Have you ever tried to drop a 2022 Ferrari engine into a Toyota Corolla? If so, you probably found out soon after that it wasn’t the best idea going around.…
Tag: ScaleIO
PowerFlex, Adobe Flash, VMware vCenter and 2021
The king is dead (Flash), long live the king! (HTML5) Flash was never the best technology, but it was the best tool we had at the time and many applications…
PowerFlex and OpenStack
PowerFlex / VxFlex / ScaleIO has a long and rich history with OpenStack – being a natural fit for a scale-out cloud compute architecture, it has been a mainstay of…
SNMP traps for PowerFlex
“Quick quick, write it down before you forget!” <– What I always tell myself when I’m in the middle of figuring something out. What you will need: PowerFlex Gateway Server…
Historical Reporting for your PowerFlex cluster with Grafana
Ever wished you could drill down back to any point in time on your PowerFlex / VxFlex / ScaleIO cluster? Then please read on! Using nothing but Open Source tools…
Hi Nishith, If there is an API for a certain metric, then yes it's possible to have them queried and…
I saw something like - sdsState (Normal/RemovePending) - mdmConnectionState (Connected/Disconnected) - maintenanceState (NoMaintenance/SetMaintenanceInProgress/InMaintenance/ExitMaintenanceInProgress) https://developer.dell.com/apis/4008/versions/3.6/PowerFlex_3.6_RESTAPI.v1_149.json/paths/~1api~1instances~1Sds::%7Bid%7D/get This can help a great deal…
hi Matt. I was overwhelmed at first when I saw you called out my name in your Blog Post, Thank…
Hi Nishith - excellent question - I've made an unlisted blog post to hopefully address this for you: https://powerflex.me/2023/01/23/powerflex-grafana-sli-extension/
Hi Matt, the appliance works great, I would like to take it a step further and calculate SLI of my…