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