Dell EMC PowerFlex Rack Using PowerFlex Manager

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Monitor resources

You can monitor the status of resources that PowerFlex Manager interacts with from the Dashboard or from the Resources page. Resources include nodes, network switches, virtual machine managers (for example, VMware vCenter), PowerFlex Gateway, and element managers (for example, CloudLink Center).

The Resources page displays information about all the resources that are discovered and managed in PowerFlex Manager, including the resource health status, compliance status, and operational state.

Click a resource to view detailed information about the resource and associated components. The information that displays depends on the resource type.


Resource type	Description
PowerFlex nodes	View performance details, including system usage, CPU usage, memory usage, and I/O usage. Performance usage values are updated every five minutes.
PowerFlex Gateway	View performance metrics, storage, and node details. You can filter the display by choosing to view data for: The last hour, day, week, month, or year Total IOPS for system, volume, SDS, or SDC You can export all metrics collected for a PowerFlex Gateway to a CSV file. The file contains aggregated values for hour, day, week, month, and year.
PowerFlex rack cabinet	View information about the cabinet, including system name and location, model number, IP address, cabinet temperature and humidity details.
Supported switches	View packet count by port for all ports or for a specific port. The packet count for all ports shows the average packet count for all the ports in that switch.