There are a variety of methods to monitor the FlashArray resources, objects, and metrics. This section will be covering the FlashArray Environment, Hierarchy, types and then will go through each of the dashboards that come with the plugin by default.
Once configured, the Everpure FlashArray adapter begins to query Purity and pull FlashArray volume, host, host group, and array-level data and alert information into VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Operations. The information that is collected includes parent-child relationships within the Everpure World and vSphere World. The data is pulled via the Everpure REST API protocol, which is built directly into the adapter.
Multiple collectors can be run simultaneously. The collection process repeats itself every five minutes.
The collection interval cannot be changed.
The Everpure FlashArray adapter pulls FlashArray data into VCF Operations every five minutes. Therefore, the FlashArray information displayed in VCF Operations can lag up to five minutes behind the real-time data displayed in the Purity GUI.
After the data has been pulled into VCF Operations, the information can be used to analyze capacity and performance statistics, monitor the health of the array objects, determine risks, forecast growth, analyze alerts, and generate reports.
The Environment page of the VCF Operations includes various areas to help you analyze the state of the environment and quickly identify and resolve issues.