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Storage pool in EMC Centera pools is a way to pool the nodes together to provide adequate storage and organize storage resources based on business requirements. Administrators can create physical separation of data by partitioning the storage into multiple different storage pools.

For any business software application, all data that it would use will be available in a given pool, so for users point of view it would be very important to monitor the health of a storage pool to identify if adequate nodes and disks are available to support read and write at an acceptable rate.

The purpose of the test is to identify the health of nodes, the health of disks, and capacity available on the pool, the insights from the analysis of metrics can help administrators to plan maintenance of the pool if required and adding/removing capacity as guided by business requirement.

Outputs of the test : One set of results for each pool in EMC Centera pools.

Measurement	Description	Measurement Unit	Interpretation
alertQuota	Quota of storage when full, system will start giving alerts.	TB	The administrators can keep an eye on total used capacity against the alert quota and hard stop quota. With these insights you can plan storage needs and available capacity.
hardStopQuota	Once hard stop quota is full, system will stop accepting any new data writes.	TB	The administrators can keep an eye on total used capacity against the alert quota and hard stop quota. With these insights you can plan storage needs and available capacity.
used	Total amount of used capacity in the pool.	TB	The administrators can keep an eye on total used capacity against the alert quota and hard stop quota. With these insights you can plan storage needs and available capacity.
cClips	Total number of C-Clip descriptor files stored in the pool.	Number
files	Total number of data files stored in the pool.	Number