SOLARWINDS PROFILERTopic 5

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Learning Objectives Describe the value of Storage Profiler to a lead or

customer» Describe the top customer problems and Profiler benefits

(marketecture)» Describe the pricing model of Storage Profiler

Describe the benefit of Backup Profiler to a prospect or customer

Describe the value of Virtual and Server Profiler to a prospect or customer

» Describe the top customer problems and Profiler benefits (marketecture)

» Describe the pricing model of Storage Profiler

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Products Storage Profiler

» Based on how many disk drives are being managed» No matter the array type, disk size, or network type

Virtual and Server Profiler» Monitors servers, whether virtual and physical» No fee for the ESX host» Application profiler features surfaced here» Monitors backup media servers

Backup Profiler» Monitors major backup manager products» The media servers are managed by Virtual and Server Profiler

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Profiler Storage & Virtualization Mgmt. Increase IT efficiency by driving down storage management

costs and increasing management of virtualized environments.

Virtual and Server Profiler» Maps applications & logical connections to the physical

infrastructure » Real-time performance monitoring» Policy based alerts» Supports server consolidation

Storage Profiler» Affordable SRM software

• DAS, NAS, and SAN» Storage Capacity planning» Storage performance reports

Storage Profiler The market need:

» “IT departments that have formal storage reporting, monitoring and capacity planning processes will be able to reduce storage costs by 20% to 30%, compared with IT departments that do not have these processes.” – Gartner (G00174339)

Use cases» Server consolidation/virtualization» Heterogeneous storage environment» No more spreadsheets to track growth

Benefits» Capacity utilization and forecasting» Supports storage tiers to optimize costs

Storage Profiler Features End to End mapping of applications and logical connections to

physical infrastructure across the multi-vendor stack.

Storage capacity planning to track performance over time to identify hot spots, peak hours, and potential outages.

Visibility across DAS/NAS/SAN.

Real-time, agentless storage monitoring.

100’s of multi-vendor storage reports.

Analyze file types to better control storage costs.

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Virtual and Server Profiler Overview

» End-to-End Visibility & Control Over Your Virtual & Physical Infrastructure

Use cases» Stop VM sprawl» Host and VM utilization at a glance» Storage consumption by server

Benefits» File analysis of vmdk’s and others» Advanced capacity analysis engine» Identify virtualization candidates

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Virtual and Server Profiler Features End to End mapping of applications and logical

connections to physical infrastructure across the multi-vendor stack.

SAN to VM Mapping to see where your guest is, down to the disk (spindle).

Understand storage consumption of physical servers» Run Orion for application performance information

VMware capacity planning to identify Top 10 busiest guests as well as the busiest hosts.

Ensure that you are allocating storage fast enough, but not too fast.

Data classification to identify and remove non-critical or duplicate data.

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Backup Profiler Overview

» Consolidated, web-based view of all backups

Use case» Ensure that backups are reliable

Benefits» Receive alerts to backup problems» Extensive appliance support» Validate performance against SLA

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Backup Profiler Features Supports cost reduction and storage tiering. Performs continuous backup monitoring to identify

misconfigurations, inefficiencies, & anomalies before they contribute to backup failure

Facilitates backup capacity planning by delivering a real-time & historical view of the backup environment

Automates the backup compliance process & enables you to provide auditors with a clear picture of backup status, backup locations, & assurance that data is recoverable

Simplifies SLA definition, performance monitoring, & scorecard generation

Pricing

Examples Storage Profiler

» 125 disk drives maps to PL150 license.

» 15,200 disk drives maps to PLX (unlimited) license

» Agents are free of charge

Virtual and Server Profiler» 8 servers maps to VL10 license

» 220 virtual servers map to VLX (unlimited) plus a poller agent for up to 200 additional servers