Monitor the cloud read cache to help improve performance

With IBM Spectrum® Protect 8.1.13, you can validate the effectiveness of the cloud read cache for one or more cloud-container storage pools. The cloud read cache consists of disk storage space that is used in storage pool directories as a staging area for restoring data. When data is downloaded in bulk to the cloud read cache, read requests are redirected to the storage pool's disk storage location to help improve the performance of restore operations.

To query a cloud read cache, run the new QUERY CLOUDREADCACHE command. The command is valid for cloud-container storage pools that have the CLOUDREADCACHE=ON parameter setting. To display statistics about one or more cloud read caches, issue the QUERY CLOUDREADCACHE command and specify the storage pool name that you want to query.