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EMC PROSPHERE TECHNICAL REVIEW
Storage management built for the cloud computing era
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• 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
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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
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With ProSphere You Can…
• Troubleshoot end to end performance
• Report on Capacity
• Consolidate alerts
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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
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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
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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
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EMC ProSphere
Multiple instances of ProSphere One click to Federate Scalable across Geographies
Federated Synchronization
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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
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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
VMware Virtualization
x86 Architecture
5 virtual guests + existing providers
Resource Pool
VMware Virtualization
x86 Architecture
4 virtual guests + existing providers
19 hosts + providers
11 hosts + providers
11 hosts + providers
41 physical servers
15 virtual guests on
10 physical servers
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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
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Performance Management
Monitor performance end to end
Analyze and troubleshoot problems in a few clicks
Gain visibility across virtualization layers and data center sites
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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
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Troubleshooting Performance
Search for 150
Returns lglac150
End-to-End lglac150
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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
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ProSphere Dashboard
ProSphere 1.5 Technical Presales for STCs 21
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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
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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
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Single view pane of all federated
arrays
ProSphere Capacity Reporting
arrays represented in
pie charts
Details for array 149
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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
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FAST Optimizes Performance and Cost
Identifying Flash and SATA drive targets
D8C 46D 270 4C6 D73 D8A 44C 2EE 4A6 356 5A3 BF2 96F 8E3 857 7CB 73F 6B3 627 9FF A5E BAD C92 D22 DEF F0D F99 14D0144D13C9134512C1123E11BA113610B2102F0A601A
2202102001901801701601501401301201101009080706050403020100
Flash drivetargets
SATA IItargets
Disk Volumes
I/Os
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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
n $
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
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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
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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
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FTS Monitoring in ProSphere
Encapsulated and Externally
Provisioned volumes in use
Unused Externally
Provisioned volumes
Column for FTS Storage per
array
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FTS Monitoring in ProSphere
Location column indicates which LUNs are via FTS
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Smart Groups Improve Productivity
enter Smart Group identifier
Include all servers that have Lglac as part of
description
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EMC ProSphere
Software Update Notifications
Update from Powerlink
Deploys as 3 VMs
Easy Online Downloads
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ProSphere Reporting
– Array-based Chargeback– Custom reports
– Federated capacity reports– Export and Print reports– Customizable dashboards
• Chargeback Reporting
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ProSphere Console Customization
Filter Data Tools(Add or Remove Columns)
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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
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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
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ProSphere REST Examples – Array List
https://<hostname>/srm/topology/msa/types/StorageArray/instances
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ProSphere REST Examples – Array Cap
https://<hostname>/srm/capacity/msa/instances/StorageArrayCapacityData/tag:[email protected],2011:srmstorage:StorageArray::CLARiiON+APM00112100464
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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
WM
I/WS-
MAN
,
SSH, V
Mwar
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I
SMI-SSNMP
SMI-S
Host A
gent
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Fabric-> Brocade Top TalkersArray Configuration -> SMCArray Performance -> SPAIntegration with Element Managers
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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
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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
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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
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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