Tutorial: Viewing the aggregated workload for an application

Bob is a storage administrator. Bob wants to easily evaluate the performance of the accounting application because the Accounts department is expanding to a new location and they want to replicate their data across both locations. Bob needs to work out the inter-site link capacity requirements.

1. Bob clicks Applications on the dashboard to view only the Accounts Database resources.
   
2. Bob right-clicks the Accounts Db application on the Applications page, then clicks View Details.
   
   Bob can use the Aggregated Workload chart to quickly evaluate the throughput required for the link between both sites.

   
   Bob can toggle between seeing the aggregated I/O rate and the data rate for the application using the arrow icons either side of the chart.

   
3. The rates are aggregated on the primary volumes associated with the application which allows Bob to accurately assess the required MiB/s throughput he will need between both locations.