Dell PowerStore 3000X EMC PowerStore Virtualization Infrastructure Guide - Page 19

4 Virtualization configuration in PowerStore appliances Topics: • Managing virtualization components in the PowerStore Manager • Change a vCenter Server connection • Additional VMware software and configuration • Updating internal ESXi hosts on PowerStore X model appliances Managing virtualization components in the PowerStore Manager You can monitor and manage basic properties of VMs, vVols, and storage containers from the PowerStore Manager. Advanced management capabilities are available with the vSphere Web Client. Monitoring and managing VMs The Compute > Virtual Machines page in the PowerStore Manager displays essential information about all connected vVolbased VMs in a centralized location. The main view shows essential details for each VM. The table can be filtered, sorted, refreshed to show changes, and exported to a spreadsheet. VMs that are provisioned on a connected ESXi host are added to the table automatically. You can select one or more VMs to add or remove them from the dashboard watchlist or assign or remove a protection policy. To view more details for a VM, click its name. You can monitor and manage the VM properties available on the following cards: ● Capacity This card displays interactive line charts with storage usage history for the VM. You can view data for the past two years, month, or 24 hours and print or download the chart data as an image or CSV file. ● Compute Performance This card displays interactive line charts with CPU usage, memory usage, and system uptime history for the VM. You can view data for the past year, week, 24 hours, or hour and download the chart data as an image or CSV file. ● Storage Performance This card displays interactive line charts with latency, IOPS, bandwidth, and I/O operation size history for the VM. You can view data for the two years, month, 24 hours, or hour and download the chart data as an image or CSV file. ● Alerts This card displays alerts for the VM. The table can be filtered, sorted, refreshed to show changes, and exported to a spreadsheet. To view more details, click the description of the alert you are interested in. ● Protection This card displays snapshots for the VM. The table can be filtered, sorted, refreshed to show changes, and exported to a spreadsheet. To view more details, click the name of the snapshot you are interested in. You can also assign or remove a protection policy for the VM from this card. VM snapshots, whether manual or scheduled, create VMware-managed snapshots. You can take snapshots from PowerStore Manager or vSphere. Whether the snapshots are taken from PowerStore Manager or vSphere, snapshots of vVols based VMs are offloaded to the native snapshot engine on the PowerStore cluster. For more information, see VMware snapshot limitations on page 26. Virtualization configuration in PowerStore appliances 19