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How should SIOC congestion windows parameters be set for VNX?

Summary: VMware SIOC congestion windows parameter should be set according to lun performance.

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Question
How should SIOC congestion windows parameters be set for VNX?

Facts
Storage I/O Control (SIOC) offers storage resource management capability for virtual disks and datastores. It provides a way to govern virtual disk utilization within a clustered datastore.  SIOC uses virtual machine disk shares and disk IOPS settings to establish precedence, and apportions the virtual machine storage resources when the datastore response time exceeds predefined levels.

SIOC can be used along with FAST VP.

Answer
The following table describes the congestion window parameter based on datastore storage type:
SIOC congestion windows


Refer to the following VMware KB Unmanaged workload is detected on datastore running SIOC (1020651) External icon for more information about the error message "Unmanaged I/O workload detected on shared datastore running SIOC for congestion management".

Affected Products

VNX/VNXe
Article Properties
Article Number: 000205257
Article Type: How To
Last Modified: 07 Mar 2023
Version:  4
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