
EMC VNX2 Unified Best Practices for Performance
Applied Best Practices Guide
Contents
Chapter 1 System Configuration ............................................................. 7
Essential guidelines ........................................................................................ 8
Storage Processor cache ................................................................................. 8
Physical placement of drives........................................................................... 8
Hot sparing ..................................................................................................... 8
Usage of flash drives in hybrid flash arrays ..................................................... 9
Availability and connectivity ........................................................................... 9
Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity ................................................................... 10
NAS connectivity .................................................................................................. 11
Chapter 2 Storage Configuration ............................................................ 12
General considerations ................................................................................. 13
Drive type............................................................................................................. 13
Rules of thumb ..................................................................................................... 13
RAID level............................................................................................................. 14
Calculating disk IOPS by RAID type ....................................................................... 14
Determining which LUN type to configure...................................................... 15
Creating LUNs for Block access ............................................................................ 16
Creating LUNs for File access ................................................................................ 16
Storage pool considerations ......................................................................... 17
Storage pool creation and expansion ................................................................... 17
Pool capacity considerations ............................................................................... 18
Storage tiers ........................................................................................................ 18
Tiering policies ..................................................................................................... 19
Storage pool object considerations .............................................................. 19
Storage pool LUNs for Block access ..................................................................... 19
Storage Pool LUNs for File access ......................................................................... 20
Classic RAID Group LUN considerations ........................................................ 22
Drive location selection ........................................................................................ 22
Classic RAID Group LUNs for Block access ............................................................ 23
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