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Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 30, 2024

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Summary of how time is spent on a job in dsminstr.log - i.e. by percentage to easily determining the primary bottlenecks

Currently, all the information in the dsminstr.log is by thread, and it would be fantastic to know how to summarize this information on a job-level.

This is very hard - if not impossible - to do in the current state, as all information is per thread, and these are running simultaneously, so even if you add up the numbers you do not get a clear picture. Often what is needed is just to know how the time is spend in percentage - to know the primary bottlenecks and know where to focus your time and ressources to improve performance.

Veeam does this nicely by specifying where the waiting time is spend - i.e. 80% of the time is spend waiting on the source system (ESXi/vSphere):

"Load: Source 99% > Proxy 14% > Network 0% > Target 0%   - Primary bottleneck = Source" 
 

The dsminstr.log already holds all the relevant information, so is somebody could create a tool to summarize this information (i.e. a perl/python script), that would go a long way - or even just document how the information should be summarized on a job level.

Ultimately, the  source should be changed, so that this  info could be found at the bottom of the dsminstr.log.

Idea priority Urgent
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    Juan Carlos Jimenez Fuentes
    Reply
    |     May 2, 2024

    Hi, can you please share more details on the impact of not having this functionality? Thank you!

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