Dashboards

User Guides for VMware Solutions

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User Guides

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Documentation

The structure of Everpure Content Pack provides a logical workflow for FlashArray management. Each dashboard consists of multiple widgets which provide easy to view and scan means of quickly obtaining FlashArray releated data. This data is intended to assist in maintaining, monitoring and troubleshooting vSphere FlashArray-based back-end storage. Besides the quick overview delivered by each widget, vSphere administrator can easily examine detailed information about FlashArray related events reported to Log Insight.

For instance, based on Figure 5, the sn1-405-c12-13 FlashArray reported seventeen critical alerts.

Figure 5.

By switching to Alerts dashboard, Critical Alerts By Array and Critical Alerts - Details widgets, detailed data for each critical alert can be obtained by mousing over the appropriate graphic (bar or doughnut) or Interactive Analytics, click Open in Interactive Analytics icon on corresponding widget. See Figure 6 and Figure 7.

Figure 6.

Figure 7.

Similar methodology can be utilized when examining additional dashboards and widgets.

The list of dashboards and widgets is shown in table 1.

Dashboard	Widget	Description
Overview	Number of Arrays Sending Messages	Number of FlashArrays sending messages to vRealize Log Insight during selected time interval. To test whether FlashArray is properly configured send a test message using purelog test command.
	Hardware Alerts	Count of critical hardware events during selected time interval to assist in hardware troubleshooting. Alerts should be investigated immediately.
	Power Failures	Power component hardware failures. The alerts should be investigated immediately. This widget indicates the general location (controller # or shelf #) and specific location (such as pwr1 which is Power Connection 1) Refer to the Everpure GUI for the physical location of the failure. The results are sorted by failed power component and FlashArray name <failed power component, array name>.
	Total Alerts	Total number of alerts sent by FlashArray within the specified time interval. The alerts are classified as Info, Warning, Critical. Additional details are avilable in Alerts dashboard.
Alerts	Critical Alerts By Array	Number of Critical events grouped by FlashArray within the specified time interval. See Critical Alerts widget fin Alerts dashboard for additional details.
	Critical Alerts - Details	Critical alerts within specified time interval grouped by array which need to be investigated immediately. Critical alert message may be seen by mousing over displayed columns.
	Warning Alerts By Array	Number of Warning events grouped by FlashArray within the specified time interval. See Warning Alerts by widget in Alerts dashboard for additional details.
	Warning Alerts - Details	Warning alerts within specified time interval grouped by array which need to be investigated as soon as possible. Warning alert message may be seen by mousing over displayed columns.
	Reminder Alerts	Reminder Alerts within the specified time interval. Reminder alerts are periodically generated by array to alert about the unresolved issues after the initial alert had been already sent.
	Information Alerts	Information alerts within specified time interval grouped by array. Information alert message may be seen by mousing over displayed columns.
Volumes	Volume Operations	Volume management events such as creation, destruction, expansion, shrinking (truncating), recovering, connecting, disconnecting and snapping. The results are grouped by array. For additional details examine widgets in this (Volumes) dashboard.
	Volume Create	Volume create management events grouped by array.
	Volume Resize	Volume resize management events grouped by array.
	Volume Destroy	Volume destroy management events grouped by array.
	Volume Eradicate	Volume eradicate management events grouped by array. Once the volume is destroyed and may be manually restored or automatically eradicated after 24 hours from the deletion time.
	Capacity Alerts	Array Capacity Alert are generated when the following conditions are met: Information: 80 % of capacity Warning: 90% of capacity Critical: 100% capacity
VVols	VVol Create	VVol create management events grouped by array. VVols are automatically created with virtual machine and when virtual machine is powered on. Adding new disks to the virtual machine may also result in creation of subsequent VVols.
	VVol Disconnect	VVol disconnect events grouped by array. VVold disconnect events may be associated with the virtual machine deletion, virtual disk removal and resizing as well as vMotion.
	VVol Destroy	VVol Destroy management events may be associated with the virtual machine deletion, virtual disk removal, Storage vMotion.
	VVol Eradicate	VVol eradicate management events grouped by array. Once the VVol (volume) is destroyed and may be manually restored or automatically eradicated after 24 hours from the deletion time.
	VVol-Based VIrtual Machines	The number of VVol-based virtual machines created within the specified time interval.
Replication	Protection Group Operations	Protection Group management events such as creation, destruction, recovery, renaming, snapping. The results are grouped by array.
	Delayed Protection Groups	This widget displays Protection Groups that did not meet remote replication schedule at the configured interval. Investigate replication network, replication schedule or lack of free capacity.
	Single Volume Snap And Copy Operations	Single volume local clone or snap operations during the defined time interval.
	Protection Group Snap and Copy Operations	Protection group snap and copy operations during the defined time interval.
	Protection Group Queries	Suggested queries for snapshot or remote replication messages.
	Recent Protection Group Membership Changes	List of objects (volume,host, host,host group, target FlashArray) that have been added or removed from Protection Group.
ActiveCluster	Alerts	Number of ActiveCluster alerts (Information, Warning, Critical) grouped by array within the defined time interval.
	Mediator Offline	Mediator is responsible for failover and split-brain prevention. Mediator offline need to be investigated immediately. The Mediator Offline alerts can be generated by FlashArray's inability to reach the Internet. Check your Internet connectivity.
	Local Pod Offline	ActiveCluster Local Pod offline alert. The offline Pod is frozen and no longer writable. When remote array is reachable and a pod is synchronized, the pod will automatically unfreeze and its volumes will become writable.
	Remote Pod Offline	The Pod remains writable and configurable locally. Data and configuration re-synchronization when communication is restored with the remote array. This alert indicates that this array lost contact with its replication peer.
	Pod Operations	ActiveCluster POD operations such as add, clone, create, destroy, recover,eradicate, rename.
	Pod Resynchronizing	ActiveCluster Pod resyncing alerts. During re-synchronization, the data inside the Pod is frozen on the remote FlashArray and is read-only.
	Pod Resynchronization Complete	ActiveCluster Pod resyncing alerts. Pod has been resynchronized.
Auditing	User Operations	Number of user operations performed on FlashArray. Arrays with comparatively large number of user operations may indicate unauthorized access.
	Invalid Logins By FlashArray And Access Method	Number of invalid logins from end-users or applications sorted by access method (REST, GUI or CLI). Large increases in this number may represent a pattern of unauthorized access attempts or more likely scripts/applications with outdated credentials. High numbers of REST failures indicates typically a script or application.
	Login Access Method	Distribution of access methods (REST, GUI or CLI) by end user or application logins to the configured FlashArrays. Only initial logins are captured.
	Host And Host Group Operations	Host and host group configuration changes. Operations like creation, deletion, host add, volume add/removal are reported here. The results are sorted by host group name and FlashArray name.
	IPs Accessing Array	IP addresses from which FlashArrays have been accessed. This data may be used to determine which hosts connect to FlashArray.
	User Activity	User audit activity on the FlashArray. All non-read-only operations are shown in quantity for that specific time. This data may be used to examine CLI commands executed on the array.

Table 1.