I'm looking for a doc on DMX-4 best practices for Virtual Provisioning, with reccomended TDAT size for different physical drives and RAID combinations. I can't find anything. Any help would be appreciated.
You want a minimum of 8 physical splits on the drives. In most cases you will need a lot more in DMX to use all the capacity of the disks, so just use the largest possible TDAT volume size that will use all the capacity of the disks. Even number of physical hypers may be slightly better.
If you had a mirrored TDAT pool on 146GB drives, you would want much smaller than 60GB TDATs. You would want something like an 18GB TDAT, which was why I mentioned the minimum of 8 physical TDAT splits or hypers per drive.
For a 600GB drive with RAID1 TDATs, you still want to go with the largest logical possible, that will be 10 splits per disk. 3+1 with 600GB drives will be about 30 splits using the largest volume possible.
The DA is optimized to work with mutiple targets per drive. In most cases the minimum number of hypers to use the capacity of the drive will be a LOT more than 8, so in most cases you won't need to worry about going below that.
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Posted June 1st, 2011 09:00
You want a minimum of 8 physical splits on the drives. In most cases you will need a lot more in DMX to use all the capacity of the disks, so just use the largest possible TDAT volume size that will use all the capacity of the disks. Even number of physical hypers may be slightly better.