarding this topic or any other topics you would like me to cover. NTFS is the de-facto file system for Microsoft Windows for many years now. NTFS supports very large capacities, many different types of devices and several different format options suitable to many different applications. It also provides several resiliency, security and access control capabilities among many useful features. Starting with Windows Server 2012, Windows has also leveraged storage array capabilities for offloaded data transfer (ODX) by using underlying storage array copy capabilities instead of using host-based copies. Dell EMC PowerMax family is th...