PowerMax and VMAX All Flash Performance (PMWAFP) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Array Architecture
  • Architecture and configurations
  • Features
  • Best practices
Performance Analysis Basics
  • Methodology
  • Measurements
  • Workload profiles and characterization
Performance Analysis with Unisphere for PowerMax
  • Administrative Tasks
  • Monitoring performance
  • Performance reports
  • Offline Performance Viewer
Performance Analysis of Front-End
  • Front-End metrics and analysis strategy
  • Storage Group planning
Performance Analysis of Cache
  • Overview of cache
  • I/O flow
  • Cache performance analysis strategy
Performance Analysis of Back-End
  • Back-end overview
  • Back-end metrics and analysis strategy
  • Data Reduction
End-to-End Analysis
TimeFinder and SRDF
  • SRDF considerations and performance analysis
  • TimeFinder SnapVX considerations