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# Storage Container metrics

Unisphere collects and displays metrics for storage containers.

Within the PM metrics section, V4 is used to denote that the metric is supported only by a storage system (array) running PowerMaxOS 10 (6079). V3 is used to denote that the metric is supported only by a storage system (array) running HYPERMAX OS 5977 or PowerMaxOS 5978. Metrics without the denotation are supported by all storage systems (arrays).

The following table lists all metrics that are available for storage containers.

Table 1. Storage container metrics
Metric | Description
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% Hit | The percent of I/O operations that were immediately satisfied from cache
% Miss | The percent of I/O operations that were misses
% Random IO | The percent of I/O operations that were random.
% Random Read Hit | Calculated value: 100 * (random read hits per sec/total I/O operations per sec)
% Random Read Miss | Calculated value: 100 * (random read misses per sec/total I/O operations per sec)
% Random Reads | The percent of all read I/Os that were random.
% Random Write Hit | Calculated value: 100 * (random write hits per sec/total I/O operations per sec)
% Random Write Miss | Calculated value: 100 * (random write misses per sec/total I/O operations per sec)
% Random Writes | The percent of all write I/O operations per second that were random
% Read Hit | The percent of read operations, performed by the group, that were immediately satisfied by cache
% Read Miss | The percent of read miss operations performed each second by the group. A miss occurs when the requested read data is not found in cache
% Reads | The percent of I/O operations that were reads
% Seq Read | Calculated value: 100 * (seq reads per sec/total I/Os per sec)
% Seq Read Hit | The percent of the sequential read operations that were immediately satisfied from cache
% Seq Read Miss | The percent of the sequential read operations that were misses
% Seq Write Hit | The percent of the sequential write operations that were immediately satisfied from cache
% Seq Write Miss | The percent of the sequential write operations that were misses
% Seq Writes | Calculated value: 100*(seq writes per sec/total I/Os per sec) (V4)
% Sequential IO | The percent of I/O operations that were sequential
% Write Hit | The percent of write operations, performed by the group, that were immediately satisfied by cache.
% Write Miss | The percent of write miss operations performed each second by the group. A miss occurs when the write operation had to wait while data was destaged from cache to the disks.
% Writes | The percent of I/O operations that were writes
Allocated Capacity | The total allocated storage group capacity
Async MBs Sent/sec | The number of async MBs sent per second using this storage group (V3)
Async Write Reqs/sec | The number of async write requests managed by this storage group per second (V3)
Avg IO Size | Calculated value: (HA Kbytes transferred per sec /total I/Os per sec)
Avg Read Size | Calculated value: (Kbytes read per sec/total reads per sec)
Avg Write Size | Calculated value: (Kbytes written per sec/total writes per sec)
Avg. Write Paced Delay (ms) | Average write paced delay (V3)
BE % Reads | The percent of the back-end I/O that were read requests
BE % Writes | The percent of the back-end I/O that were write requests
BE Optimize Write Throughput | Internal metric
BE Partial Sector Writes (KB) | The KBs of back-end I/O that were partial sector writes (V3)
BE Prefetched Throughput | The number of tracks per second prefetched from disk to cache upon detection of a sequential read stream
BE Prefetched Tracks Used/sec | The number of prefetched tracks used each second from the disk directors to the cache
BE Prefetched Tracks/sec | Total prefetched tracks each second from the disk directors to the cache
BE RDF Copy | Internal metric (V3)
BE RDF Copy (MB) | Internal metric (V3)
BE Read Reqs/sec | The number of read requests each second performed by the disk directors to cache
BE Reads For Copy/sec | Internal metric
BE Reqs/sec | The number of read/write requests each second performed by the disk directors to cache
BE Throughput Read | BE Throughput Read (V3)
BE Throughput Read For Copy | BE Throughput Read For Copy
BE Throughput Transferred | BE Throughput Transferred
BE Throughput Written | BE Throughput Written (V3)
BE Throughput Written For Copy | BE Throughput Written For Copy
BE Throughput Written For Rebuild | BE Throughput Written For Rebuild
BE Write Reqs/sec | The number of write requests each second performed by the disk directors to cache.
BE Writes For Copy/sec | Internal metric
BE Writes For Rebuild/sec | Internal metric
Critical Alert Count | Number of critical alerts
Device Block Size | The block size of the volume
Host Hits/sec | The number of host read/write operations performed each second by the group that were immediately satisfied from cache.
Host IO Limit % Time Exceeded | Host I/O Limit percentage time exceeded (V4)
Host IO Limit IOs/sec | The number of I/O operations per second the FE port is processing on behalf of the specific storage group
