Workload Analysis provides workload information for applications and underlying resources.
- LDEVs mapped to the host using LUN paths (LUs) along with the LDEVs that are provisioned to host using NVMe protocols.
- LDEVs where Adaptive Data Reduction (ADR) should be enabled
- Applications that are affecting storage system performance
- Whether the workload can be migrated to ADR-enabled systems
- Workload of Hitachi Enterprise Storage, VMware infrastructure, Cisco and Brocade switches for key resources and metrics.
You can also determine if your infrastructure needs to be upgraded, such as adding new generation storage systems to handle the workload more efficiently.
- Hitachi Enterprise Storage
- VMware
- Brocade FC Switch
- Cisco FC Switch
When you click Workload Analysis in the left pane, the devices (such as, storage systems for Hitachi Enterprise Storage) are listed in a table in the right pane. You can change the device types from the Device Type list to view the respective devices. The most relevant metrics and their data points are displayed in the table. For Hitachi Enterprise Storage, when you click the data points in the Max IOPS column, a report is displayed on the screen to show more data points for additional metrics, such as transfer rate, block size, cache hit rate, and so on. This report contains data points for the Max IOPS value plotted in the table.
When you click a resource, the related chart reports are displayed in tabs below the table. For example, in the screenshot, the Storage System and Owners tabs contain reports for the selected storage system (VSPE1090_700032). Each tab contains a pre-defined set of workload reports.
By default, reports for the previous 7 days are displayed (the maximum). You can decrease data range as desired.
You can download individual reports as an image (PNG) or CSV data using the
icon. The
reports can also be downloaded in the PDF format. To download all these reports in a PDF file,
click the Download Workload Analysis Report button.