Dell Technologies recommends setting Host I/O Limits on workloads which might monopolize pool resources and starve other applications of their required performance. Consider some of the following opportunities to utilize Host I/O Limits:
- Limit the bandwidth available to large-block applications, such as backup jobs, which may be increasing the latency on other small-block workloads.
- Limit the IOPS capability of Thin Clones which are used in Test/Dev environments, so that they do not impact the capability of the associated source objects.
- Limit the IOPS / bandwidth that is available to non-essential applications that are hosted on the same Dell Unity system as your critical applications.