Dell PowerStore Virtualization Infrastructure Guide

Monitoring and managing VMs

The Compute > Virtual Machines page in the PowerStore Manager displays essential information about all connected vVol-based VMs in a centralized location.

The main view shows essential details for each VM. The table can be filtered, sorted, refreshed to show changes, and exported to a spreadsheet. VMs that are provisioned on a connected ESXi host are added to the table automatically. You can select one or more VMs to add or remove them from the dashboard watchlist or assign or remove a protection policy.

To view more details about a VM, select the name of the VM . You can monitor and manage the VM properties available on the following cards:

• Capacity: This card displays interactive line charts with storage usage history for the VM. You can view data for the past two years, month, or 24 hours, and print or download the chart data as an image or CSV file.
• Compute Performance: This card displays interactive line charts with CPU usage, memory usage, and system uptime history for the VM. You can view data for the past year, week, 24 hours, or hour and download the chart data as an image or CSV file.
• Storage Performance: This card displays interactive line charts with latency, IOPS, bandwidth, and I/O operation size history for the VM. You can view data for the last two years, month, 24 hours, or 1 hour and download the chart data as an image or CSV file.
• Alerts: This card displays alerts for the VM. The table can be filtered, sorted, refreshed to show changes, and exported to a spreadsheet. To view more details, select the description of the alert you are interested in.
• Protection: This card displays snapshots for the VM. The table can be filtered, sorted, refreshed to show changes, and exported to a spreadsheet. To view more details, select the name of the snapshot that you are interested in. You can also assign or remove a protection policy for the VM from this card.
  • VM snapshots, whether manual or scheduled, create VMware–managed snapshots.
  • You can take snapshots from PowerStore Manager or vSphere.
  • Whether the snapshots are taken from PowerStore Manager or vSphere, snapshots of vVol-based VMs are offloaded to the native snapshot engine on the cluster.
• Virtual Volumes: This card displays the vVols associated with the VM. The table can be filtered, sorted, refreshed to show changes, and exported to a spreadsheet. To view more details, select the name of the vVol you are interested in.