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EMC Storage Management Overview Controlling the cost of data growth & optimizing storage investments


The Storage Management Market

EMC is the clear market share leader

EMC offers the industry’s broadest portfolio of storage management solutions

Spans a wide range of customer requirements and use cases

– From small businesses to large enterprises & service providers

Storage & Device Management Market Share

Source: IDC 2012


IT Generalist to Storage Specialist

IT generalist

Storage specialist

Enterprise

Midrange

Commercial

Small-to-medium businesses

“Just make my application run.”

“I don’t have the storage expertise needed to figure out how to provision my storage.”

“Help me ensure services, optimize resources & be more productive.”

“How do I optimize performance?”

Unisphere for

VMAX

Unisphere for VNX

Unisphere for VNXe

SRM Suite


What is Device Management?

Performs a specific set of functions for a homogeneous class of storage devices.

Key Functions – Device discovery

– Configuration and management

– Device reporting and detailed analysis

Examples – Unisphere for VMAX,

– Unisphere for VNX

– Unisphere for VNXe


EMC Device Management


Unisphere for VMAX Quick Access to Array Vitals

Quick access to

• Hardware Components

• Capacity Utilization

• Alerts


Simplify Resource Provisioning

Intuitive Wizards • Create Volumes

• FAST VP Environment

• Replication

• Provision Hosts

• Masking Views

• Expand Pools


Unify management of your file and block infrastructure across new and legacy systems

Unisphere for VNX

Unified data protection across the infrastructure

Simplify management of physical and virtual environments

Increase efficiency with “set-it-and-forget-it” performance optimization

Get quick and seamless online support

Improved productivity with reduced time and fewer clicks


Unified Management System dashboard

Intuitive viewblocks with unified file- and block-level information

Customizable to meet your growing business needs

Section drop-down menus with commonly used tasks

Reduced time to management with fewer clicks

Viewblock

Common Tasks


Performance/Efficiency Management Unisphere Analyzer

Provides real-time and historical performance data

Pinpoints performance bottlenecks

Easy, one-step access to charts & reports

Provides the flexibility to customize the analytical focus by time period, elements, and metrics

Block-data trend analysis, reporting, and system-capacity management


Unisphere for VNXe Designed for the IT generalist

Intuitive, task-oriented management approach with web look and feel

Application-centric view of storage with best practice wizards to simplify provisioning

“Speed-dial-like” troubleshooting and access to support services

Simplified, affordable management


Simplifying Management Dashboard view

Easily see storage allocated for data protection and applications

Quickly identify impacts to your application through alert notifications

Easily resolve problems

Application-oriented system view


Simple and Streamlined

• Streamlined for ease of use • Designed for the IT generalist • Application-aware storage provisioning • Configure everything with a few clicks • Unified data protection • Tight virtualization integration • Direct links to EMC Support services

• Extensible EMC platform support: VNX series, CLARiiON, Celerra, RecoverPoint, Replication Manager, Data Protection Advisor, Atmos Virtual Edition, and Isilon

• Application-centric, task-oriented navigation and reporting

• High-performance design • Tight VMware integration • Built-in access to Support community

Unisphere for VNXe series Unisphere for VNX series

Centralized management with Unisphere


EMC Storage Resource Management

EMC SRM Suite

Watch4net, Storage Configuration Advisor & ProSphere


What is Storage Resource Management? Spans multiple device types

– VMAX, VNX

– Arrays, switches, hosts

Key Functions

– End-to-end discovery; Topology & relationship mapping

– Multi-site management

– Capacity utilization and trend analysis

– Performance & availability management

– Configuration analysis

Example: EMC ControlCenter & ProSphere


Controlling the Cost of Data Growth

Over the next decade…

– Data managed by enterprise datacenters will grow 50x

– Number of files will grow by 75x

– Number of IT professionals will grow < 1.5x

Optimizing storage resources is essential to controlling IT costs

Investments in Storage Resource Management help reduce these costs

Rapid data growth leads to rising storage costs while $/GB declines

Source: IDC Digital Universe Study, June 2011


What’s the impact on YOUR business?

The Impact of Application Downtime


What if you could…

Understand ALL storage relationships, dependencies and application impact?

Assure storage related SLA, QoS and Chargeback?

Optimize storage investments to control costs and improve productivity?


Relationships, Dependencies & Impact

•Quickly spot SLA issues that can lead to costly outages or performance problems

RECEIVE REAL-TIME UPDATES ON ALL RESOURCES AND DEPENDENCIES

•Optimize storage investments to control costs while consistently meeting application service levels

ANALYZE APPLICATION PERFORMANCE AND CORRELATE WITH STORAGE METRICS

•Adopt VMware and FAST VP with complete visibility of application to storage dependencies to ensure service levels

UNDERSTAND INTERDEPENDENCIES


Application – Storage Interdependencies

See relationships and topology

Analyze infrastructure with a view into:

– Performance

– Health & Availability

– Configuration

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Assure SLA, QoS & Chargeback

•Reduce time spent analyzing SLA compliance

IDENTIFY SLA ISSUES WITH CUSTOM DASHBOARDS AND THRESHOLDS

•Avoid costly downtime due to configuration issues and reduce time spent planning and validating changes

VALIDATE CONFIGURATIONS WITH EMC SUPPORT MATRIX AND YOUR BEST PRACTICES

•Align performance with business requirements

OPTIMIZE USE OF FAST VP VIA PERFORMANCE MONITORING AND CHARGEBACK


vCenter Servers Arrays

All relationships mapped from the host to the array

Unified SLA Reports From Heterogeneous Sources

One pane of glass

Host Unification (Physical Windows/Unix, Virtual)

Allocated Storage

Capacity Metrics Performance Metrics


Optimize Resources & Productivity

•Reduce costs through more effective capacity planning

IMPROVE CAPACITY PLANNING WITH VISIBILITY INTO REPLICAS

•Analyze application performance with storage workloads to select the best tier to reduce costs & meet service levels

IDENTIFY APPROPRIATE TIER OF STORAGE

•Save time with anywhere, any-device access to comprehensive analysis

ENHANCE PRODUCTIVITY


Optimizing Resources Only 6

weeks to “Pool Full”

Time to order more FC 15K

drives for Hopkinton


Get Visibility From Anywhere & Any Device


EMC PowerPath

Automate path management for availability and performance


What is Automated Path Management?

• Automates failover/ recovery for high availability

• Optimizes load balancing for performance

• Example: EMC PowerPath, Microsoft MPIO, VMware NMP

All data paths are active, optimized for load balancing

VMware

Network

PowerPath

Applications


17%

22%

24%

25%

138%

143%

0% 50% 100% 150% 200%

File Server

Exchange 2007

Decision-Support

8K OLTP

Video-on-Demand

Exchange Log

PowerPath/VE over VMware NMP

Percentage (%) Better Throughput

Optimize Load Balancing with PowerPath

• Adjust I/O path usage to changes in I/O loads from VMs automatically

– Assures all paths used

– Routes around failing paths

– Testing adjusted to host load to not impact applications

• Simplify provisioning by pooling connections

• Leverage defined policies to ensure automatic, optimized load balancing

Virtual environments

2x-3x Performance Boost Over Native Multipathing

These tests were designed to simulate the real-world SAN conditions that organizations encounter every day, and were conducted using common tools to highlight the potential impact on application, SAN, and storage performance. While these test results represent what a user might experience, actual results will vary depending on the data center configuration.

Source: ESG Lab: EMC PowerPath/VE - Automated Path Optimization for VMware Virtual Environments, April 2012


Next Steps

Identify how storage management can benefit your organization

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