SSD Disk Requirement for Adaptive Optimize

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Windz
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SSD Disk Requirement for Adaptive Optimize

Post by Windz »

Hi all,
i'm new on 3PAR, and i have a 3PAR 8200 with 10TB RAW, and i want to buy SSD to configure AO for my 3PAR,
pls suggest me minimum requirement SSD disk for configure AO on 3PAR.

Thanks & Best Regards,
JohnMH
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Re: SSD Disk Requirement for Adaptive Optimize

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For a net new SSD tier supporting AO or volumes the minimum would be 6 x 400GB, optimal would be 8 x 400GB disks.

Although from a performance perspective if you only have 10TB raw in SAS you might be as well building the existing tier out, otherwise you'll have a very large performance imbalance between the two tiers.

Since it's a relatively small configuration you could also consider using fewer SSD's (2) and Adaptive Flash Cache and use some of the remaining budget to add to the SAS tier, that way you can always build the SSD tier out in the future to support AO as required.

You can also combine the two approaches AO and AFC but you'd need to deploy the larger of the two minimum (AO minimum).

Take a look at this it will help with AO and AFC. https://www.hpe.com/h20195/v2/getpdf.aspx/4AA5-5731ENW.pdf?ver=3.0
sanjac
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Re: SSD Disk Requirement for Adaptive Optimize

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I have a similar configuration. would it make any changes in performance to use adaptive optimization, considering that we have only FC disks?
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cali
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Re: SSD Disk Requirement for Adaptive Optimize

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Yes it will have a big Impact on Performance.
With around 10% SSD capacity, normaly you will have 80% of IOPS with SSD Speed.

If my Customers add SDD Tiering, they lower Response Time by 8 - 10x.
(It depends, on many factors)
But it have nearly no Impact for Backup, for this an AFA is better.

Flash Cache is good for Multiple Read (Databases) and no Write.
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