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EMC STORAGE ANALYTICS With VNX and VMAX Support

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EMC Storage Analytics Powered by VMware vCenter Operations Manager Storage Knowledge

Patented Analytics Badge Support End-to-End Visibility Customization

vCenter Operations

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Today’s Challenges…  Too many monitoring tools  Difficult to set and manage thresholds  Understand storage performance metrics

 Ability to identify and analyze storage problems

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EMC Storage Analytics Pinpoint. Diagnose. Act. INCREASE VISIBILITY

From virtualized application to storage

PROACTIVELY DETECT ISSUES Performance and available capacity

PLAN AHEAD

Trend historical project growth

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What Does This Mean to You?  Increased visibility across the virtual to storage infrastructure  Proactively detect VNX and VMAX storage performance and capacity faults in real time with actionable information

 Provides health alerts and health scores to help identify when missioncritical resources are at risk of reaching capacity in the future  Helps build a stronger relationship between the VMware and storage administrators  Built on proven VMware vCenter Operations Manager Analytics and Visualization platform  Plug-In to vCenter Operations Manager © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved.

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Dynamic Thresholding Intuitive learning to help you manage alerts Define Normal System Behavior

 Learns “normal” behavior of your environment  Detects and flags anomalies or deviation from normal  Reduce your time to problem resolution!

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Problem Identification  Hundreds of alerts  Data overload  What is actionable data?

 Faster troubleshooting Health Queue Length

Response Time

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IOPs

BW

Capacity

Utilization

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Identifying the Root Cause

How does the stack flow? Who is related to whom?

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Root Cause Identified End-to-End Topology Mapping VM PROACTIVE Detection

Disk

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EMC Storage Topology Dashboard  Virtual Machine (VM) to Datastore mapping

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• Details view • Zoom in/out • Alerts

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EMC Storage Topology Dashboard  VM Datastore to LUN mapping

Parent-child relationships

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EMC Storage Topology Dashboard  VM Datastore LUN resides on Storage Processer B and belongs to Pool 0

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EMC Storage Topology Dashboard Sample  Storage Pool consists of three tiers of storage – Performance – Capacity – Extreme Performance

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EMC Storage Topology Dashboard  Extreme Performance tier location and number of drives  Health alerts

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EMC Storage Metrics Dashboard Manage multiple storage systems

A look into the EMC system

Selectable key EMC system metrics

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Correlated performance between virtual and storage resources

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EMC Storage Metrics Dashboard  Data values displayed for performance read or write IOPs Shows the data value of the specific metric

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EMC Storage Metrics Dashboard  Zoom in for more granularity

Zoom in/out view for the same LUN

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EMC Storage Metrics Dashboard  Customized graph shows combined read and write IOPs

Combining performance read and write IOPs in a single graph

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EMC Storage Metrics Dashboard  Gain insight into performance and capacity usage/trend with historical reports Historical reporting

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EMC VNX Overview Dashboard  Integrated VNX block and file statistics across all arrays

Quickly assess performance issues

 Quickly assess possible issues

Quickly locate capacity problems

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VMAX Overview Dashboard • Consolidated VMAX array analytics • From Storage Group to Director • Supports SRDF • Quickly assess possible issues

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Customizable Views: Download Views ESA Dashboard Xchange https://community.emc.com/community/connect/esa

Get Dashboards

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How to create your own Dashboard

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Summary  Enhanced storage management partnership between EMC and VMware  New EMC Storage Analytics – Deep storage analytics for EMC storage in virtualized and cloud environments – Proactively manage EMC storage performance and capacity

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