How To Monitor VMAX Thin Pool

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iEMC APJ 170 posts since Jul 15, 2013

How to monitor VMAX Thin Pool utilization Mar 16, 2014 7:33 PM
How to monitor VMAX Thin Pool utilization
Introduction
This article indicates How to monitor VMAX Thin Pool though Solutions Enabler, EMC
Control Center and Symmetrix Management Console.
Detailed Information
VMAX Virtual Provisioning also known as thin provisioning, it provides the ability to present
a host and therefore an application, with more storage capacity than is physically allocated
to it in the storage array. Virtual Provisioning can optimize the storage capacity and ease
and speed of storage provisioning etc. This article will not include the basic steps for
creating Virtual Provisioning, but will introduce several methods to monitor the VMAX Virtual
Provisioning Thin Pool utilization.
To list the Thin Pools in VMAX array, use following Solutions Enabler command:
# symcfg -sid xxx list -pool -thin
In below output, it shows Pools in current VMAX array, they are jsh, Oracle,
pds_pool, RP_TP:
Generated by Jive on 2014-12-30-08:00

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Symmetrix ID: 000294901xxx
SYMMETRIX POOLS
--------------------------------------------------------------------------Pool
Name
Flags Dev
Usable
PTECSL Config
Free
Tracks
Used Full Comp
Tracks
Tracks (%) (%)
------------ ------ ------------ ---------- ---------- ---------- ---- ---jsh

Oracle
TSFDEI 2-Way Mir
14364
TFFDEI RAID-5(3+1)
1966140
pds_pool
TFFDEI 2-Way Mir
14364
RP_TP
TEFDEI RAID-5(3+1)
288000
612
13752 95
1420476
14364
258432
545664 27
0
29568 10
To see the usable tracks, alloc tracks, thin device state, data devices and utilization of Thin
Pool, use following command:
# symcfg -sid xxx show -pool <pool_name> -thin detail
In below output, it shows Thin Pool named BCDR_pool which bind 53 thin
devices. Pool Utilization (%): 100 means the BCDR_Pool is fully allocated. But
Thin Device allocation rate is 89% which means no more data can be written
from host side to the Thin Devices.
Symmetrix ID: 000294901xxx

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Symmetrix ID
: 000294901xxx
Pool Name
: BCDR_Pool
Pool Type
: Thin
Disk Location
: Internal
Technology
: FC
Dev Emulation
: FBA
Dev Configuration
: RAID-5(7+1)
Pool State
: Enabled
Compression State
: Disabled
# of Devices in Pool
: 112
# of Enabled Devices in Pool
: 112
# of Usable Tracks in Pool
: 419735520
# of Allocated Tracks in Pool
: 419735520
# of Tracks saved by compression : 0

