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Capturing existing workloads by observing storage access patterns in the environment.
The VPA allows the user to point to a grouping of volumes and a particular window of time,
and create a workload profile based on the observed behavior of those volumes.
Creation of hypothetical workloads that are similar to existing profiles, but differ in some
specific metrics.
The VPA has tools to manage a library of predefined and custom workloads, to create new
workload profiles, and to modify profiles for specific purposes.
6.5.4 Workload profile values
It is possible to change many specific values in the workload profile. For example, the access
density may be high because a ...