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
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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
 FAST Cache
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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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