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| <section id="best-practices-secondary-storage"> |
| <title>Best Practices for Secondary Storage</title> |
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| <listitem><para>Each Zone can have one or more secondary storage servers. Multiple secondary storage servers provide increased scalability to the system.</para></listitem> |
| <listitem><para>Secondary storage has a high read:write ratio and is expected to consist of larger drives with lower IOPS than primary storage.</para></listitem> |
| <listitem><para>Ensure that nothing is stored on the server. Adding the server to CloudPlatform will destroy any existing data.</para></listitem> |
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