SolidFire Volumes Test
This test auto discovers the volumes of the target storage system and helps administrators to figure out the volume that is busy processing I/O requests, detect irregularities in the distribution of I/O load across the volumes, analyze the space utilization of each volume and thus enables administrators to initiate pre-emptive measures when I/O processing capability decreases gradually.
Target of the test : A SolidFire Storage System
Agent deploying the test : An internal agent
Outputs of the test : One set of results for the target SolidFire storage system.
Parameter | Description |
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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. |
Measurement | Description | Measurement Unit | Interpretation |
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Access |
Indicates the current accessibility state of this volume. |
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Is volume paired ? |
Indicates whether/not this volume is paired. |
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Total size |
Indicates the total size of this volume. |
GB |
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Client queue depth |
Indicates the number of read and write requests that were in queue for this volume from the clients. |
Number |
A low value is desired for this measure. A consistent increase in this value indicates a potential processing bottleneck with the volume. |
Volume size |
Indicates the current provisioned size of this volume. |
GB |
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Latency |
Indicates the average time taken to complete the read and write operations on this volume. |
Microseconds |
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Read latency |
Indicates the average time taken to complete the read operations on this volume. |
Microseconds |
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Write latency |
Indicates the average time taken to complete write operations on this volume. |
Microseconds |
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Average read bandwidth |
Indicates the rate at which data was read from this volume by the clients during the last measurement period. |
MB/Sec |
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Average write bandwidth |
Indicates the rate at which data was written to this volume by the clients during the last measurement period. |
MB/Sec |
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Bandwidth |
Indicates the rate at which data was read from and written to this volume during the last measurement period. |
MB/Sec |
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Average read IOPS |
Indicates the average number of read operations performed on this volume per second during the last measurement period. |
Reads/Sec |
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Average write IOPS |
Indicates the average number of write operations performed on this volume per second during the last measurement period. |
Writes/Sec |
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Total IOPS |
Indicates the total number of read and write operations performed on this volume per second during the last measurement period. |
IOPS |
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Compression |
Indicates the compression factor of this volume. |
Number |
This measure is calculated using the following formulae: (uniqueblocks*4096)/uniqueBlocksUsed Space where, uniqueblocks is the number of unique blocks in the volume and uniqueBlocksUsedSpace is the amount of space used by the unique blocks in the volume |
De-Duplication |
Indicates the de-duplication factor of this volume. |
Number |
This measure is the ratio of the number of nonZeroBlocks to the number of uniqueBlocks. |
Thin provisioning |
Indicates the thin provisioning factor of this volume. |
Number |
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Overall efficiency |
Indicates the overall efficiency of this volume. |
Number |
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