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Chapter 12. Performance considerations
This chapter discusses early performance considerations regarding the DS8000 series.
Disk Magic modelling for DS8000 is available as of December 03, 2004. Contact your IBM
sales representative for more information about this tool and the benchmark testing that was
done by the Tucson performance measurement lab.
Note that Disk Magic is an IBM internal modelling tool.
We discuss the following topics in this chapter:
The challenge with today’s disk storage servers
How the DS8000 addresses this challenge
Specific considerations for open systems and z/OS
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