Dell PowerFlex Rack with PowerFlex 3.x Administration Guide

Viewing PowerFlex gateway details

You can view performance metrics and storage details for PowerFlex gateway.

1. On the menu bar, click Resources.
2. On the All Resources tab, click a PowerFlex gateway resource from the list to view its details.
   The right pane displays basic information about the resource, such as the unused and spare space for PowerFlex. It also shows the number of protection domains, volumes, storage data clients (SDC), and storage data servers (SDS).
3. In the right pane, click View Details.
   The Details page displays detailed information about the PowerFlex gateway resource on the following tabs:

   • Performance: Displays metrics for system, volume, SDS, SDC, and storage pool. These metrics include the read, write, and total I/O operations per second (IOPS) and read, write, and total bandwidth.
   • Storage: Displays the protection domain, storage pools, volumes, and mapped storage data clients.
   • Nodes: Displays the protection domain, type (SDS or SDC), connection, name, IP address for the SDS or SDC, and fault set.

   The Details page also allows you to launch the PowerFlex Installer, launch a wizard to see the status of a recent upgrade, launch a wizard to reconfigure the MDM roles in the PowerFlex cluster, or migrate the PowerFlex gateway.

4. Click the Performance tab. In the Total IOPS and Bandwidth sections, you can filter the display by selecting any of the following options:
   • Choose to view graphs showing data for the last hour, day, week, month, or year.
   • Choose to view total IOPS for system, volume, SDS, or SDC. You can then select the specific item to view from the drop-down list. If the volume, SDS, or SDC name is not defined, the drop-down list displays the instance ID.

   Current IOPS and bandwidth (KB/S) always display in the top-left corner. The data is automatically refreshed every thirty seconds. Performance data is available when PowerFlex is deployed to a service.

   To export all metrics that are collected for the PowerFlex gateway to a CSV file, click Export All.

5. Click the Storage tab. For each storage pool within a protection domain, PowerFlex Manager shows the granularity setting and acceleration pool. For each volume within a storage pool, PowerFlex Manager shows the Compression and Type settings.

   For a storage pool that has compression disabled, the granularity is set to medium. For a storage pool that has compression enabled, the granularity is set to fine.

   To search for volumes associated with the gateway:
   1. Enter a volume or datastore name search string in the Search Text box.
   2. Optionally, select a Size range.
   3. Optionally, Thick or Thin for the Type.
   4. Optionally, select Enabled or Disabled for the Compression setting.
   5. Optionally, select a specific Storage Pool.
   6. Click Search.
      PowerFlex Manager updates the results to show only those volumes that satisfy the search criteria. If the search returns more than 50 volumes, you must refine the search criteria to return only 50 volumes.