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Figure 6-28 Output from statistics_get command using the module filter
6.3.4 Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
Tivoli Storage Productivity Center contains enhanced performance metrics for the XIV
Storage System. For more information, see the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center web page:
http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/software/center/index.html
On the IBM Redbooks main page, search for “Tivoli Storage Productivity Center” to find
several Redbooks publications about how to use the product:
http://ibm.com/redbooks
For more information that relates to the XIV Storage System, see 7.7, “Using Tivoli Storage
Productivity Center” on page 390.
It is possible to see comprehensive XIV Storage System I/O performance characteristics from
Tivoli Storage Productivity Center. The most effective use of this data is to extract this data
from the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center database into comma-separated values (CSV)
files and then import them into a spreadsheet. This data is useful for performance reporting,
analysis, and archiving.
Tivoli Storage Productivity Center is a good way to evaluate XIV Storage System
performance. The Tivoli Storage Productivity Center data that is most useful for XIV Storage
System performance is contained in the following reports:
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By Storage Subsystem (overall statistics on the entire XIV Storage System)
By Module/Node
By Volume
By Port
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