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Perform this task to select candidate locations that you want the Volume performance advisor to consider for new volumes.

Prerequisites

This task is one of several tasks you complete using the Volume performance advisor wizard. Before performing this task, you must have selected a workload profile in the Choose workload profile page.

Context

Clicking Next on the Choose workload profile page opens the Choose candidate locations page of the Volume performance advisor wizard.

Steps

Perform the following steps to select candidate locations for new volumes:

  1. Select a device from the Device list.

    The Selection tree opens on the left side of the panel. It includes the components of the selected device, such as clusters, device adapters, arrays, and disk groups. The component level names are followed by information about the capacity and the disk utilization of the component level, for example, Cluster (19.9 GB, Utilization: 75%)

  2. Select a component.

    All the available volumes belonging to that component level are displayed in the Candidates table. The table provides information about the component ID (volume ID for volumes), RAID level, capacity in gigabytes (GB), and utilization (red is high, green is low). Your best selection might be a location with high capacity and low utilization.

  3. Select volume locations from the Candidates table:
    1. Click Include locations to select the available volumes in the Candidates table that you want to be included for consideration.
    2. Click Exclude locations to select the available volumes in the Candidates table that you want to be excluded from consideration.
    3. Click Select all to select all the candidates in the table.
  4. Click Add to add the volumes to the Selected Candidates table or click Remove to remove volumes from the Selected Candidates table.
  5. Click Next to confirm the selection. The Verify settings page opens.

    Two tables are shown on this panel. The first table lists the attributes that you identified for the advisor to consider. The second table lists the volume locations to be considered from the Choose candidate locations page.

  6. Verify the selections, then click Next to confirm.
Result

The Approve recommendations page opens. You can use this page to view and select the recommendations from the Volume performance advisor.

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