Powerstore Design: PowerSizer Flashcards
What are the 6 sections of PowerSizer?
Help Touchpoint
ISG Sizing and Build Tools
Quick Size
Recent Projects
Information about PowerSizer
Unsaved Sizing Requests
What is ISG Sizing and Build Tools in PowerSizer?
Guidance and resources for sizing
What is the Quick Size in PowerSizer?
Direct access to Sizer Path for Powerstore and other models
What is Recent Projects in PowerSizer?
recent projects containing one or more sizing scenarios
What is the Help Touchpoint in PowerSizer?
to show context sensitive help for specific items
What does the PowerSizer output show?
system saturation and capacity utilization per workload in the selected Powerstore model
What are the components of the output screen for PowerSizer?
aggregate capacity and storage performance/saturation utilization
maximum performance representing 100% system saturation based on input parameters
How do you characterize IO workloads when sizing Powerstore?
Random vs sequential IO
large vs small IO request sizes/capacity requirements
read vs write ratios
extent of parrallelism
Live Optics
What are the IO characteristics when sizing block workloads in Powerstore?
IOPS
MB/s
read vs write
IO Size
DRR
Effective Capacity
Growth of performance/capacity
What are the IO characteristics when sizing file workloads in Powerstore?
operations per second (read + write metadata)
throughput MB/s
DRR
effective capacity
growth of performance/capacity
What are the IO characteristics when sizing VM workloads in Powerstore?
VMs
vCPUs
Memory
IOPS
CPU/memory utilization
capacity
performance growth
How do you calculate Powerstore X effective capacity?
number of VMs x capacity per VM
What is a good rule of thumb when it comes to PowerStore Storage Performance Saturation?
50-60%
Max Storage Performance Saturation should be 50-60% in the Constraints section of PowerSizer
What effect does performance saturation have on Powerstore sizing?
A very small saturation percentage can lead to oversizing of a solution.
A very large percentage could lead to undersizing, especially as new and unplanned workloads are added.
What are the input fields in PowerSizer for block workloads?
connectivity
DRR
effective capacity
performance
response time
capacity growth
performance growth
split workload
+ icon
What is the effective capacity input field in PowerSizer block?
requested capacity of cluster given DRR
What is the performance input in PowerSizer block?
input for the workload (in K IOPS) or throughput (in MiB/s)
What is the response time input in PowerSizer block?
desirable average response time or latency for solution
What is the split workload input in PowerSizer block?
where the workload is split into 2-10 separate workloads
options are Auto Optimal - Disabled - Split workload
default value is Auto Optimal
What are the minimum inputs to get a Powerstore configuration?
IOPS/MiB/s
effective capacity
What is the + icon input in PowerSizer block?
add multiple block workloads which can be split across appliances
What are workload templates in PowerSizer?
set the percentage and IO sizes of the workload assigned to random (Rand) and sequential (Seq) read (R) write (W) operations