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Monitoring Symmetrix thin pool utilization using Ionix ControlCenter alerts 227
Virtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix Devices
Observing the changing capacity of the thin file system
In Ionix ControlCenter Console
Selects and drags the host with the thin file system into the Properties View and
observes the changing capacity of the thin file system in the Free, % Free and
Available columns.
Monitoring Symmetrix thin pool utilization using Ionix
ControlCenter alerts
This example demonstrates how a storage administrator uses Ionix ControlCenter
alerts to monitor thin pool utilization and then take appropriate action to expand a
thin pool.
1. Observes alerts displayed in the Console that % pool utilization on the Symmetrix
has reached a warning level (Figure 204 on page 227).
2. Expands the thin pool as follows:
a. Uses the procedure “Creating data devices from Ionix ControlCenter” on
page 199 and adds more data devices to the pool.
b. Uses the procedures “Creating and Binding thin devices to a pool” on
page 204, , and “Masking thin devices to host” on page 212 and adds more
virtual storage to the pool.
Figure 204 Alerts showing data pool utilization at minor level (65%) and warning level (75%)
Reporting on virtual provisioned storage using
StorageScope
These examples demonstrate how a storage administrator uses Ionix ControlCenter
StorageScope to report thin pool utilization:
1. Logs in to Storage Scope as follows: