Target group
This course is intended for Dell Technologies Personnel, Partners, and Customers to assist in troubleshooting and managing the performance of PowerMax and VMAX All Flash arrays.
Course structure
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
Upon successful completion of this course, participants should be able to:
- Identify best practices for optimal performance of PowerMax and VMAX All Flash arrays
- Monitor and analyze performance of arrays using Unisphere for PowerMax
- Illustrate the correlation between workloads and Service Levels, and how they affect performance
- Devise a strategy to analyze key metrics to investigate performance issues and provide remediation recommendations
- Apply analysis information to future planning
