Export Performance Information

Overview

This function exports the following performance information in a single operation and saves it as a text file.

  • Performance (Host I/O)

  • Performance (Advanced Copy)

  • Performance (CA)

  • Performance (CM)

  • Performance (Drive)

  • Performance (PFM)

Caution

  • If the performance monitoring is stopped, "0" is output for all the performance information.

  • Note that the dedicated information for the NAS system performance (such as Samba operations per second and NFS operations per second) cannot be obtained with Web GUI. Use CLI to obtain these information.

Note

  • "Performance (Host I/O)" is the performance information of volumes for Host I/O. Note that the performance information for Data Container Volumes cannot be obtained.

  • "Performance (Advanced Copy)" is the performance information of volumes for the Advanced Copy function. Note that the performance information for Data Container Volumes cannot be obtained.

  • The target CA for exporting information of "Performance (CA)" is FC, iSCSI, and SAS. The performance information of CAs that are installed in the storage system is exported. Note that the performance information for FC port which port mode is "Initiator" cannot be obtained.

  • "Performance (Drive)" is the drive usage. Note that the performance information for External Drives cannot be obtained.

  • "Performance (PFM)" is obtained only when PFMs are installed in the ETERNUS DX500 S5/DX600 S5/DX900 S5 and the ETERNUS DX8900 S4.

  • The "Extreme Cache Cache Hit Rate" is output as a performance information for the "Performance (Host I/O)" and "Performance (Advanced Copy)" only when the "Extreme Cache" or "Extreme Cache Pool" for the storage system is enabled. Note that a "-" (hyphen) is output for volumes where "Extreme Cache" and "Extreme Cache Pool" are disabled.

User Privileges

Availability of Executions in the Default Role

Default role Availability of executions
Monitor
Admin
StorageAdmin
AccountAdmin  
SecurityAdmin
Maintainer

Refer to "User Roles and Policies" for details on the policies and roles.

Operating Procedures

  1. Click [Export Performance Info] in [Action].

  2. Click the [Export] button.

    → The registered performance information in the storage system is exported.

        After the performance information export is finished, a screen to execute downloading the file is displayed.

  3. Click the [Download] button.

    → A dialog box to download the file appears.

  4. Save the downloaded performance information file.

    The default file name is "Perform_serial number for the storage system_YYYY-MM-DD_hh-mm-ss.txt".

    (YYYY-MM-DD_hh-mm-ss: the date and time when the download screen (Step 3) is displayed.)

    → Downloading the performance information file starts.

  5. Click the [Done] button to return to the screen when starting this function in Step 1.