In March 2020, I published a blog on how to create custom views and reports in vROps 8.x. This article explains how to create a custom storage report for Dell EMC PowerFlex using the PowerFlex Management Pack for vROps 8.x.
Sample PowerFlex Storage Report PDF and template is available in my GitHub repo for download. You can use it as a starting point/ modify it as per requirement.
To create a new view: Dashboards - Views - Add.
Provide a name and description for the new view. Here, for example, I will create a view that shows PowerFlex Protection Domain Info.
Select List.
Double click or drag and drop the selected metrics or properties to include in the view. In the following screenshot, I selected 4 capacity metrics to include in the view.
You can also select and change the units and transformation as per requirements. Once it is done, click Save.
Now a view is created. Similarly, you can create multiple views for the different PowerFlex resource kinds. The next step is to include this view in an existing template or in a new template.
To create a new report template: Dashboards - Reports - Add.
- Provide a name and description for the new report template.
- From the views and dashboards, find the PowerFlex Protection Domain Info view that we created earlier, double-click or drag and drop them to the right pane. You can add multiple views to be included in this report template.
- Select PDF and CSV.
- Select all the layout options if you like to and click Save.
- Now the custom report template is created. You can select it and click Run.
The report will run in the background and will be available to download under the "Generated Reports" tab. You can select it and download the PDF or CSV file. You can even configure a schedule to generate a report and email it or save it to a location automatically based on your requirements. Hope it was useful. Cheers!
