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Foglight™ for Storage Management Huawei and Quest Software SMI-S Based Storage Monitoring HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD Puchun Jiang (Author) Hua Zhang (Author) Huawei Technologies Co., LTD. Shenzhen, China Yinghua Qin (Author) Sinba Wang (Author) Quest Software Inc. Santa Clara, CA, USA

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Foglight™ for Storage Management

Huawei and Quest Software SMI-S Based Storage Monitoring

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD

Puchun Jiang (Author)

Hua Zhang (Author)

Huawei Technologies Co., LTD.

Shenzhen, China

Yinghua Qin (Author)

Sinba Wang (Author)

Quest Software Inc.

Santa Clara, CA, USA

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Contents

Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 6

Purpose ...................................................................................................................................... 6

Intended Audience ..................................................................................................................... 6

Overview .................................................................................................................................... 6

What is SMI-S ....................................................................................................................... 8

What type of data could be collected with SMI-S ................................................................... 9

Huawei storage product and SMI-S support ........................................................................ 11

Application scenario ................................................................................................................. 11

Supported profiles and sub-profiles ......................................................................................... 11

Conventions ....................................................................................................................... 12

Supported environments ................................................................................................... 13

Obtaining software packages ............................................................................................ 13

Installing SMI-S provider .......................................................................................................... 14

Uninstalling SMI-S Provider ..................................................................................................... 14

Managing the SMI-S Provider Service ..................................................................................... 15

Starting the SMI-S Provider Service .................................................................................. 15

Stopping the SMI-S Provider Service ................................................................................ 16

Restarting the SMI-S Provider Service .............................................................................. 16

Managing Unified Storage Devices .......................................................................................... 16

Adding a Device ................................................................................................................ 16

Deleting a Device .............................................................................................................. 17

List Device ......................................................................................................................... 17

Enabling/Disabling HTTP for Connection .......................................................................... 18

Enabling/Disabling HTTPS for Connection ....................................................................... 18

Changing the HTTP Port ................................................................................................... 18

Changing the HTTPS Port ................................................................................................. 19

Foglight™ for Virtualization and Storage Management ........................................................ 20

Monitoring approach ........................................................................................................... 22

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Storage metrics .................................................................................................................. 24

Root cause diagnostic ......................................................................................................... 28

Summary ............................................................................................................................ 29

[Heading 1] Appendix .......................................................................................................... 30

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Introduction

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Introduction

Purpose

Huawei Storage and Quest Software Foglight™ have a joined effort on the SMI-S based storage devices

performance monitoring. A SMI-S based monitoring on a series of Huawei storage devices have been developed

and verified on Foglight™ for Virtualization Storage Management platform.

As part of this joined effort, this document describes the SMI-S storage standard, the procedure for installing and

configuring Huawei storage SMI-S, and the steps of monitoring SMI-S storage devices using Foglight™ for

Virtualization and Storage Management system, and the procedure for implementing device surveillance.

Intended Audience

This document is intended for:

● Storage device administrator, datacenter operator who need to monitor the storage devices performance

and keep the SLA of infrastructure performance.

● ISV (Independent Software Vendor) software development engineers who are creating interoperability

between system like Foglight™ and Huawei storage software.

● SMI standard members of SNIA who are looking for practical examples of SMI adoptions.

Overview

Foglight™ for Virtualization and Foglight™ for Storage Management (FSM) are enterprise software products from

Quest Software, whose purpose is solving complex problems with simple solutions. FSM will help to detect,

diagnose and resolve potential issues from the application through the virtualization layer to the physical disk

spindle, ensuring optimal virtual machine performance and availability.

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Introduction

The Foglight™ for Huawei storage SMI-S monitoring plugin is installed in the FSM system. After the installation,

the FSM can manage Huawei devices - collecting, persisting, and analyzing the system information, LUNs,

Pools, controllers and Disks of device components under surveillance.

The interoperability is created based on SMI-S standard which owned by industry consortium SNIA, and

supported by a list of vendors and consumers.

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What is SMI-S

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What is SMI-S The SMI-S, developed by the SMI organization of the SNIA, is an open standard used to manage storage

networks of multiple vendors. The SMI-S defines a set of secure and reliable interfaces that help the storage

management system identify, classify, and monitor physical and logical resources in a storage area network

(SAN).

Based on the existing technical standards, the SMI-S covers:

● Common information model (CIM) - The CIM is developed by a distributed management task force

(DMTF) to describe concept models of data. The CIM uses a layered object-oriented system structure to

model for managed resources. Devices and components can thus be described in an object-oriented

manner.

