Of showers and sysstat
Posted: February 20, 2013 Filed under: NetApp, Storage | Tags: flash cache, netapp cpu %, netapp cpu utilization, netapp performance, performance, performance analysis, sysstat Leave a commentI was asked by a client yesterday in passing how to check CPU utilization on one of their NetApp filers. I didn’t immediately know where to go and we quickly moved on to something else. So as I was showering this morning, as I do many mornings, I remembered that, of course, you can use sysstat to view performance data. Anyways, this is a real nice way to view instantaneous general performance data. Options for this command are shown below.
deathstar> sysstat ?
usage: sysstat [-c count] [-s] [-u | -x | -m | -f | -i | -b] [interval]
-c count – the number of iterations to execute
-s – print out summary statistics when done
-u – print out utilization format instead
-x – print out all fields (overrides -u)
-m – print out multiprocessor statistics
-f – print out FCP target statistics
-i – print out iSCSI target statistics
-b – print out SAN statistics
interval – the interval between iterations in seconds, default is 15 seconds