topic Re: Dell/EMC PowerStore + OCI? in Active IQ Unified Manager Discussions

Dell/EMC PowerStore + OCI?

ostiguy — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:48:13 GMT

We are looking into building a data source for OCI to support Dell/EMC's new midrange, PowerStore platform

We are looking to chat with any OCI users interested in seeing this support - do you have PowerStore in a lab or on the floor, what models + protocols will you be using, are you deploying single versus multi appliance clusters, etc.

If this is interesting to you, email me at ostiguy at netapp dot com

Re: Dell/EMC PowerStore + OCI?

ostiguy — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 15:06:43 GMT

We have beta inventory + performance support available for Dell/EMC PowerStore.

If you are an OCI user interested and are on OCI 7.3.1+ , get Service Pack 9 deployed and drop me a note if you would like access to a patch that adds PowerStore support.

Re: Dell/EMC PowerStore + OCI?

prcpa8w3p — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 20:27:32 GMT

@ostiguy - not so much PowerStore rather PowerScale (based on EMC Isilon.) CI currently has a data collector for Isilon. How is this data collector potentially be different from a new PowerScale one?

Re: Dell/EMC PowerStore + OCI?

ostiguy — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 21:03:22 GMT

What is the definition of "PowerScale"? Any array running OneFS 9.0.0+?

I don't think Dell/EMC has done a great job explaining what makes a PowerScale a PowerScale ->

https://www.delltechnologies.com/en-us/storage/powerscale.htm#scroll=off

8/10 nodes listed there have "Isilon" in their names, only 2 have "PowerScale".

If PowerScale is simply 9.0.0+ firmware, then I would try our existing Isilon collector against it.

Re: Dell/EMC PowerStore + OCI?

prcpa8w3p — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 21:06:32 GMT

@ostiguy - yes, any array running OneFS 9.0.0+. Thanks will use the existing Isilon collector.