Operations guide

Welcome to the StorPool Operations guide! Here you can find detailed information on activities related to ensuring StorPool is running well. This includes monitoring, maintenance, and best practices.

Monitoring

• Monitoring alerts
• Monitoring metrics collected
• Common monitoring via the StorPool API

Metrics and analytics

• Metrics collected and available from StorPool
• StorPool analytics
• Disk and journal performance tracking

Cluster maintenance

• Adding a drive to a running cluster
• Ejected disk
• Testing a StorPool drive
• Cleanup of stale backup volumes and snapshots
• StorPool tree
• Troubleshooting
• StorPool iSCSI balance procedure

For more information, see:

• The Installation and setup guide provides details on choosing hardware for your cluster, installing StorPool, and performing initial setup.

• The Administration guide provides low-level details on how StorPool functions, and how to get the optimal performance from it.

• The Reference guide provides details on the command line interface (CLI) tools and the REST API provided by StorPool.

• The StorPool integrations guide provides details on using StorPool with hypervisors and cloud management and orchestration tools.