1© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. EMC PROSPHERE TECHNICAL REVIEW Storage management built for the cloud computing era.

1© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved.

EMC PROSPHERE TECHNICAL REVIEW

Storage management built for the cloud computing era


• End-to-end visibility• Capacity utilization and trending• Alerting and monitoring • Managing data wherever it resides• Keeping pace with technology• Lowering costs

Storage Management Challenges


ProSphere At a Glance

Storage management for the cloud computing era

– Performance monitoring and analysis– Monitoring and alerting– Capacity reporting and analysis– Configuration reporting and validation

Achieve storage management with two modules

– ProSphere– Storage Configuration Advisor


With ProSphere You Can…

• Troubleshoot end to end performance

• Report on Capacity

• Consolidate alerts


Ground up and organically built-out

Principals guiding ProSphere development– Performance and scalability with minimal resources– Ease of…Use, Deployment, Maintenance– Accelerating time-to-value– Architectural openness - integration and open APIs– Broad platform coverage through standards

ProSphere Architecture Tenets


Introducing EMC ProSphere

Click icon to add picture Two clicks – To search and see end-to-end– Compare host and storage metrics

Federated and scalable– Manage more than 1.2 million volumes,

36,000 SAN ports, and 18,000 hosts

Less than 60 minutes to install– Discover your environment in fewer than

eight hours

75% less hardware

0 agents

“The ease of configuration and discovery and the ability to collect end-to-end performance without agents is brilliant.”

STORAGE ENGINEER, MULTI-NATIONAL INVESTMENT FIRM


ProSphere Improvements Over ControlCenter

Agent-less discovery

Virtual appliance deployment

Improved scalability with lower hardware requirements

Multi-site management

Improved user interface

Built to support new technologies faster

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Manage Data Wherever It Resides

Federated architecture managed from a browser

Search across data center sites

Quickly attain an end-to-end view and drill down for more details

Multi-Site Federation


EMC ProSphere

Multiple instances of ProSphere One click to Federate Scalable across Geographies

Federated Synchronization


See host to SAN details in ProSphere, then…

Keep Pace with Technology

Faster support for new technology

– Industry-standard protocols – Web services interfaces

Leverage engineering investments

– Element Manager integration

– Launch in context

Seamless user experience– EMC common user interface


Lower the Cost of Ownership

No agents

Fast and easy to install – Deploy virtual application in

under 60 minutes– Discover your environment

in fewer than eight hours

Auto-update to the latest release

– Over the Internet– From a local file

75% less hardware

ProSphere reduces server count

3 data centers:

Current Application

ProSphere

Resource Pool

VMware Virtualization

x86 Architecture

6 virtual guests + existing providers

Resource Pool


x86 Architecture


Resource Pool


x86 Architecture


19 hosts + providers



41 physical servers

15 virtual guests on

10 physical servers


Manage Infrastructure as a Service

Set service level policies with Fully Automated Storage Tiering for Virtual Pools (FAST VP)

Monitor service levels end to end with ProSphere

Quickly detect and isolate performance issues

Validate configuration compliance

Manage performance and the impact of change across your virtual infrastructure


Performance Management

Monitor performance end to end

Analyze and troubleshoot problems in a few clicks

Gain visibility across virtualization layers and data center sites


End-to-End Visibility Two clicks to an end-to-end

view

Drill down in one click

Compare host to LUN performance in two clicks

Pan and zoom with a bird’s-eye view

Smart Groups improves productivity at scale


Compare Host-to-LUN Performance


Two Clicks to an End-to-End View


Drill Down in One Click


Pan and Zoom with a Bird’s-Eye View


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Troubleshooting Performance

Search for 150

Returns lglac150

End-to-End lglac150


ProSphere Capacity Reporting

• Total raw capacity to usable• Used vs. Free • Array usage by Purpose • Thin Pool Monitoring• Service Level reporting by array and host• Historical trending


ProSphere Dashboard

ProSphere 1.5 Technical Presales for STCs 21


Capacity Reporting and Analysis

Manage array capacity utilization and trends

Analyze capacity by tier across data centers

Create host capacity and chargeback reports by tier or policy


ProSphere Capacity Analysis Recognize how much storage you have, who’s using it, and when

you’ll need to buy more.

Increase utilization rates and storage efficiency to keep storage costs under control.

Track and Trend Storage Utilization

Provide Chargeback (or Showback)

Reclaim Wasted Storage

Improve Capacity Planning


Single view pane of all federated

arrays

ProSphere Capacity Reporting

arrays represented in

pie charts

Details for array 149


Aligns Storage Services with the Business

EMC ProSphere

Monitor impact of FAST policies – “Have I selected the right policy?”

