Capacity Monitoring

This module shows us how Dell AIOps provides detailed capacity information for traditional storage, PowerProtect DD systems and subscription based Offerings. We'll also see what capacity means for Connectrix switches.

System Capacity - Storage & Data Protection

This lesson will introduce us to the multisystem Capacity View. We will then drill down into a PowerStore array, an APEX Storage subscription, and a PowerProtect DD system to view detailed capacity information for each.

Click **"Infrastructure"** under **Monitor** from the left hand pane.

Click **"Capacity"** from the left-hand drop down.

Click **"Storage"** from the right-hand drop down.

In this view we can see the Physical Usable, Used and Free space for each storage system.

These charts also show the efficiency for All-Flash systems. The Overall Efficiency ratio is based on the savings due to Thin, Snapshots and Data Reduction (Compression and Deduplication) of block and file storage objects. Looking at the **Manufacturing \_Prod** system, we see an Overall Efficiency 12.1:1 for this PowerStore device.

For Hybrid arrays, AIOps Observability still shows these views for consistency across all physical systems. Hybrid arrays support Data Reduction if they are configured with all flash pools. The hybrid system **Disaster Recovery** shows an Overall Efficiency of 8.5:1.

Dell AIOps includes both traditional and APEX systems in the various views, allowing us to monitor all storage from the Dell AIOps UI. For **APEX Block Boston** the Subscribed Usable capacity is displayed along with the Base Used and Base Available capacity values. It also shows the number of subscriptions as well as if any On-Demand storage is used.

**Finance DC** - PowerFlex systems and savings are now supported in Dell AIOps. We see the Overall Efficiency which includes savings due to Thin/Snapshots and Data Reduction.

Click **"Manufacturing_Prod"** to drill down to the system details page for this PowerStore cluster.

We are directed to the **Capacity** tab for the **Manufacturing_Prod** PowerStore cluster. The Capacity tab shows us a detailed view of the system capacity. The top of the page charts the provisioned space along with the actual used and free space. It also provides a capacity forecast and the predicted date to when the cluster will be full.

The bottom of the page shows detailed storage usage for the system. The Physical and Logical usage is shown. Expand the **Details** link to display the **Storage Usage** pie chart showing a breakdown of logical used storage.

The right side of the page provides a detailed chart showing how data reduction maps the logical capacity to the physical capacity. Expand the **Details** link to see storage savings that comprise the **Overall Efficiency**.

Click **"Infrastructure"** from the left hand navigation pane.

Click **"Data Protection"** from the right hand pull down.

In this view we can see the Total, Used, and Available space on each PowerProtect DD system. We can also see Savings based on Reduction and Compression.

Click **"vmbackup29"**

We are directed to the **Capacity** tab on the system details page for **vmbackup29**. The top of the page provides the capacity forecast chart for Total, Used, and Available storage which allows us to plan for future capacity needs.

The bottom of the page provides a breakdown of the storage. The left side of the page shows stacked bar charts with the Used and Available capacities for both Active Tier and Cloud Tier, and a third chart with the totals. Dell AIOps also displays the Reduction and Savings percentages as well as the amount of Cleanable storage - storage that can be reclaimed by using a cleaning operation.

System Capacity - Networking

In this lesson, we will look at capacity information for Connectrix and PowerSwitch devices.

Click **"Infrastructure"** from the left hand navigation pane.

Click **"Networking"** from the pull down menu to open the multi-system capacity view for Connectrix and PowerSwitch devices.

This view shows a summary of the switch port counts for each switch broken down by Online, Offline, and Faulty status.

Click **"Dev SAN"**

We are directed to the **Capacity** tab for the **Dev SAN** switch. The top left portion of this view shows a breakdown of the ports on the switch broken down by Online, Offline and Faulty status. In this example, there are 32 total ports of which 5 are online, 27 are offline and 0 are faulty.

The bottom of the page shows the filtered list of ports with the following details Interface, Alias/Description, State etc... Selecting the box below the bar chart filters the port details displayed at the bottom of the view. This is useful when there are a large number of ports on the switch. Select the **Host** box to display only those F_ports that have hosts attached to them.

Pool Capacity

This lesson shows us how to utilize Dell AIOps to monitor the storage pools in the environment. We will see how the Home Page identifies storage pools, appliances, file systems, and clusters that are either full or predicted to run out of space in the near future, view historical trends as well as potential dates that the pool may run out of storage based on Dell AIOps predictive analytics algorithm.

From the **Home** page scroll to the **Capacity Approaching Full** tile. Click **"31 Within a month"** representing the 31 pools, appliances, file systems, clusters, and subscriptions that are expected to be full within one month.

We can see that **Market Research_Pool1** is projected to run out shortly. The right-hand side of the tile provides actual used and free capacities up until today, and then provides projected used and free capacities along with a confidence range from now until when the pool is expected to be full. Hovering the mouse over the chart provides a pop-up of the time stamp and capacity values.

Click **"8 Imminent".**

The **Imminent** category identifies pools and file systems that are experiencing a sudden surge of capacity utilization and are at risk of running out of space within 24 hours and therefore require immediate action to avoid a capacity full situation. Click **"Disaster Recovery_Pool2"** hyperlink

We are directed to the **Capacity** tab for the Pool Details page for **Disaster Recovery_Pool2**. The top half of the screen shows the Capacity Forecast chart for the storage pool. We see the predicted time to full is five hours. The chart provides an historical trend of used and free capacities as well as the projected forecasts for used and free capacities with a confidence range. There are two toggle buttons on the bottom of the chart that allow us to remove/add the subscribed and previous confidence range values from the chart.

