One of our applications stores and retrieves PDFs from a single directory. This directory exists as a share on on a FlexVol, and contains more than 6 million documents. The issue that I am having is with the memory allocated to that share index. For example, as new records are added, I have to increase the allocated memory in order to add the new files to that directory. As of now, I'm somewhere around 1GB of memory.
My question is: given the number of records the directory contains, is there a better way to store the documents? That is, should I use Qtrees or LUNs?
I am a novice when it comes to data storage as well as NetApp, so some guidance and recommendations are much appreciate. My apologies if I've not been clear in describing the problem, I can try to clarify as needed.
