Viewing the XIV Performance dashboard

The IBM® XIV® Performance dashboard provides health and performance information for the IBM XIV resources.

About this task

Performance information presented in the dashboard is collected for a time period defined by the vcops_push_interval parameter in the vcops_config.ini file (the default time period is 5 minutes).

Procedure

To display performance information:

  1. In the VIRTUAL MACHINES pane of the IBM XIV Performance dashboard, locate a relevant virtual machine and select it.
  2. In the XIV AND VCENTER RELATIONSHIP pane, select an object, which performance you intend to monitor.
    Figure 1. XIV AND VCENTER RELATIONSHIPS pane
    This screen capture shows the XIV AND VCENTER RELATIONSHIPS pane

    The HEALTH TREE pane displays the selected element and its relation to other storage resources in an hierarchical manner.
    Figure 2. HEALTH TREE pane
    This screen capture shows the HEALTH TREE pane
  3. In the HEALTH TREE pane, select a resource element to display all relevant performance metrics in the METRIC SELECTOR pane. Different metric types are available for different resource elements, as detailed in XIV performance metrics.
  4. Select a metrics of an element to display its metric graph in the METRIC GRAPH pane.
    Figure 3. IBM XIV Performance dashboard, METRIC SELECTOR and METRIC GRAPH panes
    This screen capture shows the IBM XIV Performance dashboard, METRIC SELECTOR and METRIC GRAPH panes