● Web-based enterprise management (WBEM) - The WBEM is an enterprise-class management system

structure developed by a DMTF. The WBEM assembles management protocols and standard Internet

technologies for unified management in a distributed operating environment, improving data exchange

capabilities across technologies and platforms.

● Service location protocol (SLP) - The SLP is used to discover the SMI-S server and its functions in a

storage network environment.

Figure 2-1 SMI-S Architecture [2]

As an open standard, the SMI-S expands general-purpose capabilities of the CIM, WBEM, and SLP to achieve

interoperability in a storage network environment. For example, the WBEM provides security, resource lock

management, and event notification.

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What type of data could be collected with SMI-S

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What type of data could be collected

with SMI-S SMI-S defines a method for the interoperable management of a heterogeneous Storage Area Network (SAN),

and describes the information available to a WBEM Client from an SMI-S compliant CIM Server and an object-

oriented, XML-based, messaging-based interface designed to support the specific requirements of managing

devices in and through SANs. This following provides an overview of the functionality matrix approach for

describing the management functionality provided by the SMI-S.

Table 3-1: Functionality matrix

The lowest level of the multi-level model of networked storage management functionality applies to managing the

basic physical aspects of the elements found in a networked storage environment, and the upper levels are

involved with managing the different logical levels supported by these managed elements. Each level in this

model depends upon the lower levels being in place.

Shown in top-down order, the functionality levels are:

● (Level 5) Application Level Functionality,

● (Level 4) File/Record Level Functionality,

● (Level 3) Block Level Functionality,

● (Level 2) Connectivity Level Functionality,

● (Level 1) Device Level Functionality.

Managed physical elements in a networked storage environment shall support Level 1 functionality, and may

support additional functionality levels as well, depending upon the logical capabilities of the managed physical

element. The functionality supported by a managed element will normally involve a contiguous set of levels in this

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model. If a managed physical element supports functionality for a particular upper level, then it will also support

functionality for each level between that level and Level 1.

For more information about the SMI-S, please get the detail information from the SNIA.

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Huawei storage product and SMI-S

support

Application scenario

eSDK SMI-S Provider enables third-party storage management software to manage Huawei unified storage as a

network element (NE). Figure 4-1shows the application scenario.

Figure 4-1: Application scenario

Supported profiles and sub-profiles

Table 4-1 lists the supported features of eSDK SMI-S Provider.

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Table 4-1: Supported features

Item Description

Supported Profiles Array

Server

Supported subprofiles and packages Block Services

Copy Services

Disk Drive Lite

FC Target Ports

iSCSI Target Ports

Software

Masking and Mapping

Group Masking and Mapping

Multiple Computer System

Physical Package

Job Control

Replication Services

Automated Storage Tiering

Indication

Block Server Performance

Conventions

Table 4-2 describes the conventions that you must follow when using eSDK SMI-S Provider.

Table 4-2: Conventions

Item Convention

Namespaces CIM Interop namespace: interop

Managed resource namespace: root/huawei

Supported SMI-S version SMI-S 1.6

Protocols and ports HTTPS, port 5989

HTTP, port 5988

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Supported environments

Table 4-3 lists the Huawei storage device models and versions supported by SMI-S Provider.

Table 4-3: Suppoted device models and versions

Devices Version

OceanStor 18500v3/18800v3 V300R003

OceanStor 5300V3/5500V3/5600V3/5800V3/6800V3 V300R002

V300R003

V300R006

OceanStor 2200V3/2600V3 V300R005

V300R006

OceanStor Dorado 5000v3/6000v3 V300R001

Table 4-4 describes the operating environment required by SMI-S Provider.

Table 4-4: Operating environment required by SMI-S Provider

Configuration Requirement

CPU 2 x Xeon dual-core 1.6 GHz or higher

Free disk space 1 GB or higher

Operating system Either of the following:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, version 11

with SP1 (64-bit)

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2

Obtaining software packages

Before installing and configuring SMI-S Provider, obtain the software packages.

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Software package Description Download path

eSDK_Storage_SMI-

S_SAN_X.X.XX_Linux.tgz

SMI-S Provider installation

package for Linux

Access

http://support.huawei.com/enterprise/softdownload

and choose IT > Storage > Tools and Platform >

eSDK Storage Plugins. Then download desired

software packages.

eSDK_Storage_SMI-

S_SAN_X.X.XX_Windows.zip

SMI-S Provider installation

package for Windows

Installing SMI-S provider

Task description

Install SMI-S Provider on a third-party Windows server.

Procedure

1 Log in to the SMI-S Provider server as an operating system administrator.

2 Copy the installation package to the installation path, such as C:\Huawei\eSDK, and decompress the

package.