Host IO Limit Throughput | The number of MBs the FE port is processing on behalf of the specific storage group
Host IO Limit Time Exceeded | The number of I/O operations per second the FE port is performing on behalf of the specific storage group
Host IOs/sec | The number of host operations performed each second by the group
Host Misses/sec | The number of host read/write operations performed each second by the group that could not be satisfied from cache
Host Read Hits/sec | The number of host read operations performed each second by the group that were immediately satisfied from cache
Host Read Misses/sec | The number of host read operations performed each second by the group that were not satisfied from cache
Host Reads/sec | The number of host read operations performed each second by the group
Host Throughput | The cumulative number of host MBs read/writes per second by the group
Host Throughput Read | The cumulative number of host MBs read per second by the group
Host Throughput Written | The cumulative number of host MBs written per second by the group
Host Write Hits/sec | The number of host write operations performed each second by the group that were immediately satisfied from cache
Host Write Misses/sec | The number of host write operations performed each second by the group that were not satisfied from cache
Host Writes/sec | The number of host write operations performed each second by the group
Information Alert Count | Number of information alerts
IO Density | The number of BE requests per GB of disk
Max WP Threshold | The maximum number of write-pending slots available for the group
Random IOs/sec | I/O operations per second from a host that is not identified as part of a sequential stream
Random Read Hits/sec | Random read I/O operations per second that were satisfied from the cache (V3)
Random Read Misses/sec | Random read I/O operations per second that were misses
Random Reads/sec | Read I/O commands from a host that is not identified as part of a sequential stream
Random Write Hits/sec | Random write I/O operations per second that were immediately placed in cache because space was available
Random Write Misses/sec | Random write I/O operations per second that were misses
Random Writes/sec | Write I/O commands from a host that is not identified as part of a sequential stream
RDF MBs Read/sec | SRDF MBs read per second (V3)
RDF MBs Written/sec | SRDF MBs written per second (V3)
RDF Reads/sec | SRDF reads per second (V3)
RDF Response Time (ms) | The SRDF round-trip time - the metric is calculated as follows : SRDF Accumulated Service Time / (SRDF Reads/sec + SRDF Writes/sec) rolled up from the SRDF devices in the group (V3)
RDF Rewrites/sec | SRDF rewrites per second (V3)
RDF Writes/sec | SRDF writes per second (V3)
RDF/S Write RT (ms) | A summary of the read, write, and average response times for the selected SRDF/S group (V3)
Read Miss RT | The average time that it took the storage to serve one read miss I/O for this group
Read RT | The calculated average read response time
Read RT 14 to 32 | Read RT 14—32
Read RT Count 0 to 1 | Read RT Count 0—1
Read RT Count 1 to 3 | Read RT Count 1—3
Read RT Count 14 to 32 | Read RT Count 14—32
Read RT Count 3 to 5 | Read RT Count 3—5
Read RT Count 5 to 8 | Read RT Count 5—8
Read RT Count 8 to 14 | Read RT Count 8—14
Read RT Count Over 32 | Read RT Count Over 32
Read RT Over 32 | Read RT Over 32
Response Time | The calculated average response time
Seq IOs/sec | The number of I/O operations performed each second that were sequential (V4)
Seq Read Hits/sec | The number of sequential read operations performed each second by the group that were immediately satisfied from cache (V4)
Seq Read Miss/sec | The number of sequential read operations performed each second by the group that were misses (V4)
Seq Reads/sec | The number of read I/O operations performed each second that were sequential (V4)
Seq Write Hits/sec | The number of sequential write operations performed each second by the group that were immediately satisfied from cache (V4)
Seq Write Misses/sec | The number of sequential write operations performed each second by the group that were misses
Seq Writes/sec | The number of write I/O operations performed each second that were sequential
Skew | Skew (V3)
Sync MBs Sent/sec | The number of sync MBs sent per second using this storage group (V3)
Sync Write Reqs/sec | The number of sync write requests managed by this storage group per second (V3)
Total Capacity | The total capacity of the storage group (GBs)
Total Tracks | The total number of tracks for the storage group
Warning Alert Count | Number of warning alerts
WP Count | WP count
WP Used Capacity | WP used capacity
Write Miss RT | The average time that it took the storage to serve one write miss I/O for this group.
Write paced delay | Write paced delay (V3)
Write RT | The calculated average write response time
Write RT 14 to 32 | Write RT 14—32
Write RT Count 0 to 1 | Write RT Count 0—1
Write RT Count 1 to 3 | Write RT Count 1—3
Write RT Count 14 to 32 | Write RT Count 14—32
Write RT Count 3 to 5 | Write RT Count 14—32
Write RT Count 5 to 8 | Write RT Count 5—8
Write RT Count 8 to 14 | Write RT Count 8—14.
Write RT Count Over 32 | Write RT Count Over 32
Write RT Over 32 | Write RT Over 32