Introduction

This appendix describes some ways to set up your configuration. Use the following table to locate specific information in this chapter.

• "Configuration Planning Overview"

• "Configuration Planning Guidelines"

• "RAID5 Metadevices and Striped Metadevices"

• "Optimizing for Random I/O and Sequential I/O"

• "Striping Trade-offs"

• "Logging Device Trade-offs"

• "State Database Replicas"