# of Shared Tracks in Pool
Pool Utilization (%)
: 0
: 100
Pool Compression Ratio (%)

1. Subscription
Percent
Rebalance Variance
Max devs per rebalance scan
Pool Reserved Capacity
: 0
: 100
: 1%
: 256
: None
Enabled Devices(112):
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{
--------------------------------------------------------Sym
Usable
Alloc
Dev
Tracks
Tracks
Free
Full FLG Device
Tracks (%) S
State
--------------------------------------------------------0055
3847728
3847728
0 100 . Enabled
0056
3847728
3847728
0 100 . Enabled
0057
3847728
3847728
0 100 . Enabled
0058
3847728
3847728
0 100 . Enabled
0059
3847728
3847728
0 100 . Enabled
006D
3847728
3847728
0 100 . Enabled
006E
3847728
3847728
0 100 . Enabled
006F
3847728
3847728
0 100 . Enabled
0070
3847728
3847728
0 100 . Enabled
0071
3847728
3847728
0 100 . Enabled
.
---------- ---------- ---------- ---Tracks 419735520 419735520
0 100
}
Pool Bound Thin Devices(53):
{
----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sym FLG
Dev
Pool
Pool
Total Sub
Allocated
Tracks (%)
Tracks (%)
Total
Compressed
Written
Size/Ratio
Tracks (%)
Tracks (%)
---------------------------------------------------------------------0119 B
7919520 2
7919616 100
7913520 100
7919616 0
0121 B
7919520 2
7919616 100
7913520 100
7919616 0
0129 B
7919520 2
7919616 100
7913520 100
7919616 0
0131 B
7919520 2
7919616 100
220068 3
7919616 0
0139 B
7919520 2
7919616 100
68257
7919616 0
0141 B
7919520 2
7919616 100
8243
7919616 0
0149 B
7919520 2
7919616 100
7913520 100
7919616 0
0151 B
7919520 2
7919616 100
7913520 100
7919616 0
0159 B
7919520 2
7919616 100
7913520 100
7919616 0
0161 B
7919520 2
7919616 100
7913520 100
7919616 0
0169 B
7919520 2
7919616 100
7913520 100
7919616 0
0171 B
7919520 2
7919616 100
7913520 100
7919616 0
0179 B
7919520 2
7919616 100
7913520 100
7919616 0
0181 B
7919520 2
7919616 100
7913520 100
7919616 0
0189 B
7919520 2
7918440 100
7912959 100
7918440 0

---------- --- ---------- --- ---------- --- ---------- --Tracks
419734560 100 419735520 100 372227387 89 419735520 0

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In order to avoid thin pool utilization is critical and avoid to encountering pool full condition,
following methods can be leverage to monitor Thin Pool through Solutions Enabler, EMC
Control Center and Symmetrix Management Console software.
1.
1. Solutions Enabler stordeamon events:
Symevent list command is unable to list all the Thin Pool Alerts, User should use
stordaemoncmd option to list alters: (The syslog or SNMP function also can be used to
capture thin pool related alerts)
# stordaemon action storevntd -cmd list events
The Thin Pool events that can be monitored by the event daemon are as follows:
1111 Save or data device pool is full.

1206 Pool state has changed to [Not Present | Unknown | Online | Write
Disabled | Offline| Failed].
1207 Pool configuration has changed.
1208 Pool utilization is now %u percent.
1216 Pool device state has changed.

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For more details about proactively monitoring Thin Pool through Solutions Enabler, please
refer the Monitoring EMC Symmetrix Using the Solutions Enabler Event Daemon on EMC
online support.
2.
2. EMC Control Center (ECC)
After ECC ver 6.1.UB7, It supports Thin Pool alters as following format:
<DATADEVICEPOOL> Pool utilization is now <VALUE> percent. <SYMMETRIX>

VALUE:
Warning severity at 60%
3.
Minor
severity at 65%
Major
severity at 70%
Critical
severity at 80%
Fatal
severity at 100%
3.Symmetrix Management Console (SMC):
After SMC ver 7.2 and Enginuity 5773, the thin pool utilization thresholds is enabled by
default.
To configure a pool utilization threshold:
1. Change to the Tasks view.

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2. In the Monitoring panel, under Alert Configuration, click Configure Pool Utilization
Thresholds to open the Config Pool Utilization
Threshold dialog box.
3. Select a Symmetrix ID from the drop-down list.
4. Enable threshold alerts by clicking Enable All, or selecting the enabled state checkbox for
individual pools.
5. Disable threshold alerts by clicking Disable All, or clearing the enabled state checkbox for
individual pools.
6. If enabling threshold alerts, specify a threshold value (percentage of utilization) for each of
the severity levels: Warning, Critical,
and Fatal. For example, if you set Warning to 50 for a particular device pool, SMC will
issue a warning alert when that device
pool is at 50% utilization.
7. Click OK.
For complete SMC help guide, please refer the Symmetrix Management Console Online
help on EMC online support.
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Bhas123 2 posts since Feb 15, 2013

Re: How to monitor VMAX Thin Pool utilization Mar 6, 2014 9:38 PM
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iEMC APJ 170 posts since Jul 15, 2013

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