EMC AutoAdvice
Extending ControlCenter with Proactive Advice on
Server and Application Management
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Business Focus
 Applications are the focus of business lines and SLAs
– Many policies are couched in terms of application performance,
resources, and availability
– Migrations, consolidation, and other strategic transitions are often
driven from the application level
 Application knowledge allows better management of the storage
environment
– Mapping from applications to storage facilitates policy management
– Understanding application activity and
resource needs to resolve complex, crossfunctional systems and applications
– Monitoring all of your infrastructure, including
the business applications on your Automated
Network Storage
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Today’s IT Challenge
 Monitoring
– Reactive, not proactive
– Cannot predict performance,
availability and capacity
problems before they occur
 Reporting
– Difficult, time-consuming,
and error-prone today
– Cannot quickly track asset
performance to consolidate
 Implementation planning
– Very inefficient
 Control and configuration
– Too many vendor-specific tools
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Resolving the Challenge
Intelligent Supervision Elements
Resource Management
Network Management
Centralize and simplify management of
heterogeneous SANs and connectivity devices
Device Management
Consolidate the management of multi-vendor
storage through a single point of control
Automated Resource Manager
StorageScope
Workload Analyzer
Database Tuner
Navisphere Analyzer
AutoAdvice
SAN Manager
SAN Architect
EMC Services
Manage performance, utilization, and allocation
of multi-vendor infrastructure resources from
user applications to networked storage
EMC Supervision Products
Navisphere
Symmetrix Manager
Symmetrix Optimizer
Common Array Manager
Intelligent Supervision
Automated monitoring, reporting, and control of
the networked storage infrastructure
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AutoAdvice Eliminates Labor-Intensive Tasks
 Delivers early warning notice to critical capacity,
performance, and availability problems
– Supports multiple applications, database, and operating
systems
 Aggregates and analyzes thousands of metrics per day
to pinpoint specific problems
 Provides single-screen view of total environment with
simple access to key metrics
 Delivers expert advice for specific problem resolution
 Light footprint, low entry cost, rapid time to value
Bridges EMC expertise with your specific environments
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Extends ControlCenter Intelligence
AutoAdvice for Windows
and UNIX
 Measure and track system
resources and application
metrics and behavior
 Exchange, Internet
Information Services (IIS),
and SQL Server
 Identify, analyze, and
diagnose conditions on
Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Red Hat
Linux, or Windows
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AutoAdvice for Oracle
 Identify and prevent issues that
impact Oracle databases and
end-user availability and
performance
AutoAdvice for SAP
 Identify and prevent conditions
that may adversely affect
systems and end users
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How AutoAdvice Works
Customer Site
Internet
EMC
Application
SAP R/3
Database
Oracle
AutoAdvice
Collector
Server
Windows NT/
2000 OS
emcControlCenter.net
Data
Warehouse
128-bit Encrypted Data
Windows OS
Online Views
• IIS
• Exchange
• SQL Server
Server
UNIX OS
• Solaris
• HP-UX
• AIX
• Linux
Online History
and Analysis
IT Management
and
Administrators
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Daily Reports
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Easy Install, Rapid Time to Value
 Simple, agent-less installation
 Minimal impact to environment
 Centralized collection, instant upgrades
 Collects only system metrics: performance, capacity
and configuration
 Transmissions are authenticated and encrypted
 Access history for up to one year at:
www.emcControlCenter.net
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Who Uses AutoAdvice?
 IT staff and managers and C-level executives who need
to:
– Predict performance, availability, and capacity issues before
they become problems
– Track server assets, achieve accurate consolidations
– Know where to start and what to do automatically
– Monitor all of the infrastructure, including the server and
application layers
 Online access ensures:
– Up-to-date information
– Historical trending
– Cross instance and multiple server graphing
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Applying AutoAdvice
 Consolidations
– Know what you have-quickly and accurately
– Related ControlCenter Family products: StorageScope and Workload
Analyzer
– AutoAdvice for Windows, UNIX, and Linux
 Performance management
– Know what it’s doing
– Unified performance portfolio, application-to-storage
– Related ControlCenter Family products: Workload Analyzer, Symmetrix
Optimizer, and StorageScope
– AutoAdvice for Windows, UNIX, Linux, Oracle, and SAP
 SLA management
– Measuring SLA attributes towards formal management
– Capacity planning
– Historical trending
– Related ControlCenter Family product: StorageScope
– AutoAdvice for Windows, UNIX, Linux, Oracle, and SAP
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Customer Experiences
Industry
Telco
Manufacturing
Monitored
environment
20,000 UNIX and Windows
servers
13 Oracle instances
Primary motivation
Server assessment and
consolidation
Improve application
performance and availability
User
4 System Administrators
2 DBAs
Customer benefits
Quick deployment—from
approval to functionality in
less than two weeks
Improved application
performance—AutoAdvice
proactively isolated space
management problem and
advised on solution
Rapid time-to-value—
assessed 5,000 servers in
six weeks and identified
1,100 to retire
Historic perspective—support
decision making and problem
resolution
Minimal management overhead
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