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In this blog I will discuss the NFS VAAI statistics that can be used on the NetApp storage to measure the performance and troubleshoot VAAI related issues. These statistics will help you determine if Copy Offload is being used by the Storage Array. In this blog I will cover 7 Mode and Clustered Data ONTAP.
On the NetApp Storage use the following command to monitor the NFS VAAI statistics. I have highlighted the important stats in RED throughout the blog. Note that I have deliberately removed some metrics from the output to make it more readable.
In general irrespective of the version of ONTAP, you can use sysstat –x 1 to monitor/measure the CPU, Memory, Disk, Network and other parameters. When VAAI primitives are used the Network utilization would be comparatively low compared to the disk usage because the clone & snapshots are now offloaded to the Storage Array. Hence resulting in reduced network usage between the ESXi hosts and the NetApp Storage Array. This command could give you some indication about Copy Offload and other primitives. However this may not be conclusive because there may be other workloads resulting in high network usage even when VAAI is being used. To precisely monitor the Copy Success and Errors use the following commands.
- Data ONTAP 7 Mode – In 7 Mode there are two commands available that can be used to view the NFS VAAI statistics.
fas2040> nfs vstorage stats
NFS COL counters are :
Copy Reqs: 0
Abort Reqs: 0
Status Reqs: 0
Notify Reqs: 0
Revoke Reqs: 0
Invalid Parms: 0
Authorization Failures: 0
Authentication Failures: 0
Copy Fail ISDIR: 0
Copy Fail OFFLINE: 0
Copy Fail STALE: 0
Copy Fail IO: 0
Copy Fail NOSPACE: 0
Copy Fail DISKQUOTA: 0
Copy Fail READONLY: 0
Copy Fail PERM: 0
Copy Fail EXPIRED: 0
Copy Fail RESOURCE: 0
Copy Fail TOOSMALL: 0
Copy Fail BAD STATEID: 0
Copy Fail OTHER: 0
Intravol Moves: 0
Intervol Moves: 0
Fail Space RES: 0
fas2040> nfs stat
Server rpc:
TCP:
calls badcalls nullrecv badlen xdrcall
2 0 0 0 0
UDP:
calls badcalls nullrecv badlen xdrcall
0 0 0 0 0
IPv4:
calls badcalls nullrecv badlen xdrcall
2 0 0 0 0
IPv6:
calls badcalls nullrecv badlen xdrcall
0 0 0 0 0
Server nfs:
calls badcalls
2 0
Server nfs V3: (2 calls)
null getattr setattr lookup access readlink read
2 100% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%
write create mkdir symlink mknod remove rmdir
0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%
rename link readdir readdir+ fsstat fsinfo pathconf
0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%
commit
0 0%
Read request stats (version 3)
0-511 512-1023 1K-2047 2K-4095 4K-8191 8K-16383 16K-32767 32K-65535 64K-131071 > 131071
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Write request stats (version 3)
0-511 512-1023 1K-2047 2K-4095 4K-8191 8K-16383 16K-32767 32K-65535 64K-131071 > 131071
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- Clustered Data ONTAP 8.x
NOTE: For Clustered Data ONTAP 8.2 you have to execute this command from diagnostic mode and use statistics-v1 command to get the copy_manager statistics.
To enter diagnostic mode use the following:
cluster1::> set diag
Warning: These diagnostic commands are for use by NetApp personnel only.
