View dashboard view for all storage systems

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.

About this task

The home dashboard view provides an overall view of the status of all storage systems.

For an overview of Unisphere functionality, see Overview of Unisphere for PowerMax.

You can sort the view by the following:

  • COMPLIANCE
  • CAPACITY
  • HEALTH SCORE
  • THROUGHPUT
  • IOPS
  • DATA REDUCTION
  • CLOUDIQ

To view the home dashboard view:

Steps

  1. From the menu on the left panel, click Systems.
  2. To provision a storage system, click PROVISION (see The Provision Storage wizard).
  3. Sort the view by selecting one of the following:
    • COMPLIANCE - The following parameters are displayed in each storage system panel:
      • Storage system ID—The serial number of the storage system
      • Storage system model—The model number of the storage system
      • The version of microcode on the storage system—an amber triangle is displayed when the current version is below the target version. You are advised to contact your service provider to schedule an operating system upgrade.
      • Data chart—Service level compliance data is displayed in this chart in the form of storage group counts for each compliance state (Critical, Marginal, Stable), total storage group count, and number of storage groups with no service level assigned.
      • Effective Capacity—Effective capacity (percentage) for the storage system
      • Health score—The overall health score for the storage system
      • Throughput—Current throughput for the system, in MB/second
      • IOPS—Current IOPS for the system
      • Data Reduction—Data Reduction information
    • CAPACITY - The following parameters are displayed in each storage system panel:
      • Storage system ID—The serial number of the storage system
      • Storage system model—The model number of the storage system
      • The version of microcode on the storage system—an amber triangle is displayed when the current version is below the target version. You are advised to contact your service provider to schedule an operating system upgrade.
      • Data chart-Physical Capacity information (percentage) is displayed in the chart. Hover over the storage system panel to display a new tooltip with the Base 2 and Base 10 used and total values. Unisphere calculates the Base 10 (Terabyte) Usable Capacity value by performing a mathematical conversion on the Base 2 (Tebibyte) Usable Capacity value (1 TiB (Base 2) = 1.099511627776 TB (Base 10)).
      • Compliance—The information that is displayed is the service level compliance data in the form of storage group counts for each compliance state (Critical, Marginal, Stable).
      • Health score—The overall health score for the storage system
      • Throughput—Current throughput for the system, in MB/second
      • IOPS—Current IOPS for the system
      • Data Reduction—Data Reduction information
    • HEALTH SCORE - The following parameters are displayed in each storage system panel:
      • Storage system ID—The serial number of the storage system
      • Storage system model—The model number of the storage system
      • The version of microcode on the storage system—an amber triangle is displayed when the current version is below the target version. You are advised to contact your service provider to schedule an operating system upgrade.
      • Data chart-The overall health score for the storage system is displayed -see Understanding the system health score for more information.
      • Compliance—The information that is displayed is the service level compliance data in the form of storage group counts for each compliance state (Critical, Marginal, Stable).
      • Effective Capacity—Effective capacity (percentage) for the storage system
      • Throughput—Current throughput for the system in MB/second
      • IOPS—Current IOPS for the system
      • Data Reduction—Data Reduction information
    • THROUGHPUT - The following parameters are displayed in each storage system panel:
      • Storage system ID—The serial number of the storage system
      • Storage system model—The model number of the storage system
      • The version of microcode on the storage system—an amber triangle is displayed when the current version is below the target version. You are advised to contact your service provider to schedule an operating system upgrade.
      • Data chart-The current throughput for the storage system is displayed, in MB/second.
      • Compliance—The information that is displayed is the service level compliance data in the form of storage group counts for each compliance state (Critical, Marginal, Stable).
      • Effective Capacity—Effective capacity (percentage) for the storage system
      • Health score—The overall health score for the storage system
      • IOPS—Current IOPS for the system
      • Data Reduction—Data Reduction information
    • IOPS - The following parameters are displayed in each storage system panel:
      • Storage system ID—The serial number of the storage system
      • Storage system model—The model number of the storage system
      • The version of microcode on the storage system—an amber triangle is displayed when the current version is below the target version. You are advised to contact your service provider to schedule an operating system upgrade.
      • Data chart-The current IOPS for the storage system is displayed.
      • Compliance—The information that is displayed is the service level compliance data in the form of storage group counts for each compliance state (Critical, Marginal, Stable) .
      • Effective Capacity—Effective capacity (percentage) for the storage system
      • Health score—The overall health score for the storage system
      • Throughput—Current throughput for the system, in MB/second
      • Data Reduction—Data Reduction information
    • DATA REDUCTION- The following parameters are displayed in each storage system panel:
      • Storage system ID—The serial number of the storage system
      • Storage system model—The model number of the storage system
      • The version of microcode on the storage system—an amber triangle is displayed when the current version is below the target version. You are advised to contact your service provider to schedule an operating system upgrade.
      • Data chart-The data reduction ratio for the storage system is displayed. The ratio is displayed using the k notation to represent 1000, for example, 361900:1 is displayed as 361.9k:1.
      • Compliance—The information that is displayed is the service level compliance data in the form of storage group counts for each compliance state (Critical, Marginal, Stable).
      • Effective Capacity—Effective capacity (percentage) for the storage system
      • Health score—The overall health score for the storage system
      • Throughput—Current throughput for the system, in MB/second
      • IOPS—Current IOPS for the system
    • CLOUDIQ - The following parameters are displayed in each storage system panel:
    • Storage system ID—The serial number of the storage system
    • Storage system model—The model number of the storage system
    • The version of microcode on the storage system—an amber triangle is displayed when the current version is below the target version. You are advised to contact your service provider to schedule an operating system upgrade.
    • Data chart-If CLOUDIQ has been selected and the Secure Connect Gateway has not been registered, an option to register is displayed on each storage system card. Clicking REGISTER enables you to register the Secure Connect Gateway. If the Secure Connect Gateway has already been registered, the enabled or disabled data collection status is displayed within each storage system card. Each card also displays the last time data was sent to CloudIQ for that storage system. Clicking the Enabled or Disabled link opens the Settings dialog on the CloudIQ tab enables you to enable or disable data collection on the storage system.
    • Compliance—The information that is displayed is the service level compliance data in the form of storage group counts for each compliance state (Critical, Marginal, Stable).
    • Effective Capacity—Effective capacity (percentage) for the storage system
    • Health score—The overall health score for the storage system
    • Throughput—Current throughput for the system, in MB/second
    • IOPS—Current IOPS for the system
    • Data Reduction—Data Reduction information
  4. Click list view icon to view the system view in list view format.
  5. Click card view icon to view the system view in card view format.
  6. Click bell icon to view the alerts. Fatal, critical, and warning alerts are displayed. Do one of the following:

