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Storage Resource Management August 13,2009

Storage Resource Management. Storage Resource Management August 13,2009. Session Obectives :. This session will focus on improving storage administrator efficiency by understanding key benefits of Storage Resource Management. Objectives:

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Storage Resource Management August 13,2009

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  1. Storage Resource Management Storage Resource ManagementAugust 13,2009

  2. Session Obectives: • This session will focus on improving storage administrator efficiency by understanding key benefits of Storage Resource Management. • Objectives: • Monitor –Establish policies for health and performance threshold notification • Analyze – Identify when the SAN configuration is not compliant with best-practices • Plan and Execute – Use wizard-based provisioning tools to simplify storage allocation and schedule job execution • Manage end-to-end connectivity between a storage system and the SAN-attached servers that are using its storage

  3. Storage Management Challenges • Variety of Information • Information Technology holds the promise of bringing a variety of new types of information to the people who need it • Volume of Data • Data is growing exponentially • Velocity of Change • 85% of problems are caused by IT staff changing something. • 80% of problems not detected by IT staff until reported by end user

  4. Why is Management Important? Staffsize the same? Staff size the same? • Compliance • Regulations • Mergers, Acquisitions • Consolidations • Old &New Technologies • Virtualization • Archiving • Disk Volumes • NAS, iSCSI

  5. What Needs to be Managed? • Servers • Applications • Data Bases • File Systems • Volume Managers • Host Bus Adaptors • Multi-Path Drivers • Storage Components • Volume mapping / virtualization • Storage Array provisioning • NAS filers • Tape Libraries • Network Components • Switches, hubs, routers • Intelligent switch replication

  6. How Does it Need to be Managed? • Discovery • Topology views • Asset management • Configuration Management • Provisioning • Optimization • Problem Determination • Performance Management • Bottleneck Analysis • Load Balancing • Reporting • Asset/Capacity/Utilization • Accounting/Chargeback • Performance/Trending • Problem Reports As we are dealing with a network, we need to work with the end-to-end network configuration, not just the individual components

  7. Storage Management Challenges • Leverage Information • Capitalize on data sharing for collaboration • Align storage investments, informational value • Optimize IT • Automate and Simplify IT operations • Optimize Performance, Functionality • Mitigate Risk • Comply with regulatory, security requirements • Keep your business running continuously • Enable Business Flexibility • Flexible, On Demand IT infrastructure • Protect your IT investment

  8. SRM: People, Process, and Technology • Enable end-to-end storage management • Extends storage configuration management across the SAN • Centralizes management of storage • Improve storage utilization, performance and service levels • SAN Topology end to end views and management • Reduce storage complexity • Storage Reporting across host file systems, data bases and storage • Correlation to host usage • Integration with other Management tools will provide extended value & opportunities for functional views of the environment.

  9. Storage Lifecycle Management Availability,Asset, Capacity, and Performance Management Monitor Integration Execute Analyze Plan

  10. Monitor Storage Resources • Discover and visualize all of the SAN components on a single topology for the entire infrastructure • Monitor capacity utilization of your storage resources by group, department, file system, or database • View SAN connectivity and performance on the SAN ports from the fabric switch to the storage systems • Define thresholds and establish policies for alerting on capacity utilization and performance changes Monitor

  11. SANDiscovery and Visualization • Discover and managemulti-vendor devices in a single view • View connectivity and relationshipsfor physical and virtual storage resources • Context-sensitive menusprovide instant access to common functions Monitor

  12. Capacity Utilization • View capacity utilizationby computer or storage system • File System and databasestorage utilization details • Identify wasted spaceon volumes based on age, file type, or any other user defined filter Monitor

  13. Automated Event Management Trigger Condition • Define automated responsesfor selected event conditions • Trigger actionssuch as Event forwarding, SNMP Trap, Script execution, or email Alert Recipients Monitor

  14. Analyze your SAN for compliance • Track, audit, compare, and contrast current configuration against previous configurations for compliance • Quickly assess the performance state of your entire storage infrastructure • Validate configuration against a set of best-practices rules and policies Analyze

  15. Change Management • Automatic detection of changes • At-a-glance viewsof topology information with pop-outs providing detailed change information • Minimizes potential outage impactsfrom SAN configuration changes Analyze

  16. SAN Performance Impact Analysis • End-to-end viewof the entire storage path • Reduces timeto problem isolation and resolution • View performance datafor components and the entire path Computer Storage device Data path Fabric Volume Performance Tabular Data Path details Analyze

  17. Best-Practice Analysis • Automatedanalysiscan be applied to all fabrics, a single fabric, or a single zoneset • Policy violatorsare flagged and displayed on the topology • Policy eventsthat notify IT administrator of violations Analyze

  18. Plan and Execute your changes • Identify storage resources based on capacity and workload profiles • Define policies that enact actions through execution of custom scripts • Create and allocate LUNs via an easy-to-use wizard interface

  19. Profile-based Provisioning • Resource selectionbased on capacity requirements and performance workload profiles • High availabilitywith active-passive and load balancing options • Automatic Zone Creationbased on best-practices policies (automatic or manual) Plan

  20. Policy-based Actions • Mark files for archiveto reclaim wasted space and improve storage utilization • Automate script executionbased on event conditions Execute

  21. Wizard-based Storage Allocation • Filter selectionsbased on application requirements • Perform all tasksrelated to storage provisioning from a single set of screens • Confirm selectionsbefore any changes are made to the configuration Execute

  22. Storage Resource Management for Enterprise Datacenters • Manage the entire datacenter from a single user interface including devices from 3rd party hardware vendors • Advanced support for planning and implementing enterprise disk systems • Perform capacity and performance predictive analysis using historical data to identify trends • Detailed change management to ensure compliance with corporate practices • Active management of switches and storage systems for storage allocation

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