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GetAccountEfficiency

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You can use GetAccountEfficiency to get efficiency statistics about a volume account. This method returns efficiency information only for the account you give as a parameter.

Parameters

This method has the following input parameters:

Name Description Type Default value Required

accountID

Specifies the volume account for which efficiency statistics are returned.

integer

None

Yes

Return value

This method has the following return value:

Name Description Type

compression

The amount of space saved by data compression for all volumes in the account. Stated as a ratio where a value of "1" means data has been stored with no compression.

float

deduplication

The amount of space saved by not duplicating data for all volumes in the account. Stated as a ratio.

float

missingVolumes

The volumes that could not be queried for efficiency data. Missing volumes can be caused by the Garbage Collection (GC) cycle being less than an hour old, temporary loss of network connectivity, or restarted services since the GC cycle.

integer array

thinProvisioning

The ratio of space used to the amount of space allocated for storing data. Stated as a ratio.

float

timestamp

The last time efficiency data was collected after Garbage Collection (GC), in UTC+0 format.

ISO 8601 date string

Request example

Requests for this method are similar to the following example:

{
   "method": "GetAccountEfficiency",
   "params": {
     "accountID": 3
   },
   "id": 1
}

Response example

This method returns a response similar to the following example:

{
   "id": 1,
   "result": {
       "compression": 2.020468042933262,
       "deduplication": 2.042488619119879,
       "missingVolumes": [],
       "thinProvisioning": 1.010087163391013,
       "timestamp": "2014-03-10T14:06:02Z"
   }
}

New since version

9.6