Performance metrics for Nutanix storage containers
Stay on top of your Nutanix storage container's health and performance by monitoring key performance metrics including their storage capacity, latency, and bandwidth—all from a single console. Monitor your Nutanix storage containers using Site24x7 On-Premise Poller. Add a storage container to get started with monitoring.
By monitoring a Nutanix storage container, you can:
- View different performance metrics.
- Add a threshold and availability profile to declare a specific resource as critical or down.
- Analyze critical performance issues using reports.
Interpret Nutanix Storage Container Performance Metrics
Summary
| Metric name | Description |
| Logical Storage Usage with Capacity Plan | Shows the storage usage trends and predicted logical storage usage value for the storage container for the next days, helping to estimate future capacity needs |
| Storage Tier wise Usage Split-up | Pie chart showing the Direct Attached Storage (DAS) - Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) usage and SSD usage of the storage container |
| Average I/O Latency Split-up | Pie chart showing the average I/O read and write latencies of the storage container |
| Average I/O Bandwidth Split-up | Pie chart showing the write and read I/O bandwidth of the storage container |
| Logical Usage (%) | Shows the logical usage and logical free space available (in percentage) in the storage container |
| Reserved and Unreserved Usage (%) | Graph showing the reserved and unreserved storage capacity of the container |
| Nutanix Storage Container Configuration | Get details like the UUID, replica factor, and oplog replica factor of the storage container |
| Nutanix Storage Container Settings | Details on whether the storage container is marked for removal, software encrypted, and disk duplication is enabled are given |
Storage
| Metric name | Description |
| Storage Tier-wise Usage (GiB) | View a tier-wise split-up of DAS-SATA and SSD usage in GiB |
| Maximum Capacity (GiB) | Shows the maximum storage capacity of the container in GiB |
| Storage Logical Usage (GiB) | View the total logical capacity, logical space used, and the free logical space available in the storage container in GiB |
| Storage Reserved Usage (GiB) | View the total reserved capacity, reserved storage used, and the free reserved storage available in the storage container in GiB |
| Storage Unreserved Usage (GiB) | View the total unreserved capacity, unreserved storage used, and the free unreserved storage available in the storage container in GiB |
Latency
| Metric name | Description |
| Average I/O Latency (ms) | Graph showing the average I/O latency, average read I/O latency, and average write I/O latency in milliseconds |
| Number of IOPS (count/sec) | View the total IOPS count, the number of read IOPS, and write IOPS per second |
| Total I/O Time (ms) | Shows the total I/O time, total read I/O time, and the total I/O write time in milliseconds |
| Average I/O Bandwidth (KB) | Shows the total I/O bandwidth, read I/O bandwidth, and write I/O bandwidth in KB |
Set Threshold and Availability Profile for Nutanix Storage Containers
Once a Nutanix storage container is successfully added to your Site24x7 account, you can create a threshold and availability profile and configure conditions for different metrics. By doing this, the alarms engine can determine if the Nutanix storage container needs to be declared Critical, Trouble, or Down based on the breach of a set threshold condition. To add a threshold profile,
- Log in to your Site24x7 account.
- Go to Admin > Configuration Profiles > Threshold and Availability > Add Threshold and Availability. You can also navigate via VMware > Nutanix Resources > Storage Container > click on a storage monitor > hover on the hamburger icon beside the display name > Edit Nutanix Storage Container > Configuration Profiles > click on the pencil icon
beside Threshold and Availability. - Select the Monitor type as Nutanix Storage Container from the drop-down list.
- Provide a Display Name for identification purposes.
- Provide threshold values: When there is a threshold breach, an alert will be immediately triggered and the monitor will be turned to Trouble/Critical state based on your set configuration. The thresholds are as follows:
- Logical usage (%)
- Logical free space (%)
- Reserved free space (%)
- Unreserved usage (%)
- Unreserved free space (%)
- Maximum capacity (GiB)
- Reserved usage
- Unreserved usage
- DAS-SATA usage
- SSD usage
- Average I/O latency
- Advanced Threshold Settings: Set complex alert conditions using logical operations across multiple attributes to detect anomalies precisely using advanced threshold settings.
- Click Save.
Site24x7 alerts you based on the configured threshold settings.These threshold configurations help you detect potential issues by triggering alerts.