For almost 10 years, Barry has been presenting multiple sessions discussion configuring SVC, Storwize and FlashSystem for optimal performance at events, such as User Groups, Edge and Technical Universities. In 2013/2014 these sessions were written as a part work and have been updated since. These posts have had over 200,000 views in their time on developerWorks.

Configuring SVC, Storwize and FlashSystem for Optimal Performance

Part One – Performance 101 and RAID

Part Five – Updated – Distributed RAID (DRAID) Optimal Configuration – replaces some advice from Part One

Part Two – Disks, Flash and Performance Comparisons

Parts Three and Four – Pools, Easy Tier, Volumes and Hosts

The whole original 2013 presentation series can be downloaded in PDF form