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VMAX Devs Concepts

We use a std convention i.e. if the dev is below 1 TB we make a hyper of size 34 GB i.e. 38000 cylinders. Now if i want to create a device of 500 GB then i will need 500GB /34GB i.e. ard 15 devs of 34 GB each

Suppose i form a meta say AAA with 15 devs of 34 GB each and bind it to a pool say T1 : RAID-5 (7 + 1). Then how the device will be distributed.

  • Fenglin1

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    Posted July 14th, 2013 18:00

    Using Thin meta, the data will distributed in Thin Pool spreading workload over more spindles, same as using Thin Device. But each meach meta member gets a small percentage of cache, a striped meta is likely to offer more writable cache to the meta volume

  • red1918sox

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    Posted July 12th, 2013 05:00

    Are you using thin pools?

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    Posted July 12th, 2013 06:00

    Yes

  • Quincy561

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    Posted July 12th, 2013 08:00

    With thin pools, your devices will be spread over the TDATs in a round robin fashion in 768k chunks.

  • Quincy561

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    Posted July 14th, 2013 19:00

    Each member gets 5% of writable cache, which is a lot, considering many systems have millions of slots.

    The amount of available write space makes little difference in most cases.