Monitoring storage capacity increases - Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

Monitoring storage capacity increases

After increasing your file system's storage capacity, you can monitor the progress of the storage capacity increase using the Amazon FSx console, the API, or the AWS CLI as described in the following procedures.

In the Updates tab in the File system details window, you can view the 10 most recent updates for each update type.

For storage capacity updates, you can view the following information.

Update type

Possible values are Storage capacity.

Target value

The desired value to update the file system's storage capacity to.

Status

The current status of the update. For storage capacity updates, the possible values are as follows:

  • Pending – Amazon FSx has received the update request, but has not started processing it.

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

  • Updated optimizing – Amazon FSx has increased the file system's storage capacity. The storage optimization process is now moving the file system data to the new larger disks.

  • Completed – The storage capacity increase completed successfully.

  • Failed – The storage capacity increase failed. Choose the question mark (?) to see details on why the storage update failed.

Progress %

Displays the progress of the storage optimization process as percent complete.

Request time

The time that Amazon FSx received the update action request.

You can view and monitor file system storage capacity increase requests using the describe-file-systems AWS CLI command and the DescribeFileSystems API action. The AdministrativeActions array lists the 10 most recent update actions for each administrative action type. When you increase a file system's storage capacity, two AdministrativeActions 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 storage capacity of 300 GB, and there is a pending administrative action to increase the storage capacity to 1000 GB.

{
    "FileSystems": [
        {
            "OwnerId": "111122223333",
            .
            .
            .
            "StorageCapacity": 300,
            "AdministrativeActions": [
                {
                     "AdministrativeActionType": "FILE_SYSTEM_UPDATE",
                     "RequestTime": 1581694764.757,
                     "Status": "PENDING",
                     "TargetFileSystemValues": {
                         "StorageCapacity": 1000
                     }
                },
                {
                    "AdministrativeActionType": "STORAGE_OPTIMIZATION",
                    "RequestTime": 1581694764.757,
                    "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 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 completes successfully, the status of the FILE_SYSTEM_UPDATE action changes to COMPLETED, and the STORAGE_OPTIMIZATION action no longer appears.

{
    "FileSystems": [
        {
            "OwnerId": "111122223333",
            .
            .
            .
            "StorageCapacity": 1000,
            "AdministrativeActions": [
                {
                    "AdministrativeActionType": "FILE_SYSTEM_UPDATE",
                    "RequestTime": 1581694764.757,
                    "Status": "UPDATED_OPTIMIZING",
                    "TargetFileSystemValues": {
                        "StorageCapacity": 1000
                }
                },
                {
                    "AdministrativeActionType": "STORAGE_OPTIMIZATION",
                    "RequestTime": 1581694764.757,
                    "Status": "IN_PROGRESS",
                    "ProgressPercent": 50,
                }
            ]

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

{
    "FileSystems": [ 
        { 
            "OwnerId": "111122223333",
            .
            .
            .
            "StorageCapacity": 300,
            "AdministrativeActions": [ 
                { 
                    "AdministrativeActionType": "FILE_SYSTEM_UPDATE",
                    "FailureDetails": { 
                        "Message": "string"
                    },
                    "RequestTime": 1581694764.757,
                    "Status": "FAILED",
                    "TargetFileSystemValues": 
                        "StorageCapacity": 1000
                }
            ]

For information about troubleshooting failed actions, see Storage or throughput capacity updates fail.