The Inventory tab shows the configuration data and contract information of the selected system as well as the physical and logical components of the system. For traditional storage systems, the upper portion of this view provides the system attributes such as Serial Number/ServiceTag, Model, Location, Code Version, IP Address, and Contract Expiration. Some attributes vary by system type (such as Uptime and Hotfixes for the Unity XT family and Entitlement information for APEX Block Storage for AWS).

As noted earlier, Observability indicates when a storage system has a code update available. In this single system view, there is also an indication if the management software has an available update. Clicking the “Learn More” link opens a dialog with summary information and relevant links to support resources.

The bottom half of the page provides details about the physical and logical components of the system. The tabs differ based on product type but could include:

• Pools (Unity XT family, SC Series, PowerVault, PowerScale/Isilon, APEX File Storage for AWS) / Storage Resource Pools (PowerMax/VMAX)
• Storage (Unity XT family, PowerStore, SC Series, and PowerVault) / Volumes (XtremIO) / Storage Groups (PowerMax/VMAX)
• Virtual Machines (Unity XT family, PowerStore, SC Series, XtremIO, and PowerMax/VMAX)
• Drives (Unity XT family, PowerStore, SC Series, and PowerVault)
• Hosts (PowerStore, PowerMax[13], Unity XT family, and XtremIO) / Servers (SC Series) / Initiators (PowerVault)
• Consistency Groups (XtremIO)
• Service Levels (PowerMax/VMAX)
• File Systems (PowerMax)
• System Health Checks (PowerMax)
• Nodes (PowerScale/Isilon and APEX File Storage for AWS)
• Appliances (PowerStore)
• Storage Containers (PowerStore)
• Quotas (PowerScale/Isilon and APEX File Storage for AWS)
• Block (PowerFlex and APEX Block Storage for AWS)
• Resources (PowerFlex and APEX Block Storage for AWS)
• Gateways (PowerFlex, PowerScale/Isilon, APEX Block Storage for AWS, APEX File Storage for AWS)
• Cloud Infrastructure (APEX Block Storage for AWS and APEX File Storage for AWS)

The Pools or Storage Resource Pools tab shows various information about the configured storage pools including Total Size, Used %, Subscription %, Time to Full, and Free. This information helps in understanding the pools at risk where the subscription rate is greater than the total free storage and the Time to Full has a defined prediction.

The Storage or Volumes tab shows all the storage objects in the system. Depending on product type, this tab displays various used and free capacity information for the storage objects.

• PowerStore: Volumes, Volume Groups, and File Systems
• Unity XT family: LUNs, File Systems, VMware vStorage VMFS, and VMware NFS
• SC Series: Volumes
• XtremIO: Volumes
• PowerVault: Base and Snapshot

This view can help to determine which specific object is consuming the greatest amount of storage.

The Storage Groups tab lists the storage groups on the system with the capacity, the associated storage resource pool, the service level, and the status of compliance with the service level objective.

The Virtual Machines tab lists the VMs on the storage system along with various details including the operating system and associated vCenter, ESXi Server, and ESXi Cluster.

The Drives tab gives the details on the drives for the given storage system and their location in the system. It includes remaining endurance, storage tier, and firmware version. There will also be an indication if there is a firmware update available.

The Hosts, Servers, or Initiators tab gives the details about the hosts attached to this storage system. Host information differs slightly for each storage platform, and may include hostname, IP Address, operating system, initiator protocol, and total accessible storage for each host from the specific storage system. For PowerVault initiators, it lists the initiator name, protocol, and total provisioned storage to each initiator from the storage system. For PowerMax systems, it includes host group name, initiator type, number of initiators, number of masking views, number of PowerPath hosts, and if the Consistent LUN flag is set. For PowerStore, it provides host group name, OS, initiator protocol, number of volumes and number of initiators.

The Consistency Groups tab lists the XtremIO consistency groups on the system including their mapped status, number of volumes and total and used capacities.

The Service Levels tab lists the configured service levels on PowerMax systems along with the expected response times.

The File Systems tab for PowerMax lists the name, used and total capacities, NAS server, and protection and performance policies for each file system.

The System Health Checks tab (PowerMax) provides pass or fail information for various system checks.

The Nodes tab provides information about each PowerScale/Isilon node such as node type, total, and capacity, used capacity, and associated pool. See the PowerScale Node Details section for additional information.

The Appliances tab lists each appliance in the PowerStore cluster along with attributes such as State, Serial Number, CPU, Used, and Provisioned storage.

The Storage Containers tab provides capacity information for the storage containers in the PowerStore cluster.

The Quotas tab lists each quota path, quota type, threshold size, efficiency, advisory limit, soft limit, and hard limit. See the PowerScale Quotas Details section for additional information.

The Block tab is a pull-down that displays the following components for PowerFlex systems:

• Hosts – Host WWN, Operating System, IP address, Protocol, and Version
• Protection Domains – Total, Used, and Free Capacity and Protection Domain State
• Fault Sets – Protection Domain Name and Fault Set State
• SDS – IP address, Version, State, Total Capacity, Protection Domain, and Fault Set
• Storage Pools – Layout, Protection Domain, Total, Used, Spare, and Provisioned Capacity
• Devices – Type, Total and Used Capacity, and Storage Pool
• Volumes – Type, Size, Mapped status, number of SDCs, Creation Time, Read Only status, Secured state.

The Resources tab lists the PowerFlex Metadata Managers (MDMs) and whether they are running in primary, secondary, tiebreaker, or standby mode. Management IP address, version, and count information are also provided.

The Gateways tab lists the Secure Connect Gateways in use by the PowerFlex or PowerScale system. Clicking the serial number opens the Secure Connect Gateway Details page shown in the following figure. The Gateway Details page provides information about the Secure Connect Gateway including serial number, version, site and location information, and connectivity status. It also shows which systems it manages.

The Cloud Infrastructure tab lists information about the cloud environment such as AWS instance information, IP addresses, instance state, availability zone, product version, and protection domain.

The following series of screenshots shows examples of the Inventory tab for various storage types.

PowerMax:

PowerScale:

Dell Unity XT:

PowerFlex:

APEX Block Storage for AWS: