Dell EMC Unity: How to check if ODX (Offline Data Copy) is being invoked on Unity (User Correctable)

Summary: This is how you can check if ODX is in use on Unity

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Instructions

To determine if ODX is in use:
Start the ODX process on the client side.
ssh to the Unity as service user:

 
search for "IOCTL" in the c4_safe_ktrace.log
# grep IOCTL /EMC/C4Core/log/c4_safe_ktrace.log

 
If the following events are seen then ODX (Offload Data Copy) is being invoked.

SB: Vol 0xFFFFF88025B60D80 received IOCTL_XCL_POPULATE_TOKEN IRP 0xfffff88009846848
SB: Vol 0xFFFFF88025B60D80 received IOCTL_XCL_WRITE_USING_TOKEN IRP 0xfffff8800abc7718 for token
 


Affected Products

Dell EMC Unity Family

Products

Dell EMC Unity
Article Properties
Article Number: 000184664
Article Type: How To
Last Modified: 06 Jan 2022
Version:  3
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