Posts tagged Storage QoS
Storage Limits
- Dec 02, 2015
- Tze Liang
- IOPS, Storage QoS, IO Characteristics
In an IaaS environment, most cloud providers do apply QoS on the storage layer in order to provide predictable and consistent performance distribution across multiple workloads and volumes. The objective of QoS is to ensure that all workloads receive their fair amount of shares, in order to minimise the effects of victim and bully [1] contention. It also makes it much simpler to do capacity planning analysis.