System Health

The System Health page allows you to view status information of the system hardware components.
To access the screen, click the System Health on the menu.

This page visually displays the health status of the system hardware components.  Mouse over devices in the rack to view device summary

Hardware

The Hardware page allows you to view information about the hardware components of the Dedup Engine. You can view the overall status of the node as well as detailed status information for components such as the system board, host bus adapters, network ports, and storage arrays.
To access the DDE Hardware page, click the DDE Status menu, and then click the Hardware tab.
The Hardware page contains the following tabs:

Summary

The Hardware Summary page allows you to view the overall status of the node and its main components.
The system and each component can have one of the following statuses:

To access the Hardware Summary page, on the Hardware page, click the Summary tab.
Hardware Summary Page

The Hardware Summary page displays the following information:

Details

The Details page allows you to view detailed information about the hardware components of the Dedup Engine.
To access the Details page, on the Hardware page, click the Details tab.
Use the Details page to view information for the following components:

Host Bus Adapters

The Host Bus Adapters page allows you to view information about installed Fibre Channel or SAS cards and their ports.
To access the Host Bus Adapters page, on the Details page, click the Host Bus Adapters tab.
Host Bus Adapters Page

The Host Bus Adapters section displays the following information about each Fibre Channel or SAS card:

The Fibre Channel Controller section displays the following information about the ports in the selected Fibre Channel controller:

Network Ports

The Network Ports page allows you to view information about Ethernet ports in the system. The Dedup Engine includes three or more Ethernet ports (depending on the configuration).
To access the Network Ports page, on the Details page, click the Network Ports tab.

Network Ports Page

The Network Ports page displays the following information:

Dedup Engine allocated capacity

The Allocated Capacity page allows you to view information about free and used disk space on the system. You can also view data reduction statistics.

To access the Allocated Capacity page, click the DDE Status menu, and then click the Allocated Capacity tab.

Allocated Capacity Page

Use the Allocated Capacity page to view the following information:

Available

Available space is the area that is available for data storage. The Available value is displayed as an amount and as a percentage of the total capacity in the system.

Available space is divided into the following categories:

Used

Used space is the area that already holds data. The Used value is displayed as an amount and as a percentage of the total capacity in the system.
Used space is divided into the following categories:

Data Before Reduction

The Data Before Reduction value represents the original, native size of all data that has been processed by the data deduplication and compression engines.
Data before reduction is divided into the following categories:

Data After Reduction

The Data After Reduction value represents the final, reduced size of all data that has been processed by the data deduplication and compression engines.

Data after reduction is divided into the following categories:

VTL Status

The VTL Status page allows you to view information about virtual tape library (VTL) components, including tape drives, storage slots, and cartridges. You can view a physical or logical representation of VTL components, or view VTL performance statistics.

To access the VTL Status page, click the DDE Status menu, and then click the VTL tab.

VTL Physical View Information page

The VTL Status page contains the following tabs:

Physical View

The Physical View page allows you to view a physical representation of the virtual components in a VTL. You can view information about virtual tapes drives, storage slots, and cartridges.
To access the Physical View page, on the VTL Status page, click the Physical View tab.
Use the controls in the VTL Physical View Information section to select the information to display:

1. Select the VTL to display in the Partition drop-down box.
2. Click Hide Drives or Show Drives to hide or show the virtual tape drives in the VTL (see Tape Drives).
3. Click Hide Storage Slots or Show Storage Slots to hide or show the virtual storage slots in the VTL (see Storage and I/E Slots).
4. Click Hide I/E Slots or Show I/E Slots to hide or show the virtual I/E slots in the VTL (see Storage and I/E Slots).

Tape Drives

The Tape Drives section displays information about virtual tape drives in the VTL:

• If a cartridge is mounted in the tape drive, the barcode of the cartridge displays beneath the drive.
• Click a tape drive to view detailed information about the drive.

Storage and I/E Slots

The Storage Slots and I/E Slots sections displays information about the virtual cartridges located in the storage and I/E slots:

The following information is displayed for each cartridge:

• Click a cartridge to view detailed information about the cartridge.
• When the storage system is degraded, all tape cartridges are shown in a degraded state.
• When the storage system has failed or is inaccessible due to failure, all tape cartridges are shown as unavailable.

Logical View

Use the Logical View page to view information about the virtual (logical) components in a VTL partition. You can also view information about used space in the partition.

To access the Logical View page, on the VTL Status page, click the Logical View tab.

VTL Logical View Partitions page

The Partitions section displays the following information about VTL partitions:

NetBoost Status

Use the NetBoost Status page to view statistics for NAS Application Specific (Oracle RMAN) activity that occurred in the previous minute.

To access the NetBoost Status page, click the DDE Status menu, and then click the NetBoost tab.

NetBoost and NAS Application Specific Status page

Combined statistics for all media servers display at the top of each section (NAS Application Specific and NetBoost).

Statistics for individuals media servers display in the tables in each section (NAS Application Specific and NetBoost).

OST Status

Use the OST Status page to view statistics for OST optimized duplication and InfiniGuard NetBoost activity that occurred in the previous minute.
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Use the OST Status page to view statistics for OST optimized duplication and InfiniGuard DDE activity that occurred in the previous minute.
To access the OST Status page, click the Status menu, and then click the OST tab.

OST Status Page

Combined Concurrent Optimized Duplication statistics for all media servers display at the top of each section.