topic EF570 volume workload for IBM SVC in EF & E-Series, SANtricity, and Related Plug-ins

EF570 volume workload for IBM SVC

stevenzhang — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 12:46:53 GMT

Dear experts

What volume workload type should select for IBM SVC?

Re: EF570 volume workload for IBM SVC

stevenzhang — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 12:42:35 GMT

Hi experts

Could you help answer the question?

Re: EF570 volume workload for IBM SVC

RajeshPanda — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 08:31:51 GMT

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Re: EF570 volume workload for IBM SVC

stevenzhang — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 02:34:54 GMT

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Re: EF570 volume workload for IBM SVC

Vinayraj — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 05:29:53 GMT

Hello

As per my understanding you should choose other and then choose the appropriate segment size and other RAID volume parameters manually. We don't have a preconfigured one for SVC.

SVC more or less uses GPFS so they have some older guidance for the best practice setup (usually 128K segment size) and RAID 6 (8+2) for 1 meg IO per volume.
Usually they stripe across multiple volumes (4 at a time) to make it fly or they sometimes will choose a 512K segment size to make one volume tuned to 4MB IO request size.

You can name the custom workload anything you want.

Thanks