Version | OS Agent Version | Released |
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2024.H2.0 | AIX: v73; Linux: v51 |
Please note |
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Family & Friends release 2024.H2.0 is a family & friends release. This means that development of new features in this release is not yet fully completed. To avoid potentially breaking changes, please do not use this version productive. |
Content
Highlights
New Storage Platform: PureStorage FlashArray
Brief description
BVQ has enhanced its storage portfolio by PureStorage FlashArray. Either standalone FlashArrays or ActiveCluster configurations are supported.
In this first release, the most common block storage features are supported and BVQ can help to:
find and monitor performance issues
view and analyze end-to-end connectivity from VMware or PowerVM through FC SAN to the FlashArray(s)
view and verify configurations for various components
monitor system health using BVQ's alerting engine with a set of predefined FlashArray alert rules
Licensing
PureStorage FlashArray is licensed per capacity in TiB.
⚠ In case the array is virtualized behind IBM Storage Virtualize and this platform is already licensed, then no additional costs are charged for the FlashArray platform.
Please see BVQ° License Entitlements for further information.
Information gathering
All information BVQ required from a PureStorage FlashArray is collected through its REST API.
Topology configuration data is collected once an hour (per default). BVQ then prepares the information in 13 object types containing a total of 211 attributes.
Performance statistics are gathered every 5 minutes (per default) which are then visualized in 6 objects types containing a total of 52 attributes.
Supported environments and pre-requisites
See Supported Environments - Storage layer for supported Purity versions
and FlashArray preparation for pre-requisites
Object types
In the first release of PureStorage FlashArray the following object types are supported by BVQ.
Group | BVQ Name | Performance? | Capacities? | Bemerkung |
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System | Cluster |
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| A Cluster can consist of one or two PureStorage Flasharrays (= Activecluster). |
Array | ✅ | ✅ | An Array represents the PureStorage FlashArray physical hardware. This can be any FlashArray type (X, XL, E, C, m) | |
Controller |
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| A PureStorage Array always has two controllers installed to manage and handle all I/O workload | |
Storage Provider | Pool | Array | Array | A Pool corresponds to an array in context FlashStorage. This object type is required for BVQ Generic Storage. |
Pod | ✅ | ✅ | A Pod is a logical unit on a single array or across two arrays to manage synchronous replication. | |
Pod2Array |
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| A pod can exist on a single array or can be stretched across two arrays. This object type represents the relationship between Pod and Array. | |
Storage Consumer | Volume | ✅ | ✅ | A Volume is a FC, iSCSI or NVMe block volume in a Cluster. |
Volume copy | ✅ | ✅ | A Volume copy represents a volume on a single array. If a volume is part of an ActiveCluster, BVQ will show two volume copies - one in each array. If a volume is not stretched, then a volume copy is a 1:1 copy of BVQ object type FashArray Volume. | |
Host | ✅ | ✅ | A Host can either be FC, iSCSI or NVMe | |
Connection |
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| A Connection represents the mapping between a block volume and a host | |
SAN | Host port |
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| A Host port represents a FC, iSCSI or NVMe port on a host |
FC Port | ✅ |
| FC Port in an PureStorage FlashArray controller | |
Host login |
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| A Host login is the connection between a host port and an FC or ethernet port on the FlashArray |
Object relations
The following graph shows the relationships between the different FlashArray object types in BVQ:
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Support for Linux x86 on VMware
The functionality of the Linux agent is extended to include the x86 platform. With this release, Linux x86 VMs on VMware vSphere are supported.
Please see BVQ° License Entitlements for license information.
Check OS Agent preparation and Supported environments for pre-requisites and supported OS versions.
Requirements and restrictions
Requirements of the HW/SW environment | Please see Supported Environments |
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Minimum BVQ version required for an update |