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February 2012

Introducing Release 2.1:Powerful LUN SLAs that put you in control

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Welcome!

Release 2.1:Powerful LUN SLAs that

put you in controlFebruary 2012

Erick [email protected]

Bill [email protected]

Software Group

mailto:[email protected]



Agenda

Introducing I/O Management

I/O Management in action

OneCommand® Vision

Cool Stuff Available in Release 2.1

Q & A


The Big Picture

BusinessCompetitiveness

ApplicationCompetitiveness

Storage I/OCompetitiveness

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i f s t o r a g e u n d e r p e r f o r m s

Yo u r a p p l i c a ti o n s r u n o n s t o r a g e

yo u ’re ra c i n g a s l o w e r c a r


What the experts are saying …

“..half or more of the database time is attributable to storage I/O”- Gartner’s Sept 2011, “Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring”

50%Storage

Wait Time

“It is vital to understand the value of performance for each environment and particular application.”

“The cost for I/O response time needs to be part of the data center cost structure.”- IDC, ‘Data Center I/O Performance Issues and Impacts’

“improving [storage I/O completion time] will have a dramatic effect on [application] transaction rate and scalability.” – Pure Storage.com (Matt Kixmoeller)


SRM Tools

Array Mgmt. SWSAN

Mgmt. SWServer

Mgmt. SWApplication

Performance SW

DatabaseServer

Storage Target

Traditional Tools are insufficient for end-to-end I/O performance

“CPU and Memory are OK”

“PING works, Temp is OK”

“Plenty of Storage & No hardware failures”

“SAN has low utilization”

• I/O distribution is critically unbalanced• I/O is slowing down over time• Application performance is about to fall off a cliff• I/O issues are impacting revenue

None of these tools are telling you …

Existing Management Solutions Focus ElsewhereMissing the Blind Spots

Traditional SAN Infrastructure …

Application Server

Fabric

X

“Plenty of capacity”


FabricServer

Today’s Complex I/O PathMajor Technology Shifts have complicated the storage Path

Storage Target

Converged / Complex Networks

FCoE

iSCSI

Fibre Channel

I/O Aggregators

PhysicalStorage

WWID C

WWID B

WWID A

VirtualStorage

LUN 2

LUN 1

LUN 0

LUN 1

Today, complexity has evolved at every point in the path Problem: Storage

Response Times are monitored from HERE

Need to measure ‘end-to-end’ performance and healthOr .. from

HERE

H y p e r v i s o r

VM VM VM VMVM VM VM

VM VM VM VMVM VM VM

Multi-path

Storage Caching

Traditional SAN Infrastructure …

Fabric Storage Target

X


Taking an Application View of Performance

WWID B

WWID A

PhysicalStorage

VirtualStorage

I/O Aggregators

Converged Networks

Multi-pathingH y p e r v i s o r Storage

Caching

Simplify the problem …

• Hardware agnostic monitoring across all paths to storage• End-to-End view of I/O exposes blind spots• Forensic capabilities pinpoint performance bottlenecks• Enables ‘Real-World’ performance assurance SLAs

I/O Management:

Solution: Monitor from application’s

perspective …


Application View Matters: The Lever Effect

Complex I/O Path

I/O

I/O

I/O

I/O

I/O

I/O

I/O

I/O

I/O

I/O

I/O

I/O

I/O

I/O

I/O

I/O

Storage Viewof Performance(Low Latency)

Application Viewof Performance

(High Latency)

The “Lever Effect” produces much higher latencies for the Application, compared to the latency seen at the Storage

WWID B

WWID A

Application Storage

Many factors, including queue depths on the server and the storage,

contribute to this multiplier effect


“Solutions like Emulex's OneCommand ® Vision will make it possible for IT managers to detect and track down I/O problems across servers, networks and storage systems making it possible to resolve

performance issues in less time than ever before.” – Richard Villars, IDC

Physical server / port oversubscription 8:1

Virtual oversubscription 160:1 (20 guest / hypervisor)

Performance in Virtual Server EnvironmentsCompounding the Oversubscription Problem

VirtualStorage

LUN 1

LUN 0

LUN 1

LUN 0

Target Port A

Target Port B

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PhysicalStorage

RAID Set 2

RAID Set 1

!

!

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1 2Latency Spikes Detected

3

VMware I/O Timeouts

4Unintended spindle contention


Storage Migration to the CloudUsing ‘real-world’ SLAs to manage performance before and after

Baseline local application I/O performance

1

Cloud Storage Migration

Establish SLAs based on ‘real-world’ performance2

Enforce SLA on local and remote

storage pools3Migrate Application to use new storage

4

Monitor SLAs post migration

LUN 0

LUN 0 ?

"OneCommand® Vision’s application-centric view of performance provides the only solution to effectively manage SLAs associated within this storage ‘cloud’”


Ruling Out StorageKnowing where to look helps to speed problem solving …

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“One of Emulex’s key advantages is that they are uniquely positioned in the data center with a presence on the server and a clean line-of-sight to the storage it’s connected to.” - Arun Taneja, Taneja Group

Storage ProblemServer Problem ?

