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
% 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
External Read RT The time it takes to process a read outside of the system (V4)
External Response Time The time it takes to process an IO request outside of the system (V4)
External Write RT The time it takes to process a write outside of the system (V4)
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
Internal Read RT The time it takes to process a read inside of the system (V4)
Internal Response Time The time it takes to process an IO request inside of the system (V4)
Internal Write RT The time it takes to process a write inside of the system (V4)
IO Density The number of BE requests per GB of disk
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 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