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View storage pool activity

Infrastructure admin and infrastructure viewer users can view details about the storage pools that are associated with an organization.

Complete the following steps to view storage pool activity.

  1. Log in to the ThinkAgile CP Cloud Controller as an infrastructure admin or infrastructure viewer user.
  2. In the ThinkAgile CP Cloud Controller management portal, perform one of the following steps:

    • On the Dashboard page, scroll down to the list of storage pools in your ThinkAgile CP infrastructure. Then for the storage pool for which you want to view details, click Properties.

      Figure 1. Storage pool properties on Dashboard
      Screen capture of Storage Properties from the Dashboard

    • In the left navigation menu under Storage Pools, click the storage pool for which you want to view details.

      Figure 2. Select storage pool from navigation menu
      Screen capture of the Storage Pools section in the left navigation
  3. Scroll down to view the activity charts.
    Note
    By default, activity for the last hour is displayed. However, you can adjust the time interval from the last hour to the last year.
    Figure 3. Activity section of the storage pool details page

    The following charts are displayed on the Activity tab.

    • Physical Used. The total physical storage used in this storage pool after compression and deduplication.
    • Virtual Used. The virtual storage used by application instances, backups (local and quick DR backups), base images, and the templates before compression and deduplication.
    • Read IOPS. Number of read requests per second to the disk(s).
    • Write IOPS. Number of write requests per second to the disk(s).
    • Read Bandwidth. Number of read requests per second to the disk(s).
    • Write Bandwidth. Data transferred inbound from the node to the disk(s).
    • I/O Queue Length. Number of outstanding I/O requests to the disk(s).
  • Understand storage activity input/output and latency
    Infrastructure admin and infrastructure viewer users can view information about storage activity and latency information from the Compute Usage section of the application instances page as well as the Activity tab of the storage pool page.