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E20-885 · Question #106

A customer plans to add a new LUN to a Windows 2003 server. They are aware that LUN disk crossing will affect performance. Which procedure can significantly reduce LUN disk crossings in an SQL…

The correct answer is A. Use diskpart to set the disk partition offset to 2048 blocks. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.

Question

A customer plans to add a new LUN to a Windows 2003 server. They are aware that LUN disk crossing will affect performance. Which procedure can significantly reduce LUN disk crossings in an SQL environment?

Options

  • AUse diskpart to set the disk partition offset to 2048 blocks
  • BUse only 4+1 disk sets when configuring RAID 5
  • CUse an NTFS cluster size of 64 KB
  • DUse striped metaLUNs consisting of exactly four component LUNs

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(44 responses)
  • A
    77% (34)
  • B
    2% (1)
  • C
    7% (3)
  • D
    14% (6)

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