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Course number
HG828S
Length
2 days
Delivery method
Remotely assisted instructional learning (
RAIL
RAIL )
Price
USD $1,800
Prerequisites
Managing HP Storageworks EVA (UC420S) or
Managing HP StorageWorks EVA (U4879S)
Audience
Administrators responsible for Managing HP
StorageWorks EVA
Next steps
EVA 2: Business Continuity and Availability (HF839S )
Course Outline
Performance Terminology and Rules
Definition of array performance
Performance metrics
Important workload characteristics
Hardware components affecting performance
Architecture overview
Mirror port impact on performance
EVA architecture throughput limitations
EVA4400, EVA6400 and EVA8400 performance improvements
Firmware aspects affecting performance
Rules of EVA performance for random I/O
Sizing for random workloads - with margin
Microsoft Exchange formula for host IOPs
Rules of EVA performance for sequential I/O
Safe IOPs calculator for production disk group
Safe IOPs calculator - Microsoft version
Active-active considerations
Command View EVA preferred path settings
MPIO host settings
Adaptive Load Balance
Moving ownership of the managing controller
EVAPerf Metrics
EVAPerf CLI counters
EVAPerf Qualifiers and array coverage
EVAPerf simplified categories
Performance Data Collection and Formatting
Summary of data collection and formatting tools
EVAPerf utility
EVAPerf tool components
EVAPerf installation
EVAPerf software components
EVAPerf and friendly names
EVA passwords
EVAPerf CLI counters
EVAPerf qualifiers and array coverage
EVAPerf simplified categories
EVAPerf - Perfmon objects
Viewing logged data
Loading saved data into other tools
EVAPerf commands
EVAPerf command modifiers
Sample formatting options
Modifiers useful for capturing data to a file
Modifiers useful for filtering data
Collecting EVAPerf command line data
Recommended command line options
Examples of 1-hour and 24-hour data collection
EVAPerf all command output
Formatting EVAperf data
TLViz Formatter description
Using the TLViz Formatter
TLViz Formatter output files
EVAPerf commands and TLViz output files
TLViz Formatter map files
EVADATA.MDB queries
Opening and viewing CSV files with Excel
Another data manipulation tool - csvpng
Performance Data Analysis
Analysis tools
TLViz description
Using TLViz for data viewing and manipulation
Downloading TLViz
Manipulating the TLViz display
Viewing multiple items
Removing records
Adding new items to the view
Toggling moving averages
Showing raw data
Zooming the display
Stacking items
Using editing options
Correlating data
Analyzing EVA performance
Places to start when performing analysis
Example using TLViz vdg statistics output
Adding a new item for total backend requests
Charting total backend requests versus read miss latencies
Common issues that affect EVAs
Example - FATA misuse
Fibre Channel and FATA total requests
Comparing Fibre Channel and FATA read miss latencies
Using the Safe IOPs calculator
Example - Exceeding Safe IOPs
Using the Access database for analysis
Using TLViz for analysis
Additional TLViz rules and examples
Host port statistics output in TLViz
Host port statistics - Balanced workload
Port status output in TLViz
Array status output in TLViz
Physical disk group output in TLViz
Physical disk group requests and MB/s
Data replication tunnel output in TLViz
Array controller status output in TLViz
Controller status command - % CPU for both controllers
% CPU for both controllers - Normal overhead
% CPU for both controllers - Snap activity
