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Enhancements in ControlCenter 6.1: Security, Performance, and Platform Support Innovations

The ControlCenter 6.1 release introduces vital enhancements focusing on security policies, compliance, and overall platform support. Key improvements encompass proper encryption types, key management, and cookie security, alongside important features like agentless discovery options and enhanced performance management. This version expands on thin provisioning, the integration of new device types, and improved reporting capabilities. Furthermore, it supports the latest virtualization technologies and IPv6, ensuring robust management and monitoring functionalities for diverse infrastructures, all aimed at providing a seamless user experience.

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Enhancements in ControlCenter 6.1: Security, Performance, and Platform Support Innovations

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  1. EDSEMC Core SRM Mike Sampson Scott Shaffer Ryan Fournier

  2. ControlCenter 6.1 – 1H’08 • Security Policy Compliance • Proper encryption types, key management, cookie security, Node authentication • PM timeout, logging for PM & STS, 3rd party component review • Platform Support • SMC integration • Colorado (Next Enginuity release) • Thin Provisioning • Cascaded RDF • IPv6 EMC ControlCenter Roadmap • ControlCenter 6x+1 • Enhanced Performance Management • Continued platform support • Agentless discovery options • ControlCenter 6.x Themes • Platform Support • P&S improvements • Extend reporting • Infrastructure Manageability • ControlCenter 6.0 GA June 07 • VMware Support • Flexible Reporting • Managed Element support • Serviceability 2007 1H 2008 BEYOND 2H 2008 2009 • Asynchronous Platform Qualifications • Over 75 platforms qualified so far in ‘07 Continued qualifications for 6.x • Element Manager integration • Link & launch SMC In-context integration with additional element managers Continued GUI convergence across element managers In-context menus from SMC RMSG Convergence ControlCenter feeds cross-domain CMDB Agentless discovery options Common cross-domain performance platform

  3. Products Scheduled - October 2007

  4. Products Scheduled - Nov & Dec 2007

  5. Scheduled* for 1H2008 *Tentatively Scheduled and may slip if issues occur

  6. Scheduled* for 1H2008 (continued) *Tentatively Scheduled and may slip if issues occur

  7. ControlCenter 6.1 • Product Security • SMC Integration • Virtual Provisioning Support • IPv6

  8. 6.1 Security Requirements

  9. Virtual Provisioning Use Cases (CC Console) • Discover new device types • Thin Device • Display in Console with unique identifier, display properties • Pool discovery & display; groups of data devices • Display Alerts propagated from SE (alerts not set from CC) • Display topology • Relationship view: thin device, pool, data device • Path details view, Freespace view • Launch to SMC to create/configure thin device

  10. Virtual Provisioning Use Cases (StorageScope) • UI Drill down views (understanding capacity and %) • View all pools across arrays • Data and thin Device info, size, % allocated, % used • Drill down to individual pools • Trend graph for pool size, thin capacity, pool used capacity • Trends over time, time until full • Review of definitions, Common Terminology document • Host accessible capacity • Relationship: host device, thin device, pool, array • Chargeback • Thin pool & thin devices

  11. Themes for Product Evolution (6.1.1) • Infrastructure manageability / Ease of use • Performance & Scalability • Extend Reporting Use Cases • Platform Support

  12. Extend Reporting Use Cases • Multisite • Cluster reporting • Group-by queries • FLR Online/offline, NAS, scalability • Schedule/publish queries • Platform Support • Invista • See AQP rejects / 6.1 list • SMI (coverage and Alerting/performance, replication devices) • Netapp • Additional virtualization (tagma, SVC, Host) • EDL, Switch blades • Infrastructure manageability / Ease of use • Agentless • Agent deployment / upgrade (permissions, upgrade packages, 64bit deployment, etc…) • Firewall ease of management • DCP scheduling / tuning • Grouping / tiering wizard • Alert management • Automated DB discovery • Performance & Scalability • SAN scalability (including Perf metrics) • Reduced Infrastructure footprint (Store, CLAR, NAS ???) • Host agent (performance/scalability, DB agents) • “Centre Evolution” • Element manager integration • ITPC integration • ECUE • Next generation Perf Mgr / Symm Perf Analyzer integration

  13. Platform Support (Server) • Master and Host agent on Windows 2008* • VMware ESX 3.5 • CC infrastructure components and consoles on Windows 2008* • Solaris 10 x64 • Clusters support • Make Host agent install OS version independent • FCC agent on Solaris 10 • Internet Explorer 7.0 for StorageScope • SUSE 10 • Solaris 10 x86 • Agent support on AIX 6.1 • Support AIX VIO server, Solaris Containers and MS virtual server * Qualify common denominator version of OS to support it on 32 bit, x64 and IA 64 platforms

  14. Platform Support (DB) • Oracle 11g on Windows • Oracle agent on Linux • Sybase 15 • Support Sybase on raw devices • SQL server Katmai (Expected in 2008) • Oracle ASM and RAC

  15. Platform Support (Celerra) • Celerra DART Cognac • Celerra NS family • Make Celerra agent generic • Currently code changes are required for every new model in a Celerra Family • Celerra virtualization

  16. Invista End-to-end discovery & reporting A Basic monitoring A Invista 2.1 A Performance Mgr C Active Zoning C EM launch B Replication config discovery C SMI –S for storage Alerts/indications (try for 6.1) A Performance stats A Discover replication devices and report correctly A Fix host-side discovery problems such as LUN masking A Officially support HDS, EVA, IBM, Engenio A NetApp Discover primary SAN configurations (clusters) A Discover resources used in provisioning use case (flexvols, aggregates) B Transition to SMI-S (work with NetApp; may be too soon) C Additional storage virtualization SVC (via SMI-S) B Tagmastore C EDL Discover comparable to tapedrives A Specific reports B Symm and CLARiiON Tigon WWN A Fill in discovered data gaps for layered apps A CLARiiON RAID 6 discovery A CLARiiON replication discovery A CLARiiON agent scalability B Symm cache partition performance data B Other HP CommandView AE API ? Platform Support (Array/3rd party)

  17. Array AQPs outstanding • HiCommand 5.6-5.8– may need code fix A • EVA via SMI-S A • ESS via SMI-S B • Colorado tolerance in 6.0 and SP5 A • TSM 5.3 with Backup agent C • CLARiiON Fleet A • FLARE 26 (Leo) A • HDS AMS hf A • CLARiiON FLARE Taurus A • CLARiiON AX Mamba A

  18. Platform Support (SAN) • Support new devices from Cisco, Brocade, HP, IBM, etc • NPIV support • Cisco • Interface Zoning • Enhanced Zoning • Interop Modes 2,3,4 • SMI-S • FCAliases • IVR • DPVM • Zone Set Distribution • Copy the Active Zoning Configuration to Cisco's Startup File • Support Port Channels • Brocade Administrative Domains • Blade Switch support from Cisco, Brocade, McDATA: discovery, visualization, • Support Fibre Channel Routers (e.g. 7500) • iSCSI Discovery, Visualization, Monitoring, Device Masking, Bridged iSCSI Discovery/Monitoring • Discover and display FCIP and iFCP links • FCC Agent on Solaris 10 • Fix Task List Permissions (CitiBank) • Improve Performance and Scalability of SAN Manager • ARM improvements: Provision Linux servers, Allow deallocation via CLI,

  19. EDS requirements • Control Center - Zone set import for I/F • Existing ECC installation require a relocation to a new domain • Clones show up as Primary Luns in Storage Scope • ControlCenter StorageScope CLARiiON MirrorView LUN Info

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