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Despite the flexibility offered by the data lake concept, not all unstructured data workloads or applications are suitable for a large OneFS powered cluster. Each application or workload that is under consideration for deployment or migration to a cluster should be evaluated carefully. Workload analysis involves reviewing the ecosystem of an application for its suitability. This requires an understanding of the configuration and limitations of the infrastructure, how clients see it, where data lives within it, and the application or use cases in order to determine: