Analyzing the volumes on the most active hypervisors
In this scenario, you use the predefined reports for hypervisors to analyze the volumes on hypervisors. You can view the most active volumes. Then, you can view summary information for a hypervisor and details for individual volumes. You can also use this scenario to analyze the volumes on servers, agentless servers, and cluster resource groups.
About this task
You have 10-20 volumes on the hypervisors in your storage environment. You receive reports that the performance of some volumes is slow. You want to analyze the performance of these volumes as a group, and the performance of individual volumes.
Procedure
- Run the Most Active Hypervisors report.
Use the chart in the report output to see the 20 hypervisors that have the most active volumes. The most active volumes have the greatest aggregate load.You see that the volumes on one hypervisor are considerably more active than the volumes on other hypervisors. You want to investigate that hypervisor.
- To analyze the activity on this hypervisor, click the name
of the hypervisor in the report table. The Summarized Performance of Volumes by Hypervisor report runs for the hypervisor. Use the report to see summarized performance metrics for the volumes on the hypervisor. You can also use the report to see the aggregate load and the average response time of the volumes on the hypervisor.In the charts and the table on the report, you see that the I/O response times for the hypervisor are slower than normal.
- To investigate the individual volumes on the hypervisor,
click the name of the hypervisor in the report table. The Performance of Volumes by Hypervisor report runs for the hypervisor. Use the report to see the performance metrics for individual volumes on the hypervisor. Use the report to identify the contribution of individual volumes to the load of a particular hypervisor in your storage environment.In the charts and the table on the report, you see that the I/O response times for one volume are slow.