3 Run the following commands on the command-line interface (CLI) command console to install the SMI-S

Provider service:

C:\Users\Administrator>cd C:\Huawei\eSDK\smisprovider

C:\Huawei\eSDK\smisprovider>install.bat

Pegasus installed as a Windows service

Service Location Protocol installed.

SLP Info Reg Agent service installed.

C:\Huawei\eSDK\smisprovider>

----End

Uninstalling SMI-S Provider

Before you use SMI-S Provider of the latest version, you must uninstall SMI-S Provider in the system.

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Procedure

1 Log in to the SMI-S Provider server as an operating system administrator.

2 Run the following commands on the CLI command console:

C:\Users\Administrator>cd C:\Huawei\eSDK\smisprovider

C:\Huawei\eSDK\smisprovider>uninstall.bat

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Managing the SMI-S Provider Service

Starting the SMI-S Provider Service

1 Log in to the SMI-S Provider server as an operating system administrator.

2 Run the following commands on the CLI command console to install the SMI-S Provider service:

C:\Users\Administrator>cd C:\Huawei\eSDK\smisprovider

C:\Huawei\eSDK\smisprovider>start_smis_svc.bat

== Start SMI-S Provider Option =======================

Http Option Description

1 enable Http

2 disable Http

c continue with current option

CURRENT OPTION: Http disabled.

Make a choice or type q to quit: [1,2,C,Q]? 2 <HTTP options: Choose 1, 2, C or Q.>

starting smis service with disableHttp

cimserver was started successfully.

C:\Huawei\eSDK\smisprovider>

NOTE: Explanations of the HTTP options:

● 1: Enables HTTP.

● 2: Enables HTTPS.

● C: Uses the current configurations.

● Q: Exits.

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Stopping the SMI-S Provider Service

As an operating system administrator, run the following commands on the CLI command console to stop the SMI-

S Provider service.

C:\Users\Administrator>cd C:\Huawei\eSDK\smisprovider

C:\Huawei\eSDK\smisprovider>stop_smis_svc.bat

== Stopping SMI-S Provider, please wait... ===============

cimserver was stopped successfully.

C:\Huawei\eSDK\smisprovider>

Restarting the SMI-S Provider Service

To restart the current SMI-S Provider service, run stop_smis_svc.bat and start_smis_svc.bat one by

one.

Managing Unified Storage Devices

Adding a Device

By performing the following steps, you can use the SMI-S Provider service to add one or more Huawei unified

storage devices.

1 Log in to the SMI-S Provider server as an operating system administrator.

2 Run the following commands on the CLI command console.

C:\Huawei\eSDK\smisprovider>smistool.exe

Enter UserName:smis_admin

Enter Password:Admin@12<Type the password of the SMI-S Provider user

smis_admin.>

Login OK

Smis>add device

Enter Device IP list:172.22.0.6 <Type the IP address list of Huawei unified

storage devices in the IPv4 or IPv6 format. If a single device has multiple IP

addresses, separate them with commas (,).>

Enter Device Port:8088 <Type the port numbers of Huawei unified storage

devices.>

1 NAS Head N8K

2 Array_NexV1

3 Array NexV2

4 ARRAY_HVS_SVP

5 NAS_SC_OSTOR9000

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Please Select Device Type [1-5]:3 <Currently, only 3 Array NexV2 is

supported.>

Enter Device UserName:admin <Type the management account of Huawei unified

storage.>

Enter Device Password:<Type the management account password of Huawei unified

storage.>

0 Local User

1 LDAP User

4 Machine to Machine User

Please Select Scope[0,1,4]:0 <Select the User Model>

Add device success

Smis>quit

C:\Huawei\eSDK\smisprovider>

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Deleting a Device

You can perform the following steps to remove a Huawei unified storage device from the SMI-S Provider.

1 Log in to the SMI-S Provider server as an operating system administrator.

2 Run the following commands on the CLI command console.

C:\Huawei\eSDK\smisprovider>smistool.exe

Enter UserName:smis_admin

Enter Password:Admin@12<Type the password of the SMI-S Provider user smis_admin.>

Login OK

Smis>delete device

Enter Device IP list:172.22.0.6<Type the IP address list of Huawei unified storage

devices in the IPv4 or IPv6 format. If a single device has multiple IP addresses,

separate them with commas (,).>

Delete device success

Smis>quit

C:\Huawei\eSDK\smisprovider>

----End

List Device

You can perform the following steps list all the Huawei unified storage device in the SMI-S Provider.

