Justin Griffin
Storage Management with vRealizeOperations
Storage Pain Points
Lack of storage visibility remains a major pain-
point for customers
Which domain in your troubleshooting process breaks because of
lack of information? (Source: VMworld 2012 SFO, Group Discussion Survey)
1 2 3 4
5 % 5 %
1 8 %
7 3 %
Legend
1. Compute
2. Storage
3. Network
4. Other?
Historically, SAN issues are hard to
troubleshoot
• vSphere deployments are predominantly SAN
based
• Over 500 unique issues (multiple SRs per PR)
reported from the field over the last few years
• Current reactive approach takes a long time to
resolve issues and causes downtime
2014 survey of cloud operations
management customers ranked storage
visibility as the 3rd most important cloud
management capability
2014 survey of cloud operations
management customers ranked storage
visibility as the 3rd most important cloud
management capability
$38BStorage market revenue opportunity
for external controller-based disk
storage in 2014 – IDC
11kNumber of people who registered for
the Virtual SAN public beta in just six
months
$1.8BCommercial software-based storage
revenue by 2015 with Hyper-
converged being the fastest growing
segment – IDC
95%Percentage of beta TechValidate survey
respondents would recommend Virtual
SAN
90%Percentage of beta TechValidate survey
respondents who believe Virtual SAN will
do to storage what vSphere did to
compute
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Big Storage Opportunity
VMware Uniquely Positioned to be Software-Defined Storage leader
Storage Strategy
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Offer Storage operations as a core capability of the vC Ops Product
Enable operationalization of Software Defined Storage constructs
Provide deep storage support through partner solutions
vC Ops approaches to Storage Operations
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•Brocade
•Cisco
• Network Switches
OOB storage visibility in core product for Topology, stats and faults for
performance, cap and configuration management
vC Ops Suite
Editions
vC Ops Suite
Editions
Management Pack for
Storage Devices
Management Pack for
Storage Devices
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• DELL Compellent, Equilogic, MD
• EMC Isilon, VMAX, Symmetrix, Clariion, VNX
• FUJITSU Eternus
• HITACHI Unified storage
• HP 3Par, XP, EVA
• IBM XIV
• NEC iStorage
• NetApp
Vendor-specific
Management Pack
Vendor-specific
Management Pack
VASA
VASA
Fa
bric
Fa
bric
CIM
/SM
I-S
CIM
/SM
I-S
• QLogic
• Emulex
• IntelHBA
HBA
CIMC
IM
11 22
Deeper visibility into intricacies of specific vendor architectures
for advanced diagnostics
NFS and iSCSI support targeted
for 2015
NFS and iSCSI support targeted
for 2015
Storage operations needs by persona
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vSphereAdminvSphereAdmin
Topology/Objects VM, Datastore, Host, HBA/NIC, Fabric/Switch, Array/LUN
Availability HBA Links, Port Up/Down, LUN available/not available, APD,
PDL
Performance Stats Read/Write IO, Throughput, Bandwidth, Latency for HBA, Fabric
and LUN
Capacity Generic capacity containers using the objects & metrics above
Configuration Link Speed, Max/Optimal Speed, Number of ports, Vendor Info,
Firmware Version, Zone Name, Disk Free, LUN Size, SPBM
Profiles
Topology/Objects Disk, Disk Group, Pool, LUN, SP, Cache, SP Port
Availability Up/Down info on all objects above plus physical components
(e.g. power, fan)
Performance Stats Comprehensive performance stats on all objects above plus
physical components
Capacity Comprehensive capacity containers using the objects & metrics
above
Configuration Disk Type, Disk Speed, Disk Group Size, RAID Level,
S.M.A.R.T, Caching Details, Pool type (Thick/Thin), Disk Tiers &
Perf Profiles, Encryption, Replication, Compression, SP Config
(LUN masking, Speed), Service Time, Data Integrity Checks,
Workload Profile (e.g. SQL), Best Practices
Chargeback
Disk type, rpm, capacity, raid level, DME, Data movers, control
station, protocol licenses
Storage AdminStorage Admin
Delivered through Management Pack for Storage
Devices
Delivered through Management Pack for Storage
DevicesDelivered through partner Management Packs
vCenter Operations Management Packs FutureFrom “data pipes” to complete solutions
Relationships &
dependency
AdaptersAdapters
Management
Packs
Performance Capacity Config
Dashboards & Badges
Reports
Logs
Data acquisition
Problem Definitions
Remediation
Recommendations
VMware NetApp
Adapter
VMware NetApp
AdapterVMware EMC
Symmetrix Adapter
VMware EMC
Symmetrix Adapter
Partner Storage Solutions
Partner Storage Solutions Don’t see your storage provider? Let us know so we can get them into our partner program
Don’t see your storage provider? Let us know so we can get them into our partner program
Value Proposition : Single-pane-of-glass Management via Hitachi Management Packs with vCenter Operations Manager
HITACHI STORAGE
VM LAYER
HITACHI UCP
VM Admin
Admin
• Quick Diagnostic
• Overall Visibility
• Identify high level
storage issues
HCS
vCOps Adapter
vCOps Adapter
Hitachi Storage Management Pack & Hitachi Converged Infrastructure Management Packs for VMware vCenter Operations Manager
Simple Single-pane-of-glass management
Easily consumable dashboard for critical parameters
Simple drill-down for inspection and health status
Agile Fastest issue resolution due to deep insight into
resources
Monitor, Manage and provision from vCenter
Efficient Enhanced operational efficiency due to optimum
resource utilization
Improved performance management resulting into
better performance management
Dell Storage Solution Packs for Equalogic and Compellent
The Dell Storage Solution Pack delivers a single, view of virtualized infrastructures (servers to storage).
