Dell PowerStore Monitoring Your System

All system performance metrics are collected every five seconds except for volumes, virtual volumes, and file systems, for which performance metrics are collected by default every 20 seconds.

All storage resources that are configured to collect performance metrics every five seconds are listed in the Metric Collection Configuration window (Settings > Support > Metric Collection Configuration.

You can change the granularity of performance data collection for volumes, virtual volumes, and file system:

1. Select the relevant storage resource (or resources).
2. Select More Actions > Change Metric Granularity.
3. From the Change Metric Collection Granularity slide-out panel, select the granularity level.
4. Click Apply.

The collected data is retained as follows:

• Five seconds data is retained for one hour.
• 20 seconds data is retained for one hour.
• Five minute data is retained for one day.
• One hour data is retained for 30 days.
• One day data is retained for Two years.

The performance charts refresh interval is set according to the selected Timeline as follows: