Dell PowerStore

Dell PowerStore

Monitor PowerStore Arrays for performance and health, with Dell PowerStore API.

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Overview

Simplify monitoring of your PowerStore infrastructure. Focus on essential insights into your PowerStore arrays.

This extension is intended for users, who:

Use the Dell PowerStore storage
Want to extend Dynatrace insights into the storage infrastructure on which workloads depend

This extension enables you to:

Monitor your PowerStore arrays using a PowerStore-specific entity model and comprehensive unified analysis views
Receive alerts on performance and health issues detected in your PowerStore infrastructure
Take proactive actions based on anomalies detected in PowerStore infrastructure before they affect your applications

Use cases

Operational monitoring of your PowerStore array using the PowerStore API in Dynatrace, integrated with related insights into the infrastructure and apps that utilize your PowerStore array.
Monitor resource utilization and receive alerts for detected anomalies.

Get started

The PowerStore extension runs on a Dynatrace ActiveGate and connects to the Dell PowerStore APIs.

Activate the extension in your environment via the in-product Hub, then provide the PowerStore connection and a user account to connect to PowerStore APIs.

Details

The extension package contains:

Code (Python) module that implements metric ingestion from the Dell PowerStore API
Topology and relationship definitions for physical and logical entities that comprise the PowerStore platform
A sample dashboard offering the PowerStore monitoring overview and status
Unified analysis views for each entity, leveraging the topology model for interactive analysis

Summary of the PowerStore entities monitored:

The PowerStore extension collects metrics for PowerStore entities and builds topological relationships between them so that Dynatrace performance analytics can leverage causal dependencies and surface the root causes of issues. The following entities are monitored:

Cluster
Appliance
Volume
Filesystem
NAS Server
SMB-Share
NFS-Export

Compatibility information

A Dell PowerStore array with the PowerStore API available, reachable from an ActiveGate set up in your Dynatrace environment.
PowerStore API connection details: Server IP, username and password for authentication with the PowerStore API.

Q&A

Q: What is the DDU Consumption of this extension?

A: The formula for DDU consumption of the extension is:

( ( 4 * number of Clusters)
+ ( 10 * number of Appliances)
+ ( 8 * number of Volumes)
+ ( 8 * number of Filesystems)
+ ( 7 * number of NAS Servers)
+ ( 5 * number of SMB-Shares)
+ ( 7 * number of NFS-Exports) ) * 525.6 DDUs/year

DDU cost above does not include any possible Log events or Custom events triggered by the extension. For more information on this, please visit the DDU log event cost and DDU custom event cost pages.

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Extension content

Content typeNumber of items included

screen layout

7

list screen layout

7

alerts

4

generic type

8

screen entities lists

11

document dashboard

1

generic relationship

7

dashboards

1

screen chart groups

20

metric metadata

76

screen properties

7

Feature sets

Below is a complete list of the feature sets provided in this version. To ensure a good fit for your needs, individual feature sets can be activated and deactivated by your administrator during configuration.

Feature setsNumber of metrics included

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Average Latency	storage.dell.powerstore.nas.avg_latency	Average read and write latency in microseconds.	MicroSecond
Average Read Latency	storage.dell.powerstore.nas.avg_read_latency	Average read latency in microseconds.	MicroSecond
Average Read Size	storage.dell.powerstore.nas.avg_read_size	Average read size in bytes.	Byte
-	storage.dell.powerstore.nas.avg_size	-	-
Average Write Latency	storage.dell.powerstore.nas.avg_write_latency	Average write latency in microseconds.	MicroSecond
Average Write Size	storage.dell.powerstore.nas.avg_write_size	Average write size in bytes.	Byte
Read Bandwidth	storage.dell.powerstore.nas.read_bandwidth	Read rate in bytes per second.	BytePerSecond
Read IOPS	storage.dell.powerstore.nas.read_iops	Total read operations per second.	PerSecond
Total Bandwidth	storage.dell.powerstore.nas.total_bandwidth	Total data transfer rate in bytes per second.	BytePerSecond
Total IOPS	storage.dell.powerstore.nas.total_iops	Total read and write operations per second.	PerSecond
Write Bandwidth	storage.dell.powerstore.nas.write_bandwidth	Write rate in bytes per second.	BytePerSecond
Write IOPS	storage.dell.powerstore.nas.write_iops	Total write operations per second.	PerSecond

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Is Continuous Availability Enabled	storage.dell.powerstore.smb_share.is_continuous_availability_enabled	-	Unspecified
Is Encryption Enabled	storage.dell.powerstore.smb_share.is_encryption_enabled	-	Unspecified
Is ABE Enabled	storage.dell.powerstore.smb_share.is_abe_enabled	-	Unspecified
Is Branch Cache Optimization Enabled	storage.dell.powerstore.smb_share.is_branch_cache_enabled	-	Unspecified
Offline Availability	storage.dell.powerstore.smb_share.offline_availability	-	State

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Average Read Latency	storage.dell.powerstore.volume.avg_read_latency	Average read latency in microseconds.	MicroSecond
Average Write Latency	storage.dell.powerstore.volume.avg_write_latency	Average write latency in microseconds.	MicroSecond
Average Latency	storage.dell.powerstore.volume.avg_latency	Average read and write latency in microseconds.	MicroSecond
Average Read Size	storage.dell.powerstore.volume.avg_read_size	Average read size in bytes.	Byte
Average Write Size	storage.dell.powerstore.volume.avg_write_size	Average write size in bytes.	Byte
Average IO Size	storage.dell.powerstore.volume.avg_io_size	Average size of read and write operations in bytes.	Byte
Read Bandwidth	storage.dell.powerstore.volume.read_bandwidth	Read rate in bytes per second.	BytePerSecond
Write Bandwidth	storage.dell.powerstore.volume.write_bandwidth	Write rate in bytes per second.	BytePerSecond
Total Bandwidth	storage.dell.powerstore.volume.total_bandwidth	Total data transfer rate in bytes per second.	BytePerSecond
Read IOPS	storage.dell.powerstore.volume.read_iops	Total read operations per second.	PerSecond
Write IOPS	storage.dell.powerstore.volume.write_iops	Total write operations per second.	PerSecond
Total IOPS	storage.dell.powerstore.volume.total_iops	Total read and write operations per second.	PerSecond

