Hi Ray
I have some homebrew scripts which pull data out of my filers via snmp and the cli stats command. These push data to graphite, which allows me do do some interesting queries.
The scripts are pulling basic info, and I plan to add more, but attached are some sample of the detail I can pull
I only have 4 filers and 50TB of disk, but graphite should be able to scale to the size you need. I am currently updating about 40000 metrics per minute on a single graphite backend, and have no need to scale out yet. Those metrics include the netapp stats, and a lot of other linux hosts.
Chris
On 30/07/2013 08:11, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
We have a growing deployment with ~25 filers and about 750TB of usable space. Most of it is VMware datastore space exposed via NFS, but some is general purpose NAS file sharing.
We've been using OnCommand Core (formerly DFM) to handle reporting and such, and for the most part it's worked pretty well.
I need to start pulling together some metrics for the environment as a whole, both to benefit the Storage Team who manages the devices, but also to be able to pass along to my bosses so they can get a basic grasp of how things are going.
I'm curious how those of you with deployments similar to mine or larger hvae dealt with this? What sort of things are you reporting on, and how do you handle the "roll-ups" to summarize many (in our case 200+) volumes into something meaningful? Are you generating reports natively from OnCommand Core, or pulling the data out into another tool? Do you find the OnCommand DataSets feature useful? We haven't really leveraged it properly I think.
My thought is to present a sort of physical view of our environment showing roll-ups of storage capacity and performance (probably CPU, IOPS and latency). How to give a snapshot overview of the whole environment is what I'm not sure on.
I'm thinking using the DataSets will help me organize our various types of data and then I can report on that.
I'm not sure, however, if I should spend my time trying to get the right reports out of OnCommand Core directly or if I should just start extracting the data to another tool (which?) or into a database where I can home-brew up what I'm after.
Thoughts/experiences?
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