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EMC STORAGE ANALYTICSWith VNX and VMAX Support

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EMC Storage Analytics Powered by VMware vCenter Operations Manager

Patented AnalyticsBadge Support

End-to-End VisibilityCustomization

Storage Knowledge

vCenter Operations

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Today’s Challenges…

Too many monitoring tools

Difficult to set and manage thresholds

Understand storage performance metrics

Ability to identify and analyze storage problems

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Pinpoint. Diagnose. Act.EMC Storage Analytics

INCREASE VISIBILITY From virtualized application to storage

PROACTIVELY DETECT ISSUES Performance and available capacity

PLAN AHEADTrend historical project growth

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What Does This Mean to You? Increased visibility across the virtual to storage infrastructure

Proactively detect VNX and VMAX storage performance and capacity faults 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

Helps build a stronger relationship between the VMware and storage administrators

Built on proven VMware vCenter Operations Manager Analytics and Visualization platform

Plug-In to vCenter Operations Manager

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Intuitive learning to help you manage alertsDynamic Thresholding

Learns “normal” behavior of your environment

Detects and flags anomalies or deviation from normal

Reduce your time to problem resolution!

Define NormalSystem Behavior

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Problem Identification

Health

Queue Length

Response Time IOPs BW Capacity Utilization

Hundreds of alerts

Data overload

What is actionable data?

Faster troubleshooting

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Identifying the Root Cause

How does the stack flow?

Who is related to whom?

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End-to-End Topology Mapping

Root Cause Identified

VM

Disk

PROACTIVE Detection

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EMC Storage Topology Dashboard

Virtual Machine (VM) to Datastore mapping

• Details view• Zoom in/out• Alerts

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EMC Storage Topology Dashboard

VM Datastore to LUN mapping

Parent-child relationships

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EMC Storage Topology Dashboard

VM Datastore LUN resides on Storage Processer B and belongs to Pool 0

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EMC Storage Topology Dashboard Sample

Storage Pool consists of three tiers of storage

– Performance– Capacity– Extreme

Performance

FAST Cache

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EMC Storage Topology Dashboard

Extreme Performance tier location and number of drives

Health alerts

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Correlated performance between virtual and storage

resources

A look into the EMC system

Manage multiple storage systems

EMC Storage Metrics Dashboard

Selectable key EMC system metrics

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EMC Storage Metrics Dashboard

Data values displayed for performance read or write IOPs

Shows the data value of the specific metric

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EMC Storage Metrics Dashboard

Zoom in for more granularity

Zoom in/out view for the same LUN

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EMC Storage Metrics Dashboard

Customized graph shows combined read and write IOPs

Combining performance read and write IOPs in

a single graph

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EMC Storage Metrics Dashboard

Gain insight into performance and capacity usage/trend with historical reports

Historical reporting

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Quickly assess performance issues

Quickly locate capacity problems

EMC VNX Overview Dashboard

Integrated VNX block and file statistics across all arrays

Quickly assess possible issues

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VMAX Overview Dashboard

• Consolidated VMAX array analytics

• From Storage Group to Director

• Supports SRDF • Quickly assess

possible issues

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Customizable Views: Download ViewsESA Dashboard Xchange https://community.emc.com/community/connect/esa

Get Dashboards

How to create your own

Dashboard

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Summary

Enhanced storage management partnership between EMC and VMware

New EMC Storage Analytics– Deep storage analytics for EMC storage

in virtualized and cloud environments– Proactively manage EMC storage

performance and capacity