Release Notes

29 Dell PS Series Snapshots and Clones: Best Practices and Sizing Guidelines | BP1027
Using snapshot volumes as the source for backups may affect the performance of the source volumes. In this
case, the latency increased with the application simulation workload and the number of volumes being backed
up (i.e., running the backup simulation workload). IOPS continued to scale, indicating the I/O processing
abilities of the storage system had not yet been reached. However, had the increase to both workloads
continued, eventually a point would be reached where the system would no longer deliver more IOPS and the
latency would sharply increase.