The following best practices are recommended for the PowerFlex system:
- Configure the high-performance profile for MDM, SDS, and SDC.
- Disable the Read Flash Cache and Read RAM cache for all flash clusters.
- Sometimes, increasing the device queue depth value to 256 can improve I/O concurrency.
- Create thick provisioned volumes.
Note: The parameters can be set from the PowerFlex CLI.
- Run the following command to increase the SDS threads to twelve.
scli --set_performance_parameters --all_sds --tech --sds_number_os_threads 12