Dell Storage Monitoring and Reporting Owner's manual

Dell
Brand
Dell
Model
Storage Monitoring and Reporting
Type
Owner's manual

Dell Storage Monitoring and Reporting is an advanced monitoring and reporting tool that provides comprehensive visibility into the performance and capacity of your Dell storage infrastructure. With Dell Storage Monitoring and Reporting, you can:

  • Monitor the health and performance of your Dell storage systems in real-time
  • Identify and resolve performance issues proactively
  • Generate comprehensive reports on storage utilization, performance, and capacity
  • Forecast future storage needs and plan for capacity expansion
  • Set up alerts and notifications to stay informed about critical storage events

Dell Storage Monitoring and Reporting is an advanced monitoring and reporting tool that provides comprehensive visibility into the performance and capacity of your Dell storage infrastructure. With Dell Storage Monitoring and Reporting, you can:

  • Monitor the health and performance of your Dell storage systems in real-time
  • Identify and resolve performance issues proactively
  • Generate comprehensive reports on storage utilization, performance, and capacity
  • Forecast future storage needs and plan for capacity expansion
  • Set up alerts and notifications to stay informed about critical storage events
Dell EMC Storage Monitoring and Reporting
Support Matrix
4.5
February 2022
Rev. 1.4
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 data and tells you how to avoid
the problem.
WARNING: A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury, or death.
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Chapter 1: System Requirements.................................................................................................. 4
Storage Monitoring and Reporting vApp Installation Requirements....................................................................... 4
Storage Monitoring and Reporting Binary Installation Requirements..................................................................... 4
Browser requirements........................................................................................................................................................ 5
Secure Remote Services requirements..........................................................................................................................5
Third-party tools.................................................................................................................................................................. 5
Chapter 2: Supported SolutionPacks.............................................................................................6
SolutionPack for Dell EMC Unity/VNX/VNXe............................................................................................................. 6
SolutionPack for Dell EMC VPLEX.................................................................................................................................. 7
Contents
Contents 3
System Requirements
This chapter includes the following topics:
Topics:
•Storage Monitoring and Reporting vApp Installation Requirements
•Storage Monitoring and Reporting Binary Installation Requirements
•Browser requirements
•Secure Remote Services requirements
•Third-party tools
Storage Monitoring and Reporting vApp Installation
Requirements
The following VMware vSphere versions are supported for Storage Monitoring and Reporting vApp installation.
●VMware vSphere 6.0.x
●VMware vSphere 6.5u1
●VMware vSphere 6.7
●VMware vSphere 7.0
Storage Monitoring and Reporting Binary Installation
Requirements
The following operating systems are supported for Storage Monitoring and Reporting binary installation.
NOTE: If you want to obtain Linux binary for Storage Monitoring and Reporting, then raise an RPQ request through your
account team or Customer Support.
Table 1. Supported operating systems
Operating system Version
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (64-bit)
7 (64-bit)
8.2 (64-bit)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 SP4 (64-bit)
Microsoft Windows Server 2012
Server 2012 R2
Server 2016
Server 2019
NOTE: The existing customers can avail support for CentOS platform. As it is deprecated the support for this platform is
provided through RPQ request, so users must raise an RPQ request for any new CentOS deployments
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Browser requirements
For the following browsers, support varies.
Table 2. Supported browsers
Browser Version Operating system Notes
Google Chrome Latest Windows, Linux Full support
Internet Explorer 11 Windows Full support
Internet Explorer
Edge
Latest Windows Full support
Mozilla Firefox Latest Windows, Linux Full support
Apple Safari Latest Mac OS X and iOS Full support
Full support includes:
●Report viewing and browsing
●Support for interactive tables and graphs
●Topology maps
●Administration tasks such as user management, enrichment GUI, alerting GUI, and so on
NOTE: Dell EMC Storage Monitoring and Reporting is an HTML/JavaScript only web application. It does not require
installation of Flex, Flash, or Java.
Secure Remote Services requirements
The following Secure Remote Services (previously known as ESRS) versions are supported.
Table 3. Supported Secure Remote Services versions
Secure Remote Services
version
Ports Notes
Secure Remote Services V3
(Virtual Edition)
9443 (HTTPS, Passive
FTP, SMTP)
Used for communication between the frontend host and the Secure
Remote Services VE host.
22 (CLI over SSH) Open port 22 on both the frontend host and the Secure Remote
Services VE host for additional communication between the
components.
Third-party tools
