Increase Operational Efficiency with the Dell EMC PowerFlex App for Splunk
Tue, 04 Jul 2023 09:59:24 -0000
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In modern IT, admins struggle to manage and analyze enormous amounts of machine-generated data in order to understand its patterns and make important decisions. The Splunk Platform enables apps that can analyze and derive insights from data generated by disparate infrastructure layers, such as compute, storage, and network. The platform helps admins manage, visualize, analyze, and understand the various patterns efficiently and effectively to make the right decisions.
The Dell DMC PowerFlex software-defined platform is often used as an infrastructure foundation supporting multiple heterogeneous and SLA-sensitive workloads due to its scale-out nature and its ability to host workloads on a variety of hypervisors, containers, and bare metal platforms.
To support Splunk workloads, Dell Technologies offers the Dell EMC PowerFlex App for Splunk, integrating the PowerFlex environment with Splunk Enterprise. As a source for a vast amount of telemetry, the PowerFlex App for Splunk is a great tool for visualizing, monitoring, and capturing various PowerFlex storage metrics. It empowers the IT organizations to harness the power of data to improve IT outcomes by simplifying the storage management and operations.
Benefits to organizations
This app provides various benefits to organizations:
- Greater operational and storage efficiency
- Deeper storage environment insights
- Future capacity predictions
- Monitoring multiple storage environments from a single window
- Enhancing decision making capabilities based on historical trends
Key capabilities of the PowerFlex App for Splunk
Real-time visibility
24 out-of-the-box intuitive dashboards to visualize PowerFlex metrics in real-time. These metrics are logically grouped and presented in different dashboards.
Historical data
Historical data plays an important role in decision making. Taking decisive action before any event becomes a reality requires understanding the pattern over time. .
Health of the system
The app captures real time alerts at different levels, and they are categorized by severity.
Storage projection
This is one of the coolest features: using the native Splunk environment capabilities to forecast the future storage requirements based on the current usage.
Some sample dashboards
Overview Dashboard: Provides a summary of clusters and associated high level metrics, with navigation capabilities.
Replication Overview Dashboard: Provides a summary of Replication clusters and associated high level metrics.
Storage Forecasting Dashboard: Provides the details of future storage requirements depending upon the current storage utilization.
Historical Data Dashboard: Provides the historical performance data for the specified time intervals.
Related resources
PowerFlex App for Splunk infographic
Video: Dell EMC PowerFlex App for Splunk
Where to find Dell EMC PowerFlex App for Splunk
For those who are new to Splunk, you can get this app from http://splunkbase.splunk.com. This app comes in two parts:
- The Dell EMC PowerFlex App is available here https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/5528/ and provides all the beautiful and awesome visualizations.
- The Add-on is available here https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/5529/. This helps to configure the Gateways and to define the Instance End Points to make REST API calls.
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Author: Nataraj Naikar