Unisphere enables the user to configure and manage PowerMax, VMAX All Flash, and VMAX storage systems.
Unisphere supports administrative tasks including managing settings and using dashboards to monitor storage systems.
Unisphere for PowerMax supports measurement of capacity using both the base 2 (binary) and base 10 (decimal) systems.
An Initial Setup User (ISU) user can perform administrative tasks only on storage systems that do not have defined roles (authorization rules).
Unisphere authenticates users attempting to access the system.
The Overview page contains an overview of the Health, Alerts, Capacity, Updates, Performance, and CloudIQ status of the arrays connected to Unisphere.
The home dashboard view for all storage systems provides an overall view of the status of all storage systems that Unisphere manages in terms of compliance, capacity, health score, throughput, IOPS, efficiency, and CloudIQ connectivity.
The home dashboard view for a specific storage system provides a view of its status in terms of performance, system health, storage group compliance, capacity, and replication.
The performance and capacity dashboard for a specific storage system provides a view of key performance and capacity indicators.
The System Health dashboard provides a single place from which you can quickly determine the health of the system. You can also access hardware information.
The Overview dashboard provides a single place from which you can quickly determine the health of the system.
The storage group compliance dashboard for a specific storage system provides a view of storage group indicators.
Unisphere supports a view of capacity utilization on a storage system throughout its life cycle.
The storage system capacity dashboard displays the state of the system in terms of resource and capacity usage from a usable and logical perspective.
The storage system capacity dashboard allows you to see the amount of capacity your storage system is provisioned for, and the amount of that provisioned capacity that has been effectively used. You can also see how efficient the storage system is in using data reduction technologies.
The provisioned capacity details view provides details about the provisioned capacity including overprovisioning and system resource utilization that is related to provisioning.
The effective capacity details view provides more in-depth detail about effective capacity including usable capacity and relevant metadata utilization, both of which can impact effective capacity.
The snapshot capacity details view provides details about snapshot used capacity, system snapshot capacity, and storage group snapshot capacity.
The data reduction details view provides details about DRR (enabled and reducing), unreducible data, and storage group data reduction.
The Storage Group Demand report provides information about storage group capacity usage and identifies sources of unreducible data.
The Protection Dashboard provides storage group summary protection information, summarizing the worst states of various replication technologies and counts of management objects participating in these technologies.
The SRDF Topology view visually describes the layout of the SRDF connectivity of the selected storage system. The Migrations Environments topology view visually describes the layout of the migration environments of the selected storage system.
The SAN Health Report view and the Fabric Performance Impact Notifications (FPINs) view allow the user to determine the health of their storage network.
Discovery is the process by which storage system, volume-level configuration, and status information is retrieved.
Unisphere can refresh all the storage system data from its database. This operation does not discover new storage systems, only refreshes data for existing systems.
Unisphere supports the search for objects across all storage systems.
Unisphere supports the display of a summary of the newly added features and updates in the latest Unisphere release.
Unisphere online help provides help for Unisphere UI views, dialogs, and wizards.
The Login dialog box provides a mechanism for a user to log it to the system.
Unisphere supports the option to exit the user interface console.
Certain configuration tasks that are performed on a storage system may not be not immediately processed, but instead are kept in a job list for review and submission in batches.
This topic outlines the list of recommended alerts for you to monitor or consider monitoring (depending on your environment) when configuring alert policies using Unisphere for PowerMax.
You can configure Unisphere to monitor storage systems for specific events or error conditions. When an event or error of interest occurs, Unisphere for PowerMax displays an alert and, when configured to do so, notifies you of the alert by way of email, SNMP, or Syslog.
Server alerts are alerts that are generated by Unisphere for PowerMax itself.
You can configure Unisphere to monitor storage systems for specific events or error conditions. When an event or error of interest occurs, Unisphere displays an alert and, if configured to do so, notifies you of the alert by way of email, SNMP, or Syslog.
Unisphere can send data to CloudIQ that is related to configuration, performance, health scores, alerts, and security settings. CloudIQ can analyze this data and where it detects issues, it can generate recommendations for remediation. These recommendations are sent to Unisphere.
Unisphere allows an authorized user with appropriate access to manage system settings. Settings can also be cloned, that is, settings can be copied from one storage system and applied to one or more target storage systems subject to compatibility checks.
Unisphere supports the management of settings (preferences) that allow the user to monitor and manage storage systems.
Preferences (general, dashboards, charts, reports, data imports, and alerts) for performance management tasks can be set.
The WLP setting allows the user to include or exclude job list entries when calculating the performance impact scores for each component. By default, the relevant entries are included in the performance impact score calculations.
Unisphere for powerMax supports electronic licensing (e-Licensing). e-Licensing is a license management solution to help you track and comply with software license entitlement.
Users gain access to a storage system or component either directly through a role assignment and indirectly through membership in a user group that has a role assignment.
Access controls can be set on specific volumes within a storage system and those volumes can be assigned to a specific host.
Unisphere supports the enabling of a security configuration restriction for NVMe/TCP.
Unisphere supports the management of the certificates.
Unisphere supports the management of the trusted certificates.
Unisphere supports the management of the smart card trusted certificates.
Unisphere supports the management of the remote syslog settings.
Unisphere or PowerMax supports MFA YubiKey.
Unisphere supports the configuration of Authentication Verification Entities (AVEs) on NVMe-oF/TCP.
Unisphere allows an authorized user with appropriate access to manage system settings. Settings can also be cloned, that is, settings can be copied from one array and applied to one or more target arrays subject to compatibility checks.
Unisphere allows an authorized user with appropriate access to manage system settings.
Unisphere supports delete operations.
Unisphere supports the filtering of objects in list views.
Storage Management covers Unisphere for PowerMax support for the management of storage within one or more storage systems.
Storage hosts are systems that use storage system LUN resources. Unisphere manages the hosts.
Data Protection management ensures that data is protected and remains available.
The Unisphere performance management application monitors and manages storage system performance data (Dashboards, Charts, Analyze, Heatmap, Reports, Plan, Real-Time traces, and Performance Database management).
Unisphere supports the discovery of vCenters or ESXi servers (using a read-only user) and integrates the information into Unisphere. VMware information is connected to its storage extents and this information enables seamless investigation of any storage-related issues.
System Management covers Unisphere for PowerMax support for the management of system functionality, for example, hardware and system properties.
Unisphere provides a serviceability application that supports the deployment of update packages for PowerMax embedded applications.
A PowerMax software system profile is a subset of system settings that are associated with at least one storage system (array). The settings are defined once as part of a system profile, and these settings can be applied to one or more storage systems.
Events in this range are generated by an external producer.