From the Lab
Hitachi Disk Arrays Monitoring: Planned Features
November 25, 2010- Status: Ongoing development
- Expected release date: January 2011
Sentry Software's development team is currently developing a new solution for monitoring Hitachi disk arrays.
Key Benefits
- Collects storage performance and metrics to keep total control of your SAN environment
- Identify performance bottlenecks (physical disks, controllers, fiber links, etc.)
- Manages and helps rationalize disk space consumption
- Detects oversubscription situations (thin provisioning)
- Pinpoints unused disk capacity
- Analyzes overall traffic and in-depth I/Os, etc.
In-depth and consolidated capacity metrics on critical Hitachi storage components
- Available and Subscribed Capacity: Total space available in a specific array.
- Host Visible Capacity: Size of a volume as seen by the server.
- Consumed Capacity: Sum of the space actually allocated and the space guaranteed in the storage pool for a volume.
- Consumed Capacity Percent: Percentage of the host visible capacity that is actually consumed in the storage pool for a volume.
- Subscribed Capacity and Subscribed Capacity Percentage: Respectively the total host visible capacity of a LUN in the storage pool and percentage of the storage pool that is subscribed.
- Consumed Capacity and Consumed Capacity Percentage: Respectively the total size of the space actually allocated or reserved for a LUNs in the storage pool and age of the storage pool that is actually allocated or reserved for a LUN.