SteelHead™ Deployment Guide : Storage Area Network Replication : Best Practices for SAN Replication Using TCP/IP
  
Best Practices for SAN Replication Using TCP/IP
Many SAN arrays support replication using direct connectivity via TCP/IP. In this case, SteelHeads optimize connections that are initiated directly between the SAN arrays participating in the replication. The following table shows a best practice configuration running RiOS v5.5.3 (or later) with TCP/IP connectivity directly from storage array.
Feature
CLI Commands
Enable RiOS SDR-M
Optional: When using the SteelHead 7050, select default RiOS SDR for higher data reduction
When using SteelHead DX, you can select SDR Turbo for higher throughput or SDR Classic for higher data reduction.
datastore sdr-policy sdr-m
Set compression level (LZ1)
datastore codec compression level 1
Multicore Balancing
datastore codec multi-core-bal
Enable MX-TCP class covering replication traffic
Note: Replace <XXXX> with the port used by the replication application.
qos classification class add class-name “blast” priority realtime min-pct 99.0000000 link-share 100.0000000 upper-limit-pct 100 “root”
qos classification rule add class-name “blast” traffic-type optimized destination port <port-number> rulenum 1
qos classification rule add class-name “blast” traffic-type optimized source port <port-number> rulenum 1
Set WAN TCP buffers
protocol connection wan receive def-buf-size <2*BDP>
protocol connection wan send def-buf-size <2*BDP>
Set LAN TCP buffers
protocol connection lan send buf-size 1048576
tcp adv-win-scale -1
Note: tcp adv-win-scale -1 is for RiOS v5.5.6c or later.
Reset existing connections on start up
in-path kickoff
in-path kickoff-resume
Note: in-path kickoff-resume is for RiOS v6.0.1a or later.
Never pass-through SYN packets
in-path always-probe enable
Increase encoder buffer sizes
datastore codec multi-codec encoder max-ackqlen 20
datastore codec multi-codec encoder global-txn-max 128
SRDF/A optimization
Note: Use only with SRDF/A Replication and RiOS v6.0.1 or later.
protocol srdf enable
VMAX DIF header optimization
protocol srdf rule src-ip <x.x.x.x> dst-ip <y.y.y.y> dif enable
Replace <x.x.x.x> and <y.y.y.y> with IP address pairs for RE ports. For details, see Storage Optimization Modules.
Note: Use only with EMC VMAX and RiOS v6.0.1 or later.
Restart the optimization service
restart