Optimizing Disk IO Through Abstraction

To Engineer or Not To…

When disk capacity is released to a new application or service many times the projects do not consider how best to use the storage that has been provided. Essentially the approaches fall into one of two schools of thought. The first is to reduce upfront engineering into a couple design options and resolve issues when they arise. The second is to engineer several solution sets with variable parameters that will provide a broader pallet of solutions and policies from which an appropriate solution may be selected.

Reduced Simplified Engineering

• Apply one of a couple infrastructure designs to a project.
• This approach involves less work upfront, has a simpler execution and involves less work gathering requirements.
• Potentially more time and effort will be spent resolving issues when resources and design are insufficient.