Storage system details

Ops Center Administrator User Guide
Version
10.9.x
File Size
6.6 MB
Audience
anonymous
Part Number
MK-99ADM001-17

You can view details about a storage system and access resources.

On the dashboard, click Storage Systems and then click a Storage System serial_number link.


Storage System Details

If the storage system has no SVP, you can click Settings to access the following:

  • Click Launch Storage Advisor Embedded to open Storage Advisor Embedded in a new browser.
  • Click Switch CTL to connect to switch the IP address that Ops Center Administrator is using to communicate with the storage system. Use this option if Ops Center Administrator cannot communicate with the storage system.

Click Savings to view the Savings Breakdown for the following storage systems:

  • VSP E series
  • VSP G/F350, G/F370, G/F700, G/F900 with firmware version 88-03-0x or later.

For all other storage systems, Savings includes Data Reduction and Capacity Efficiency.

  • Total Efficiency: The ratio of the total saving effect achieved by accelerated compression, capacity saving (compression and deduplication), snapshot, and Dynamic Provisioning.
  • Data Reduction: The ratio of logical used capacity to the physical used capacity, for all compression and deduplication technologies.
    Note: The value displayed as the capacity of data after reduction includes the size of meta-data and garbage data generated by the storage system in addition to user data. The value might temporarily be greater than the capacity of data before reduction.
    • If disk-based compression is in use, either alone or in combination with controller-based compression, or with compression accelerator, the physical used capacity is the result from disk-based compression alone.
    • If only controller-based compression and/or compression accelerator are in use, the physical used capacity is the result from controller-based compression and/or compression accelerator.
    • If no compression is in use, then physical used capacity is the used capacity of the pools.
  • Capacity Efficiency: The ratio of Thin Free plus Thin Used to the physical used capacity. Capacity efficiency is only calculated for volumes on Thin, Tiered, and Snap pools.
  • Provisioning Efficiency: The efficiency ratio achieved by Dynamic Provisioning.
  • Snapshot Efficiency: The efficiency ratio achieved by snapshot.

Click Details to view the foregoing metrics, plus the following components of Total Efficiency:

  • Software Compression and Deduplication:
    • Software Saving: The capacity reduction ratio before and after capacity saving.
    • Software Compression: The capacity compression ratio before and after capacity saving.
    • Software Deduplication: The capacity deduplication ratio before and after capacity saving.
    • Software Pattern Matching: The capacity reduction ratio before and after capacity saving pattern matching.
  • FMD Compression:
    • FMD Saving: The capacity reduction ratio before and after accelerated compression.
    • FMD Compression: The capacity compression ratio before and after accelerated compression.
    • FMD Pattern Matching: The capacity reduction ratio before and after accelerated compression pattern matching.
    • Calculation Period (UTC): The start date and time for the calculation and the end date and time for the calculation.

The following actions are available:

  • Click Delete to delete the storage system. This action is available only to users with the System Administrator role.
  • Click Edit to update the storage system user name and password. This action is available only to users with the System Administrator role.
  • Click Refresh to manually update the storage system.

    You can view the status of the update in the Jobs window. The date and time of the last update displays in the storage system detail window.

  • Click Settings in the upper-right corner to start the following:
    • Storage Navigator to perform any advanced storage management functions that are not available in Ops Center Administrator.

      If you have System Administrator, Storage Administrator, and Security Administrator roles, you can launch Storage Navigator directly in the dashboard or directly in the Actions > Other Functions mode, which includes the Data Retention Utility.

    • Configure storage system encryption using Storage Navigator.
    • Manage license keys using Storage Navigator.
    • If you onboarded any of the following storage systems, you can access Storage Advisor Embedded:
      • VSP E series
      • VSP G/F350, G/F370, G/F700, G/F900

      Click Launch Storage Advisor Embedded to log in to Storage Advisor Embedded.

    • If the storage system includes optional NAS module, you can start NAS Manager to perform functions that are not available in Ops Center Administrator.
  • Review the information gauge regarding available capacity in storage system.
  • Use the Alerts tiles to access alerts related to the storage system.
  • View attributes about the storage system, including information that Ops Center Administrator discovered about the system, such as model, serial number, and SVP IP address.
    Field Description
    Model Model name of the storage system.
    S/N Storage system serial number.
    SVP Version SVP firmware version.
    HORCM Version A data replication component residing on the server.
    Cache Capacity Total cache capacity configured on the storage system.
    Unused Disks Disks that are not assigned as hot spares or used to create parity groups.
    Unused Disk Capacity Total unused capacity of all disks.
    SVP IP Address Address of the service processor on the storage system. The RMI port number will also be displayed if the port number is specified at the time of onboarding. The RMI port number can only be specified for virtual SVP.
    Maintenance Utility IP Addresses 1 and 2 Configured automatically when the storage system is onboarded.
    Health Status (for a cluster, if any) Robust Operating normally, with no failures in the cluster interconnect, the management network, or quorum device communication.
    Degraded Operating, but one or more nodes has failed or there has been a failure in connectivity.
    Status (of nodes, if any) Online The cluster node is a part of the cluster and is exchanging heartbeats (periodic signals) with the other cluster members.
    Offline Offline: The cluster node is no longer exchanging heartbeats with the other cluster members. This might be caused by a restart or a fault condition. Services cannot be migrated to a cluster node in this state.
    Dead No heartbeats from this cluster node for a significant period. Services cannot be migrated to a cluster node in this state.
    Unknown Unknown: The node has not been online since the cluster was started.
  • If you notice that the number of unused disks and unused disk capacity is too high, it implies that you have additional raw capacity in the system that can be converted into usable capacity by creating parity groups. Click Create Parity Groups to configure unused disks into parity groups.
  • View the total and unused disk capacity for the different pool tiers.
  • Click a tile in the lower portion of the window to display the details for parity groups, pools, volumes, ports, and so on for the storage system.
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