VPLEX Sizing Tool 1.0

VPLEX Sizing Tool by EMC Greg Barker

The VPLEX Sizing Tool is a planning utility that helps storage architects and consultants translate application workload profiles into right-sized EMC VPLEX configurations. By capturing inputs such as IOPS, throughput, read/write ratio, block size, growth assumptions, and resiliency requirements, the tool recommends an appropriate VPLEX topology (Local or Metro), along with guidance on engine and director counts, port density, and inter-cluster bandwidth for Metro designs. It summarizes expected utilization and headroom to support service levels and future growth.

Key capabilities:

• Guided workload intake with presets and input validation
• What-if modeling across Local and Metro scenarios
• Recommendations aligned with EMC VPLEX best practices
• Sizing for performance, capacity overhead, and bandwidth
• Side-by-side scenario comparison and an exportable sizing report

Ideal for:

• Infrastructure architects, field consultants, and storage administrators planning new deployments or expansions of EMC VPLEX.

Note: Results provide planning estimates and should be validated against current EMC guidance and product limits before procurement.

VPLEX Sizing Tool is developed by EMC Greg Barker. The most popular version of this product among our users is 1.0.