Monitoring DPM Performance
Published : September 27, 2005
Although you have not received any complaints about server delays, you want to identify problems as early as possible, applying the best practices of the Service Monitoring and Control SMF in the “Operating” MOF quadrant. To do that, you configure performance alerts for each file server by using the Performance administrative tool in Windows. You also generate the Network Traffic Report in DPM regularly to monitor the activity between the DPM servers and file servers. Performance alerts assist you in managing events as they occur; reports provide you with long-term data to identify trends and potential issues.
When you review the Network Traffic Report, you notice that one of the file servers has consistently had a data change rate in excess of 20 percent. You run the Disk Utilization report and examine the disk utilization for that server. There is still sufficient space allocated in the storage pool but you notice that the average synchronization log usage exceeds 85 percent. You respond by increasing the disk allocation for the synchronization log for each server in that protection group.
Your manager tells you that a new server will soon be added to the Des Moines site. A few days later, DPM alerts you to the discovery of a new server. You compare the workloads and capacities of the DPM servers to determine which server you should use to provide protection for the new file server.
Relevant Documentation: You refer to DPM Help (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=46350) for step-by-step instructions on:
You refer to the DPM 2006 Planning and Deployment Guide (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=46351) for information on planning data protection. You refer to the “Managing Performance” chapter in this guide (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=46366) for guidelines on gathering performance data and improving performance. |