Alletra 5010 vVol sizing with snapshot retention.

[TheSpidle]

I was getting ready to spin up our new Alletra and basically recreate the volumes (but larger) that I have on my current Nimble. I started doing some digging into vvols as we've never utilized them before.

Vvols seem much easier to manage overall. So my questions are:

1) How much space do I exclude from the vvol(s) for snapshot retention?

2) I was planning on provisioning 22TiB for my volumes spread out into  Prod, Non-Crit Prod, Crit, Crit FileServer, User VMs, and Dev. With vvols does it make since to present the same amount of storage (22TiB) and retain the other 8TiB for snapshots when my current data usage on my Nimble is about 14TiB?

I feel like I'm overthinking this and 1 single vvol would be fine since the IOPS are pretty low overall?

[NCG1]

Hi TheSpidle,

Hope you are doing good.

For the query regarding VVol, please contact our support team (24*7) and let them know about this. They will answer your question.

You can email them at support@nimblestorage.com or call them from the phone number available in this link: Technical support phone numbers – HPE Services – Storage Support 24x7

Regards,

Naveen Chandru G 

[NCG1]

Hi TheSpidle,

Hope you are doing good.

Following-up to check if you need any further assistance in this case.

Regards,

Naveen Chandru G 

[NCG1]

Hi TheSpidle,

Good day.

As there was no response from your end, I believe no further assistance is required. Hence I'll go ahead and close this request.

Regards,

Naveen Chandru G