RDF/S Group metrics

Unisphere collects and displays metrics for SRDF/S groups.

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 SRDF/S groups.

Table 1. RDF/S group metrics
Metric Description
% 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/O operations per second 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/O operations 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/O operations per sec).
% Sequential IO Calculated value: 100 * (total seq I/Os per sec/total I/Os per sec)
% 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 percentage of I/O operations that were writes
Avg IO Size Calculated value: (HA Kbytes transferred per sec/total I/O operations 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 Disk Read RT The average time that it takes cache to respond to a read request by the disk directors.
BE Optimize Write Throughput Internal metric
BE Partial Sector Writes (KB) The number of BE requests per GB of disk (V3)
BE Prefetched Throughput The number of MBs pre-fetched from disk to cache in a second
BE Prefetched Tracks Used/sec The number of prefetched tracks used each second from the disk directors to the cache
BE Prefetched Tracks/sec The total prefetched tracks each second from the disk directors to the cache.
BE RDF Copy Internal metric
BE RDF Copy Throughput Internal metric
BE Read Reqs/sec The number of read requests each second performed by the disk directors to cache.
BE Read Request Time The average time that it takes to make a request by the disk directors to the cache.
BE Read Task Time The time from the point when the HA puts the read request on the queue and the DA picks it up; this time can be considered queue time.
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
BE Throughput Read for Copy BE Throughput Read for Copy
BE Throughput Transferred BE Throughput Transferred
BE Throughput Written BE Throughput Written
BE Write Reqs/sec The number of write requests each second performed by the disk directors to cache.
BE Write Throughput For Copy BE Write Throughput For Copy
BE Write Throughput For Rebuild BE Write Throughput For Rebuild
BE Writes For Copy/sec Internal metric
BE Writes For Rebuild Internal metric
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 IOs/sec The number of host operations performed each second by the SRDF/S 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 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.
IO Density The number of partial sector writes by the disk directors.
Max WP Capacity Threshold The capacity of the maximum number of write-pending slots available
Max WP Threshold The maximum number of write-pending slots available for the group
Random IOs/sec The 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.
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 are 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 missed.
Random Writes/sec Write I/O commands from a host that is not identified as part of a sequential stream.
RDF Reads/sec SRDF reads per second.
RDF Response Time The average time that it takes to send an I/O over the SRDF Link - 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
RDF Rewrites/sec SRDF rewrites per second. 
RDF Throughput Read SRDF Throughput Read
RDF Throughput Written SRDF Throughput Written
RDF Writes/sec SRDF writes per second.
RDF/S Write RT A summary of the write response times for the selected SRDF/S group.
Read Miss RT The average time that it took the storage system to serve one read miss I/O for this group.
Read RT The average time that it took the storage system to serve one read I/O for this group.
Response Time The average time that it takes to satisfy I/O requests.
Seq IOs/sec Number of I/O operations performed each second that were sequential.
Seq Read Hits/sec Number of sequential read operations performed each second by the group that were immediately satisfied from cache.
Seq Read Miss/sec Number of sequential read operations performed each second by the group that were misses
Seq Reads/sec Number of read I/O operations performed each second that were sequential.
Seq Write Hits/sec Number of sequential write operations performed each second by the group that were immediately satisfied from cache.
Seq Write Misses/sec Number of sequential write operations performed each second by the group that were misses
Seq Writes/sec Number of write I/O operations performed each second that were sequential.
Spillover Packed Slots Spillover packed slots 
Total Capacity The total capacity of the device group
WP Count The number of tracks in write pending mode for the group.
WP Used Capacity WP Used Capacity
Write Miss RT The average time that it took the storage system to serve one write miss I/O for this group.
Write Paced Delay (ms) Write paced delay (V3).
Write RT The average time that it took the storage system to serve one write I/O for this group. For a Write to a R1 device, its Write RT (ms) value includes SRDF Response Time (ms)