Selecting a workload profile Volume performance advisor tasks Selecting candidate locations

Perform this task, using the Choose workload profile page, to select a workload profile to define new volumes. The Volume performance advisor uses the workload profile and other performance information to advise you about where the volumes should be created.

Prerequisites

This task is one of several tasks you complete using the Volume performance advisor wizard. Before performing this task, you must have completed the Settings page.

Context

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

Steps

Perform the following steps to select a workload profile:

  1. Select a profile from the Workload profiles table.

    The table lists predefined or existing workload profile names and descriptions. Predefined workload profiles are shipped with Performance Manager. Existing workload profiles are profiles that you previously created, if any.

  2. Click Profile details to see details about the selected profile in the Profile details panel.

    The Profile details panel provides the following information about the selected profile:

    • Total I/Os per second per gigabyte
    • Random read cache hits
    • Sequential and random reads and writes
    • Start and end dates
    • Duration (days)
  3. Click Cancel in the Profile details panel to return to the Choose workload profile page.
  4. Click Next to verify that you want to use the selected workload profile to define new volumes.
Result

The Choose candidate locations page of the Volume performance advisor wizard opens.

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