Next generation performance analytics

The next generation performance analytics allows you to gauge the system performance in dimensions of Storage Saturation, Storage system performance, and other analytics. This analytics mainly helps to diagnose the cause for any performance issues faced in your environment, and hence helps in arriving at solutions. For example, moving the workload to another array if the analytics show that an array is saturated, more than the capacity that it can handle.

Prerequisites for Performance insights in SSMC

IMPORTANT:

SSMC supports systems with all SSD drives. HPE recommends you not to enable performance insights for arrays with File Persona enabled.

Enable performance insights by navigating through Primera & 3PAR SSMC > GENERAL > Settings > Application > Edit > Advanced system performance and analytics reporting enabled > Yes.

The performance analytics feature monitors and analyzes saturation and performance of a storage system. The Analytics view in Systems screen displays charts for:

  • Performance

  • Saturation

  • Top 5 Volumes By Latency

  • Top 5 Volume Hotspots By Latency

Performance and saturation alerts: An SSMC alert is generated for the performance and saturation levels. The alert is generated when the storage system experiences either one of the following:

  • Elevated service time in the past 24 hours.

  • Elevated saturation levels in the past 24 hours.

For more information, see HPE SSMC User Guide.