Exercise 2 The same company is now planning to reconfigure storage for their database application...

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Exercise 2 • The same company is now planning to reconfigure storage for their database application for high availability o Current configuration and challenges ▪ The application performs 40% writes and 60% reads ▪ Currently deployed on a six disk RAID 0 configuration with advertised capacity of each disk being 200 GB ▪ Size of the database is 900 GB and the amount of data is likely to increase by 30% over the next 6 months ■ It is a new financial year and the company has an increased budget • Task o Recommend a suitable RAID level to fulfill the company's needs o Estimate the cost of the new solution (200GB disk costs $1,000) Justify your choice based on cost, performance, and availability O Exercise 2 • The same company is now planning to reconfigure storage for their database application for high availability o Current configuration and challenges ▪ The application performs 40% writes and 60% reads ▪ Currently deployed on a six disk RAID 0 configuration with advertised capacity of each disk being 200 GB ▪ Size of the database is 900 GB and the amount of data is likely to increase by 30% over the next 6 months ■ It is a new financial year and the company has an increased budget • Task o Recommend a suitable RAID level to fulfill the company's needs o Estimate the cost of the new solution (200GB disk costs $1,000) Justify your choice based on cost, performance, and availability O

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