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September 14th, 2015 18:00

Recommended Hypers per PD

Folks,


I understand the recommended hyper value per physical disk is 8 [Performance reasons?]. Any compelling reasons behind this number? I have also seen people prefer to use 8-way or 16-way meta devices in VMAX. I knew we have 8 DAs and 8 DAEs per Engine. Do they have anything in common?

Cheers.

  • Quincy561

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    Posted September 15th, 2015 04:00

    No nothing in common.  The 8 came from some performance testing that showed that was a sweet spot for some workloads.

  • tiro1

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    Posted September 15th, 2015 07:00

    Thank you. I am a great fan of your performance related posts

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    Posted September 15th, 2015 07:00

    Yes, I was referring to the VP environment.

  • Quincy561

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    Posted September 15th, 2015 07:00

    And I assume we are talking about VP (thin) provisioning.  In a thick environment, there is a direct connection between metas and the backend.  With VP there is none.