Purpose

The purpose of this workbook is to assist storage architects in understanding the impact of the network pipe
on possible replication performance. The numbers in this spreadsheet do not guarantee the results calculated
with this tool. It does give a fair assessment of what is possible, if other bottlenecks are removed.

Variables that affect replication performance that are not included in this worksheet include:
* Filer Head
* Disk drive type
* Disk drive configuration
* Number of small files (VSM)
* Network Latency due to distance of remote storage appliance

Author
Chuck Dufresne, TME
chuckd@netapp.com
 Bandwidth Requirements

Footprint (GB) 50 Rate of change

Replication Frequency(Mins) 60 Hours in the day that data changes
Replication Frequency (Hrs) 24.0 Average rate of change
Average amount of data transmitted per replication interval

Bandwidth Calculator
Select Speed Throughput Baseline Incremental
Network (80% of Pipe due Transfer Time Update
Connection to TCP/IP overhead) Transfer Time
(Use Pulldown)
Fast Ethernet 100.00 Mbps 36,000.00 MB/Hr 1.42 Hrs 0.341 Mins

Fractional Bandwidth Calculator

Network Input Throughput Baseline Incremental
Connection Fractional (80% of Pipe due Transfer Time Update
Network to TCP/IP overhead) Transfer Time
Speed
Fractional Kbps 800.0 Kbps 281 MB/Hr 182.04 Hrs 43.69 Mins
Fractional Mbps 100.00 Mbps 36,000.0 MB/Hr 1.42 Hrs 0.34 Mins
Fractional Gbps 1.0 Gbps 360 GB/Hr 0.14 Hrs 0.03 Mins

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 Rate of change (% per Day ) 4
that data changes (enter 1-24) 10
erage rate of change (% per Hr) 0.40
ed per replication interval (GB) 0.2

Max Frequency
Update Check
Frequency
(Minutes)
0.427 OK

Max Frequency
Update Check
Frequency
(Minutes)
54.613 OK
0.427 OK
0.042 OK

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Dialup 0.1 Mbps
Bluetooth 1.0 Mbps
DS1 (T1) 1.5 Mbps
Broadband 1 0.8 Mbps
Broadband2 2.0 Mbps
Broadband3 3.0 Mbps
Ethernet 802.3 10.0 Mbps
802.11b (wireless) 11.0 Mbps
DS3 (T3) 44.7 Mbps
OC1 54.0 Mbps
802.11g (wireless) 54.0 Mbps
Fast Ethernet 100.0 Mbps
FDDI 100.0 Mbps
ATM 155.0 Mbps
OC3 155.5 Mbps
OC12 622.1 Mbps
Gigabit Ethernet 1000.0 Mbps
OC48 2547.7 Mbps
OC192 10191.9 Mbps
10GigE 10240.0 Mbps
OC768 40768.5 Mbps
UWB 512000.0 Mbps

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