Performance Capacity is a new feature that ONTAP 9 and Active IQ Unified Manager (AIQUM) together support, which allows you to proactively monitor performance headroom in your storage environment. Whe...Performance Capacity is a new feature that ONTAP 9 and Active IQ Unified Manager (AIQUM) together support, which allows you to proactively monitor performance headroom in your storage environment. Where is the best place to create a new volume / LUN? This calculation is the point that CPU and IOPS can go the highest before incurring extra storage latency, like the graphic below. Similar metrics can be obtained from ONTAP CLI to help determine if a node is over utilized.
