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Which api to find dedupe rate and vol busy

bushm — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:24:50 GMT

I want to create a program that can query a vol to see how busy it is prior to me adding more data to it. I would also like to know programatically how to find out how effective my dedupe rates are in that same vol.

Any ideas?

Mark

Re: Which api to find dedupe rate and vol busy

mike_burris — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 19:36:46 GMT

Numerous languages are supported by the API (Perl, Java, etc).. I took a quick look in the 4.1 SDK that I have on my system and found "sis-status" as a call that returns quite a bit of information like blocks skipped, checkpoint progress, progress, state, etc.

As for seeing how busy a volume is, that sounds more like something you'd want to pull from DFM (different set of calls). If that's the case, there are different versions of DFM out obviously so some calls may be available in one version that arent in another. I looked in version 4 and found "volume-perf-status" which is described as "Current status of the volume based on performance events" but I'm not sure that will give you exactly what you're looking for..

HTH and good luck.

Re: Which api to find dedupe rate and vol busy

bbjholcomb — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 19:45:45 GMT

I think this DFM/OpsManager report will give you what you wanted:

dfm report view volumes-dedupe-and-lun-file-clones-space-savings