Storage Management with vRealize Operations

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

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CIM

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I-S

CIM

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I-S

• QLogic

• Emulex

• IntelHBA

HBA

CIMC

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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

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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