PowerMax and VMAX All Flash Solutions Design (PowerMax and VMAX All Flash Service Levels + SL Based Provisioning with Unisphere for PowerMax)

Question 1

Besides defining application performance, what other roles do SLs play?

Answer 1

manage latency at the Storage Group level

deliver consistent response times

Question 2

What is the target response time of a SL?

Answer 2

average response time expected for the Storage Group based on selected SL

Question 3

What SL has no target, upper or lower response time limit?

Answer 3

Optimized

Question 4

What SL have upper, lower and target response times?

Answer 4

bronze
silver

Question 5

What SLs only have an upper and target response time?

Answer 5

gold
platinum
diamond

Question 6

What is the target and lower response time of bronze?

Answer 6

7.2ms

Question 7

What is the target and lower response time of silver?

Answer 7

3.6ms

Question 8

What is the target response time of gold?

Answer 8

1ms

Question 9

What is the target response time of platinum without SCM?

Answer 9

0.8ms

Question 10

What is the target response time of diamond without SCM?

Answer 10

0.6ms

Question 11

What is the target response time of platinum with SCM?

Answer 11

0.6ms

Question 12

What is the target response time of diamond with SCM?

Answer 12

0.4

Question 13

Where can you see response time in Unisphere?

Answer 13

compliance tab

Question 14

When do Alerts go off for SLs?

Answer 14

when a specific SL has reached its upper response time limit

Question 15

What SL does not have Alerts available?

Answer 15

Optimized

Question 16

What are Initiator Groups referred to as in Unisphere?

Answer 16

hosts

Question 17

What are Host Groups?

Answer 17

cascaded Initiator Groups

Question 18

What does the Modify feature allow you to do with Initiator Groups?

Answer 18

to add of remove initiators from an existing host

Question 19

When setting up hosts connected to an IO module what does each NIC have?

Answer 19

IP address
Network Prefix
VLAN