The FlashArray dashboards provide a birds-eye view into the capacity and performance details of various FlashArray objects across multiple arrays, giving administrators the ability to monitor trends and troubleshoot problems with the FlashArray resources.
The Everpure FlashArray adapter pulls FlashArray data into VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Operations every five minutes. Therefore, the FlashArray information displayed in VCF Operations can lag up to five minutes behind the real-time data displayed in the Purity GUI.
The management pack includes five pre-configured FlashArray dashboards, they are as follows:
- FlashArray Capacity
- FlashArray Performance
- Pure Environment
- Pure Hosted VMs
- Volume Overview
To see the Everpure dashboards, from the VCF Operations home page, select Dashboard List > FlashArray.
Each FlashArray dashboard is comprised of a collection of widgets, each of which provide specific capacity or performance information. Additionally, each dashboard is highly customizable. Widgets can be created, shifted around, or deleted, and the details within each widget can be modified.
By default the dashboard refresh rate is 300 seconds. Since the adapter collects FlashArray data every five minutes, it is not beneficial to set the dashboard refresh rate frequency to a value that is less than the default rate of 300 seconds.