EMC ECS Storage Pool Test
Storage pool in EMS ECS is a way to pool the nodes together to provide adequate storage and organize storage resources based on business requirements. Administrators can create physical separation of data by partitioning the storage into multiple different storage pools. Each application using the storage can use a separate storage pool assigned to it.
The purpose of the test is to identify the health of nodes, the health of disks, and capacity available on the storage pool, the insights from the analysis of metrics can help administrators to plan maintenance of the pool if required and adding/removing capacity as guided by business requirement.
Target of the test : A Dell EMC Elastic Cloud Storage System
Agent deploying the test : A remote agent
Outputs of the test : One set of results for each Vdisk being monitored
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Test period |
How often should the test be executed . |
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Host |
The host for which the test is to be configured. Since the storage device is managed using the IP address of its storage controller, the same will be displayed as host. |
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Port |
The port number at which the specified host listens. By default, this is NULL. |
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ECS REST API Port |
This is the port at which REST API connectivity is provided. By default, port 4443 is used. |
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Username and Password |
To collect performance metrics from the target storage device, the eG agent should be configured with the credentials of a user who is vested with "read-only" privileges to access REST API of the target storage device. Specify the credentials of such a user in the Username and Password text boxes. |
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Confirm Password |
Confirm the password by retyping it here. |
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Timeout Seconds |
Specify the time duration for which this test should wait for a response from the storage system in the Timeout text box. By default, this is 60 seconds. |
| Measurement | Description | Measurement Unit | Interpretation |
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Is Protected |
Indicates if the given storage pool is protected. This protects data to be read from unauthorized locations. |
Boolean |
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Is cold storage enabled? |
Indicates if the cold storage is enabled and infrequently accessed data is being archived. |
Boolean |
Data which is not accessed frequently is stored in cold storage. Transferring data in cold storage can improve the performance of reads and writes. |
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Nodes in the storage pool |
Indicates the total number of nodes in the storage pool. |
Number |
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Good nodes |
Total number of nodes in the storage pool that are online. |
Number |
If there are not enough good nodes in storage pool, it will not be able to serve the read and write requests in responsive manner.
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Bad nodes |
Total number of offline nodes. |
Number |
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Maintenance nodes |
Indicates the number of nodes that are under maintenance at the time of measurement. |
Number |
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Online nodes with sufficient disk space |
Indicates the number of nodes where have disk space above the threshold. |
Number |
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Number of disks |
Indicates the total number of disks attached to all the nodes within the storage pool. |
Number |
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Good disks |
Indicates the number of online disks in the storage pool. |
Number |
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Bad disks |
Indicates the total number of offline disks. |
Number |
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Maintenance disks |
Indicates the number of disks that are under maintenance at the time of measurement. |
Number |
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Total space |
Indicates the total capacity of the storage pool that is currently online. This is the total of the capacity already used and the capacity still free for allocation. |
GB |
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Free space |
Indicates the free space in the storage pool across all disks which is online. |
GB |
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Reserved space |
Online capacity available for use, including approximately 10% of the total capacity that is reserved for failure handling and for performing erasure encoding or XOR operations. |
GB |
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Geo copy |
Indicates the capacity used for Geo-replication chunks stored on the current VDC. |
GB |
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Geo cache |
Indicates the capacity used to cache chunks that are accessed locally but not stored locally. |
GB |
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System meta data |
Indicates the capacity used by ECS processes that track and describe the data in the system. This capacity is not available to users for storage. |
GB |
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User data |
Indicates the capacity used by repository chunks representing data uploaded by ECS users. |
GB |
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Allocated space |
Indicates the total disk space allocated for storage including system metadata, user data, and geo copy data. |
GB |
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Percentage of allocated space |
Indicates the total allocated space as a percentage of the total online capacity on the storage pool. |
Percentage |
It is important measure to understand at what capacity the storage pool is operating. If the percentage is close to 100, then you can take |