The following third-party tools are supported.
Table 4. Supported third-party tools
Tools Version Notes
PuTTY 0.63 Minimum version that is required to
support AES_CTR algorithms that are
introduced in SP 1.
System Requirements 5
Supported SolutionPacks
This chapter includes the following topics:
Topics:
•SolutionPack for Dell EMC Unity/VNX/VNXe
•SolutionPack for Dell EMC VPLEX
SolutionPack for Dell EMC Unity/VNX/VNXe
The following models of Dell EMC VNX or Dell EMC Unity/VNXe are supported.
Table 5. Support for Dell EMC VNX
Supported Family or Models Prerequisites Ports
Operating Environment for Block
("FLARE"): 05.32 or later
Not applicable 443
VNX Operating Environment for
File 7.1 or later. Used with VNX1,
VNX2, and Gateway models
Not applicable 22, 443
NOTE:
●For collection of performance data for VNX MetaLUNs with Operating Environment for Block (“FLARE”) 05.32, version
05.32.000.5.209 or later must be used.
●Navisphere® CLI commands are used to communicate with the VNX. Dell Technologies recommends to match
Navisphere® CLI versions with the Block Operating Environment versions of VNX systems that are configured in the
SolutionPack. For example, if the firmware version of the Block side is 05.32.x, Navisphere® CLI 7.32.x or later should
be used. For more information about compatible Block OE and Navisphere® CLI versions, see VNX OE for Block Release
Notes and Unisphere Host Agent/CLI and Utilities Release Notes.
●SSH access to VNX-File/Celerra with an operator user. SSH access is needed between VNX Collector host and Control
Station to download files in /emc-srm using SFTP.
●To collect Quota information correctly, arrays must be running File OE 7.1.70.0 or later.
●If ALUA (Failover Mode 4) attached to a VNX array is enabled for one or more hosts, and I/O to the associated
host LUNs are distributed across more than one Storage Processor, values for the LUN performance metrics,
AverageBusyQueueLength, QueueLength, and ResponseTime are higher than what is displayed in Unisphere Analyzer.
The higher values are because the Navisphere® CLI counters are used to compute these metrics accumulate for each
Storage Processor.
●Use ReadCacheHitRatio and WriteCacheHitRatio, for FLARE or Operating Environment for Block version 05.33,
05.33.006.5.102 or later to compute the LUN performance metrics correctly.
●If Hot Spare disks are invoked or disks are removed the Raw Capacity for an array decreases, although Raw Capacity for
one or more RAID Groups or Pools of the faulted or removed disks do not change. It is normal due to how the Unisphere
and Navisphere® CLI display the capacity metrics for Hot Spares, depending on their state. Until the removed or faulted
disks are replaced and the hot spares are returned to a "Hot Spare Ready" state, it could result in Raw Capacity for a
VNX array to display lower than the sum of the following metrics: ConfiguredUsableCapacity, RAIDOverheadCapacity,
UnconfiguredCapacity, UnusableCapacity, and HotSpareCapacity.
●Unisphere Analyzer or SRM may provide huge spikes for Disk Response Time on systems with FLARE or Operating
Environment for Block 05.33. This issue has been addressed in 05.33.000.5.081 and later.
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Table 6. Support for Dell EMC Unity/VNXe
Supported Family or Models Prerequisites Ports
OE 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.1.1, 3.1.5, 3.1.8 to 3.1.17.x (Block and File)
●Used with second-generation VNXe models as of VNXe3200
●First-generation VNXe models such as VNXe1600, VNXe3100,
VNXe3150, and VNXe3300 are not supported.
OE 4.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.1, 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.2, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 4.2.3, 4.3, 4.3.1,
4.4, 4.5.1, 5.0.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.0.3, 5.0.4, 5.0.5, 5.0.6, 5.0.7, 5.1.0,
5.1.1, 5.1.2.x (Block and File)
●Used with physical Unity XT and Unity models.
●UnityVSA (Virtual Storage Appliance) is not supported.
Not applicable 443
NOTE:
●Alerts are supported for Unity OE 4.1 or later.
●Alerts are not supported for VNXe arrays.
SolutionPack for Dell EMC VPLEX
The following Dell EMC VPLEX models are supported.
Table 7. Support for Dell EMC VPLEX
Supported Family or Models Prerequisites Ports
5.5.x, 6.0.x, 6.1, 6.1.0.01, 6.2 of Standalone
(single cluster) and Metro or Geo
REST API access, CLI access, and Virtual Volume
Perpetual monitor logs (for VPLEX 5.4.x or later),
CLI access and Director Perpetual monitor logs
443 HTTPS, 22 SSH
NOTE:
●Do not run VPLEX 5.2sp1 patch 2 with any version of the product as the VPLEX management server can become
unresponsive.
●The SolutionPacks, Dell EMC VMAX, Dell EMC VNX, NetApp, Dell EMC XtremIO, IBM XIV, Hitachi Device Manager, HP
StorageWorks, and HP 3PAR support Backend Arrays.
●The SolutionPacks Dell EMC PowerFlex, Dell EMC PowerScale, and IBM DS do not support Backend Array.
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Dell Storage Monitoring and Reporting Owner's manual

Dell
Brand
Dell
Model
Storage Monitoring and Reporting
Type
Owner's manual

Dell Storage Monitoring and Reporting is an advanced monitoring and reporting tool that provides comprehensive visibility into the performance and capacity of your Dell storage infrastructure. With Dell Storage Monitoring and Reporting, you can:

  • Monitor the health and performance of your Dell storage systems in real-time
  • Identify and resolve performance issues proactively
  • Generate comprehensive reports on storage utilization, performance, and capacity
  • Forecast future storage needs and plan for capacity expansion
  • Set up alerts and notifications to stay informed about critical storage events
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