Measures reported by PzCloudTest

Object storage, the typical storage system used in the cloud, breaks up data and stores it as flexibly-sized containers or chunks. Each chunk can be individually addressed, manipulated and stored in many locations-not tied to any particular disk-with some associated metadata. Object storage can scale to billions of objects and exabytes of capacity while protecting data with greater effectiveness than RAID. In addition, due to the discrete scale-out architecture of object sorage, drive failures have little impact on data and self-healing replication functions recover very rapidly (think weeks for large capacity legacy RAID systems). This combination of scale and robustness make object storage an ideal target for warehousing data. CloudFS interfaces directly with all major cloud object storage APIs and related storage tiers, and leverages object-based cloud storage as a data warehouse to provide scale and availability with a compelling cost structure.

Panzura Cloud file system offers high speed data transfer rates to and from the cloud. But the lack of adequate cloud storage space for storing data uploaded to the cloud by the cloud controller can adversely affect the performance of the file system. This can lead to reduced availability of the file system, poor responsiveness towards user requests, increased risk of data loss, and poor backup and recovery. Hence, it is very essential to monitor the cloud storage space available to store data from the file system.

This test tracks the allocated cloud storage space and reports the amount of used space and free space available for storage on the cloud. In addition, this test also reports the percentage of space utilization, which helps administrators to promptly detect and proactively resolve any storage space crunch before it affects the performance and user experience.

Outputs of the test: One set of results for the target appliance being monitored.

The measures made by this test are as follows: