Isilon

Cluster Performance Monitoring

Performance tuning relies on adequate performance monitoring and data collection. With
the release of OneFS 5.5 a
new performance statistics collection tool is available that can be invoked through the isi
statistics command
line interface. The tool provides a wide array of performance data at the system, protocol
and client view level. The
isi statistics can be invoked using several modes of operations using the following
subcommands:
isi statistics system <system options>
The system mode of the isi statistics tool is the most basic mode of operation. System
mode provides high-level
cluster performance metrics in an easily-accessible format. The system output includes
CPU utilization, per protocol
and total throughput (CIFS, FTP, HTTP, and NFS), network throughout, and disk I/O.
isi statistics protocols <protocol options>
Protocol and client modes display cluster usage statistics organized by communication
protocol. Operations are also
grouped according to the following classes: read, write, create, delete, namespace
operations, file state, session state
and other file system information
isi statistics client <client options>
The client mode of the tool shares a great deal of functionality with the protocol
mode . The client mode allows theuser to view and sort statistics according to the
following identification fields in addition to the fields shared betweenprotocol and client
modes: client IP address or name, node ip or address, user ID or name.
In addition to these basic modes of operations a comprehensive set of raw statistics data
can be collected using the
isi statistics query subcommand.
With the query subcommand over 400 statistics can be collected .
Each of these basic and advanced modes of operation offer a rich set of filtering, sorting,
grouping and display
options. For more information please refer to the Isilon command line interface manual.