Dell EMC PowerFlex MP for vROps 8.x - Part1 - Install

Dell EMC has recently released a vROps management pack for PowerFlex. It is a monitoring and alerting solution that provides extensive visibility into PowerFlex systems using vROps. The management pack collects key metrics for PowerFlex storage, networking, compute, and server hardware and ingests into vROps. The solution is available to all PowerFlex rack and appliance customers free of cost. This brings additional value to the IT operations and life cycle management functionality delivered by PowerFlex Manager.

Now, let's start with installation of the management pack. The steps are same for vROps 8.0, 8.1, and 8.2.

Administration - Solutions - Repository - Add/ Upgrade

Browse and select the PAK file and click upload.

Click next.

Accept the EULA and click next.

Click finish.

The management pack is now installed and it will be listed in the repository.

Verify the contents of the management pack by selecting view content.

Verify the 13 dashboards.
Note: If any of the dashboards are missing, then try to reinstall the management pack.

In the next part, we will go through the adapter instance configurations. Hope it was useful. Cheers!

Related posts

Part2 - Configure
Part3 - Dashboards
Part4 - Resource kinds and relationships

References

Product guide: https://infohub.delltechnologies.com/section-assets/powerflexadapter-for-vrops-product-guide

PowerFlex website: https://www.delltechnologies.com/PowerFlex

PowerFlex white papers and blog: https://infohub.delltechnologies.com/t/powerflex-14/