Volume performance advisor tasks Validating ESS access and invoking the performance advisor Replication sessions

The Volume performance advisor (advisor) task wizard uses historical performance information to advise the user on where volumes should be created. The advisor balances the storage allocation activity across all available resources based on the existing performance of those resources and on the performance needs of the new storage to be allocated.

Prerequisites

You need to be well-enough acquainted with an application to estimate the approximate behavior of the application for which storage is to be allocated.

You can perform the following major tasks using the Volume performance advisor task wizard:

  1. Setting volume requirements
  2. Selecting a workload profile type
  3. Selecting candidate locations
  4. Verifying workload settings
  5. Approving workload recommendations
Related topics Validating ESS access and invoking the performance advisor Replication sessions

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