Introduction

Welcome to the release notes for Live Optics for Unity.  We encourage you to follow this page to receive email notifications when this document is updated.

New Features/Fixes

March 22, 2020

• Unity online viewer System tab that contains:
• IOPS by Service composite graph (vVol IOPS, File IOPS and Block IOPS)
• Read/Write IOPs composite graph
• Read/Write Throughput Composite graph
• Read Write IO Size graph
• Latency graph (vVol, File, and Block latency)

February 24, 2020

Unity online viewer System tab that contains:

• Storage Controllers Utilization graph
• Cache Composite graph
• Front End Ports: Peak Composite graph
• Workload Concentration graph

January 30, 2020

Unity online viewer Summary tab that contains:

• Array and project information
• Cache/Fast Cache size
• Storage controllers/Shelves number
• Array Capacity information
• Number of Drives for HDD and SSD
• Frontend ports number and throughput
• Configured File, Block and VVOl performance information

November 19, 2019

 Optimize performance slides that contains:

• Sample of the monthly/quarterly Optimize services report.
• Hardware/Software evaluation and tailored advice based on conditions.
• Capacity evaluation and tailored advice based on conditions.
• Performance evaluation and tailored advice based on conditions.
• Array top 3 utilized pool performance data.
• Array Alert information.

 May 29, 2018

• User-defined LUN names now shown in the report.
• Significant updates to LUN identification and performance calculations.
• Summary slide updates (new raw size column, formatting updates).
• Support for any 4.2.x and 4.3.x firmware versions.
• Several formatting and display updates.
• Fix for special characters used in the project name causing an error.
• Fix for 4.1.x versions showing zeros for write data.
• Fix for occasional duplicate server entries on the Top X by X slides.

March 22, 2018

• Support for firmware version 4.2.2

February 14, 2018

• Several value rounding error fixes.
• Fix for duplicate port entries.
• Fix for port speed errors.
• Added Peak and Average reads and writes data.
• Added archive file count value.
• New message stating report is for block devices only.

January 10, 2018

• Initial Release

Known Issues

Known Limitations

The following known limitations should be considered when using Live Optics to assess a Unity storage array.

• The PPT doesn’t support File or vVol performance data, however, the File and vVol performance data is supported in the online viewer.
• File system latency is not available before OS version 4.5 (on the viewer).
• vVol is not represented in the workload concentration chart.