Approving workload recommendations Volume performance advisor tasks Creating a workload profile

Perform this task to view the recommendations from the Volume performance advisor, to select a recommendation, and then to create new volumes.

Prerequisites

This task is the last of several tasks you complete using the Volume performance advisor wizard to create new volumes for a balanced work load. Before performing this task, you must have selected a candidate location for new volumes in the Choose candidate locations page.

Context

Clicking Next on the Choose candidate locations page opens the Approve recommendations page of the Volume performance advisor wizard.

Steps

Perform the following steps to select a recommendation and to create a new volume:

  1. Review the Volume recommendation. This field provides a summary of the recommendations, for example, 10 volumes of 50 GB or 5 volumes of 100 GB.

    The Recommendations table includes the following information about each previously selected location:

    • Utilization: high (red), medium (yellow), or low (green)
    • Device ID
    • Array ID
    • Volume ID
    • Capacity in GB
    • RAID type
    • Host attachment ID
  2. If you are not satisfied with the recommendation, click Return to Settings to return to the Specify settings panel so that the Volume performance advisor can provide new recommendations.
  3. If you are satisfied with the recommendations, select a recommendation.
  4. Select the Create volumes check box.
  5. Click Finish.
Result

The volumes are created and the wizard closes.

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