Viewing storage resource information collected by AWS DataSync Discovery

AWS DataSync Discovery collects information about your on-premises storage system that can help you understand how its storage resources are configured, performing, and utilized. DataSync Discovery uses this information to generate recommendations for migrating your data to AWS.

A discovery job can give you the following information about your storage system's resources (such as its volumes):

• Total, available, and in use storage capacity

• Number of Common Internet File System (CIFS) shares in a resource and whether a resource is available via Network File System (NFS)

• Data transfer protocols

• Performance (such as IOPS, throughput, and latency)

Viewing information collected about your storage system

You can begin to see what kind of information DataSync Discovery is collecting about your on-premises storage system shortly after you start a discovery job.

You can view this information by using the following options:

• The DataSync console – Get visualized data about all of the storage system resources that DataSync Discovery can collect information about, including utilization, capacity, and configuration data. You can see an overview of your storage system's resources or focus on individual resources.

• The DescribeStorageSystemResources operation – Get data about all of the storage system resources that DataSync Discovery can collect information about, including utilization, capacity, and configuration data.

• The DescribeStorageSystemResourceMetrics operation – Get performance and capacity information that DataSync Discovery can collect about a specific resource in your storage system.

Using the DataSync console

1. Open the AWS DataSync console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/datasync/.

2. In the left navigation pane, choose Discovery, and then choose the storage system that DataSync Discovery is collecting information about.

   In the Volumes panel, you can see basic metrics about your storage system's resources.

3. Choose a resource to see more detailed information about it on the Capacity and performance data tab.

   You can see graphs that tell you about resource capacity, IOPS peaks, and more.

Using the AWS CLI

The following steps show how to use the DescribeStorageSystemResources operation with the AWS CLI.

1. Copy the following describe-storage-system-resources command:

   aws datasync describe-storage-system-resources \
     --discovery-job-arn "your-discovery-job-arn" \
     --resource-type "storage-system-resource-type"

2. Specify the following parameters in the command:

   • --discovery-job-arn – Specify the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the discovery job that you ran.

   • --resource-type – Specify one of the following values, depending on what kind of storage system resources you want information about:

     • CLUSTER

     • SVM

     • VOLUME

3. (Optional) Specify the --resource-ids parameter with the IDs of the storage system resources that you want information about.

4. Run the describe-storage-system-resources command.

   The following example response returns information that a discovery job collected about two volumes in a storage system.

   Note that the RecommendationStatus is NONE for each volume. To get AWS storage recommendations, you must run the generate-recommendations command before the describe-storage-system-resources command. For more information, see Getting recommendations.

   {
       "ResourceDetails": {
           "NetAppONTAPVolumes": [
               {
                   "VolumeName": "vol1",
                   "ResourceId": "a1b2c3d4-5678-90ab-cdef-EXAMPLE11111",
                   "CifsShareCount": 0,
                   "SecurityStyle": "unix",
                   "SvmUuid": "a1b2c3d4-5678-90ab-cdef-EXAMPLEaaaaa",
                   "SvmName": "my-svm",
                   "CapacityUsed": 409600,
                   "CapacityProvisioned": 1099511627776,
                   "LogicalCapacityUsed": 409600,
                   "NfsExported": true,
                   "SnapshotCapacityUsed": 573440,
                   "MaxP95Performance": {
                       "IopsRead": 251.0,
                       "IopsWrite": 44.0,
                       "IopsOther": 17.0,
                       "IopsTotal": 345.0,
                       "ThroughputRead": 2.06,
                       "ThroughputWrite": 0.88,
                       "ThroughputOther": 0.11,
                       "ThroughputTotal": 2.17,
                       "LatencyRead": 0.06,
                       "LatencyWrite": 0.07,
                       "LatencyOther": 0.13
                   },
                   "Recommendations": [],
                   "RecommendationStatus": "NONE"
               },
               {
                   "VolumeName": "root_vol",
                   "ResourceId": "a1b2c3d4-5678-90ab-cdef-EXAMPLE22222",
                   "CifsShareCount": 0,
                   "SecurityStyle": "unix",
                   "SvmUuid": "a1b2c3d4-5678-90ab-cdef-EXAMPLEaaaaa",
                   "SvmName": "my-svm",
                   "CapacityUsed": 462848,
                   "CapacityProvisioned": 1073741824,
                   "LogicalCapacityUsed": 462848,
                   "NfsExported": true,
                   "SnapshotCapacityUsed": 421888,
                   "MaxP95Performance": {
                       "IopsRead": 261.0,
                       "IopsWrite": 53.0,
                       "IopsOther": 23.0,
                       "IopsTotal": 360.0,
                       "ThroughputRead": 10.0,
                       "ThroughputWrite": 2.0,
                       "ThroughputOther": 4.0,
                       "ThroughputTotal": 12.0,
                       "LatencyRead": 0.25,
                       "LatencyWrite": 0.3,
                       "LatencyOther": 0.55
                   },
                   "Recommendations": [],
                   "RecommendationStatus": "NONE"
               }
           ]
       }
   }