Dell PowerStore

Dell PowerStore

Dell EMC PowerStore is designed to deliver the performance, availability, automation and agility that modern applications require, while reducing complexity across hybrid cloud deployments.

With VMware users in mind, PowerStore integrates seamlessly into VMware management frameworks to simplify storage management for administrators and increase overall efficiency.

OpsRamp integrates with Dell PowerStore through REST APIs.

Key features and benefits

• Integrates with VMware management, improving administrator efficiency

• Allows you to run virtualised applications co-resident with data, reducing latency

• Optimised for the latest modern data storage technology (NVMe and SCM)

• Linear scale-out and scale-up capability increases storage capacity and performance for VMware environments

• Enables always inline data reduction (compression and deduplication), improving vVols storage footprint

Prerequisites

• OpsRamp Classic Gateway 10.0 and above.

Hierarchy of PowerStore Storage Cluster resources:

PowerStore Storage Cluster
— PowerStore Storage Appliance
    — PowerStore Storage Node
    — PowerStore Storage FC port
    — PowerStore Storage ETH Port
    — PowerStore Storage Volume
      — PowerStore Volume Group
— PowerStore Host
    — PowerStore Host Group
— PowerStore NAS server
    — PowerStore Storage File System

Configure and install the integration

1. From All Clients, select a client.
2. Go to Setup > Account.
3. Select the Integrations and Apps tab.
4. The Installed Integrations page, where all the installed applications are displayed.
   Note: If there are no installed applications, it will navigate to the ADD APP page.
5. Click + ADD on the Installed Integrations page. The Available Integrations and Apps page displays all the available applications along with the newly created application with the version.
   Note: You can even search for the application using the search option available. Also you can use the All Categories option to search.

6. Click +Add in the Dell Power Store tile.
7. In the Configurations page, click + ADD. The Add Configuration page appears.
8. Enter the below mentioned BASIC INFORMATION:

Notes:

• By default the Is Secure checkbox is selected.
• Select the following:
  • App Failure Notifications: if turned on, you will be notified in case of an application failure that is, Connectivity Exception, Authentication Exception.
  • Event Polling: enables integrating third party alerts into OpsRamp using further configurations.
  • Alert On Root Resource: Event Polling alerts get generated on root resource
• Below are the default values set for:
  • Alert Severity Filter: Provides alerts severity and gets integrated out of all possible alerts.
    • Default Values: NONE, INFORMATION, MINOR, MAJOR, CRITICAL.
    • Possible Values: FATAL, CRITICAL, MAJOR, MINOR, DEGRADED, INFORMATIONAL, DEBUG, UNKNOWN.
  • Alert Cleared Status:
    • Default Values: CLEARED.
    • Possible values of Event/Alert Cleared Status configuration property are “ACKNOWLEDGED”,“SUPPRESSED”,“RESOLVED”.
  • Alert Severity Mapping:
    • Default Values: {“Critical”:“Critical”,“Major”:“Critical”,
      “Minor”:“Warning”,“Info”:“Info”,“None”:“Info”}
    • Possible values of Alert Severity Mapping Filter configuration property are “new”:{“critical”: “Critical”,“error”: “Critical”,“warning”: “Warning”,“information”: “Info”,“normal”: “Info”},“acknowledged”: {“critical”: “Critical”,“error”: “Critical”,“warning”: “Warning”,“information”: “Info”,“normal”: “Info”},“obsolete”: {“critical”: “Ok”,“error”: “Ok”,“warning”: “Ok”,“information”: “Ok”,“normal”: “Ok”},“resolved”: {“critical”: “Ok”,“error”: “Ok”,“warning”: “Ok”,“information”: “Ok”,“normal”: “Ok”}.

9. Select the below mentioned Custom Attributes:

Note: The custom attribute that you add here will be assigned to all the resources that are created by the integration. You can add a maximum of five custom attributes (key and value pair).

10. In the RESOURCE TYPE section, select:
    • ALL: All the existing and future resources will be discovered.
    • SELECT: You can select one or multiple resources to be discovered.
      
      
11. In the DISCOVERY SCHEDULE section, select Recurrence Pattern to add one of the following patterns:
    • Minutes
    • Hourly
    • Daily
    • Weekly
    • Monthly
      
      
12. Click ADD.
    

Now the configuration is saved and displayed on the configurations page after you save it. From the same page, you may Edit and Remove the created configuration.

13. Click NEXT.
    

14. Below are the optional steps you can perform on the Installation page.

• Under the ADVANCED SETTINGS, Select the Bypass Resource Reconciliation option, if you wish to bypass resource reconciliation when encountering the same resources discovered by multiple applications.

  Note: If two different applications provide identical discovery attributes, two separate resources will be generated with those respective attributes from the individual discoveries.

• Click +ADD to create a new collector by providing a name or use the pre-populated name.

15. Select an existing registered profile.

16. Click FINISH.

The integration is now installed and displayed on the INSTALLED INTEGRATION page. Use the search field to find the installed application.

Modify the Configuration

• See Modify an Installed Integration or Application article.

View the Dell Power Store details

The discovered resource(s) are displayed in the Infrastructure page under Cluster, with Native Resource Type as PowerStore Storage Cluster.

The PowerStore Storage Appliance, PowerStore Host, PowerStore NAS server are displayed under Components:

Supported metrics

Risks, Limitations & Assumptions

• Application can handle Critical/Recovery failure alert notifications for the below two cases when user enables Notification Alerts in configuration:
  • Connectivity Exception
  • Authentication Exception
• Application will not send any duplicate/repeat failure alert notification until the already existing critical alert is recovered.
• Application cannot control monitoring pause/resume actions based on the above alerts.
• Component level threshold configuration is not possible.
• Resource level metric threshold customization and frequency setting are not possible.
• Usability issues in application configuration page while adding/editing.
• Optional configuration parameters cannot be defined.
• Appplication upgrade is manual process without version change.
• The availability is shown unknown for few resources even if it is enabled on the respective resource metrics. This is because of the presence of multiple native type resources under the same resource type.
• No support for Macro replacement for threshold breach alerts (i.e, customisation for threshold breach alert’s subject, description).

References

Dell EMC PowerStore REST API Developer’s Guide: https://downloads.dell.com/manuals/common/pwrstr-apig_en-us.pdf