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E20-816 · Question #6

A customer reports their hosts are performing slowly after migration to a new VMAX array. You review performance data from the VMAX and note the following: - I/O sizes are 16 KB. - The front-end…

The correct answer is A. Rebalance the hosts across all available FA ports and consider upgrading the SAN switch. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.

Question

A customer reports their hosts are performing slowly after migration to a new VMAX array. You review performance data from the VMAX and note the following:

  • I/O sizes are 16 KB.
  • The front-end director ports are operating at 1 GB auto-negotiate.
  • Several front-end director ports are approaching 100% utilization.
  • A few director ports show little or no utilization.

What do you advise the customer?

Options

  • ARebalance the hosts across all available FA ports and consider upgrading the SAN switch
  • BReduce the number of hosts that are accessing the VMAX and consider implementing iSCSI
  • CRebalance the hosts across all available FA ports and consider setting the front-end director
  • DAdd more HBAs to each host accessing the VMAX and consider setting the host I/O size to

How the community answered

(47 responses)
  • A
    79% (37)
  • B
    11% (5)
  • C
    6% (3)
  • D
    4% (2)

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