SIZING GUIDE

RECOVERPOINT FOR VMS 5.1

PRELIMINARY SIZING GUIDE

ABSTRACT
This document details the Dell EMC® RecoverPoint for VMs 5.1 release preliminary sizing. This guide should be
used as a quick start guide for rough sizing. For additional information check RecoverPoint for VMs 5.1 Scale &
Performance Guide at https://support.emc.com/

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SIZING GUIDE

Required number of vRPAs for total Throughput & IOPS

Total IOPS (Writes only)
1000
19000 38000 57000 76000 95000 114000 133000 152000
0
100 1 or 2 1 or 2 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Throughp

200 1 or 2 1 or 2 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
300 3 3 3 3 4 5 6 7 8
400 3 3 3 3 4 5 6 7 8
500 4 4 4 4 4 5 6 7 8
Total

600 4 4 4 4 4 5 6 7 8
700 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 7 8

Calculations are based on vRPAs with 4 vCPUs and 8 GB RAM using default configuration.
CGs are fairly distributed in IOPs and bandwidth.

vRPA configuration selection criteria and number of vRPAs

Q: What are the considerations to decide on the number vRPA configuration and number of vRPAs to be deployed?
A: The basic vRPA cluster configuration is of 2 vRPA with 2 vCPUs/ 4GB RAM configuration.
When protecting more than 128 VMs or 64 consistency groups per vRPA, use 2 vCPUs/ 8 GB RAM configuration.
For higher throughputs and IOPS workloads use 4 vCPUs/ 8 GB RAM, or 8 vCPUs/ 8 GB RAM configurations, or
add additional vRPAs to the cluster.
Single vRPA can be deployed instead of a cluster, providing similar performance as a 2 vRPA cluster,
without providing the cluster high availability, this is mainly recommended for testing environment
Changing the vRPA configuration or adding vRPAs to a cluster can be done after the initial deployment.

Example: Replication load definition

Q: My Application generates a total of 20,000 IOPS OLTP2 I/O pattern (3:1 R/W ratio), How many IOPS are
replicated by RecoverPoint?
A: RecoverPoint for VMs replicates only the application writes, while the reads are ignored and have no impact
on performance. In order to estimate RecoverPoint for VMs performance, only the writes workload is calculated.
In this example RecoverPoint for VMs will replicate 5,000 IOPS (1\4 of 20,000).

Example: Choosing vRPA configuration

Q: I need to replicate several VMs, but I don’t know the workload that they generate. Which vRPAs
configuration should I choose when I deploy the vRPA cluster?
A: A possible strategy is to start by deploying a small vRPA cluster of two 2-vCPUs, 4-GB RAM vRPAs because
these are the most cost effective vRPAs for throughput. After protecting the VMs, you will check the throughput
statistics of the CGs and examine high loads, and then adjust the vRPA configuration accordingly, and even add
vRPAs to the vRPA cluster, if needed.
  
 

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Example: vRPA cluster deployment

Q: I need to protect two VMs that generate combined writes of 24,000 IOPS. How should I plan the
vRPA cluster?
A: 24,000 IOPS can be handled by a single “8 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM” vRPA or by two “4 vCPUs, 8GB RAM”
vRPAs.
For redundancy reasons, you’ll either need two “8 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM” vRPAs or three “4 vCPUs, 8 GB
RAM” vRPAs in the vRPA cluster. The hardware requirement of the latter is lower and therefore will better
utilize the host resources, and it will also allow better spread of the load over the ESXi hosts if you have
more than two.

Required journal size (GB) for protection window and write workload
  Requested Protection window
 
Min Journal  30 
1 hour  8 hours  24 hours  3 Days  7 Days 
Days 
1 KB  10  10  10  10  10  10  10 
10 KB  10  10  10  10  10  20  40 
100 KB  10  10  10  20  40  90    380 
1  10  10  50  130  380  870  3710 
2  10  20  90  250  750  1740  7420 
Application write workload (MB/sec) 

3  10  20  130  380  1120  2600  11130 

4  10  30  170  500  1490  3470  14830 
5  10  30  210  620  1860  4330  18540 
10  10  60  420  1240  3710  8660  37070 
15  10  80  620  1860  5570  12980  55600 
20  10  110  830  2480  7420  17300  74140 
25  10  140  1040  3100  9270  21630  92670 
30  10  160  1240  3710  11130  25950  111200 
35  10  190  1450  4330  12980  30280  129740 
40  10  210  1650  4950  14830  34600  148270 
60  10  320  2480  7420  22250  51900  222400 
80  10  420  3300  9890  29660  69200  296530 
100  10  520  4120  12360  37070  86490  370660 
120  10  620  4950  14830  44490  103790  444790 
150  10  780  6180  18540  55600  129740  555990 

 Journal size table is based on default configuration without using journal compression.
 Enabling journal compression is expected to reduce the required journal size by up to 50%