Release Notes

19 Dell Virtual Storage Manager: Installation Considerations and Local Data Protection | 2079-BP-V-VSM
3 VSM datastore management
The design principles behind VSM provide the vSphere administrator with:
• A view into the storage that supports the datastore presented to the vSphere virtualized environment
• The ability to perform normal day-to-day storage administration tasks
• The ability to use all the data protection capabilities of a PS Series array
For details on the data protection capabilities of VSM, see sections 6 and 7.
The next section gives examples of the information views that VSM provides. These views supply the vSphere
administrator with the current status of the storage.
3.1 Dell Storage view
This first view, accessed from VSM > PS Groups, shows a high level overview of the status of all the PS Series groups
registered with the VSM. The vSphere administrator can quickly see the overall array storage capacity used, and any
events of concern on the storage that may need attention.
Figure 5 Listing of PS Series groups registered with VSM
In the example shown, the second array named firefly, which is utilizing 37% of its 35TB capacity, has six errors and one
warning event. Double clicking on the entry allows the administrator to view additional information about the errors
and warnings as well as on the array as a whole.