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Foglight for Storage Management Shared 4.6.5 - User and Reference Guide

Getting Started Monitoring Storage Performance Investigating Storage Devices Investigating Storage Components Investigating VPLEX Storage Troubleshooting Storage Performance Managing Data Collection, Rules, and Alarms Understanding Metrics Online-Only Topics

Connectivity and I/O Performance Monitoring

Foglight for Storage Management provides comprehensive topology views which detail all I/O paths and components on each I/O path from VMs down to their assigned physical storage devices. These views assist in determining where actual performance or connectivity problems are occurring during I/O requests, something which is not possible using traditional virtual infrastructure management tools. For more information, see Assessing Connectivity and I/O Performance.

Navigating Foglight for Storage Management

Foglight for Storage Management is built on the Foglight platform. The following diagram and table introduce the common Foglight for Storage Management screen elements that are used in Foglight for Storage Management dashboards. If you need more information about how to use these elements, open the online help and navigate to Foglight User Help > Getting Started > Working with Dashboards.

Contains a menu of all the dashboards that you can access based on your role. Select a dashboard to view in the display area. The panel operates like a drawer and can be open or closed using the arrow.

Displays the contents of the selected dashboard.

Provides the following functions:

The panel operates like a drawer and can be open or closed.

Displays the path of dashboards you navigated to get to the current dashboard. Click a name in the path to return to that dashboard.

Controls the time period for the data displayed in the dashboard and any drill-down views you access. The default is the last four hours. Click the text to open the time range popup and set the range.

Shows the trend of a metric in a small space. The value beside the sparkline is the current value for the metric in the selected time range. When used in a table, sparklines provide an easy way to compare spikes or other trends in a group of metrics. Click a sparkline to plot all data points for the time period on a graph.

Displays the status of a storage resource. For more information, see Understanding Status, Alarms, and Rules in Foglight for Storage Management.

Verifying StorageCollector/Generic SMIS Storage Agents are Collecting Storage Data

To begin, review the Foglight for Storage Management dashboards to verify you are monitoring the devices you want to monitor. You need the IP address of the Foglight for Storage Management Management Server and your user credentials from the person who installed and configured Foglight for Storage Management.

NOTE: This procedure is intended for Foglight for Storage Management users with the roles of Storage Administrator, VMware Administrator and Hyper-V Administrator.
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Expand Storage & SAN.
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Click Storage Environment.
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Ensure the Monitoring tab is selected.
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On the Storage Environment dashboard, click the Administration tab.
TIP: If you do not see the Administration tab, ask your Foglight for Storage Management Administrator to add the role Storage Administrator to your user account.
b
In the Storage Agents > StorageCollector Agents list, look for the Storage Collector agent that monitors the missing device or device type. When an agent monitors a device type, click the Edit icon to view a list of named devices in the Edit Agent Properties dialog box.
In the Storage Agents > Generic SMIS Storage Agents list, look for the SMIS Storage agent that monitors the missing device or device type. When an agent monitors a device type, click the Edit icon to view a list of named devices in the Edit Agent Properties dialog box.

Collecting Storage Data for Virtualized Devices and Servers

d
Click the SAN Topology tab.
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Click the Inferred tile.
The Inferred tile lists physical hosts that Foglight for Storage Management has inferred based on an analysis of the switch, array, and filer ports it is monitoring (a process called dependency processing). When physical hosts are connected to storage devices, you can drill down on a host and view connections in SAN Topology tabs.
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