After you onboard a storage system to Ops Center Administrator, the dashboard displays as soon as you log in. The Ops Center Administrator dashboard includes the tools for easily configuring, managing, and monitoring storage systems.
From the Ops Center Administrator dashboard, you can access managed resources and provision storage for a specific storage system or server. The templates and configurations enable you to quickly and easily provision a storage system without knowing the details of the underlying hardware and software.
From the top navigation menu, you can access the Inventory, Monitoring, and Settings windows, and you can use the search bar to access resources quickly. The Settings window includes links to the following settings, based on the user role:
- Tier Management
- Security
- SNMP
- Change Local Password
- Ops Center Protector
The dashboard includes the following sections:
- Inventory tile
- Provides quick access to review the configuration of your storage systems, servers, fabric switches, and virtual storage machines.
- Alert tiles
- Provides alert tiles that represent various aspects of the storage system health. When Ops Center Administrator detects a problem with a storage system environment, a number appears in the tile. The number indicates the number of storage system alerts for the health aspect represented by the tile. Click the alert tile to go directly to a summary of the problems.
- Resource summary
- Provides an information gauge with a summary of the capacity allocated from the registered storage systems.
Inventory tile
The Inventory tile enables quick access to storage systems and servers.
- Click the Storage Systems (
) icon to view and add storage systems. - Click the Servers (
) icon to view and add servers. - Click the Fabric Switches (
) icon to view and add fabric switches. - Click the Virtual Storage Machines (
) icon to view virtual storage machines and move volumes to a VSM or add and remove undefined resources.
These options can also be accessed by clicking the Inventory tab in the top navigation menu, and then clicking the side-navigation tree menu.
Alert tiles
The alert tiles are located across the top of the dashboard and display alerts for storage capacity, data protection, jobs, and hardware.
If a tile includes a circled check mark, there are no alerts for that part of the storage system, and everything is functioning normally. If a dash within an orange circle is shown in a tile, it indicates one or more problems with that part of the storage system.
To view a summary for a category of alerts, click the tile for Capacity Alerts, Data Protection Alerts, or Hardware Alerts.
The Jobs Alert tile displays the number of jobs in the last 24 hours with a status of Failed or Success with Errors.
Resource summary
The Resource summary includes Capacity Utilization, Data Protection Capacity, and Capacity Savings panels.
- Capacity Utilization
- Total:
- Allocated: Indicates the sum of all pool capacities available across all block storage systems and all drive capacities, excluding drives in an "Offline" state in software-defined storage systems.
- Free: Indicates the sum of all parity group capacities that have not yet been allocated to pools across all block storage systems and all drive capacities, including drives in an "Offline" state in software-defined storage systems.
If no pools are created, the "Allocated" value will be zero. As you create pools, this number will increase to eventually reach 100% when all parity groups in block storage systems have been consumed for pool creation and all drives in software-defined storage systems have been utilized for storage pool expansion.
Note: To see the total, which is the sum of "Allocated to Pools" and "Unallocated to Pools", hover your cursor over the total bar chart. - Thin:
- Used: Indicates the storage utilization. As you create volumes in the pools and start consuming capacity, the utilization of thin pools increases, and the "Used" value increases, eventually reaching 100 % when all pools have filled up.
- External:
- Allocated: Indicates the sum of all allocations to pools across all external parity groups in block storage systems.
- Unallocated: Indicates the total that is unallocated to pools across all external parity groups in block storage systems.
If you notice the "Total Allocated" and "Thin Used" values approaching 100%, you might be running out of storage on one or more storage systems and need to add disks to increase storage capacity. Review the information gauge for each storage system to identify which one requires additional capacity. In addition, inspect disks for each storage system to determine if there is unused capacity available for parity group creation.
- Total:
- Data Protection Capacity: Indicates the types of protected, unprotected, and secondary capacity.
- Capacity Savings:
- Data Reduction: The ratio of logical used capacity to the physical used capacity for all compression and deduplication technologies.Note: The value displayed as the capacity of data after reduction includes the size of metadata and garbage data generated by the storage system in addition to user data. This value might temporarily be greater than the capacity of data before reduction.
- Pool capacity: The sum of all pool capacities available across all block storage systems and all drive capacities, excluding drives in an "Offline" state in software-defined storage systems.
- Data Reduction: The ratio of logical used capacity to the physical used capacity for all compression and deduplication technologies.