Monitor MSA2312fc I/O Performance

[Rick Mancinelli]

Does anyone have any idea how I can go about monitoring the I/O performance of my MSA2312fc? There does not seem to be any sort of performance monitoring capabilities in the SMU.

[James Muell]

This is the same situation as the original MSA100 and 1500. I measured performance from the switches using the 'portperfshow' command to view i/o across all sw ports.

[Rick Mancinelli]

Yeah, this is pretty lousy IMO. If I had known this in advance, I would have looked more carefully at the EVA4400.

I talked with HP Support on the issue and was told that Engineering was "considering" adding this capability in a future firmware release but that, predictably, there were no guarantees.

I did see an SNMP MIB out there, but I haven't surfed through it yet to see if it has any of the detail we would expect to see (such as read IOPS, write IOPS, etc). If it does, I could probably wrestle with it long enough to get it working with our management tools...but this is a heck of a lot more work than I signed up for. :)

[James Muell]

I feel yr pain.

If you have a SIM installation you could upload the mib and go discover the device to see. its free sftwr.