Dell PowerFlex 4.5.x Administration Guide

Add an acceleration pool

Add an acceleration pool to a protection domain to accelerate fine granularity storage performance.

1. On the menu bar, click Block > Acceleration Pools.
2. Click +Create Acceleration Pool.
3. In the Create Acceleration Pool dialog box, specify a name for the acceleration pool.
4. Select the following information from the relevant menus:
   • Pool type: Select NVDIMM or SSD for the acceleration pool type.
     NOTE:NVDIMM also applies to a DAX device with the 16G based options known as SDPM.
   • Protection Domain: select the protection domain to be accelerated.
5. In the Add Devices area, select the devices that will be used for acceleration:

   Option	Description
   Add acceleration devices from all SDSs that contribute to the relevant acceleration pool.	Optionally, select the Add Devices To All SDSs check box to add acceleration devices from all SDSs in the protection domain. Otherwise, select acceleration devices one by one.
   Add devices one by one.	Enter the path and name of each acceleration device, select the SDS on which the device is installed, and then click Add Devices. Repeat for all desired acceleration devices in the acceleration pool.

6. Click Create.
7. Verify that the operation has finished and was successful, and click Dismiss.