Why the move away from SAN storage pools? I'm way out of my depth on this topic (no pun intended). My theory is that maybe it's just too hard to optimise them for SQL Server. We've had no end of intermittent performance problems since our new SAN went in 12 months ago. The only outcome of investigations seems to be a newfound ability for everyone to blame everyone else.
Have a great 2013 everyone and sincere thanks to SSC for such a fantastic resource.
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