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EMC UNISPHERENext-generation unified storage management


EMC Unisphere

Next-Generation Unified StorageOptimized for today’s virtualized IT

Affordable. Simple. Efficient. Powerful.

VNXe3100 VNX7500VNX5700VNXe3300 VNX5100 VNX5500VNX5300


IT Generalist to Storage Specialist

IT generalist

Storage specialist

Enterprise

Midrange

Commercial

Small-to-medium businesses

“Just make my application run.”

“I don’t have the storage expertise needed to figure out how to provision my storage.”

“I know every detail of this system…I will do it myself.”

“How do I optimize performance?”


Unisphere for VNX SeriesSimple. Efficient. Powerful.


Operational Management Challenges

Can I use a unified management platform across my file and block environment?

Can I have a single management platform for my data protection needs?

How can I help my VMware and storage administrators grasp each other’s management and reporting needs?

How can I make my storage managers more effective?

How can I streamline access to support services?

How can I help improve IT staff productivity by reducing the amount of time spent on non-critical tasks?


Unify management of your file and block infrastructure across new and legacy systems

Simplifying Management

Unified data protection across the infrastructure

Simplify management of physical and virtual environments

Increase efficiency with “set-it-and-forget-it” performance optimization

Get quick and seamless online support

Improved productivity with reduced time and fewer clicks

“When I first loaded Unisphere, I was immediately impressed by the speed. I found it much easier to work with my LUNs, my RAID groups, and my pools. The dashboards provided an informative view into the system as well. Unisphere is a great improvement, yet keeps the Navisphere fundamentals that storage administrators are used to seeing. Unisphere also enables us to manage both CLARiiON and Celerra from a single console.” - Joshua Lukes, IT Services Manager, Itron


Unified Management

• Simple and intuitive GUI for combined file and block

• High-performance design

• Tight VMware integration

• Unified data protection

• Built-in access to Support community

• Unified user roles

• Supports VNX series, CLARiiON, and Celerra

• Localization support

Simple


Unified Management

• Single sign-on

• Customizable to your views

• Display enterprise information based on your priorities

• Aggregated system information

• Summary views

Enterprise dashboard


Unified Management

• Intuitive viewblocks with unified file- and block-level information

• Customizable to meet your growing business needs

• Section drop-down menus with commonly used tasks

• Reduced time to management with fewer clicks

System dashboard

Viewblock

Common Tasks


Unified Management

• Easy-to-use tables

• Fast and scalable– Precisely targeted data

retrieval– Local sorting and

filtering

• User-friendly– Choose what to display– Choose how to display

it

• Data can be exported for custom reports

Data views


Unified Management

• Simple link-and-launch directly from Unisphere into:– EMC Data Protection

Advisor– EMC Replication

Manager– EMC Atmos– EMC RecoverPoint/SE– Isilon

Single tool with easy access for data protection needs

Launch Replication Manager

Launch Data Protection Advisor


Performance/Efficiency Management

FAST Cache continuously ensures that the hottest data is served from high-performance Flash SSDs

FAST VP optimizes storage pools automatically, ensuring only active data is being served from SSDs, while cold data is moved to lower-cost disk tiers

• Monitor and tune the whole system with the complementary Unisphere Quality of Service Manager and Unisphere Analyzer

• Simple setup and operation eliminates tuning effort

• Available through the FAST Suite

FlashSSD

High- Performance

HDD

High- capacity

HDD

Real-time caching with FAST Cache

Custom-scheduled optimizationof virtual pools with FAST VP



• Create a storage pool with a mix of drives, such as Flash, SAS, and near-line (NL)-SAS

• Establish a tiering schedule

• Automated tuning and data placement

Simple to set up; simple to manage

Set-it-and-forget-it performance optimization with Unisphere and FAST Suite



Unisphere Quality of Service Manager• Manage storage resources based on

service levels– Monitor and achieve performance objectives for

applications

• Optimize performance based on policy management– Set performance goals for critical applications– Set limits on lower-priority applications– Schedule policies to run at different intervals

