eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by HitachiDriveTest

To periodically verify whether the I/O load is balanced across all drives on a storage device, and to promptly detect problems with load balancing, use the HitachiDrive test.

This test is used to periodically verify whether the I/O load is balanced across all drives on a storage device, and promptly detects problems (if any) with load balancing.

 The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
IO_Rate Indicates the number of I/O operations performed on this drive per second. IOPS If this measure reports a high value or if the value of the measure increases consistently, it is indicative of unusually high I/O activity on this drive. Comparing the value of this measure across drives can accurately indicate which drive is currently experiencing heavy workloads. Observing the variations in this measure over a period of time will enable you to figure out bottlenecks in load balancing.
Read_Rate Indicates the number of read operations performed on this drive per second. IOPS  
Write_Rate Indicates the number of write commands issued on this drive per second. IOPS  
Trans_Rate Indicates the transfer size of read/write commands per second. KB/sec  
Read_Trans_Rate Indicates the transfer size of read commands per second. KB/sec  
Write_Trans_Rate Indicates the transfer size of write commands per second. KB/sec  
OnlineVerify_CmdCount Indicates the number of online verify commands executed on this drive per second. Number/sec