HP Storage Planning Calculator for Domino

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The HP Storage Planning Calculator for Lotus Domino addresses one of the most important areas tied to the deployment of Domino servers in your IT infrastructure: Performance and capacity planning for your HP storage subsystems. As with previous versions of Lotus Domino, storage planning remains a key element in achieving application scalability. The sizing process is complex and may involve multiple storage groups and databases, growing mailbox sizes and shrinking backup windows.

This tool is designed to provide guidelines for disk, storage controller and enclosure planning for successful Lotus Domino deployments on HP systems. Based on a selected user (workload) profile, this tool calculates the number of hard drives, storage controllers, enclosures required to meet both transaction and capacity requirements for the total user population. The tool is designed to allow for a variety of scenarios and pricing levels; comparing RAID levels, hard drives (spindles) sizes, storage array controllers, enclosures, backup topology and tape drives.

Many new functions/features have recently been added:

• EVA4000, EVA6000, and EVA8000 Sub-Storage system support.
• Smart Array P600 and P800 controller support along with the both large and small form factor SAS spindle support along with MSA50, MSA60, and MSA70 enclosures.
• Fill Capacity functionality - gives the ability to set aside room for capacity growth.
• Ability to define the number of users per server.
• Peak Throughput Factor functionality - gives the ability to set aside room for performance growth.
• Ability to define the Read\Write ratio for transfers per second.
• New data used to better profile HP systems.
• Disk to Disk Backup functionality for EVA systems.