Storage monitoring can be designed very efficiently and easy to understand at one glance.  This WEB Monitoring Interface was designed very quickly. See these Dashboards for example!   We call these special series of dashboards “Flip Dashboards” because each individual dashboard is showing the status of the Storage front-end backend and resources. All these are on different bowser tabs which rotate by the use a Tab changer . They flip from tab to tab automatically.     These are ideal for a wallboard kind of... [More]

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The BVQ Web Dashboard is based on Grafana, which is one of the leading open source software tools to visualize time series data that can interact with different data sources ( https://grafana.com/ ). The BVQ Server now provides an API to access most performance metrics you know from the BVQ GUI, to visualize them in Grafana. Therefore, you have the option to install a preconfigured Grafana with some default Dashboards inside the BVQ Server. This offers a great possibility to view general "realtime" information directly in the browser... [More]

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REST API Microsoft Excel is the most important and flexible Reporting Tool. Manifold opportunities to create tables, charts, calculations, etc. bundled with a variety of different skills makes it useful in a lot of different situations. Excel provides a wide range of options to import data from different formats in files, databases or API's. BVQ now provides an API to connect Excel to Topology information based on favorites located in "All Users". The information can be displayed in a Treetable and imported into Excel for further... [More]

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Enhanced filtering Since version 5.0 it is possible to use basic filter options inside the Topology View. This type of filter was restricted to direct object attributes which could be connected with AND conditions. The new enhanced filtering added a lot of additional filter options to specify filters that exactly fit your needs even if they are highly complex. Features: Compare different object attributes with each other Compare object attributes with context attributes (subelementcount, subelementsize, etc) Concatenate with AND, OR, NOT, XOR... [More]

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Path based charting Since BVQ Version 5.0 it is possible to display a table (Treetable) below the Treemap. Now we went one step further and extended the Topology view with the option to add a performance chart to interact with the objects visible in Treemap or Treetable. This enhances the possibilities to select and restrict objects based on dynamic filters and selected conditions. Now there are three views available to be displayed in the Toplology view: Treemap, Treetable and Chart. Currently you can display two of them simultaneously in ever... [More]

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The intention of VDisk copies is to protect servers against hardware failures. For this reason, it is important that the mirrors of the VDisk copies are stored on different storage systems. Here are some additional challenges in system administration and system monitoring.   This document describes how to ensure that all volumes are stored on different sites. An wrong setup in this area can lead to an only 50% chance of surviving a fail over. If there is a mirrored pair on Site 1 and by an evil coincidence an another on Site 2 you have the... [More]

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