Administrator Guide

Using the Status Plugin........................................................................................................................................... 316
Using the Storage Summary Plugin....................................................................................................................... 318
Using the Front End IO Summary Plugin..............................................................................................................320
Using the Current Alerts Plugin.............................................................................................................................. 321
Using the Replication Validation Plugin................................................................................................................. 322
Using the Top 10 Fastest Growing Volumes Plugin............................................................................................. 322
Using the Current Threshold Alerts Plugin........................................................................................................... 323
Viewing Detailed Storage Usage Information.............................................................................................................323
View Storage Usage by Tier and RAID Type.........................................................................................................323
View Storage Usage by Volumes........................................................................................................................... 324
View Historical Storage Usage...............................................................................................................................325
View a Data Progression Pressure Report............................................................................................................325
Viewing Historical IO Performance.............................................................................................................................. 327
Using the IO Usage Tab...........................................................................................................................................327
Viewing Current IO Performance.................................................................................................................................329
Using the Charting Tab........................................................................................................................................... 329
Conguring Chart Options............................................................................................................................................ 331
Conguring User Settings for Charts.................................................................................................................... 331
Conguring Chart Settings.....................................................................................................................................332
Congure the Storage Center Data Gathering Schedule......................................................................................... 333
Exporting Usage Data................................................................................................................................................... 333
Export Storage Usage Data....................................................................................................................................333
Export I/O Usage Data........................................................................................................................................... 334
Monitoring Storage Center Hardware.........................................................................................................................336
Monitoring a Storage Center Controller................................................................................................................336
Monitoring a Storage Center Disk Enclosure....................................................................................................... 339
Monitoring SSD Endurance.....................................................................................................................................341
Viewing UPS Status................................................................................................................................................ 343
11 SMI-S....................................................................................................................................................... 345
SMI-S Provider.............................................................................................................................................................. 345
Supported Management Solutions........................................................................................................................345
Supported SMI-S 1.6 Proles................................................................................................................................. 345
SMI-S Namespace...................................................................................................................................................346
Setting Up SMI-S.......................................................................................................................................................... 346
SMI-S Prerequisites.................................................................................................................................................346
Enable SMI-S for the Data Collector.....................................................................................................................346
Using the Dell SMI-S Provider with Microsoft SCVMM...........................................................................................347
SCVMM Prerequisites............................................................................................................................................. 347
Limitations for SCVMM 2012................................................................................................................................. 348
Modify the SCVMM 2012 Management Server Registry to Allow HTTPS......................................................348
Prepare the SCVMM 2012 Server for Indications............................................................................................... 349
Use SCVMM to Discover the SMI-S Provider.....................................................................................................349
12 FluidFS Administration.............................................................................................................................. 351
How FS8600 Scale-Out NAS Works........................................................................................................................... 351
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