SolidFire User Accounts Test

The SolidFire storage system can cost-effectively deliver the required resources to drive large scale VDI environments which provide secure access to applications and data to huge number of users. With granular quality-of-service controls and a scale-out architecture, the target storage system manages the mixed and unpredictable workload profiles created by the users. The storage system allows creating the number of storage volumes to provision to the users who are accessing the applications via the authorized user accounts. For active user accounts, the storage volumes store the user data in its optimal form using the storage efficiency techniques such as thin provisioning, always-on deduplication and compression. This ensures that the users can read/write data quickly. This also ensures optimal utilization of storage space on the storage system and seamless user experience. For any reason, if the volumes become inaccessible or the data is not stored using the storage efficiency techniques, efficiency of the volumes may degrade. Subsequently, the users may not be able to access the storage volumes. and this would hence, impact the performance of the storage system as well as the user experience. To avoid such adversities, administrators should closely monitor efficiency of the volumes associated with each user. This is where the SolidFire User Accounts test helps administrators!

This test reports the current status of each user account on the target storage device and also helps administrators figure out the overall efficiency of the volumes associated with each user account.

Target of the test : A SolidFire Storage

Agent deploying the test : An internal agent

Outputs of the test : One set of results for each user account associated with the target storage device.

Configurable parameters for the test
Parameter Description

Test Period

How often should the test be executed.

Host

The IP address of the host for which this test is to be configured.

Port

The port at which the server listens.

SolidFire API Version

Specify the API version of the SolidFire storage system to be monitored.

SolidFire Username and SolidFire Password

Provide the credentials of a user who has been assigned with a Monitor role to access the SolidFire storage system in the SolidFire Username and SolidFire Password text boxes.

Confirm Password

Confirm the SolidFire Password by retyping it here.

Measurements made by the test
Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation

Current status of the account

Indicates the current status of this user account.

 

The values that this measure can report and their corresponding numeric values have been discussed below:

Measure Value

Numeric Value
Active 0
Locked 1
Removed 2

Note:

By default, this measure reports the States listed in the table above to indicate the current status of this user account. The graph of this measure however, represents the same using the numeric equivalents only.

Number of volumes owned by this account

Indicates the number of volumes in the storage device that are currently owned by this user account.

Number

 

Number of missing volumes to calculate efficiency data

Indicates the number of volumes that were missing while calculating the efficiency data for this user account.

Number

 

Compression

Indicates the amount of space that is currently saved by compressing the data of the volume associated with this user account.

Number

 

De-Duplication

Indicates the amount of space that is currently saved by not duplicating the data to the volumes associated with this user account.

Number

 

Thin provisioning

Indicates the ratio of space utilized in the volume associated with this user account to the amount of space allocated for storing the data.

Number

 

Overall efficiency

Indicates the overall efficiency of the volume associated with this user account.

Number

This measure is the sum total of the Compression, Deduplication and the Thin provisioning measures.