In this example, we see that there are two file systems: **DR_Pool2_FS1** and **DR_Pool2_FS2** and two LUNS: **DR_Pool2_LUN1** and **DR_Pool2_LUN2** that are the significant contributors to the expected surge in capacity usage.

The bottom half of the window provides details about the pool including the current Used and Free space along with the current Subscription. The Storage Tier information is also provided, though in this case there is just a single tier since it's an all-flash pool. We will also see if there is any reclaimable storage identified in this pool. The Storage Usage donut chart breaks provides details on how the used storage is being consumed.

While we are looking at the Pool Details page for **Disaster Recovery_Pool2**, let's take a look at the Properties tab. Click **"Properties"**

The top of the Properties page provides some information about the pool as well as if there are any health issues associated with it. We again see the predicted capacity full message here along with the 30 point deduction for the Proactive Health Score. Scroll down to view the **Storage** tab. This tab shows us the storage objects attached to this pool. The type of objects may include the following: File Systems, LUN, VMWare NFS & VMFS.

Click **"Virtual Machines"** The Virtual Machines tab displays information about VMs that reside on this storage pool including the VM name, IP address, OS, vCenter IP address, ESXi host and ESX Cluster.

Tip! In order to see this information, the VMware environment must be discovered using the Dell AIOps Collector.

Select the **"Drives"** tab to view details about the disk drives that make up the storage pool. We will see information such as Type, Capacity, and Endurance Remaining for flash drives (days and %). The endurance is a key measure to identify the anticipated lifespan of a flash drive.

Reclaimable Storage

In this lesson, we see how Dell AIOps identifies and reports on reclaimable storage.

From the **Home** page scroll to the **Reclaimable Storage** tile. The Reclaimable Storage tile on the Overview page summarizes the amount of potentially reclaimable storage on each system in the environment and provides a bar chart of the used, reclaimable and free storage on each system.

Click **"GO TO RECLAIMABLE STORAGE"**

The Reclaimable Storage page identifies different types of storage that are considered reclaimable. The top of the page shows the total number of storage objects that are reclaimable (34) as well as the total amount of reclaimable space (71.0TB). It then has a breakdown of the different types of reclaimable storage per storage system.

Scroll down and expand the **Production** system.

We see there are 10 distinct storage objects identified as reclaimable for a total space of 23.0TB. There are 5 block objects and 1 file object that have had no frontend I/O activity in the past week, 2 block objects with no hosts attached, and 1 block-based virtual machine and 1 file-based virtual machine that have been shut down for the past week. Select the **Details** icon next to **Block Objects with no Hosts Attached**.

We now see the 2 block objects that are considered reclaimable because they are not associated to any hosts. This report also shows the size of each volume and the Pool to help us understand how much capacity is available if these volumes were reclaimed and assigned to other applications.

Select the **Details icon** next to **Block-based virtual machines that have been shut down for at least the past week**.

We can now see the VM that has been powered off along with the associated storage, vCenter server, and vCenter Datacenter.

Congratulations! You have reached the end of this particular lesson. Click **Close** in the top left corner of this script to return to the demo guide.

Capacity Monitoring

System Capacity - Storage & Data Protection

Click **"Infrastructure"** under **Monitor** from the left hand pane.

Click **"Capacity"** from the left-hand drop down.

Click **"Storage"** from the right-hand drop down.

In this view we can see the Physical Usable, Used and Free space for each storage system.

**Finance DC** - PowerFlex systems and savings are now supported in Dell AIOps. We see the Overall Efficiency which includes savings due to Thin/Snapshots and Data Reduction.

Click **"Manufacturing_Prod"** to drill down to the system details page for this PowerStore cluster.

Click **"Infrastructure"** from the left hand navigation pane.

Click **"Data Protection"** from the right hand pull down.

In this view we can see the Total, Used, and Available space on each PowerProtect DD system. We can also see Savings based on Reduction and Compression.

Click **"vmbackup29"**

System Capacity - Networking

In this lesson, we will look at capacity information for Connectrix and PowerSwitch devices.

Click **"Infrastructure"** from the left hand navigation pane.

Click **"Networking"** from the pull down menu to open the multi-system capacity view for Connectrix and PowerSwitch devices.

This view shows a summary of the switch port counts for each switch broken down by Online, Offline, and Faulty status.

Click **"Dev SAN"**

Pool Capacity

Click **"8 Imminent".**

While we are looking at the Pool Details page for **Disaster Recovery_Pool2**, let's take a look at the Properties tab. Click **"Properties"**

Tip! In order to see this information, the VMware environment must be discovered using the Dell AIOps Collector.

Reclaimable Storage

In this lesson, we see how Dell AIOps identifies and reports on reclaimable storage.

Click **"GO TO RECLAIMABLE STORAGE"**

Scroll down and expand the **Production** system.

Select the **Details icon** next to **Block-based virtual machines that have been shut down for at least the past week**.

We can now see the VM that has been powered off along with the associated storage, vCenter server, and vCenter Datacenter.

Congratulations! You have reached the end of this particular lesson. Click **Close** in the top left corner of this script to return to the demo guide.