Dell Storage vRealize Operations Management Pack Version 1.
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Preface About This Guide This document provides the purpose and audience of the Dell Storage vRealize Operations Management Pack Administrator’s Guide and a list of related publications. Revision History Document number 680-109-002 Revision Date Description A June 2017 Version 1.
1 Getting Started The Dell Storage vRealize Operations Management Pack is an embedded adapter that gathers topology, metrics, and alerts from Dell Storage Manager for display on dashboards in VMware vRealize Operations Manager. This guide refers to the embedded management pack as the Dell Storage Management Pack.
Replace IP with the fully-qualified domain name (FQDN) or IP address of the vRealize Operations Manager. 2 When prompted, type the Administrator user name and password. The vRealize Operations Manager user interface opens. 3 In the left pane of vRealize Operations Manager, click Administration > Solutions. 4 On the Solutions tab, click the plus sign (+). The Add Solution page opens. 5 Click Browse to navigate to the location of the PAK file. 6 Select the DellStorageAdapter PAK file. Figure 1.
Update Installation If updating the Dell Storage vRealize Operations Management Pack from version 1.1 to version 1.2: 1 Update vRealize Operations Manager from version 6.x to version 6.4 with Dell Storage vRealize Operations Management Pack version 1.1. 2 Update the Dell Storage vRealize Operations Management Pack from version 1.1 to version 1.2.
9 To use Auto Discovery, keep the Auto Discovery value set to true. 10 To add login credentials, click the plus sign (+) next to the Credential drop-down menu. The Manage Credentials dialog box opens. 11 Specify the login credentials of an Admin user on the Data Collector. 12 Click OK. 13 Click Test Connection to validate that the settings are correct. 14 (Optional) Expand Advanced Settings and select a different Data Collector from the list. 15 Click Save Settings. 16 Click Close.
2 Working with Dashboards Several dashboards are prepackaged with the Dell Storage Management Pack. The Dell Storage dashboards provide a starting point for monitoring and analyzing your environment. The dashboards are fully configurable and can be modified to better represent your environment. Topics: • Viewing Dashboards • Modifying Dashboards and Widgets Viewing Dashboards The Dell Storage dashboards are accessed from the Dashboards menu of the vRealize Operations Manager user interface.
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View Dell Storage Metrics This dashboard displays the health status and metrics for the selected Storage Center. 1 Select a resource for the Storage Center from the Select Resource to View Metrics widget. 2 Select a metric to graph for the resource from the Select Metrics to Graph widget. 3 Select the graph type from the Metric Graph widget. The following figure shows an example of a Dell Storage Metrics dashboard. Figure 4.
• Dell Storage Volume Replay Space • Dell Storage Volume Capacity The following figure shows an example of a Dell Storage Volume Top-N Reports dashboard. Figure 5. Sample Dell Storage Volume Top-N Reports Dashboard View Graph of Metric Click a row on any widget to view a graph of the metric. Modify Period Length Except for the Replay Space and Volume Capacity widgets, each widget lists the top 25 volumes for the last 24-hour period. Edit the widget to adjust the duration. 1 Click Edit Widget.
View Dell Storage at a Glance This dashboard displays the health status, storage array controllers, disk tiers, and alerts for the selected Storage Center. 1 Select the Storage Center from the Storage Array Selector. The Selected Storage Array Health Tree widget is updated to show the topology and health badges of the Storage Center resources. 2 Click a resource on the Selected Storage Array Health Tree widget to view its metrics in the Metric Sparklines ‐ Select From Health Tree widget.
View Dell Storage Port Top-N Reports This dashboard lists the top 25 ports for the following categories: • Storage Front End Total IO/Sec (24h) • Storage Front End Total kb/Sec (24h) • Storage Front End Port Write IO/Sec (24h) • Storage Front End Port Read IO/Sec (24h) • Storage Front End Port Write Latency IO/Sec (24h) • Storage Front End Port Read Latency (24h) The following figure shows an example of a Dell Storage Port Top-N Reports dashboard. Figure 7.
3 Click OK. Alternatively, to analyze the top volumes for different durations, clone the dashboard and then adjust the Period Length for each widget on the new dashboard. Modifying Dashboards and Widgets See the VMware vRealize Operations Manager documentation for detailed information on working with dashboards and widgets: https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vrealize-operations-manager-pubs.