1 Log in to the SMI-S Provider server as an operating system administrator.

2 Run the following commands on the CLI command console.

C:\Huawei\eSDK\smisprovider>smistool.exe

Enter UserName:smis_admin

Enter Password:Admin@12<Type the password of the SMI-S Provider user smis_admin.>

Login OK

Smis>list device

// path= Huawei_SystemRegistrationData.Addresses="172.22.0.6"

instance of Huawei_SystemRegistrationData

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{

Addresses = "172.22.0.6";

PortNumber = 8088;

UserName = "admin";

Password = "******";

AuthScope = 0;

ComMechanism = "REST";

DeviceType = 3;

SerialNumber = "2102350BSJ10EC000002";

};

Smis>quit

C:\Huawei\eSDK\smisprovider>

----End

Enabling/Disabling HTTP for Connection

SMI-S Provider disables HTTP for connection by default. Because HTTP is a non-security connection protocol,

you are advised to use HTTPS.

To enable/disable HTTP for connection, perform the following steps:

1 Log in to the SMI-S Provider server as an operating system administrator.

2 Use the CLI command console to go to the bin directory, and run the following commands:

cimconfig -s enableHttpConnection=true –p <Enables HTTP for connection.>

cimconfig -s enableHttpConnection=false –p <Disables HTTP for connection.>

3 Restart the SMI-S Provider service.

Enabling/Disabling HTTPS for Connection

SMI-S Provider enables HTTPS by default. You are advised to maintain the default configuration.

To enable/disable HTTPS for connection, perform the following steps:

1 Log in to the SMI-S Provider server as an operating system administrator.

2 Use the CLI command console to go to the bin directory, and run the following commands:

cimconfig -s enableHttpConnection=true –p <Enables HTTPS for connection.>

cimconfig -s enableHttpConnection=false –p <Disables HTTPS for connection.>

3 Restart the SMI-S Provider service.

Changing the HTTP Port

The HTTP port is 5988 by default. You can change it based on actual needs.

1 Log in to the SMI-S Provider server as an operating system administrator.

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2 Use the CLI command console to go to the bin directory, and perform the following command:

cimconfig -s httpPort=New port –p

3 Restart the SMI-S Provider service.

Changing the HTTPS Port

The HTTPS port is 5989 by default. You can change it based on actual needs.

1 Log in to the SMI-S Provider server as an operating system administrator.

2 Use the CLI command console to go to the bin directory, and perform the following command:

cimconfig -s httpsPort=New port –p

3 Restart the SMI-S Provider service.

For the entire configuration about the smi-s provider, please refer the official document from

http://support.huawei.com.

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Foglight™ for Virtualization and Storage Management

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Foglight™ for Virtualization and

Storage Management Foglight™ for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition and Foglight™ for Storage Management are infrastructure

monitoring products from Quest Software.

Foglight™ for Storage Management provides complete monitoring of virtual storage environments, providing

performance and capacity management metrics. It is designed for customers requiring storage monitoring

functionality, but not full-fledged virtualization environment monitoring functionality.

Figure 5-1: Figure 5-1 Foglight™ for Virtualization and Storage Management Virtual Machine SAN Topology.

Foglight™ for Storage Management monitors virtual environments, providing performance and capacity

management metrics to assist you in:

● Improving management of virtual environments from host to storage.

● Gaining the information required to optimize storage performance associated with your virtual server

environment.

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● Ensuring service level agreements are met.

● Maintaining high levels of customer satisfaction.

● Avoiding the loss of cost savings already achieved with virtualization.

Foglight™ for Storage Management

gathers extensive performance metrics

and presents that data in a graphical

interface using architectural diagrams,

graphs, alerts, and drill-down screens to

quickly identify virtual and physical

storage problems. It fully supports

VMware (vCenter and vSphere) and

Hyper-V environments, allowing you to

browse through your virtual

infrastructure to identify storage

performance, capacity or topology

issues.

Foglight™ for Storage Management is

built on Foglight™, which provides the following components:

● Management Server: The Management Server receives information from agents, stores and processes

data, and makes it available in the browser interface.

● Agent Manager: The Agent Manager is a middleware application that hosts agents, manages agent

lifecycle (such as start, stop, and restart), manages the connection to the Management Server, and

provides centralized services to agents.

● Database Repository: The database where data from all sources is collected and aggregated for display

in the browser interface.

● Browser Interface: The interface you use to view data collected from your monitored environment and to

investigate issues. You also use it to configure Foglight™ for Storage Management and perform

administrative tasks.

For more information, see “Components” in the Foglight™ for Storage Management Getting Started online help.

