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This chapter discusses the various ways to manage a VMware environment when using Dell Technologies solutions.
Managing and monitoring the PowerMax storage system that provides a VMware environment with a persistent medium to store virtual machine data is a critical task for any VMware system administrator.
Dell offers two primary complementary methods of managing and monitoring PowerMax storage arrays:
In addition, there are several integrations that can be used when managing the PowerMax. Many customers want to automate tasks that are related to VMware and the array. This automation can be accomplished in several ways, including through Ansible playbooks or Puppet scripts. Log management is another critical component for the administrator. The PowerMax has a plug-in to the VMware Aria Operations for Logs product which can serve this purpose.
The following sections describe the best ways to deploy and use these management applications in a VMware environment.