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35 Analyzing Dell PS Series Storage with SAN Headquarters | TR1050
Figure 22 Volume IOPS distribution after the move showing more I/O activity to the FASTPOOL15K
3.1.3.1 Iterative process of moving volumes
Manually moving volumes to another pool is a technique which allows for appropriate placement of workloads based
on I/O characteristics or business importance. This methodology may be an iterative process and to fully even the load,
several volume moves may need to be considered to balance the workload to the desired goal. An example of a second
move of the volumes based on their IOPS profile is shown below. Here, we moved volumes that needed more IOPS to
the FASTPOOL15K and ones with less of an I/O need to the default pool. The final result is that vmfs05, vmfs04 were
moved to FASTPS6210XV and vmfs01, vmfs06 were moved to the default pool.
Table 2 IOPS analysis for volume placement
Volume
IOPS
First Move
Second Move
Vmfs02
1988
FASTPOOL15K
NO
Vmfs05
1288
Default
FASTPOOL15K
Vmfs04
1284
Default
FASTPOOL15K
Vmfs03
958
FASTPOOL15K
NO
Vmfs06
870
FASTPOOL15K
Default
Vmfs01
750
FASTPOOL15K
Default