The solution packs delivers performance analysis and increased insight into storage to help detect capacity and performance issues so they can be corrected before they cause a major impact.
Dell Storage Solution Packs for Equalogic and Compellent
The Dell Storage Solution Pack provides increased visibility, metrics and a rich collection of storage analytics for Dell Storage infrastructures in virtual environments.
The solution packs contain Pre-packaged Dell Storage dashboards for alerts, health, performance, capacity and top-utilization metrics.
Available from partner Blue Medora
vCOps Management Pack for NetApp
• The Blue Medora vCenter Operations Management Pack for NetApp Storage provides end-to-end visibility, analytics, and capacity planning for workloads running on NetApp Storage. The Management Pack for NetApp Storage utilizes the vCenter Operations Manager analytics engine to unveil deep insights into NetApp storage capacity and performance issues. Automated analysis exposes early indications of impending performance and capacity issues before they can negatively impact the business.
• The vC Ops Management Pack for NetApp Storage extends vCenter Operations Manager by adding NetApp specific metrics and analytical views for storage systems running in clustered Data ONTAP or 7-mode.
Available from partner Blue Medora
vCOps Management Pack for NetApp
• Single pane of glass
• Several metrics from various storage objects
• Pre-defined dashboards and analysis
• View end-to-end relationship from VM to storage
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NetApp Data ONTAP (7 / cDOT)
VMware vCloud SuiteVMware vCloud SuiteVMware vCenter Operations
Manager
VMware vCenter Operations
Manager
NetApp Data ONTAP
Management Pack
Health, Performance and Capacity
Management
HP StoreFront Analytics for VMware vCenter Operations Manager
HP StoreFront Analytics for vCenter Operations Manager provides customers using HP 3PAR StoreServ storage with operational dashboards to gain deep insights and visibility into the health, risk and efficiency of the storage infrastructure’s performance and capacity capabilities.
Highlights
• Simple health monitoring of VMs and HP 3PAR StoreServ arrays
• Custom integration adds 3PAR-specific intelligence to vCOps
• Lower risk of downtime with rapid troubleshooting
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NEC Storage Analyzer for vCenter Operations
NEC M-series Storage
• NEC Storage Analyzer for vCenter Operations enable to integrate performance management of NEC Storages and VMs.
– Ease to analyze performance problems VMs and Storage and to discover their causes.
– Display VMs and Storages performance status and their relations in a GUI.
– Make vCops a single point to monitor both of server and storage resources.
SAN
vCops Dashboard
• ISIS is the back-end (IBM
Storage Integration Server).
• The MP collects XIV
information from ISIS.
• Enable to monitor XIV
through vC Ops.
• The MP reports XIV
information(resources,
performancem, events...) to vC
Ops.
XIV Management Pack Overview
FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS Adapter for VMware vCOps
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ETERNUS DX S3 can be monitored and managed by VMware vCOps
Easily grasp the relation between objects in vSphere and ETERNUS DX
Visualize impact to Storage due to workload changes.
Promptly alert Storage related incidents to VM admins
Proactively deal with any Storage issues such as capacity shortage or performance impact
Customizable dashboard provides high flexibility
Simplify VMware vSphere and Storage management thorough intuitive interface.
X-IO ISE Management Pack for VMware vCenter Operations• Get a birds-eye view of all ISE storage systems from one dashboard
• Easily and quickly see workload details for ISE storage systems
• See exactly which datastores are on a given ISE
• Use the powerful relationship views and performance metrics to quickly troubleshoot performance and health
issues
X-IO ISE Management Pack for VMware vCenter Operations• Explore performance metrics for individual ISEs, such as queue depth, read/write
latency, throughput and IOPS
ViPR Analytics Pack for vCenter Operations
Benefits
Import ViPR topology, metering and event data
Pre-configured custom dashboards for consolidated storage and compute views
Overview
Aggregate compute and storage metrics for end-to-end analytics
Visualize anomaly, workload, capacity remaining, reclaimable waste dashboards for ViPR managed storage
vCenter OperationsvCenter Operations
ViPR vCops adapterViPR vCops adapterViPR vCops adapterViPR vCops adapter
Custom Dashboards for ViPR + vCenterCustom Dashboards for ViPR + vCenter
ViPR
VASA Provider
VNX Isilon
3rd PartyVMAX
EMC Storage Analytics
• Proactively monitor VNX and VMAX storage performance and capacity
• Detect faults and issues in real-time with actionable information
• Provides health alerts and health scores to help identify when mission critical resources are at risk of reaching capacity in the future
• Plan ahead with historical and trending capabilities
• Customizable dashboards—import dashboards via shared User Community
• Built on proven VMware vCenter Operations Manager Analytics and Visualization platform
• Plug-In to vCenter Operations Manager
EMC Storage Analytics Technical Overview
• EMC Storage Analytics links VMware vCenter
Operations for storage with an EMC Adapter
• Data provided by:• Connecting/Collecting data from storage systems and passing to vCenter
Operations collector
• VSOM presents aggregated data through alerts, dashboards and
predefined reports to users
• Dashboards: Storage Topology, Storage Metrics,
VNX Overview, VMAX Overview, Top-N
• Topology mapping enables health scores and
alerts from storage components to vCenter
objects
• Block and File Metrics collected based on
“Resource Kinds” like Storage Processor, FAST
Cache, Pool LUN, etc.
CUSTOMIZED DASHBOARD
Customizable ViewsESA Dashboard Xchange https://community.emc.com/community/connect/esa
Build your own
Dashboard
Where to find vCenter Operations Management Packs
http://Solutionexchange.vmware.comhttp://Solutionexchange.vmware.com
What’s Next
Specialized Storage Alerts
Capacity and Time Remaining Badge Calculations
Storage Scenario Planning Projects
Storage Reports