VMAX3 Performance Workshop

Upon successful completion of this course, participants should be able to:

• Describe the architecture of the VMAX3 from a performance perspective
• Articulate VMAX3 configuration best practices for optimal performance
• Use Unisphere for VMAX for performance analysis of VMAX3 arrays
• Identify the performance impact different types of workloads
• Use key metrics to identify performance bottlenecks and components over utilization
• Make performance-oriented recommendations when allocating new storage or migrating applications

The content of this course is designed to support the course objectives.

Module – VMAX3 Architecture and Configuration Best Practices

• VMAX 3 Architecture
• Configuration Best Practices

Module – Performance Analysis Basics

• Performance Analysis Methodology
• Performance Measurements
• Workload Profiles and Characterization
• Little’s Law and its Impact on Response Time

Module – VMAX3 Performance Analysis with Unisphere for VMAX

• Performance Related Administration Tasks
• Monitoring Performance
• Performance Reports
• Offline Performance Viewer

Module – Performance Analysis of VMAX3 Front End Directors

Module – Performance Analysis of VMAX3 Cache

Module – Performance Analysis of VMAX3 Backend Directors

Module – Performance Considerations for TimeFinder SnapVX and SRDF

• TimeFinder SnapVX Considerations
• SRDF Considerations
• SRDF Performance Analysis

To understand the content and successfully complete this course, a student must have an understanding of:

• Architecture of VMAX3 arrays
• VMAX3 SLO based provisioning
• SRDF
• TimeFinder SnapVX
• Basic knowledge of Unisphere for VMAX