2

Examine I/O Profile

3

Check I/O Analyzer

Application Outage!

I/O Latency is normal

Target Port Traffic is balanced

No Storage Events

4 Rule out Storagein 5 minutes

Enabling I/O Performance AssuranceBill SytsmaHead of Global SalesSoftware Group


FabricServer

Performance Management is Difficult

Storage Target

Converged / Complex Networks

FCoE

iSCSI

Fibre Channel

I/O Aggregators

PhysicalStorage

WWID C

WWID B

WWID A

VirtualStorage

LUN 2

LUN 1

LUN 0

LUN 1

Today …

Complexity has evolved at every point in the path Problem: Storage Response Times are

monitored from HERE

Need to measure ‘end-to-end’ performance and healthOr .. from

HERE

H y p e r v i s o r

VM VM VM VMVM VM VM

VM VM VM VMVM VM VM

Multi-path

Storage Caching

Historically …

Storage performance is managed at the storage end of the equation

Causing over a decade of frustration managing storage performance


ROI BasicsThe Economic Advantages of I/O Management

What do slowdowns cost? Quick Example

10% Performance Degradation

1 % Time Degraded per Year

$100 K Revenue per Hour

$ 876 K Annual Loss in Revenue

What does underutilization cost? Quick Example

250 SAN-Attached Servers

500 Storage Adapters

1 Petabyte SAN Storage

SAN Infrastructure & SW

$ 4 Million in Total Costs

Repurpose as little as 5% of underutilized infrastructure …

Save $200K Annually

Lower the occurrence of application slowdown by 25% …

Save $219K Annually

Expose under-utilized SAN-Attached Servers and LUNs

Detect I/O Performance problems before they become Application Problems

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Scalable software-only solution • Requires no special hardware • Cross-platform, vendor agnostic design

I/O Performance and Availability Management• Application View of Performance• Whole SAN performance analysis tool• Addresses the I/O blind spot

Application Servers Storage

• Historical I/O Performance database• Analytics and Correlation Engine (ACE)• Monitors I/O Latency, Path Redundancy• Captures cross-domain I/O errors

I/O

Feature Highlightse m u l e x . c o m/ v i s i o n

2011 SearchStorage Product of the Year WinnerStorage Management Tools – Medal Winner



http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/feature/Emulex-Corp-OneCommand-Vision-20

http://www.emulex.com/vision/


Release v2.1 Delivers …

Support for AIX & Linux KVM

Flexible Data Export– Export Performance Data Directly from the Web Application

Intelligent Event Decoding – RSCN & Check Condition Decoding

Role Based Management– Three Levels of User Permissions

Imports Into Microsoft Excel

PDF Readers

(v6.1)


LUN Performance SLA Alerts

Taking an application centric view of performance provides the only solution to effectively manage SLAs associated within this storage ‘cloud’

Application Server

Private Storage Cloud

Public Storage Cloud

SLA 2:High IOPs

SLA 3:Throughput

SLA 1:High IOPs &Throughput

For storage, a robust SLA includes: Class of Service: How much storage I/O is required? Performance Requirements: How well does the storage I/O need to perform? Availability Requirements: Uptime, redundancy and error tolerant?

Availability@Performance™ (A@P)


R e a l I n s i g h tA p p l i c a ti o n V i e w o f I / O P e r f o r m a n c e

M a d e S i m p l eE a s y t o u s e , s c a l a b l e s o ft w a r e a r c h i t e c t u r e

M u l ti p l e H y p e r v i s o r S u p p o r tB e y o n d j u s t V M w a r e , H y p e r - V, K V M , A I X , S o l a r i s

M u l ti p r o t o c o l S u p p o r t F i b r e C h a n n e l ( 1 , 2 , 4 , 8 , 1 6 G b p s ) , F C o E ( 1 0 G i g - E )

S h a r e d - L U N A w a r e V i s i b i l i t y i n t o s h a r e d S A N r e s o u r c e s

I n t e l l i g e n t A n a l y ti c s a n d C o r r e l a ti o nR o o t c a u s e a n a l y s i s o f S A N s l o w - d o w n s

OneCommand® Vision Solution Benefits


Learning More …

Vision Product Site– http://www.emulex.com/vision

Talk to the Team– Ask questions, view Live Demo– Evaluate Vision for yourself!

• 14 day Software Trials• Proof of Concept evaluations

Call Emulex: – North America: 877-359-3263– United Kingdom: 44 (0) 118 977 2929– Germany: 49 (0) 89 97007 177– France: 33 (0) 158 580 022

Contact:

Bill Sytsma [email protected] Sales Lead, SW Group

2011 SearchStorage Product of the Year WinnerStorage Management Tools – Medal Winner



http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/feature/Emulex-Corp-OneCommand-Vision-20


Questions … Panelists

Ilya Pozharsky – Sr. Sales Technology Lead, SW Group

Bino Sebastian– Architecture Lead, SW Group

John Waszak – Vice President, SW Group

Speakers

Erick Crowell – Product Marketing Manager, SW Group

Bill Sytsma – Head of Global Sales, SW Group

• [email protected]


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