During the Equallogic Seminar yesterday, Dell’s storage consultant introduced DPACK (Dell Performance Analysis Collection Kit) to us.

Basically it’s a Monitoring and Reporting utility that will run over time (4-24 hours) to collect data (such as CPU, Memory, IOPS, network traffic etc) from your physical or virtual servers.

The best thing is the footprint of this program is very small, about 1.5MB, still remember that crappy Dell Management Console 2.0?

The best part is you don’t need to install it at all, simply run it, key in the server or vcenter parameters, select a time range, run it, wait for a few hours, that’s it.

The output is a single file with extension .iokit, then you are supposed to use the online generator to get the DPACK result in PDF. (http://go.us.dell.com/DPACK). However, the site is currently not working as it’s still not ready according to DPACK team.

So what to do? DPACK team is kind enough, I sent the result.iokit to them and Dell helped me to generate the PDF manually.

The Overview of DPACK and Download DPACK.

Finally, I would say it’s a lite version of Veeam Monitor and Veeam Monitor does a lot more and it’s also free.

3 Responses to “Dell’s ESX Monitor and Reporting Tool: DPACK”

1. Daniel says:

   December 8, 2011 at 5:07 pm

   Hi,

   How can i generate the pdf manually.

   Thanks.

   Reply
2. admin says:

   December 8, 2011 at 6:29 pm

   Hi Daniel,

   You can forward your .iokit to DPACK_Support@Dell.com and ask DPACK guy over there to do it for you.

   Reply
3. Sam Kirchoff says:

   August 3, 2012 at 11:58 pm

   Just updating your blog with the new correct download site.

   Reply