Block Storage Provisioning and Management

Block Storage Provisioning and Management
Upon completion of this module, you should be able to:

• Describe configuration guidelines for provisioning storage
• Configure and manage storage objects
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Lesson 1: VNX Storage Objects

This lesson covers the following topics:
• General considerations
• Storage Pools and RAID Groups
• LUNs
General Considerations for Configuring Storage
• Drive types
 Drives selection should be based upon the expected workload
 FLASH for extreme performance
 SAS for general performance
 NL-SAS for streaming, aging data and archives, and backups
• RAID levels
 Match the appropriate RAID level with the expected workload
 RAID 1/0 for heavy transactional random writes (> 25%)
 RAID 5 for medium-high performance, general workloads, and
sequential I/O
 RAID 6 for NL-SAS read-based workloads and archives
Pool vs. RAID Group
Pool Example RAID Group Examples
Extreme Performance Tier (SSD) RAID 1/0: (4+4)
RAID 1/0: (4+4) RAID Group 0
RAID 5: (4+1)
RAID Group 1
Performance Tier (SAS)
RAID 5: (8+1)
RAID 5: (8+1) RAID 5: (8+1)
RAID Group 2
RAID 6: (6+2)
RAID Group 3
Capacity Tier (NL-SAS)
RAID 6: (14+2) RAID 6: (14+2)
RAID Group 4
Pool Considerations
Pools can contain a few or hundreds of disks

• Spreads workloads over many resources
• Can contain a single drive type (homogeneous) or multiple drive types
(heterogeneous)
• Building blocks for FAST VP operations
RAID Configuration is moved from the pool level to the tier level
• Users can select RAID protection by tier
• Mixed RAID types supported within a Pool
• Once the tier is created, the RAID Configuration for that tier in that pool
cannot change
Multi-Pool Support
• Separate workloads for different I/O profiles
• Dedicate resources for performance goals
RAID Group Considerations
• Limited to a single drive type and a

Drive count maximum of 16 drives per RAID group
• Drives can be selected from the same bus

Drive location (horizontal) or different busses (vertical)
• Best practice is to use horizontal selection
• Used on 4 +1 RAID 5 groups when the

Large element predominant workload is large-block
size random read activity
Thick LUNs
Capacity of a thick LUN, is distributed

equally across the disks in the pool
Capacity of a thick LUN, same as the user

capacity seen by the server
• Full capacity allocated at time of creation
Uses slightly more capacity than user data
Thin LUNs
Capacity visible to the server is independent of

the available physical storage in the pool
Competes with other LUNs in the pool for the

pool’s available storage
A thin LUN can run out of disk space if the pool

to which it belongs runs out of disk space
A thin LUN uses slightly more capacity than the

amount of user data written to it due to the
metadata
Classic LUNs
Created on RAID Groups
All space allocated at creation time
• LBAs are physically contiguous
Predictable performance and data layout
Support active-active host access
• Simultaneous access through SPA and SPB

• Trespassing of LUNs no longer required
Lesson 1: Summary
During this lesson the following topics were covered:
• General considerations
• Storage Pools and RAID Groups
• LUNs
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Lesson 2: Managing Storage Objects

This lesson covers the following topics:
• Creating Storage Pools
• Creating LUNs
• Displaying and monitoring storage objects
Provisioning Storage with Unisphere
The Pools tab is selected by default
Creating a Storage Pool
Multiple combo boxes

will be shown for the
level of performance
that can be achieved
with the installed disk
types
Creating a Pool LUN
Thin LUNs are created by

default. To create a Thick
LUN uncheck the Thin
box.
Displaying Pool Properties (General Tab)
Displaying Pool Properties (Disks Tab)
Displaying Pool Properties (Advanced Tab)
Displaying Pool Properties (Tiering Tab)
Displaying Pool LUN Properties (General Tab)
Displaying Pool LUN Properties
Creating a Storage Pool: RAID Group (General Tab)
Users have the option to

manually select the
disks for the RAID
Group
Creating a Storage Pool: RAID Group (Advanced
Tab)
Creating a RAID Group LUN (General Tab)
Creating a RAID Group LUN (Advanced Tab)
Displaying RAID Group Properties
Displaying RAID Group LUN Properties (General
Tab)
Displaying RAID Group LUN Properties
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Lesson 2: Summary
During this lesson the following topics were covered:
• Creating Storage Pools
• Creating LUNs
• Displaying and monitoring VNX storage
Summary
Key points covered in this module:
• Described characteristics of VNX storage objects such as pools,
LUNs, disks, and RAID Groups.
• Considerations for employing the different storage object
options
• Both thick and thin LUNs can share the same pool
• Steps to create Pool and RAID Group storage pools, and thin and
thick LUNs from these pools.

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Upon completion of this module, you should be able to:

Lesson 1: VNX Storage Objects

Extreme Performance Tier (SSD) RAID 1/0: (4+4)

RAID 1/0: (4+4) RAID Group 0

RAID 6: (14+2) RAID 6: (14+2)

Pools can contain a few or hundreds of disks

• Limited to a single drive type and a

• Drives can be selected from the same bus

• Used on 4 +1 RAID 5 groups when the

Capacity of a thick LUN, is distributed

Capacity of a thick LUN, same as the user

• Full capacity allocated at time of creation

Uses slightly more capacity than user data

Capacity visible to the server is independent of

Competes with other LUNs in the pool for the

A thin LUN can run out of disk space if the pool

A thin LUN uses slightly more capacity than the

Created on RAID Groups

All space allocated at creation time

• LBAs are physically contiguous

Predictable performance and data layout

Support active-active host access

• Simultaneous access through SPA and SPB

Lesson 2: Managing Storage Objects

The Pools tab is selected by default

Multiple combo boxes

Thin LUNs are created by

Users have the option to

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