With Shared Storage Pools phase 5 coming soon,  we have the lu -list command that output the Logical Unit (virtual disks) in Tier then Alphabetical order - hurray!

But it still has challenges and one command output can't please every one!   Trouble is everyone has there own ideas of  “perfect layout”

It is a "no win" problem for the developers.   Here are three of my pet hates

Fortunately, the SSP designers are very clever.   The lu options allow you a raw format. As an example:

$  lu -list -field LU_SIZE LU_NAME -fmt :
32768:testa
40960:testb
38912:vm97boot
8256:vm97data
8192:testc
8192:v23456789012345678901234567890
38912:vm96boot
8256:vm96data

OK, not pretty but nothing awk can’t sort out.

As we no longer need a sort the LUs by name we can reduce the ksh script to just one line (4 for readability):

echo "SizeMB UsedMB Used%  Type    Tier Name"
/usr/ios/cli/ioscli lu -list -fmt :  \
-field LU_SIZE LU_USED_SPACE LU_USED_PERCENT LU_PROVISION_TYPE TIER_NAME LU_NAME \
| awk -F: '{ printf "%6d %6d %4d%% %5s %7s %s\n",$1,$2,$3,$4,$5,$6}'

This works on BOTH VIOS 2.2.3 (random order) and the future VIOS 2.2.4 (Tier then LU name order) and you get:

VIOS 2.2.3.x

  SizeMB  UsedMB Used%  Type    Tier Name
 1048576  971779   92%  THIN  SYSTEM purple3files
   65536   65536  100% THICK  SYSTEM orange5a
   32768   19956   60%  THIN  SYSTEM vm34
   32768   32768  100%  THIN  SYSTEM vm61b 
   32768    3392   10%  THIN  SYSTEM AIX735_b
   32768   27016   82%  THIN  SYSTEM vm16boot
   65536   26563   40%  THIN  SYSTEM ruby32data1
   65536       0    0%  THIN  SYSTEM emerald3
   25600       0    0%  THIN  SYSTEM volume-orange5_data1

VIOS 2.2.4

 SizeMB  UsedMB Used%  Type    Tier Name
  32768       0    0%  THIN    test testa
  40960       0    0%  THIN    test testb
  38912    2562    6%  THIN    test vm97boot
   8256      23    0%  THIN    test vm97data
  39936   39936  100% THICK    prod testc
   8192       0    0%  THIN    prod v23456789012345678901234567890
  40960    2562    6%  THIN    prod vm96boot
   8256      26    0%  THIN    prod vm96data

Note: I have two Tiers here and they are ordered first.

A good start for two lines of ksh script but not good enough for me.

I actually need to sort the output differently for different views of the data like:

1. All LUs in alphabetical order so I can simply find the one I want in one go.
2. Which LU has the larger size?
3. Which LU is  actually taking the most storage?
4. Order on tiers then name when I want too.

etc.   So here is my NEW and Improved nlu ksh script where we can order the output with options and it works on VIOS 2.2.3 and VIOS 2.2.4 with Tiers (when or if they arrive :-).

$ nlu -?
/home/padmin/nlu Nigel's lu command with improved layout and column ordering
/home/padmin/nlu [-sizemb | -usedmb | -used | -type | -tier | -name (default)]
$

Example default output by LU Name - my favourite default

$ nlu
 SizeMB  UsedMB Used%  Type  Tier Name
  32768       0    0%  THIN  test testa
  40960       0    0%  THIN  test testb
  39936   39936  100% THICK  prod testc
   8192       0    0%  THIN  prod v23456789012345678901234567890
  40960    2562    6%  THIN  prod vm96boot
   8256      26    0%  THIN  prod vm96data
  38912    2562    6%  THIN  test vm97boot
   8256      23    0%  THIN  test vm97data
$ 

Example output reordered by column

$ nlu -sizemb
 SizeMB  UsedMB Used%  Type  Tier Name
   8192       0    0%  THIN  prod v23456789012345678901234567890
   8256      23    0%  THIN  test vm97data
   8256      26    0%  THIN  prod vm96data
  32768       0    0%  THIN  test testa
  38912    2562    6%  THIN  test vm97boot
  39936   39936  100% THICK  prod testc
  40960       0    0%  THIN  test testb
  40960    2562    6%  THIN  prod vm96boot
$ nlu -usedmb
 SizeMB  UsedMB Used%  Type  Tier Name
   8192       0    0%  THIN  prod v23456789012345678901234567890
  32768       0    0%  THIN  test testa
  40960       0    0%  THIN  test testb
   8256      23    0%  THIN  test vm97data
   8256      26    0%  THIN  prod vm96data
  38912    2562    6%  THIN  test vm97boot
  40960    2562    6%  THIN  prod vm96boot
  39936   39936  100% THICK  prod testc
$ nlu -tier
 SizeMB  UsedMB Used%  Type  Tier Name
  39936   39936  100% THICK  prod testc
   8192       0    0%  THIN  prod v23456789012345678901234567890
  40960    2562    6%  THIN  prod vm96boot
   8256      26    0%  THIN  prod vm96data
  32768       0    0%  THIN  test testa
  40960       0    0%  THIN  test testb
  38912    2562    6%  THIN  test vm97boot
   8256      23    0%  THIN  test vm97data

Here is the actual ksh script for nlu that is Nigel's New lu command

Runnable as padmin, root or any padmin like user (restricted shell with oem_setup_env command).

if [[ $(whoami) != "root" ]]
then
        command=$(whence $0)
        # echo DEBUG I am padmin so restart $command again as the root user
        echo "$command" $1 | oem_setup_env
else
        # echo DEBUG now I am root
        # lowercase the parameter with tr to avoid input case errors
        case `echo $1 | tr "[A-Z]" "[a-z]" ` in
        1 | -sizemb)            COLUMN="-nk 1" ;;
        2 | -usedmb)            COLUMN="-nk 2" ;;
        3 | -used | -used%)     COLUMN="-nk 3" ;;
        4 | -type)              COLUMN="-k 4" ;;
        5 | -tier)              COLUMN="-k 5" ;;
        6 | -name)              COLUMN="-k 6" ;;
        ? | -?)
        echo $0 "Nigel's lu command with improved layout and column ordering"
        echo $0 "[-sizemb | -usedmb | -used | -type | -tier | -name (default)]"
        exit 0
                ;;
        *)                      COLUMN="-k 6" ;;
        esac

        echo " SizeMB  UsedMB Used%  Type  Tier Name"

        /usr/ios/cli/ioscli \
        lu -list -field LU_SIZE LU_USED_SPACE LU_USED_PERCENT \
                LU_PROVISION_TYPE TIER_NAME LU_NAME -fmt : \
        | awk -F: '{ printf "%7d %7d %4d%% %5s %5s %s\n", $1,$2,$3,$4,$5,$6}' \
        | sort $COLUMN
fi
exit 0

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