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June 1st, 2011 09:00

TDAT sizing best practice for DMX-4

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.

Thanks,

Rick

  • Quincy561

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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.

  • Mosa3lyan

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    Posted June 1st, 2011 11:00

    YES

    2000GB

    RAID 6 (14+2)

    239.98

    YES

    2000GB

    RAID 6 (6+2)

    238.42

    YES

    2000GB

    RAID 1

    218.55

    NO

    2000GB

    RAID 1

    219.17

    NO

    2000GB

    RAID 5 (3+1)

    239.10

    NO

    2000GB

    RAID 6 (6+2)

    239.10

    NO

    2000GB

    RAID 6 (14+2)

    238.32

    YES

    1000GB

    RAID 6 (14+2)

    236.49

    YES

    1000GB

    RAID 6 (6+2)

    237.96

    YES

    1000GB

    RAID 1

    114.02

    NO

    1000GB

    RAID 1

    114.64

    NO

    1000GB

    RAID 5 (3+1)

    229.29

    NO

    1000GB

    RAID 6 (6+2)

    239.26

    NO

    1000GB

    RAID 6 (14+2)

    237.78

    YES

    600GB

    RAID 6 (14+2)

    240.16

    YES

    600GB

    RAID 6 (6+2)

    227.91

    YES

    600GB

    RAID 5 (3+1)

    199.42

    YES

    600GB

    RAID 1

    66.47

    NO

    600GB

    RAID 1

    67.10

    NO

    600GB

    RAID 5 (3+1)

    201.30

    NO

    600GB

    RAID 6 (6+2)

    230.05

    NO

    600GB

    RAID 6 (14+2)

    227.73

    YES

    450GB

    RAID 6 (14+2)

    231.93

    YES

    450GB

    RAID 6 (6+2)

    238.56

    YES

    450GB

    RAID 5 (3+1)

    149.10

    YES

    450GB

    RAID 1

    49.70

    NO

    450GB

    RAID 1

    50.32

    NO

    450GB

    RAID 5 (3+1)

    150.97

    NO

    450GB

    RAID 6 (6+2)

    219.60

    NO

    450GB

    RAID 6 (14+2)

    234.85

    NO

    400GB (EFD)

    RAID 5 (3+1)

    137.55

    NO

    400GB (EFD)

    RAID 1

    45.85

    YES

    300GB

    RAID 6 (14+2)

    230.47

    YES

    300GB

    RAID 6 (6+2)

    197.55

    YES

    300GB

    RAID 5 (3+1)

    98.77

    YES

    300GB

    RAID 1

    32.92

    NO

    300GB

    RAID 1

    33.55

    NO

    300GB

    RAID 5 (3+1)

    100.65

    NO

    300GB

    RAID 6 (6+2)

    201.30

    NO

    300GB

    RAID 6 (14+2)

    234.85

    NO

    200GB (EFD)

    RAID 5 (3+1)

    68.79

    NO

    200GB (EFD)

    RAID 1

    22.93

    YES

    146GB

    RAID 6 (14+2)

    200.16

    YES

    146GB

    RAID 6 (6+2)

    96.50

    YES

    146GB

    RAID 5 (3+1)

    48.25

    YES

    146GB

    RAID1

    16.08

    NO

    146GB

    RAID 1

    16.71

    NO

    146GB

    RAID 5 (3+1)

    50.12

    NO

    146GB

    RAID 6 (6+2)

    100.25

    NO

    146GB

    RAID 6 (14+2)

    207.93

  • Quincy561

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    Posted June 1st, 2011 12:00

    Correct, largest volume on DMX is about 60GB.

    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.

  • Quincy561

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    Posted June 1st, 2011 12:00

    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.

  • rick_enos

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    Posted June 1st, 2011 12:00

    For 600GB physical RAID1 TDAT, I was thinking 32GB per and 600GB physical RAID5 3+1 64GB per, approx

  • rick_enos

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    Posted June 1st, 2011 12:00

    If I go with 65520 regardless of RAID type?

  • rick_enos

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    Posted June 1st, 2011 12:00

    The largest hyper I can have on a DMX-4 is 64GB

  • SKT2

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    Posted July 17th, 2011 09:00

    what is the logic of keeping the 8 minimum physical splits on the drive?why is it so?

  • Quincy561

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    Posted July 17th, 2011 17:00

    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.