Pure1 VM Analytics Collector Version 3.0.0

Collector Requirements

The Pure1 VM Analytics Collector Everpure VMware Appliance Quick Reference. Additional requirements are as follows:

• The IP addresses of the vCenter Servers to Collect from and network access to these vCenter Servers
• A username/password for the vCenter Servers being collected from with at minimum read only access
• VM Analytics Collector can collect from vCenter Servers version 5.5 and higher
• The VMware Appliance and Collector must have phonehome enabled
  • Which requires the Appliance and Collector having network/firewall access to Pure1
• VM Analytics supports VMFS, vVols, vSAN, and NFS datastores
• VMware Tools 10.1+ must be installed in VMs for Pure1 calculate VM Capacity metrics

Note that depending on the size of your environment, you may need to increase resources for the Everpure VMware Appliance.

What's New?

• Added Support for Capacity Reporting
  • VM Analytics now supports VM and Datastore capacity metrics for Used Raw, Used %, and Churn.
• OVA deployment cleanup
  • The puresetup vm-analytics-collector command completes the OVA installation. Used only if the OVA installation did not complete during the Deploy OVF Template... step in vSphere.
• Collector Pure1 registration
  • Register the collector with Pure1 using the purevmanalytics register command and the authorization key from the Pure1 Manage the VM Topology > Collector Configuration page.
• Support bundle command
  • Prepare logs to send to Pure Technical Services or to view log contents: puresupport bundle
• New upgrade procedure (to upgrade to future collector releases after v3.0.0)
  • Run the puresw list command to check for available OVA and collector updates. Run the puresw upgrade start vm-analytics-collector command to perform updates.

Pure1 VM Analytics is here to help narrow down the troubleshooting steps in your virtualized environment. VM Analytics provides you with a visual representation of the I/O path from the VM all the way through to the FlashArray. VM Analytics requires a collector to gather the information from the vSphere environment and then uses phonehome to deliver this data to Pure1. This KB covers the Release Notes specifically about the Collector that is deployed on the Everpure VMware Appliance.