Use case – storage performance management

The target user for this use case is a storage administrator or storage architect.

This is the use case for the storage administrator or VMware administrator who wants to know how the overall storage is performing. As a result, this is a storage-centric view, not a VMware-centric view. In this dashboard, we will not focus on non-storage items.

Following the IaaS business model, you need to match the supply and demand. The supply comes from the physical infrastructure, and the demand comes from VM and ESXi (the workload is not generated by VMs, such as vSphere Replication). When you purchase an array, you are given certain specifications in terms of IOPS, throughput, and capacity. You will have to assume a certain read/write ratio or block size as it's impossible to predict the demand in advance. The specifications have to deliver more than the total demand hitting the array; otherwise, the storage latency will go up. In addition, having a good latency...