Take a look at IBM Spectrum LSF or Spectrum Analytics. The raw data can be provided by Scale's perfmon data but the above solutions can graph and report on it.
Kevin D. Johnson, MBA, MAFM Spectrum Computing, Senior Managing Consultant IBM Certified Deployment Professional - Spectrum Scale V4.1.1 IBM Certified Deployment Professional - Cloud Object Storage IBM Certified Solution Advisor - Spectrum Computing V1 720-349-6199 - [email protected] > On Nov 17, 2016, at 5:56 PM, Andrew Beattie <[email protected]> wrote: > > Good Morning, > > > I have a large managed services provider in Australia who are looking at the > benefits of deploying Scale for a combination of Object storage and basic SMB > file access. This data is typically historical data rather than highly > accessed production data and the proposed services is designed to be a low > cost option - think a private version of Amazon's Glacier type offering. The > proposed solution will have Platinum - Flash, Gold - SAS, Silver - NL-SAS > and Bronze - Tape tiers with different cost's per Tier > > One of the questions that they have asked is, how can they on a regular basis > (6-10min increments), poll the storage array to determine what capacity is > stored in what tier of disk, by company / user, and export the results > (ideally via an API) into their Reporting and Billing system. They do > something similar today for their VMWare farm (6 minute increments), to > provide accountability for the number of virtual machines they are providing, > and would like to extend this capability to their file storage offering, > which today is based on basic virtual windows file servers > > Is anyone doing something similar today? and if so at what granularity? > > Andrew Beattie > Software Defined Storage - IT Specialist > Phone: 614-2133-7927 > E-mail: [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > gpfsug-discuss mailing list > gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org > http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss >
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