Overview of performance management

The Virtual Storage Platform G200, G400, G600, G800 and Virtual Storage Platform F400, F600, F800 storage systems include a suite of performance management software products that allow you to monitor and tune storage system performance to improve and optimize storage utilization and storage system performance.

• Performance Monitor. Performance Monitor allows you to collect and analyze detailed performance and usage statistics for VSP Gx00 models and VSP Fx00 models as well as statistics about workloads on drives and traffic between the hosts and the storage system. You can view the data in lists and on graphs, and you can export the data for analysis in spreadsheet and other applications.

• Server Priority Manager. Server Priority Manager enables you to control port activity to provide high-priority hosts with relatively higher throughput and prevent production servers from experiencing degraded performance. Server Priority Manager monitors the data being collected by Performance Monitor and applies upper-limit control and threshold control according to user-specified settings.

• Virtual Partition Manager (VSP Gx00 models only). Virtual Partition Manager enables you to configure logical cache partitions on your storage system. These cache partitions help to maintain performance for high-priority activities by acting as dedicated storage resources that are independently managed and reserved for specific applications.

Performance management operations can be performed using the Command Suite software and the Command Control Interface software. For details about Command Control Interface, see the Command Control Interface User and Reference Guide.