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CloudIQ is a free, cloud-based application that delivers storage health monitoring, insights, and analytics, which allows customers to monitor, analyze, and troubleshoot their storage environment.
CloudIQ is hosted by Dell as Software as a Service. It delivers updates and content to the user non-disruptively. A small vApp called the CloudIQ Collector runs in the customer environment and collects information on VMware through the VMware API (read-only user) and sends that securely to the remote site. Customers are granted access to their own CloudIQ account via a GUI interface similar to Unisphere for PowerMax. An example of a demo environment is provided in Figure 83.