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Checking free space on a storage pool, Checking quota use, Viewing a controller’s cpu and network utilization – Apple Xsan 1.4 User Manual

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Chapter 6

Monitoring SAN Status

Checking Free Space on a Storage Pool

In addition to checking free space on a volume, you can check free space on the

individual storage pools that make up the volume.

To see how much free space is available on a storage pool:

1

Open Xsan Admin and connect to a SAN controller.

2

Select the volume in the SAN Components list, click Overview, and look in the Storage

Pools list at the bottom of the window.

From the Command Line

You can also check storage pool free space using the

cvadmin show

command. For

more information, see the

cvadmin

man page or “Viewing or Changing Volume and

Storage Pool Settings (cvadmin)” on page 164.

Checking Quota Use

See “Checking User Quota Use” on page 117.

Viewing a Controller’s CPU and Network Utilization

You can use Xsan Admin to view graphs of up to 7 days of overall CPU, IP network, and

Fibre Channel network utilization data for a controller.

To view utilization graphs:

1

Open Xsan Admin and connect to the controller.

2

Select the SAN in the SAN Components list and click Graphs.