Do you want to continue? {y|n}: y
cluster1::*>
cluster1::*> statistics-v1 show -node cluster1-01 -object copy_manager
For previous versions of Clustered Data ONTAP use the following:
cluster1::> statistics show -node cluster1-01 -object copy_manager
Node: cluster1-01
Object.Instance.Counter Value Delta
----------------------------------------------- ------------- -------------
copy_manager.copy_stats.instance_name copy_stats
-
copy_manager.copy_stats.node_name - -
copy_manager.copy_stats.instance_uuid - -
copy_manager.copy_stats.copy_success 1 -
copy_manager.copy_stats.copy_failure 0 -
copy_manager.copy_stats.copyStatus_success 0 -
copy_manager.copy_stats.copyStatus_failure 0 -
copy_manager.copy_stats.copyAbort_success 0 -
copy_manager.copy_stats.copyAbort_failure 0 -
copy_manager.copy_stats.copyCallback_success 0 -
copy_manager.copy_stats.copyCallback_failure 0 -
copy_manager.copy_stats.copyNotify_success 1 -
copy_manager.copy_stats.copyNotify_failure 0 -
copy_manager.copy_stats.copyRevoke_success 1 -
copy_manager.copy_stats.copyRevoke_failure 0 -
copy_manager.copy_stats.copyAuthCheck_success 0 -
copy_manager.copy_stats.copyAuthCheck_failure 0 -
copy_manager.copy_stats.bytes_copied 0 -
Node: cluster1-01
Object.Instance.Counter Value Delta
----------------------------------------------- ------------- -------------
copy_manager.copy_stats.intra_vol_copy_cnt 1 -
copy_manager.copy_stats.inter_vol_copy_cnt 0 -
copy_manager.copy_stats.inter_node_copy_cnt 0 -
copy_manager.copy_stats.inter_clust_copy_cnt 0 -
copy_manager.copy_stats.fail_mem_alloc 0 -
copy_manager.copy_stats.fail_isdir 0 -
copy_manager.copy_stats.fail_offline 0 -
copy_manager.copy_stats.fail_stale 0 -
copy_manager.copy_stats.fail_io 0 -
copy_manager.copy_stats.fail_nospace 0 -
copy_manager.copy_stats.fail_readonly 0 -
copy_manager.copy_stats.fail_authcheck 0 -
copy_manager.copy_stats.fail_no_resource 0 -
copy_manager.copy_stats.fail_other 0 -
copy_manager.copy_stats.intra_volume_copy_success 1 -
copy_manager.copy_stats.intra_volume_copy_failure 0 -
copy_manager.copy_stats.intra_volume_copyStatus_success 0 -
copy_manager.copy_stats.intra_volume_copyStatus_failure 0 -
copy_manager.copy_stats.intra_volume_copyAbort_success 0 -
Node: cluster1-01
Object.Instance.Counter Value Delta
----------------------------------------------- ------------- -------------
copy_manager.copy_stats.intra_volume_copyAbort_failure 0 -
copy_manager.copy_stats.inter_volume_copy_success 0 -
copy_manager.copy_stats.inter_volume_copy_failure 0 -
copy_manager.copy_stats.inter_volume_copyStatus_success 0 -
copy_manager.copy_stats.inter_volume_copyStatus_failure 0 -
copy_manager.copy_stats.inter_volume_copyAbort_success 0 -
copy_manager.copy_stats.inter_volume_copyAbort_failure 0 -
copy_manager.copy_stats.inter_volume_copyCallback_success 0 -
copy_manager.copy_stats.inter_volume_copyCallback_failure 0 -
In addition to the above command you can also check the nps1 status to troubleshoot NFS VAAI related issues.
cluster1::> system node run -node cluster1-01 -command stats show nps1
nps1:nps1:instance_name:nps1
nps1:nps1:node_name:
nps1:nps1:instance_uuid:
nps1:nps1:null_success:0
nps1:nps1:null_error:0
nps1:nps1:compound_success:0
nps1:nps1:compound_error:0
nps1:nps1:access_success:0
nps1:nps1:access_error:0
nps1:nps1:verify_success:0
nps1:nps1:verify_error:0
nps1:nps1:write_success:0
nps1:nps1:write_error:0
nps1:nps1:set_ssv_error:0
nps1:nps1:test_stateid_success:0
nps1:nps1:test_stateid_error:0
nps1:nps1:want_delegation_success:0
nps1:nps1:want_delegation_error:0
nps1:nps1:destroy_clientid_success:0
nps1:nps1:destroy_clientid_error:0
nps1:nps1:reclaim_complete_success:0
nps1:nps1:reclaim_complete_error:0
nps1:nps1:copy_notify_success:1
nps1:nps1:copy_notify_error:0
nps1:nps1:copy_revoke_success:1
nps1:nps1:copy_revoke_error:0
nps1:nps1:copy_success:1
nps1:nps1:copy_error:0
nps1:nps1:copy_abort_success:0
nps1:nps1:copy_abort_error:0
nps1:nps1:copy_status_success:0
nps1:nps1:copy_status_error:0
