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тАО07-15-2004 08:59 PM
тАО07-15-2004 08:59 PM
Is there any tool or document to make an exactly calculation of my eva? or is there a document or guide with informations about the internal calculations of the hsv?
for instance, i have an eva3000 with 56x72gb disks, single failure protection level. when i configure vraid5's, i get an effective useable volumespace (when i add all volumesizes as they are seen from the OS) of about 68gb per disk. 4gb is a lot of an overhead and i would like to know, WHY!
regards,
wuhte
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тАО07-15-2004 09:31 PM
тАО07-15-2004 09:31 PM
Re: EVA Calculator?
The algorithm for reserving protected space in the EVA is to find the largest disk in your disk group (72GB), double that size (2*72=144GB) multiply the result by your protection level (1 for you) and then remove that capacity from free space and distribute it across all the disks in the disk group.
144/56=2.57GB per disk
After that you have the cost of the Vraid5 virtualization...
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тАО07-15-2004 09:43 PM
тАО07-15-2004 09:43 PM
Re: EVA Calculator?
http://h200006.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/lpg29448/lpg29448.pdf
some interesting tips
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тАО07-15-2004 10:59 PM
тАО07-15-2004 10:59 PM
Re: EVA Calculator?
The size that is written on the disk drive is based on 10. The size displayed in the EVA's user interfaces (CV, SSSU) is based on 2.
When you create a virtual disk with '1 GB' you don't get room for 1,000,000,000 bytes - you get room for 2**30 = 1,073,741,824 bytes.
1,000,000,000 / 1,073,741,824 = 0.9313
The EVA reports a '72GB' disk drive with 68.36GB 'formatted capacity'.
68.36GB / 0.9313 = 73.402GB
(a StorageWorks SCSI disk drive has about 72.8GB - unfortunately I don't have a way to find out the exact block number of a FC disk drive attached to the EVA to verify that calculation)
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Here is some real life data:
I had initialized an EVA-3000 with one disk group, 8*72GB disk drives, protection level 0.
It reported a capacity of 546.40GB (8*68.36 = 546.88) - looks like 480MB reserved.
After I created two '5GB' VRAID-1 virtual disks, the capacity shrank to 526.31GB. That is 20GB raw capacity (2*5GB*2) for user data and 90MB reserved.
Next I created one '15GB' VRAID-5 virtual disk. The capacity shrank to 507.51GB. That is 38.75GB raw capacity (2*5GB*2 + 1*15GB*1.25) for user data and 140MB reserved.
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Please note that you should not max-out your EVA! It needs free space in it's disk groups to 'breathe'.
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I hope I got the calculations right and didn't just look like a fool...
Corrections welcome.
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тАО07-16-2004 04:27 AM
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тАО09-13-2004 02:58 AM
тАО09-13-2004 02:58 AM
Re: EVA Calculator?
Could you repost your document wihout Microsoft Word password ?
Thanks in advance
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тАО09-14-2004 04:28 AM
тАО09-14-2004 04:28 AM
Re: EVA Calculator?
I attach the latest version 3.2.1 here!
Cheers
Peter
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тАО09-14-2004 08:21 PM
тАО09-14-2004 08:21 PM
Re: EVA Calculator?
kind regards,
wuhte
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тАО09-14-2004 11:35 PM
тАО09-14-2004 11:35 PM
Re: EVA Calculator?
To fix an internationalization problem (Excel versions in french, german, etc.) in the area of the export function!
Well, under SOM LTU the sizer shows the raw space an EVA provides. You can decide yourself how you want to license!
With the new SOM licensing you can either licencse one or multiple 1TB LTUs or unlimited LTU per EVA.
Hint:
For both the EVA3000 and the EVA5000 5x 1TB LTU is the same price as the unlimited LTU.
Cheers
Peter
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тАО09-19-2007 11:25 PM
тАО09-19-2007 11:25 PM
Re: EVA Calculator?
You should win an award!