In the OCI 7.1.1 sotto voce feature catalog, the NPV switches webUI landing page can now support performance. Out of the box, only Brocade Access Gateway will work, but we have a post 7.1.1 Cisco datasource patch that unlocks the ability for the Cisco datasource to collect performance from NPV mode devices.
The historical limitation of requiring you to deploy 1 datasource per NPV/AG mode device still holds.
Please note - the UI flows are not where we want them to be. For example, the VM and Host webUI landing pages are still architected in a fashion that basically presumes you will not be doing direct discovery of these devices - as such, they show the upstream FC switch port from the NPV/AG mode device, instead of showing the actual NPV/AG mode switch ports the host, or the host the VM sits on, is connected to.
So, we can collect the data, but it can be a bit of a bear to see the data in the right contexts - if you know what NPV switch your devices lives on, you can go to the NPV switch landing page to see the data, but it you dont....
Are the UCS blades connected to NPV mode devices? That would be an inhibitor for getting port perf on those ports for 7.1.0 and earlier.
FYI, we have Vplex array perf support in beta on 7.1.x, so if your Vplexes are 5.3 firmware and up....
The storage involved should not impact switch port perf collection. It is always a best practice to discover the backend of a virtualizer as 100% of the backend may not be allocated, and thus without discovery you are blind for capacity planning use cases. On 7.0.x, we don't have Vplex perf, but we can do Symmetrix perf, and therefore there are performance use cases served by discovery as well
Matt