VNXe Ethernet Test

The EMC VNXe provides flexible DAS, NAS, or SAN connectivity options through Ethernet and Fibre Channel ports and supports a wide range of protocols including CIFS (SMB 1, SMB 2 and SMB 3), NFSv3, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel. By periodically checking the health of the ports and measuring the I/O load on the ports, you can identify overloaded ports, isolate the storage processor they support, and thus proactively detect potential/existing load-balancing irregularities and/or processing bottlenecks with the storage processors. The VNXe Ethernet test facilitates this port check. For every port configured on each of the storage processors (A and B) supported by the target storage system, this test reports the health of the ports, the I/O load on the ports and the processing ability of the ports. In the process, the test not only points administrators to overloaded ports, but also puts a finger on ports that are slow when processing I/O requests.

Target of the test : An EMC VNXe Storage system

Agent deploying the test : A remote agent

Outputs of the test : One set of results for each Storage processor port on the target storage system being monitored

Configurable parameters for the test
Parameters Description

Test Period

How often should the test be executed.

Host

The host for which the test is to be configured.

Unisphere CLI Path

The eG agent uses the command-line utility, UEMCli.exe, which is part of the UniSphere Management Suite, to communicate with and monitor the storage device. To enable the eG agent to invoke the CLI, configure the full path to the CLI in the UniSphere CLI Path text box.

Username and Password

Provide the credentials of a user possessing monitor role to access the storage device in the Username and Password text boxes.

Confirm Password

Confirm the password by retyping it here.

VNXe Version

Select the version of the target EMC VNXe storage system that is to be monitored from this list. By default, 1600 will be chosen from this list.

Detailed Diagnosis

To make diagnosis more efficient and accurate, the eG Enterprise embeds an optional detailed diagnostic capability. With this capability, the eG agents can be configured to run detailed, more elaborate tests as and when specific problems are detected. To enable the detailed diagnosis capability of this test for a particular server, choose the On option. To disable the capability, click on the Off option.

The option to selectively enable/disable the detailed diagnosis capability will be available only if the following conditions are fulfilled:

  • The eG manager license should allow the detailed diagnosis capability
  • Both the normal and abnormal frequencies configured for the detailed diagnosis measures should not be 0.
Measurements made by the test
Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation

Health state

Indicates the current health of this port.

 

The values reported by this measure and its numeric equivalents are mentioned in the table below:

Measure value Numeric Value

Unconfigured

 0
Normal 1
Attention 2
Unknown 3
Degraded/Warning 4
Minor failure 5
Major failure 6
Critical failure 7
Non-recoverable error 8

Note:

By default, this measure reports the Measure Values listed in the table above to indicate the current health of this storage processor port. The graph of this measure however is represented using the numeric equivalents only - 0 to 8.

The detailed diagnosis of this measure lists the name of the storage processor, the protocol using which the port is accessed, the MTU size of the interface card, speed, port ID, time, connector type, MAC address etc.

Peak bandwidth in

Indicates the maximum amount of data received by this port per second.

MB/sec

The detailed diagnosis of this measure lists the name of the storage processor, the protocol, the MTU size, speed, port ID, time, connector type, MAC address, input bandwidth etc.

Average bandwidth in

Indicates the average amount of data received by this port per second.

MB/sec

 

Peak bandwidth out

Indicates the maximum amount of data sent through this port per second.

MB/sec

The detailed diagnosis of this measure lists the name of the storage processor, the protocol, the MTU size, speed, port ID, time, connector type, MAC address, output bandwidth etc.

Average bandwidth out

Indicates the maximum amount of data sent through this port per second.

MB/sec

 

Peak packets in

Indicates the maximum amount of packets received by this port per second.

Packets/sec

The detailed diagnosis of this measure lists the name of the storage processor, the protocol, the MTU size, speed, port ID, time, connector type, MAC address, packets received etc.

Average packets in

Indicates the average amount of packets received by this port per second.

Packets/sec

 

Peak packets out

Indicates the maximum amount of packets sent through this port per second.

Packets/sec

The detailed diagnosis of this measure lists the name of the storage processor, the protocol, the MTU size, speed, port ID, time, connector type, MAC address, packets sent etc.

Average packets out

Indicates the average amount of packets sent through this port per second.

Packets/sec