The recommendations on this document are for VMS workloads
Setting | Recommended values or configuration | Cluster defaults | Notes |
Virtual Hot Spare | 10% of total storage for cluster with 8 nodes or lesser | 1 drive and 0 % total storage | Use defaults for larger clusters |
Job Impact policy | Low for all jobs | Refer section 2 table | - |
Smart Pool and FilePool Jobs | Disabled | Enabled, Low Impact, Runs at 22:00 Everyday | Smartpools License is required for Job |
Multiscan | Disabled | Enabled, Low Impact, Runs 1st Saturday of every month at 00:00 | Run Autobalance and Collect jobs manually to balance cluster |
FlexProtect | Disabled | Enabled, Medium Impact, Scans the file system after a device failure to ensure that all files remain protected | FlexprotectLin recommended for cluster with SSD metadata caching. Keep Flexprotect for clusters with only HDD |
IOPS Saturation |
| - | - |
Dedupe (A300/A3000/H7000) Dedupe Assessment and Compression | Disabled | Enabled, Low Impact, Manual job | SmartDedupe license is required |
SmartConnect | Configure SmartConnect | Enabled | SmartConnect balances incoming client connections across all nodes as per defined policy. SmartConnect Basic is included with OneFS and does not require a license. SmartConnect Advanced extends the SmartConnect Basic features and requires an active license. |