    The bell icon color reflects the highest severity alert for the associated storage system. The red dot indicates the presence of new alerts.

    Note: You can view alerts for remote storage systems and storage systems that are not registered to collect performance data.

    Click job list icon on any storage system panel to view the job list.

    Click jcompliance icon on any storage system panel to view the storage group compliance (if the number of compliant storage groups is not zero).

    Unisphere release enables you to tag storage systems and storage groups for PowerMaxOS 5978 storage systems running release 9.1 or later. You can add a tag to an object for identification or to give other information. An association between objects can be inferred by adding the same tag to each object. You can search by tag to retrieve related objects. Tags can be added to and removed from objects. When a tag is no longer associated with an object, it no longer exists.

    The following tagging rules apply:

    • The tag has a 64 Character limit of letters, numbers, - and _.
    • There are a maximum of 500 unique tag names per storage system.
    • There are a maximum of eight tags per object.
    • Tags can be mixed case and are case-sensitive.

    Click tags icon to view the list of tags. You can also add one or more new tags.

  7. From a panel view or list view, click the storage system identity of the system you want to view in more detail (see View home dashboard view for a specific storage system).
  8. To go to other areas, click any of the following menu items in the left panel:
    • Overview
    • Performance
    • Configuration
    • VMware
    • Events
    • Support

    To contract or expand the menu in the left panel, click the arrows icon in the lower left corner of the screen.

  9. To go back to the systems view, click Systems in the left panel.