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Default Access	storage.dell.powerstore.nfs_export.default_access	-	State
Minimum Security Type	storage.dell.powerstore.nfs_export.min_security	-	State
No Access Host Count	storage.dell.powerstore.nfs_export.no_access_hosts	-	Count
Read Only Host Count	storage.dell.powerstore.nfs_export.read_only_hosts	-	Count
Read Only Root Host Count	storage.dell.powerstore.nfs_export.read_only_root_hosts	-	Count
Read Write Host Count	storage.dell.powerstore.nfs_export.read_write_hosts	-	Count
Read Write Root Host Count	storage.dell.powerstore.nfs_export.read_write_root_hosts	-	Count

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Maximum Transmission Unit	storage.dell.powerstore.cluster.physical_mtu	-	Unspecified
Appliance Count	storage.dell.powerstore.cluster.appliances	-	Count
Encryption Enabled	storage.dell.powerstore.cluster.is_encryption_enabled	'0' if encryption not enabled, '1' if encryption is enabled	State
Cluster State	storage.dell.powerstore.cluster.state	-	State

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Operation Status	storage.dell.powerstore.nas.operational_status	-	State
File Interface Count	storage.dell.powerstore.nas.file_interfaces	-	Count
NFS Server Count	storage.dell.powerstore.nas.nfs_servers	-	Count
SMB Server Count	storage.dell.powerstore.nas.smb_servers	-	Count
File LDAP Count	storage.dell.powerstore.nas.file_ldaps	-	Count
File NISES Count	storage.dell.powerstore.nas.file_nises	-	Count
Filesystem Count	storage.dell.powerstore.nas.file_systems	-	Count

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Filesystem Size	storage.dell.powerstore.fs.size_total	-	Byte
Filesystem Used Size	storage.dell.powerstore.fs.size_used	-	Byte
Filesystem Used Pct	storage.dell.powerstore.fs.used_pct	-	Percent
Filesystem Access Policy	storage.dell.powerstore.fs.access_policy	-	Unspecified
Filesystem Locking Policy	storage.dell.powerstore.fs.locking_policy	-	Unspecified
Filesystem Folder Rename Policy	storage.dell.powerstore.fs.folder_rename_policy	-	Unspecified
Filesystem Default Hard Limit	storage.dell.powerstore.fs.default_hard_limit	-	Unspecified
Filesystem Default Soft Limit	storage.dell.powerstore.fs.default_soft_limit	-	Unspecified

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Host Type	storage.dell.powerstore.host.type	-	Count
Host OS Type	storage.dell.powerstore.host.os_type	-	Count

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Volume Size	storage.dell.powerstore.volume.size	-	Byte
Logical Used Size	storage.dell.powerstore.volume.logical_used	-	Byte
Volume Used PCT	storage.dell.powerstore.volume.used_pct	-	Percent
Volume State	storage.dell.powerstore.volume.state	-	State
Is Host Access Available	storage.dell.powerstore.volume.is_host_access_available	-	State
Host Group Count	storage.dell.powerstore.volume.host_groups	-	Count
Volume Group Count	storage.dell.powerstore.volume.volume_groups	-	Count
Mapped Volume Count	storage.dell.powerstore.volume.mapped_volumes	-	Count

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Node Count	storage.dell.powerstore.appliance.nodes	-	Count
FC Port Count	storage.dell.powerstore.appliance.fc_ports	-	Count
Virtual Ethernet Port Count	storage.dell.powerstore.appliance.veth_ports	-	Count
SAS Port Count	storage.dell.powerstore.appliance.sas_ports	-	Count
Ethernet Port Count	storage.dell.powerstore.appliance.eth_ports	-	Count
Ethernet BE Port Count	storage.dell.powerstore.appliance.eth_be_ports	-	Count
Virtual Volume Count	storage.dell.powerstore.appliance.virtual_volumes	-	Count
Volume Count	storage.dell.powerstore.appliance.volumes	-	Count
IP Pool Addresses Count	storage.dell.powerstore.appliance.ip_pool_addresses	-	Count
Drive Failure Tolerance Level	storage.dell.powerstore.appliance.drive_failure_tolerance_level	-	State
IO CPU Utilization	storage.dell.powerstore.appliance.io_workload_cpu_utilization	The percentage of CPU Utilization on the cores dedicated to servicing storage I/O requests.	Percent

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⚠️IMPORTANT CHANGE: This extension release requires Dynatrace cluster version 1.310 or later.

New features:

Added the Dynatrace Platform (a.k.a. Gen3) dashboard
Added option to set metric collection frequency

Patch level changes:

Fixed metrics for filesystem which sometimes returned None values under certain conditions

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New features:

option to skip SSL certificate validation, to allow using self-signed certificates if needed
option to provide your own SSL certificate path for API request validation

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Patch level changes:

Fixed extension startup issues in some post-upgrade environments
Fixed timezone issues in alert timestamps

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Patch level changes:

Fixed issue with the extension trying to report alerts that are too old to get ingested properly (2+ hours old).

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This is the first generally available release of the Dell PowerStore extension.

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