Types of PRO Tips

ApplianceWatch has five types of PRO Tips to help you identify storage-related issues that occur between Data ONTAP LUNs and Hyper-V virtual machines. Four of the PRO Tips offer automatic remediation, enabling ApplianceWatch to fix the issue automatically if you choose.

The five PRO Tips and their descriptions are as follows:

Volume deduplication not enabled

This Tip is generated for a virtual machine when you have deduplication licensed but not enabled on a storage controller that hosts storage system volumes serving several virtual machines.

This Tip offers automatic remediation to enable deduplication on the affected volumes.

Volume deduplication not licensed

This Tip is generated for a virtual machine when deduplication is not licensed on a storage controller that hosts storage system volumes that serve several virtual machines.

This Tip does not provide automatic remediation, but it recommends installing a deduplication license in virtualized environments.

Volume offline

This Tip is generated for a virtual machine when one or more storage system volumes serving that virtual machine is offline.

This Tip offers automatic remediation to bring the volumes back online.

LUN offline

This Tip is generated for a virtual machine if one or more storage system LUNs that serve that virtual machine is offline.

This Tip offers automatic remediation to bring the LUNs back online.

Volume space utilization exceeded threshold

This Tip is generated for a virtual machine when one or more storage system volumes that serve that virtual machine are full.

This Tip offers two configurable thresholds: a warning level that defaults to 95 percent, and a critical level that defaults to 99 percent.

This Tip offers automatic remediation to increase the volume size so that space utilization is reduced to 85 percent. The Tip also suggests that the virtual machine be paused by the SCVMM administrator to avoid running out of space.