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  5. EMC Symmetrix enhanced performance metrics
  6. EMC Symmetrix Disk Group Performance

EMC Symmetrix Disk Group Performance

Table: EMC Symmetrix Disk Group Performance

Metric

Description

Percent Busy

The % of time that the disk group is busy serving I/O requests.

Total SCSI Commands

The total number of commands performed by the disk group each second: read, write, skip mask, verify, XOR write, and XOR write-read.

Disk Reads

The number of reads per second for the disk group.

Disk Writes

The number of writes per second for the disk group.

MB Read

The read throughput of the disk group, in MB per second.

MB Written

The write throughput of the disk group, in MB per second.

Read Response Time

The average time taken by the disk group to serve one read command.

Write Response Time

The average time taken by the disk group to serve one write command.

MBs

The total number of MB per second for the disk group.

IOs

The total number of read and write I/Os per second for the disk group.

Total Capacity

Total capacity of all the disks in the disk group.

Used Capacity

Total capacity allocated from all the disks in the disk group.

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