Determining storage requirements - assure_mimix - 6.0

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Consider the following guidelines to determine storage requirements:

  1. Use the following assumptions to decide on the appropriate storage requirements.

    Recovery Window goal = 1 day

    Average Aggregate Write I/O per day = 1 GB

    Network outage protection = 12 hours

    Amount of data and metadata that will fit in an LFC:

    • amount of data = .95 of LFC size

    • amount of metadata = .05 of LFC size

    Therefore, a 16MB LFC will hold 15.2 MB of data.

  2. Using these assumptions, determine the LFC space.

    Production LFC space __1GB x .5 = 500MB_________

    Recovery LFC space __2 x (1GB) x 1 = 2 GB_________

  3. Using this space, calculate the LFC size and the number of production and recovery LFCs.

    LFC size _16 MB___________________________

    Production LFCs __500 /(16 * .95)= 33________________

    Recovery LFCs ___2000/(16 * .95) = 132_______________

  4. If there is space available to create a separate volume group, create a volume group that is large enough to hold the LFCs.