Align costs with business through service level views


FAST Optimizes Performance and Cost

Identifying Flash and SATA drive targets

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2202102001901801701601501401301201101009080706050403020100

Flash drivetargets

SATA IItargets

Disk Volumes

I/Os


FAST Optimizes Performance and Cost

Storage TiersFAST Policies

Platinum25%

50%

25%

Silver25%

75%

Storage Groups

Development_SG

Oracle_SG

Exchange_SG

Flash

400 GB FlashRAID 5 (3+1)

FibreChannel

146 GB 15K FCRAID 1

SATA

1 TB SATARAID 6 (14+2)

Acq

uis

itio

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55 TB

244 x 300 GB

15K FC Disks

55 TB

136 x 300 GB 15K FC Disks

8 x 73 GB EFD

32 x 1 TB SATA 60% more drive IOPS

28% fewer drives

21% less power and cooling

17% lower drive costs


ProSphere FAST Utilization


Federated Tiered Storage (FTS)

Use external LUNs as back-end disks for Symmetrix

Leverage VMAX software functionality with external arrays

FA DX FA

Migration Extend life of old arrays Tiering


Encapsulation vs. External Provisioning

Back-end Array

LUN

e-disk

Thin Devs

TDATs

Disk Group

LUN LUN

Encapsulation

Pool

Back-end Array

LUN

e-disk

Thin Devs

TDATs

Disk Group

LUN LUN

Externally Provisioned

Pool

• Data maintained on original LUN• No FAST

• LUN treated as physical disk• Available as a FAST tier


FTS Monitoring in ProSphere

Encapsulated and Externally

Provisioned volumes in use

Unused Externally

Provisioned volumes

Column for FTS Storage per

array


FTS Monitoring in ProSphere

Location column indicates which LUNs are via FTS


Smart Groups Improve Productivity

enter Smart Group identifier

Include all servers that have Lglac as part of

description


EMC ProSphere

Software Update Notifications

Update from Powerlink

Deploys as 3 VMs

Easy Online Downloads


ProSphere Upgrade Process


Virtual Appliance Simplifies Deployment


ProSphere Reporting

– Array-based Chargeback– Custom reports

– Federated capacity reports– Export and Print reports– Customizable dashboards

• Chargeback Reporting


ProSphere Console Customization

Filter Data Tools(Add or Remove Columns)


EMC Storage Configuration Advisor Track changes and validate

configurations

Automated host-to-storage path monitoring and alerting

Verify compliance with the EMC Support Matrix

Obtain reports and trend analysis to improve change processes


With EMC ProSphere You Can….

Assure storage service levels across your virtual infrastructure

Control the cost of capacity growth

Optimize storage services to align with business objectives


ProSphere REST Examples – Array List

https://<hostname>/srm/topology/msa/types/StorageArray/instances

https://lglov069.lss.emc.com/srm/topology/msa/types/StorageArray/instances


ProSphere REST Examples – Array Cap

https://<hostname>/srm/capacity/msa/instances/StorageArrayCapacityData/tag:[email protected],2011:srmstorage:StorageArray::CLARiiON+APM00112100464

https://lglov069.lss.emc.com/srm/capacity/msa/instances/StorageArrayCapacityData/tag:[email protected],2011:srmstorage:StorageArray::CLARiiON+APM00112100464

https://lglov069.lss.emc.com/srm/capacity/msa/instances/StorageArrayCapacityData/tag:[email protected],2011:srmstorage:StorageArray::CLARiiON+APM00112100464


HostProperties

ProSphere Host Discovery Options

Active Agent-lessPro: full host details, no agents to deploy/manageCon: some credentials required

Passive Agent-lessPro: no host credentialsCon: hostname only, no host details

Agent Based Discovery (2013)

Pro: no remote credentialsCon: agent management

SAN Switch SAN Switch

Discovery Appliance

Host Device

LUN

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SMI-SSNMP

SMI-S

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Fabric-> Brocade Top TalkersArray Configuration -> SMCArray Performance -> SPAIntegration with Element Managers


ProSphere’s Minimum Deployment Requirements

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Number of vCPUs & Average MHz Utilization RAM (GB) Storage (GB)

ProSphere Application

4 (2516 MHz)

8 230

Discovery Engine4

(1305 MHz)8 40

Historical Database4

(1212 MHz)6 230

Collector2

(606 MHz)6 20


ProSphere Recommended Deployment

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Deployment type

# Arrays / # LUNs

# Hosts/ # Host

devices # Switches/ # Ports

# ESX / VMs

ProS. App

Hist. DB

Disc. Eng

Collectors

Standard 13 / 55,000 500 / 32,000 23 / 1,800 16 / 400 1 1 1 0

Scale-out -1

25 / 110,000 1000 / 64,000 45 / 3,600 32 / 800 1 1 1 1

Scale-out -2

38 / 165,000 1500/ 96,000 68 / 5,400 48/ 1,200 1 1 1 2

Scale-out -3

51 / 220,000 2000 / 129,000 91 / 7,20064 /

1,6001 1 1 3

Scale-out -4

63 / 275,000 2500 / 161,000 113 / 9,00080 /

2,0001 1 1 4


Customer profile: Ohio Health8 award-winning hospitals built around you

Capacity views, trending analysis = next purchase decision

Online help was extensive with WIKI features

“I have used ControlCenter for many years and ProSphere’s capacity views are extensive, give me everything I need to understand what is provisioned, and with the trending capability clearly shows when I need to make the next storage purchase.”

- Rich Crompton, Storage Administrator Ohio Health


Customer profile: Saint RaphaelFourth largest hospital in Connecticut

Capacity views, trending analysis = next purchase decision

Much easier than ControlCenter to deploy and discover

“I have used ControlCenter for many years and ProSphere’s user interface was much nicer than I anticipated. The capacity views are extensive, they let me know exactly what I have, how it’s used, and with the trending analysis clearly shows when I need to make the next storage purchase.”

- George Nye, Storage Administrator Hospital of Saint Raphael

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