Fujitsu Eternus

Introduction

Eternus storage systems is a family of compatible all flash and hybrid storage systems. Eternus AF all flash arrays offer practically unlimited storage performance. Eternus DX hybrid storage systems are designed to store large amounts of unstructured data using cost efficient hard disk capacities while allowing fast access via SSDs. Eternus AF and Eternus DX offer an outstanding family of systems that allow the digital world to achieve the ideal balance between cost , capacity and speed.

Key Use cases

Discovery Use cases

The device discovery enables customers with an unified way of showing all of the elements making up a Eternus storage device along with the relationships.

Monitoring Use cases

The device monitoring helps to collect the metric values with respect to time and sends alerts to the intended customer team to act up immediately in case of any threshold breach or unexpected metric behavior observed based on configurations. In a way it helps the customer with smooth functioning of business with minimal or zero downtime in case of any infrastructure related issues occurring.

Supported Target Versions

CLI commands used in the application are
valid for all Eternus storage models.
Tested on an Eternus model with product code “ET203 BU”
with product name “Eternus DX200 S3”
which belongs to the “Eternus DX” product family.

Hierarchy of Eternus Storage

   Eternus Storage
        - Controller enclosure
        - Front-end enclosure
        - Drive enclosure
        - Disk drive
        - RAID Groups
        - Volume
        - Pool

Version History


Application Version	Bug fixes / Enhancements
1.0.8	Added code support for Get Target Response command for each native type On-demand latest snapshot support and Activity logger changes
1.0.7	Metric data point conversion changes
1.0.6	Alter the monitoring values for eternus_drive_HealthPct metric, application will send 100% health if we get health % as sign Alter the monitoring values for eternus_drive_enclosure_Status metric, if we get Drive Enclosure status as starts with Normal* is classed as Normal stateBug fixes - changed the few commands to get the response.
1.0.5	Added support for NativeType Display order changes and resource grouping by type in UI.

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Application Version	Bug fixes / Enhancements
1.0.4	Metric label support. Missing component alert support.
1.0.3	Full discovery Support.
1.0.2	Bug fixes - changed the few commands to get the response.
1.0.1	Activity logger related changes.
1.0.0	Initial resource discovery and monitoring implementations.