Monthly Archives: September 2017

svcstats.py – Report IBM SVC/Storwize storage system performance statistics in CLI using SMI-S interface

Posted on 28.09.2017 by mezzantrop

My *stat-like utility to report IBM SVC/Storwize storage system performance statistics in CLI using SMI-S interface. Report IBM SVC/Storwize storage system performance statistics in CLI using SMI-S interface Requires Python 3 with ‘pywbem’ module Before running svcstats.py, enable statistic on … Continue reading →

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Extracting Performance Data from IBM Storwize

Posted on 22.09.2017 by mezzantrop

Originally posted on Вадим Заигрин:
Universal Storage Collector could extract performance data not only from EMC Storage Systems 🙂 New Extractor extracts data from IBM Storwize storage family. As I see, IBM Storwize with base licenses doesn’t provide exact information about performance.…

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Executing a batch of commands on multiple IBM SVC/Storwize storage systems

Posted on 15.09.2017 by mezzantrop

Sometimes you have to change several configuration parameters or run multiple commands over a list of IBM SVC storage systems. Here is my small Python 3 script to do the stuff quickly. It requires Paramiko module to handle SSH interactions. Edit … Continue reading →

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Scan IBM SVC/Storwize system for “SCSI ID Mismatches”

Posted on 01.09.2017 by mezzantrop

A small addition to the SAN/Storage CLI Toolbox which shows so called SCSI ID (LUN) mismatches on IBM SVC/Storwize systems. This Bourne shell/awk script shows the list of the same vdisks that are mapped with different SCSI IDs. Should be useful … Continue reading →

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