Dell EMC PowerStore Monitoring Your System Owner's Manual
Summary
Dell EMC PowerStore Monitoring Your System Guide Version 3.x (July 2022 Rev. A03). Covers monitoring overview, managing alerts and events, configuring email notification preferences, temporarily disabling alert notifications, SNMP configuration for trap forwarding, performance metrics monitoring, capacity and health dashboards, and support connectivity. Designed for storage administrators managing Dell EMC PowerStore all-flash arrays for proactive system health management and alert response.
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Dell EMC Power Store Monitoring Your System Version 3.x
July 2022 Rev. A03
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Dell EMC Power Store Monitoring Your System Version 3.x July 2022 Rev. A03
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Notes, cautions, and warnings NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your product. CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of d...
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Contents Additional Resources.....................................................................................................................4 Chapter 1: Monitoring Your System Overview.............
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Preface NOTE: Power Store OS 3.0.0 only supports Power Store T model clusters. As part of an improvement effort, revisions of the software and hardware are periodically released. Some functions that a...
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Monitoring Your System Overview This chapter includes: Topics: Overview Overview This document describes the functionality available in the Power Store Manager to monitor, and optimize various Power S...
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Managing Alerts This chapter includes: Topics: Alerts and events Monitor alerts Configure email notification preferences Temporarily disable alert notifications Configure SNMP Critical Information Ban...
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Monitor alerts Power Store Manager provides alert views at multiple levels, from the overall cluster to individual objects. About this task The alerts page is automatically refreshed every 30 seconds....
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3. In the Modify Maintenance Mode slide-out panel, select the Enable Maintenance Mode option. 4. Specify how many hours to suspend notifications (up to 48 hours). NOTE: After the specified suspension ...
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NOTE: When a Security Level of either Authentication only or Authentication and privacy is selected, select either MD5 or SHA256. Privacy Protocol NOTE: When a Security Level of Authentication and pri...
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Remote logging The storage system supports sending audit log messages to a maximum of two hosts. The hosts must be accessible from the storage system. Audit log message transfers can use a one-way aut...
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Monitoring Capacity This chapter includes: Topics: About monitoring system capacity Capacity data collection and retention periods Capacity forecasting and recommendations Capacity data locations in P...
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Table 2. Capacity charts refresh intervals Granularity Level Refresh Interval Last 24 hours 5 minutes Last month 1 hour Last 2 years 1 day The following table displays the retention periods for each t...
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Figure 1. Cluster capacity chart - forecasting 1. Selecting the Forcast option, you can see the mean predicted physical usage (for the next 7days). 2. Selecting the Forcast Range option, you can see t...
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Table 6. Capacity data locations (continued) For Access path Virtual Volume (VVol) Compute > Virtual Machines > [virtual machine] > VVols > [VVol] opens with capacity for the virtual volum...
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The automated inline data services occur in the system before the data is written to the storage drives. The automated inline data services include: Data reduction, which consists of deduplication and...
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Thin provisioning allows multiple storage resources to subscribe to a common storage capacity. Therefore, it allows organizations to purchase less storage capacity up front, and increase available dri...
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Monitoring Performance This chapter includes: Topics: About monitoring system performance Performance metrics collection and retention periods Performance data locations in Power Store Manager Compari...
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Table 7. Performance charts refresh intervals Timeline Refresh Interval Last hour Five minutes Last 24 hours Five minutes Last month One hour Last two years One day Performance data locations in Power...
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volumes volume groups file systems hosts host groups virtual volumes virtual machines appliances ports Selecting More Actions > Compare Performance Metrics displays the performance charts of the se...
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Working with performance charts You can work with the performance charts to customize the display. Print performance charts, or export the performance data to display in an alternative application. A ...
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Figure 3. Appliance/node performance chart 1. Select whether to view the Overall or File performance of a cluster. 2. Select the metric category to display from the Category list. A chart is displayed...
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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 perfo...
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Collecting System Data This chapter includes: Topics: Support materials collection Collect support materials Support materials collection You can collect support materials to help troubleshoot the app...
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6. Select the Send materials to Support when finished checkbox if you want the system to automatically send the collection to support when the job completes. This option is only enabled when remote su...
Manual Details
| Brand | Dell |
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| Pages | 24 |
| File Size | 382.00 KB |
| Published | July 03, 2026 |
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Frequently Asked Questions
How do I configure email alerts for system events?
The manual details configuring email notification preferences under Chapter 2: Managing Alerts.
What is monitored when checking system capacity?
Monitoring includes data collection, retention periods, forecasting, and recommendations regarding system capacity.
Can I remotely gather support materials?
Yes, you can select 'Send materials to Support' if remote support through Secure Remote Services is enabled on the system.
What are potential drawbacks when gathering support materials?
Some operations, like collecting support materials, might not be available if the cluster is operating in a degraded state.