• Measure and control storage based on different metrics – Response time (e.g., Exchange) – Bandwidth (e.g., backup to disk)– Throughput (e.g., OLTP applications)

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• Provides real-time and historical performance data

• Pinpoints performance bottlenecks

• Easy, one-step access to charts and reports

• Provides the flexibility to customize the analytical focus by time period, elements, and metrics

Unisphere Analyzer

Block-data trend analysis, reporting, and system-capacity management


Data Protection Management

• Monitor and manage: – Replication policies—by user,

application– Thresholds for latency, throughput– Set recovery point objective for

each application– Block and file system LUNs, virtual

machines

• Perform DVR-like recovery

• Uses same management console used to provision VNX series

Data protection with RecoverPoint/SE

Replication management is a single click away


Optimized for VirtualizationSeamless virtualization experience and acceleration

Virtual server administrator

Storage administrator

VAAI* offload vCenter Server

integrationUnisphere

Less net I/OMore VMsFaster response

10X

Manage storage and VM resources in unison

Control offload functions and integrated

replication

Manage storage and VM resources in unison

Control offload functions and integrated replication

* VAAI = VMware vStorage APIs for Array Integration


Virtualization Management

• Integrated point of control to simplify and speed VMware storage management tasks

EMC Virtual Storage Integrator plug-in

VMware vSphere

• One unified storage tool for all Symmetrix, CLARiiON, Celerra, VNX series, and VNXe series

Unified storage

EMC Virtual Storage

Integrator


Online Support Services

• Interactive for easy troubleshooting and maintenance

• System components tracked with real-time status and alerts

• Expanded views of system components

• Right-click access to “Order Replacement Parts”

Hardware views

Faulty power supply location



• Self-service

• Disk installation and replacement

• Diagnostic data gathering

• Identifies appropriate software downloads

• Wizard-driven software updates

• Link to Support web pages

• Supports VNX series, CLARiiON, and Celerra

Unisphere Service Manager



• Instant access to contextual information and community

• Immediate access to support tools

• Live chat support

• Right-click spare parts ordering

• Health checks

• Simplified troubleshooting

Self-help and support resources


Localizing Unisphere• Unisphere for the VNX

series will support four* languages:– English– Chinese– Korean– Japanese

* At general availability, support will be English only, followed by a phased rollout throughout 2011


Unisphere Investment Protection• Supports VNX series, CLARiiON, and

Celerra

• New VNX series domains will be required

• Connect with existing domains through multi-domains

• CLIs are unchanged

• Existing scripts will continue to work

• Compatible with existing host software

FLARE 19

FLARE 26

VNX OE for Block 31

DART 6.0

FLARE 28

FLARE

30 VNX OE for File 7


Unisphere for VNXe SeriesSimple. Efficient. Affordable.


Operational Management Challenges

I need to be a storage expert to manage my infrastructure

How can I associate my applications to the storage?I need to understand how applications work to address storage provisioning needsHow can I streamline access to support services?

How can I manage my infrastructure with a limited budget and resources?



• Intuitive, task-oriented management approach with web look and feel

• Application-centric view of storage with best practice wizards to simplify provisioning

• “Speed-dial-like” troubleshooting and access to support services

• Simplified, affordable management

Designed for the IT generalist



• Easily see storage allocated for data protection and applications

• Quickly identify impacts to your application through alert notifications

• Easily resolve problems

Dashboard view

Application-Oriented System View



Provision storage for Exchange

1. Specify name

2. Select version

3. Select number of Exchange mailboxes

4. Configure storage pool

5. Identify host access

6. Set up data protection needs

7. Identify storage reserved for data protection

8. Confirm configuration

9. Successfully complete creation of Exchange storage

Application-aware storage provisioning



• Easy-to-use electronic licensing capabilities

• Understand entitlements through an interface

• Maintain license compliance

Simplified license model



• Immediate access to support contracts and maintenance data

• Contract changes renewed and refreshed immediately through Unisphere

Support information


Simplified Data Protection• Application-provisioning

wizards include setting up data protection for shared folders, Hyper-V, NFS VMware data stores, or generic iSCSI volumes

