Monitoring storage capacity and IOPS updates - FSx for ONTAP

Monitoring storage capacity and IOPS updates

You can monitor the progress of an SSD storage capacity and IOPS update by using the Amazon FSx console, CLI, and API.

In the Updates tab on the File system details page for your FSx for ONTAP file system, you can view the 10 most recent updates for each update type.

A recent updates list for a file system as it appears in the Console.

For SSD storage capacity and IOPS updates, you can view the following information:

Update type

Supported types are Storage capacity, Mode, and IOPS. The Mode and IOPS values are listed for all storage capacity and IOPS scaling requests.

Target value

The value that you specified to update the file system's SSD storage capacity or IOPS to.

Status

The current status of the update. The possible values are as follows:

  • Pending – Amazon FSx received the update request, but hasn't started processing it.

  • In progress – Amazon FSx is processing the update request.

  • Updated; Optimizing – Amazon FSx increased the file system's SSD storage capacity. The storage-optimization process is now rebalancing your data in the background.

  • Completed – The update finished successfully.

  • Failed – The update request failed. Choose the question mark (?) to see details.

Progress %

Displays the progress of the storage-optimization process as the percentage complete.

Request time

The time that Amazon FSx received the update action request.

You can view and monitor file system SSD storage capacity increase requests by using the describe-file-systems AWS CLI command and the DescribeFileSystems API operation. The AdministrativeActions array lists the 10 most recent update actions for each administrative action type. When you increase a file system's SSD storage capacity, two AdministrativeActions actions are generated: a FILE_SYSTEM_UPDATE and a STORAGE_OPTIMIZATION action.

The following example shows an excerpt of the response of a describe-file-systems CLI command. The file system has a pending administrative action to increase the SSD storage capacity to 2000 GiB and the provisioned SSD IOPS to 7000.

"AdministrativeActions": [
    {
        "AdministrativeActionType": "FILE_SYSTEM_UPDATE",
        "RequestTime": 1586797629.095,
        "Status": "PENDING",
        "TargetFileSystemValues": {
            "StorageCapacity": 2000,
            "OntapConfiguration": {
                "DiskIopsConfiguration": {
                    "Mode": "USER_PROVISIONED",
                    "Iops": 7000
                }
             }
        }
    },
    {
        "AdministrativeActionType": "STORAGE_OPTIMIZATION",
        "RequestTime": 1586797629.095,
        "Status": "PENDING"
    }
]

Amazon FSx processes the FILE_SYSTEM_UPDATE action first, adding the new larger storage disks to the file system. When the new storage is available to the file system, the FILE_SYSTEM_UPDATE status changes to UPDATED_OPTIMIZING. The storage capacity shows the new larger value, and Amazon FSx begins processing the STORAGE_OPTIMIZATION administrative action. This behavior is shown in the following excerpt of the response of a describe-file-systems CLI command.

The ProgressPercent property displays the progress of the storage-optimization process. After the storage-optimization process has completed successfully, the status of the FILE_SYSTEM_UPDATE action changes to COMPLETED, and the STORAGE_OPTIMIZATION action no longer appears.

"AdministrativeActions": [
    {
        "AdministrativeActionType": "FILE_SYSTEM_UPDATE",
        "RequestTime": 1586799169.445,
        "Status": "UPDATED_OPTIMIZING",
        "TargetFileSystemValues": {
            "StorageCapacity": 2000,
            "OntapConfiguration": {
                "DiskIopsConfiguration": {
                    "Mode": "USER_PROVISIONED",
                    "Iops": 7000
                }
            }
        }
    },
    {
        "AdministrativeActionType": "STORAGE_OPTIMIZATION",
        "ProgressPercent": 41,
        "RequestTime": 1586799169.445,
        "Status": "IN_PROGRESS"
    }
]

If the storage capacity or IOPS update request fails, the status of the FILE_SYSTEM_UPDATE action changes to FAILED, as shown in the following example. The FailureDetails property provides information about the failure.

"AdministrativeActions": [
    {
        "AdministrativeActionType": "FILE_SYSTEM_UPDATE",
        "RequestTime": 1586373915.697,
        "Status": "FAILED",
        "TargetFileSystemValues": {
            "StorageCapacity": 2000,
            "OntapConfiguration": {
                "DiskIopsConfiguration": {
                    "Mode": "USER_PROVISIONED",
                    "Iops": 7000
                }
            }
        },
        "FailureDetails": {
            "Message": "failure-message"
        }
    }
]