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June 8th, 2012 07:00

Fiber channel ISL utilization

Need help how to calculate the link utilization ?

A pair of ISLs is configured between two Fibre Channel switches with trunking enabled. The trunk is carrying the I/O traffic from several hosts generating a total of 3,000 IOPS with a block size of 32 KB.

Assuming 2 Gb links, what is the ISL utilization?

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June 12th, 2012 10:00

Based on what you supplied

3000 iops @ 32K = 96000K = 93 MBps = @23% utilization across the 4Gb Trunk.

Remember that you could use Web Tools or ECM Performance Monitoring to get real-time information on this link also.

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