• EMC Replication Manager provides support for application-consistent snapshots and replicas

Local Protection—Snapshots

Remote Protection—Replication


Virtualization Management• Best practice provisioning

wizard for Microsoft Hyper-V – Automates storage provisioning

and data protection tasks – Allows users to monitor VNXe

series storage for Hyper-V environments

• Integration with VMware vCenter Server– Discovers existing data stores and

virtual machines hosted on VNXe to streamline provisioning tasks

– Allows the VNXe administrator to allocate additional storage to data stores directly

– Automatically creates and configures the data store on ESX after provisioning

Enables VMware storage to be fully managed and configured

from Unisphere


Virtualization ManagementProvision storage for VMware

1. Specify name for VM data store

2. Configure file system type

3. Configure storage pool and size

4. Configure data protection

5. Identify storage reserved for data protection

6. Configure host access

7. Confirm configuration

8. Successfully create VMware data store


Online Support Services• One click to customer

community

• Self-help resources:– White papers, FAQs, how-to

videos– Online training– Online forums– Knowledgebase search

• EMC-assisted support resources:– Live chat support– Assisted parts replacement– My Support Page



• Failed component is easily identified

• Alert notification with access to remedial help

• Quickly order replacement parts

• Direct access to EMC Support services

Simplified troubleshooting

Order Replacement Part


Localizing Unisphere• Unisphere for the VNXe series will support 10*

languages:– English– Chinese– Korean– Japanese– German– French– Italian– Russian– Spanish– Portuguese

* At general availability, support will be English only, followed by a phased rollout throughout 2011


Simple and StreamlinedUnisphere for VNXe series• Streamlined for ease of use

• Designed for the IT generalist

• Application-aware storage provisioning

• Configure everything with a few clicks

• Unified data protection

• Tight virtualization integration

• Direct links to EMC Support services

Unisphere for VNX series• Extensible EMC platform

support:– VNX series, CLARiiON, Celerra,

RecoverPoint, Replication Manager, Data Protection Advisor, and Atmos Virtual Edition

• Application-centric, task-oriented navigation and reporting

• High-performance design

• Tight VMware integration

• Built-in access to Support community

Centralized management with Unisphere


THANK YOU


User Roles• Manage administrative

roles

• Add, remove, change roles

• End users’ password setting


Unified User Roles• All users and

roles in a VNX series domain can be managed from anywhere in the domain

• NAS and SAN activities can be delegated separately

• Existing roles are preserved, may be renamed

• Legacy domains preserve existing roles and role names

CLARiiON Roles Celerra Roles VNX/VNXe Roles Descriptions

Administrator Administrator Administrator* All security, storage, and network tasks

N/A N/AStorage Administrator* All NAS and SAN tasks

Monitor Operator Operator* Read-only access

ManagerN/A

SAN AdministratorAll Unisphere for Block tasks, except security and domain

N/A network_admin

Network Administrator

• DNS/IP settings for management path only

• Routing/SNMP plus Operator

N/A root NAS AdministratorAll Unisphere for File tasks, except security and domain

Security Administrator

Security Operator

Security Administrator Security and domain tasks

remote_replication N/A Data Protection

• Local data protection tasks plus mirror tasks with no recovery in Unisphere for Block

• Checkpoint tasks in Unisphere for File

local_replication N/A Local Data Protection

• Snap and clone tasks in Unisphere for Block

• Checkpoint tasks in Unisphere for File

replication_recovery na Data Recovery

• Local data protection and data protection tasks plus recovery tasks (roll back a snap) in Unisphere for Block

• Replication and checkpoint tasks in Unisphere for File

* Applies to VNXe series systems

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