Using the GUI

There are six main spaces on the GUI dashboard, including Performance, Alarms, Space, Recent Events, Protection and Hardware. Use the menu items to move to any location of interest.

Spaces include:
  • Performance: Displays latency, IOPS, and MiB/s statistics over time.
  • Alarms: Displays configuration warnings and information about hardware faults.
  • Space: Displays the number of volumes that are full and that are under and over threshold. Also displays group and saving statistics, including Thin-Provisioning Savings, Data Reduction Savings, Clones and Compression.
  • Recent Events: Displays the latest loggable events.
  • Protection: Displays the percentage of volumes that are protected and the number of local, remote, and unprotected volumes.
  • Hardware: Displays the number of arrays in a group, hardware errors and warnings, and software status.
Menus include:
  • The Logo: Click the logo from anywhere in the GUI to return to the dashboard.
  • Manage: Use the Manage submenus to access pages where you can create and manage volumes, storage pools, volume collections, protection, replication partners, folders, and ACL setup. Each submenu selection opens a more details area for the selection. For example, selecting Manage → Data Storage, then clicking the Volumes tab displays a list of existing volumes, volume replicas, and snapshots those volumes retain.
  • Hardware: Allows you to view a GUI representation of the array and monitor the status, edit the array and group name, and add and array to and remove an array from a group.
  • Monitor: Monitor displays all aspects of the array, grouped into intuitive selections such as space, performance, connections, and replication. See the section on Monitoring for details.
  • Events: Events can be filtered by category, severity, and time frame. Patterns within events can improve your ability to predict problems and correct them before they become critical.
  • Administration: Administer the system configuration including networking, email alerts, software updates, DNA, time zones, SNMP, and general management. See the section on Administration for details.
  • Help: Access online help, contact support, or see the About page, which shows the configuration model number and software version.
Each submenu provides links for drilling down and right-click commands for most actions. For example, to see detailed information at the volume level, you would move from Volume Summary to Volume Details.