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Monitoring approach

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Monitoring approach During this procedure, you configure the agent to use SMI-S to collect from the Array Management Host that

monitors the arrays.

To configure an agent to monitor the storage device:

1 On the navigation panel, under Dashboards, click the Administration tab.

2 Click the Agents tab, then the Agent Status tab

3 Click Deploy Agent Package.

4 The Storage Device Setup Wizard opens. Each of the following steps corresponds to one page in the

wizard. Use the Next and Back buttons to navigate between pages.

a On the Select Host Selector page, select the Host to host this agent.

b On the Select Agent Packages page, select SMISStorageAgent.

c On the Agent Configuration Summary page, review the agent configuration. You can go back and

make corrections, if necessary.

d Click Finish.

5 Click Create Agent to open in the wizard

6 The Storage Device Setup Wizard opens. Each of the following steps corresponds to one page in the

wizard. Use the Next and Back buttons to navigate between pages.

a On the Select Host Selector page, select the Host to host this agent.

b On the Select Agent Type and Instance page, select SMISStorageAgent.

c On the Agent Configuration Summary page, review the agent configuration. You can go back and

make corrections, if necessary.

d Click Finish.

7 Select the Agent to configure, click Edit Properties.

8 Click Modify the private properties for this agent.

9 Edit the User-defined Properties

■ Host: ip of the SMI-S,default 127.0.0.1

■ Port: port of the SMI-S, default 5989

■ Username: the user of the SMI-S, default is smis_admin

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■ Password: the password of the SMI-S, default is Admin@12

10 Click Save.

11 Select the Agent that you want to activate

12 Click Activate.

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Storage metrics

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Storage metrics The SMISStorage Agent provide the following metrics collection to support the Huawei Storage Array.

Item Metric Example

Summary Product name

Device ID

Vendor

Total Disk Capacity

Model

Related Inventory

Resource utilization

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Item Metric Example

Controllers-

Ports

Controllers

Highest Data

Rate

Most

Operations

Status

State

Date Rate

Ops Rate

Latency

Fc Port Status

IP port Status

Port

FC Ports-

Utilization

Distribution

Status

Physical State

Data Rate

Ops Rate

Pools Ops Rate

Data Rate

Status

Physical State

Total Raw Capacity

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Storage metrics

Item Metric Example

LUN r/w Latency

% busy

Ops rate

Data rate

Cache hit rate

Status

Physical State

Disk % busy

Ops rate

Data rate

Status

Physical State

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Storage metrics

Item Metric Example

FAQts Latency

Advance

Find

Search&Filter

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Root cause diagnostic

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Root cause diagnostic Foglight™ for Storage Management combines information from VMware and Hyper-V to provide unified data

analysis from the VM to the physical disk spindle. FSM delivers the full view of virtualization performance by:

● Uncovering when VM performance issues are originating within storage hardware

● Identifying which VMs will be impacted by storage issues or planned storage hardware maintenance

● Exposing physical storage capacity as a component of VM performance

● Allowing the virtualization administrators and the storage administrators to troubleshoot from a single

pane of glass

● Uncover storage issues impacting VMs Determine whether VM performance issues are originating in the

host, fabric or storage array. Drill down into the specific metrics of each target device for granular detail

about current or historical performance issues to pinpoint the root cause of a given degradation. With the

end-to-end virtual infrastructure monitoring, with logical visualization to help identify bottlenecks in the

storage topology that are impacting VM performance.

For more information about the root cause analysis, please go through the related Foglight™ document.

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Summary

9

Summary With the rapid business growth in the global market, Huawei storage Array is becoming the key contributor for the

global enterprise storage. With Quest Foglight™ for Storage Management, it’s easy to analysis the bottleneck of

the Storage array and provide more valuable function for the customer. This will help you lower the operational

cost of managing IT environments, mitigate risk of downtime while improving staff productivity, improve

compliance with infrastructure end-user SLAs, reduce incident counts and mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR) of

incidents and provide visibility for IT and business stakeholders.

Reference:

[1] Quest Foglight™ eDocs https://support.quest.com/Foglight™-for-virtualization-enterprise-edition/

[2] SNIA, SMI architecture https://www.snia.org/forums/smi/knowledge/smis-getting-started/smi_architecture

[3] SNIA, SMI Overview https://www.snia.org/sites/default/files/technical_work/SMIS/SMI-

Sv1.6.1r6_Overview.book_.pdf

[4] Huawei, eSDK Storage Plugins SMI-S Provider Quick Guide

http://support.huawei.com/enterprise/zh/storage/esdk-storage-plugins-pid-22130779

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