Monitoring SolidFire Storage System

eG Enterprise offers a dedicated monitoring model for the SolidFire Storage system (see Figure 1).

Figure 1 : The layer model of a SolidFire Storage System

Using the metrics reported by eG Enterprise, administrators can find quick answers to the following questions:

  • What is the space utilization of the volume drives in the cluster?
  • What is the space utilization of the block drives in the cluster?
  • How well the provisioned space is utilized in the block drives in the cluster?
  • How many errors were reported for each type of fault?
  • How many active iSCSI sessions were communicating with the cluster?
  • How many I/O operations were performed on the cluster since midnight Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)?
  • How well data was read from and written to the cluster?
  • What is the current status of each drive?
  • How well data was read from and written to the drive from the time the drive as provisioned (lifetime)?
  • What is the space utilization of each drive? Is any drive running out of space?
  • How well I/O operations were performed on each drive?
  • What is the remaining lifetime of each drive?
  • What is the current status of each network interface?
  • What is the percentage of CPU utilized on each node?
  • How well data is received and sent from the cluster interface of each node?
  • How well data is received and sent from the storage interface of each node?
  • How well data is received and sent from the management network interface of each node?
  • What is the current connection status of the SolidFire cluster that is paired with the target SolidFire storage system?
  • What is the time taken to transfer the data between the pared cluster and the target SolidFire storage system?
  • What is the current status of each user account?
  • How many volumes were owned by each user account?
  • What is the overall efficiency of the volume associated with each user account?
  • How many volumes were owned by each volume access group?
  • How many initiators are available in each volume access group?
  • What is the overall efficiency of each volume access group?
  • What is the compression factor and thin provisioning factor of each volume access group?