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    Dell EMC PowerStore Monitoring Your System Version 2.x June 2021 Rev. A01
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    and tells you how to avoid the problem. WARNING: A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury, or death. © 2020 - 2021 Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. All rights reserved. Dell, EMC, and other trademarks are trademarks of Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. Other trademarks may
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    11 Capacity forecasting and recommendations...12 Capacity data locations in PowerStore Manager...13 Start monitoring capacity usage...14 Data Savings collection and retention periods 17 Performance data locations in PowerStore Manager 17 Performance policies...18 Working with performance charts
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    PowerStore Documentation page at https:// www.dell.com/powerstoredocs. ● Troubleshooting For information about products, software updates, licensing, and service, go to https://www.dell.com/support and locate the appropriate product support page. ● Technical support For technical support and service
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    your available storage. ● Indicate when you may need to add more storage to your cluster. Finally, should an event occur that requires further troubleshooting, PowerStore has a mechanism for collecting support materials which helps analyze and resolve the issue. Monitoring Your System Overview 5
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    events that require attention. Most alerts indicate that there is a problem with the system. The system displays ongoing alerts in the dashboard on virtual machine, from the Alerts card on the details page of the object. To review events that do not rise to the level of an alert, go to Monitoring >
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    alert triggered an email notification. Service and Alerts Support Links to support and troubleshooting resources. Associated Alerts Events Events selecting Include acknowledged alerts on the Alerts card. Monitor alerts PowerStore Manager provides alert views at multiple levels, from the overall
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    10 designated SNMP Managers (trap destinations). NOTE: Only notifications are supported. The authoritative Local Engine ID used for SNMPv3 messages is given , select SNMP. The Local Engine ID appears under Details. Using PowerStore Manager, do the following: Steps 1. Select Settings and, under
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    SNMP Trap. Critical Information Banner A banner displays critical information for system users. The information banner, which is displayed at the top of PowerStore Manager, displays information about global alerts to all users logged into the system. When only a single global alert is issued, the
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    category (Configured Resource/Hardware/Software Services) Appliance The appliance for which check results. Remote logging The storage system supports sending audit log messages to a maximum of TLS Encryption. To review or updated remote logging settings, log into PowerStore and click Settings
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    future storage needs of a cluster or appliance. Also, the trending and predictive metrics can be shared with the Dell EMC Support Center when PowerStore is configured with Support Assist. These metrics provide intelligent insight on how capacity is being used and help to predict future capacity
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    retained for up to 2 years. Historical charts scroll automatically to the left when new data is available. Capacity forecasting and recommendations PowerStore uses historical capacity metrics to forecast when your appliance or cluster may run out of storage space, and to provide recommendations on
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    health. You can also choose to manually migrate volumes, or volume groups, supported within a single cluster with multiple appliances. Migration recommendations are provided in the PowerStore Manager after a Major threshold is met. However, you can use the PowerStore Management REST API to review
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    the top consumers, you can further analyze to the resource level to review the capacity of a specific Volume, Volume group, Virtual Machine, or File based on the automated inline data services that are provided with the PowerStore. The automated inline data services occur in the system before the
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    capacity. The drive usage that is saved by these data services results in cost savings and consistent, predictable high performance, capacity, performance, and availability requirements of hosts and applications. In PowerStore, volumes and file systems are thin provisioned to optimize the use
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    to actual storage usage. While the system allocates only a portion of the physical capacity requested by each storage resource, it leaves the remaining storage available for other storage resources to use. The system reports the capacity savings gained from thin provisioning using the Thin Savings
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    provides you with various metrics that can help you monitor the health of your system, anticipate problems before they occur, and reduce troubleshooting times. You can use the PowerStore Manager, REST API, or CLI to monitor the performance of a cluster, and for individual storage resources
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    can choose to change the performance policy set on a volume, or a virtual volume (vVol). The performance policies are provided with PowerStore. You cannot create or customize performance policies. By default volumes, and vVols are created with a medium performance policy. The performance policies
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    2. Select the volumes on which you are changing the policy. NOTE: You can only set the same policy on the selected volumes. 3. Select More Actions > Change Performance Policy. 4. Select a performance policy, and select Apply. Working with performance charts You can work with the performance charts
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    Figure 3. Appliance/node performance chart 1. Select whether to view the Overall or File level performance of a cluster. 2. Select the metric category to display from the Category list. Charts are displayed for the appliance and nodes that are selected in the Show/Hide list. 3. Select or clear the
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    2. Select the amount of historical performance data to display from the Timeline list. 3. Download the charts as a .png, .jpg, .pdf file or export the data to a .csv file. 4. View the historical performance data in the chart or hover over a point on the line graph to display the metric values at
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    materials collection uses the essentials profile. Use the svc_dc service script to collect support materials for other profiles. See the PowerStore Service Scripts Guide for more information about the svc_dc service script and the available profiles. NOTE: The system can run only one collection
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    Next steps After the job is finished, you can download the support materials collection to a client, send the collection to support, or delete the collection. Select the support materials collection, then select Download, Send to Support, or Delete. Collecting System Data 23
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Dell EMC PowerStore
Monitoring Your System
Version 2.x
June 2021
Rev. A01