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    This document discusses how data reduction efficiency is calculated on Dell EMC PowerStore storage systems. It provides examples to explain the calculations for overall efficiency, thin provisioning savings, snapshot savings, and data reduction ratio. These metrics indicate the savings in physical storage space achieved through features like deduplication, compression, thin provisioning and sharing of data between volumes and snapshots.

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    This document discusses how data reduction efficiency is calculated on Dell EMC PowerStore storage systems. It provides examples to explain the calculations for overall efficiency, thin provisioning savings, snapshot savings, and data reduction ratio. These metrics indicate the savings in physical storage space achieved through features like deduplication, compression, thin provisioning and sharing of data between volumes and snapshots.

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    8/19/22, 4:26 PM Dell EMC PowerStore: Data Reduction Efficiency | Dell US

    Article Number: 000062507 Print

    Dell EMC PowerStore: Data Reduction Efficiency


    Summary:
    This KB article details on the Data Efficiency Calculation for PowerStore

    Article Content

    Symptoms

    The PowerStore Data efficiency features introduce space savings from zero detection, deduplication, and compression processes.

    "    Data efficiency features are automatically enabled and cannot be disabled.

    "    Deduplication works at the block level at 4 KB granularity.

    "    Data blocks written to DRAM and then to Write Cache on NVRAM drives.

    "    The Data Reduction process is only invoked when data is flushed out of Write Cache to data drives.

    "    Data blocks are deduplicated, compressed, and then divided into 2 MB stripes and written to data drives.

    Overall Efficiency:

    The computed ratio of the Total Space Provisioned to the Physical Space Used.

    Space Efficiency Ratio% = Total Space Provisioned/Physical Space Used

    Example:

    "    Five 2 GB volumes were provisioned with 1 GB of data that is written to each of them.

    "    Each of the five volumes has one snapshot, for another five 2 GB volumes.

    "    All volumes are thinly provisioned with deduplication, and compression applied. There are 2 GB of physical space used.

    Overall efficiency would be (10 GB + 10 GB) / 2 GB or 10:1. Therefore, the Efficiency_Ratio value is 10 in this example.

    Thin Saving :

    The ratio of volumes' provisioned size to logical size used.

    Thin Saving Ratio% = Volumes' provisioned size/logical used

    Example:

    "    Ten 2 GB volumes are provisioned.

    "    500MB (0.5 GB) of data is written to each of them.

    Thin savings would be (10 x 2 GB) / (10 X 0.5 GB) or 4:1.

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    Snap Savings: 

    The ratio of the original space used by the snaps to the data uniquely owned by the snaps.

    Snap Saving Ratio% = Snapshot Space Used/Data uniquely owned by the snaps

    Example:

    "    A volume has 2 GB of data when a snapshot is taken.

    "    After the snapshot is taken, 0.5 GB (500 MB) of the volume's data is overwritten.

    As a result, the snapshot has the original 2 GB of data written with 1.5 GB of data shared with the volume and 0.5 GB unique data.

    The snap savings would be 2 GB/0.5 GB or 4:1. The snapshot_savings value will be 4 in this case.

    Data Reduction Ratio:

    The ratio of space which would have been taken if deduplication and compression are not applied to the physical space occupied after
    deduplication and compression.

    Data Reduction Ratio% = Space which would have been taken if deduplication and compression are not applied / Physical Used
    Space with Deduplication and Compression

    Example:

    "    A volume was written with 2 GB of data when a snapshot is taken.

    "    After the snapshot is taken, 0.5 GB (500 MB) of the volume's data is overwritten.

    As a result, the volume and the snapshot share 1.5 GB of data. The snapshot and volume each owns 0.5 GB of unique data. Altogether,
    the volume and snapshot own 2.5 GB of data. If all this data occupied 1 GB of space, the Data Reduction Ratio would be 2.5 GB/1 GB or
    2.5:1.

    Cause
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    To view data reduction savings from GUI, go to Dashboard >> Capacity >> Data Savings.

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