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              [html]<thead><tr><td></td><td>• Define the storage pools, specify MDisks for each pool and document mapping of MDisks to back - end storage. Parameters of the baseli - end storage determine the characteristics of the volumes in the pool. Make sure that each pool containt</td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>• Plan allocation of hosts and volumes to VO Groups to optimize the VO load distribution between the hosts and the Storwized VTOOC Allowing a hosts to access more than one ICO group might better distribute the load between system nodes. Howe</td><td>• Plan queue depths for the attached hosts. For more information, see this website.</td></tr><tr><td>• Plan for the physical location of the equipment in the rack.</td><td>• Verify that your planned environment is a supported configuration.</td></tr><tr><td>• Verify that your planned environment does not exceed system configuration limits.</td><td>Planning activities required for Stonwize V7000 deployment are described next.</td></tr><tr><td>ning for availability</td><td>When planning deployment of BM Stonvice V77000, avoid creating single points of failure. Plan system availability according to the requirements specified for your solution. Consider the following aspects, depending on your availabi</td></tr><tr><td>• Single site or multi - site configuration</td><td>Multi - site configurations increase solution resiliency and can be the basia of disaster recovery solutions. Storwice VTOO allows configuration of multi - ole solutions, with sites working in astive - active or active - edundby mode. Sy</td></tr><tr><td>For more information about cross - site configurations, see BM Storwize V7000, Spectrum Virtualize, HyperSwap, and VMware Impitentetion, SS24 - 8517.</td><td>• Physical separation of system building blocks</td></tr><tr><tdcolspan="2">Dual rack deployment might increase availability of your system if your back - end storace. SAN, and LAN infrastructure also do not use - single rapk elacement scheme. You can</td></tr><tr></tr><tr><tdcolspan="2"</tr><tr></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr></tr><tr><td></td></tr></tbody>
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