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LAB1-An Overview of The GUI

This document provides an overview of navigating and exploring the different sections of the Pure Storage FlashArray GUI, including: 1) The Dashboard section which shows alerts, storage usage, and array health. 2) The Storage section allows management of hosts, volumes, and array capacity. 3) The Analysis section provides performance, capacity, and replication reporting across array, hosts and volumes. 4) Other sections like Health, Settings, Help and logout are also described.

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LAB1-An Overview of The GUI

This document provides an overview of navigating and exploring the different sections of the Pure Storage FlashArray GUI, including: 1) The Dashboard section which shows alerts, storage usage, and array health. 2) The Storage section allows management of hosts, volumes, and array capacity. 3) The Analysis section provides performance, capacity, and replication reporting across array, hosts and volumes. 4) Other sections like Health, Settings, Help and logout are also described.

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LAB Exercise1: An Overview of the GUI

Estimated Exercise Time

30 minutes

Objectives

▪ Learn how to access and navigate the different sections of the GUI
▪ Understand the functions of each GUI section
▪ Understand how “Audit Trail” shows the CLI command corresponding to each GUI
administrative task

Steps

Task1: Explore the “DASHBOARD” section (Photos are from an Actual //M20 - Lab are VMs)

1. Open a browser session to https://1.0.0.2 to access the GUI1


2. Accept the self-signed certificate
3. Logon with the credentials

Username: pureuser
password: pureuser

4. You will automatically land in the “DASHBOARD” section of the GUI. This section is
divided into a navigation pane, an alerts pane and a Dashboard pane, as per the
picture below.

1
The IP address 1.0.0.2 is the Virtual Management IP address of the Array.
5. Click on the Array Icon itself in the Alerts pane. This action will take you directly into
the “Health” section of the GUI

6. This action will take you directly into the “Health” section of the GUI
7. Once in the “Health” section, hover over one of the xxxGB SAS Flash modules at the
depicted front aspect of the //m20 chassis. You can turn on the ID light on each flash
module if you need to identify it to someone in the datacenter to hot-swap it.

8. Hover over one of the SAS Flash modules in expansion shelf 0


9. Hover over one of the two NV-RAM modules (NO NVram Modules on Purity VM)

10. Hover over each of the connected Management ports at the depicted rear aspect of
the //m20 chassis. These are namely CT0-ETH0, CT0-ETH1, CT1-ETH0 and CT1-ETH1.
The picture below shows hovering over CT0-ETH0
11. Hover over CT0-ETH2 and CT1-ETH2 the 1Gbit/s interface used for iSCSI

12. Hover over CT0-ETH3 and CT1-ETH3 the 1Gbit/s interface used for replication

13. Hover over fiber channel port CT0-FC0

Task2: Explore the “Storage” section of the GUI

1. Click on the “Storage” link in the navigation pane


2. The Storage section of the GUI is divided into a navigation pane and a storage pane.
3. Click on the “Hosts” tab in the storage pane
4. Create a Host

• Click Storage > Hosts.

• In the Hosts panel click the menu icon and click Create.

• Enter the Host name and click Create.

• Enter yournameHost as the name.

• In the Hosts panel click the host name in the list.

NOTE: You are also able to create multiple hosts by using the Create Multiple
option.

Use this option to create 3 hosts named yourname#host. The # will dictate where a
number will appear.
A filter box exists at the top of each panel so you can filter the list. I filtered by “mark”
because I’m using the prefix “yourname” for my host name

• You will now see panels to configure additional items under Hosts.
5. Click on the “Volumes” tab in the storage pane

• Navigate to Storage > Volumes

• In the Volumes panel click the menu icon and click Create.

• Type the yournameVol1 in the Volume Box.

• Type 1 T in the Provisioned Size box.


• Click Create

• In the Volumes panel click yournameVol1 in the list.

• You will now see panels to configure additional items under Volumes.

• Click the menu button to the right of the Connected Hosts panel and then click
Connect.

• Click the yournameHost on the left to include it on the right.

• Click Connect

6. Click on the “Hosts” tab in the Storage pane to see a list of all hosts.
7. Click on any volume, check “details” window.
8. Look at the capacity bar of this volume and note its creation date and serial number.
9. Now click on the Storage > “Array” tab in the navigation pane and look at the
accumulative figures for all hosts in the capacity bar for the Array

10. Click on the “Hosts” tab in the details pane to see a list of all hosts

Task3: Explore the “Analysis” section


1. Click on the “Analysis” link in the navigation pane. The Analysis link itself has three
sub-links underneath it in the navigation pane, namely these links are: Performance,
Capacity and Replication
2. The Analysis section of the GUI is divided into a navigation pane and a details pane

3. Click on the “Capacity” sub-link in the navigation pane


4. Look at the accumulated Array and Host capacities.
5. Change the reporting period to 7 days then click on the three vertical dots icon in the
“Host Capacity” sub-section
6. Export the “Host Capacity” graph to PNG
7. Click on the “Volumes” tab then check the box next to the volume “<yourname>” to
see the “Array Capacity” and “Host Capacity” for this volume in the last 24 hours

8. Untick the little box next to <volume>

Task4: Explore the “Health” section

1. Click on the “Health” link in the navigation pane


2. The Health section of the GUI is divided into a navigation pane and a Health pane.
3. Click on the “Alerts” tab within the Health pane. Look at the different alerts in the
list of alerts
4. Click on the connections tab within the Health pane
5. Click to see its connection map, which reveals the details of its redundant ports

6. Close the connection map


Task5: Explore the “Settings” section

1. Click on the “Settings” link in the navigation pane


2. The Settings section of the GUI is divided into a navigation pane
and a Settings pane.
3. Click on the “System” tab within the Settings pane and note down
the array name as we will need it in a later lab.
4. Look at the setting for “Array Time”. NTP setup is critical for proper
array functionality. How many NTP servers are there?2
5. Click on the “Network” tab within the Settings pane
6. Look at the setting for “Subnets and Interfaces”. Notice the
difference between MTU size for interfaces used for management
and those used for iSCSI and replication
7. Look at “DNS settings”. Defining a DNS server are needed for
“Phone Home” and “Remote Assist” functionalities. A DNS server
must also be defined to have the array managed through “Pure1”,
which is a cloud based management and monitoring system.
8. Click on the “Users” tab within the Settings pane to see an “Audit
Trail”. This trail reveals to us the CLI commands corresponding to
administrative tasks conducted in the GUI

Task6: Explore the Help and Terms links

1. Click on the “Help” link in the navigation pane, then choose REST API Guide as per
the picture below

2. As a new tab opens for the web based REST API Guide, look at this guide then close
this new tab

3. In the GUI, click on the “Terms” link right under to the “Help” link

4. In the new tab that opens, look at the different links there, then close this new tab

5. In the GUI, click on “Log Out” link right under to the Terms link

2
Defining three NTP servers rather than two is best practice

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