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SAN Historical performance data

SAN Historical performance data
Performance should be enabled constantly to receive the necessary historical data required for a
meaningful report. The following options and features are available for obtaining historical
performance data:
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Enabling historical performance collection SAN wide

To enable historical performance collection, select Monitor > Performance > Historical Data
Collection > Enable SAN Wide.
Historical performance data collection is enabled for all fabrics in the SAN.
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Collect historical performance data from the entire SAN or from a selected .
NOTE
Virtual Fabric logical ISL ports are not included in performance collection.
Persist data on every polling cycle (5 minutes).
Store up to records (maximum) for each port. Most ports require 600 KB disk space; however,
the 256-Port Director requires 7GB disk space.The maximum number of records varies
depending on the configuration on the Server Management Console, Performance Data Aging
tab.
Option 1—1,246 records
Option 2—3,034 records
For more information, refer to
Use the RRD (Round Robin Database) style aging scheme.
Enable granularity.
The granularity varies depending on the configuration on the Server Management Console,
Performance Data Aging tab.
Option 1—2 years data with the following samples
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5 minutes granularity for last 1 day (288 samples)
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30 minutes granularity for last 3 days (144 samples)
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2 hour granularity for last 7 days (84 samples)
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1 day granularity for last 2 years (730 samples)
Option 2—2 years data with the following samples
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5 minutes granularity for last 8 days (2304 samples)
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1 day granularity for last 2 years (730 samples)
For more information, refer to
Support interpolation for up to 6 data points.
Generate reports. For instructions on generating reports, refer to
performance reports" on page 927.
"Defining the performance data aging interval"
"Defining the performance data aging interval"
on page 229.
on page 229.
"Generating SAN
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