eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by VioPhyValumeTest

A physical volume is a collection of regions on one or more disks. Data is stored in physical volumes and administrative operations are performed on physical volumes. A volume group is a collection of one or more physical volumes of varying sizes and types. A physical volume can belong to only one volume group per system; there can be up to 4096 active volume groups on a Virtual I/O Server.

To know the state, composition, and usage of each volume group configured on a Virtual I/O server, use the VioPhyValumeTest.

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
State The current state of this volume group Percent If this measure reports the value 100, it indicates that this volume group is active/complete. Such a state implies that all physical volumes within the group are currently active. On the other hand, if this measure reports the value 0, it indicates that this volume group is active/partial. This state implies that some physical volumes in the group are currently inactive.
Maxlvs The maximum number of logical volumes allowed in this volume group Number A logical volume presents the user with a contiguous address space of pages (0 .. N-1 pages in a volume with N pages) on secondary storage. Page I/O, mounting, and dismounting volumes is performed by applications on logical volumes. A logical volume is mapped to one or more physical volumes. All user I/O occurs through a logical volume.
Current_lvs The number of logical volumes currently in this volume group Number The detailed diagnosis of this measure lists the logical volumes within the group, the current state of the volume, and the number of logical partitions, physical partitions, and physical volumes attached to this volume group.
Open_lvs The number of logical volumes within this volume group that are currently open Number  
Total_pvs The total number of physical volumes within this volume group Number To know which physical volumes are within this group, use the detailed diagnosis of this measure. The detailed diagnosis will list the physical volumes in the group, the state of each volume, the number of physical partitions within every volume, and the number of free partitions per volume.
Statle_pvs The total number of stale physical volumes within this volume group Number A physical volume is stale if its contents reflect a version of the logical volume that is earlier than the current version. Typically, if a user mounts a logical volume while one of two physical volumes backing it is unavailable, but immediately dismounts it, the unavailable physical volume is declared as stale.
Active_pvs The number of physical volumes that are currently active in this volume group Number  
MaxPPS_VG The maximum number of physical partitions allowed for this volume group Number  
MaxPPs_pv The maximum number of physical partitions per physical volume allowed for this volume group Number  
ppSize Indicates the size of each physical partition supported by each physical volume in this volume group MB When you add a physical volume to a volume group, the physical volume is partitioned into contiguous, equal-sized units of space called physical partitions. A physical partition is the smallest unit of storage space allocation and is a contiguous space on a physical volume. Physical volumes inherit the volume group’s physical partitions size.
Total_pps The total number of physical partitions within thid volume group Number  
Free_pps The number of physical partitions in this volume group that are not allocated to logical volumes Number  
Used_pps The number of physical partitions in this volume group that are currently allocated to logical volumes Number  
Stale_pps The number of stale physical partitions currently available in the logical volumes supported by this volume group Number A STALE physical partition is a physical partition that contains data you cannot use. Physical partitions marked as STALE must be updated to contain the same information as valid physical partitions. This process, called resynchronization, can be done at vary-on time, or can be started anytime the system is running. Until the STALE partitions have been rewritten with valid data, they are not used to satisfy read requests, nor are they written to on write requests.
Max_pvs The maximum number of physical volumes allowed in this volume group Number