Investigating the performance of a storage system

To detect performance issues, view the charts and the information that is collected about a storage system.

Before you begin

You must add the storage system that you want to monitor and performance data must be collected.

About this task

You can investigate the performance of the storage system, the internal resources of the storage system such as volumes and pools, and the resources that are related to the storage system such as servers and back-end storage systems.

Procedure

  1. From the Resources menu, click Block Storage Systems.
  2. Right-click a storage system, and click View Details.
  3. From the Actions list, click View Performance.
    Tip: To view information about the internal resources of the storage system, click Actions and click the storage resource.

Results

The chart shows the total I/O rate and the overall response times of the storage system.