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TRANSFORM STORAGE

INTO A BUSINESS ENABLER

STORAGE ANALYTICS

Mike Rowley, Sr. Solutions Architect

Darryl Fujita, Technical Software Specialist

Michael Knouse, Software Solution Specialist

WEBTECH EDUCATIONAL SERIES

Storage Analytics: Transform Storage into a Business Enabler

Attend this webinar session to learn how you can transform your

storage infrastructure into a business enabler.

You will learn

• Tips and tricks to streamline storage performance monitoring across

your Hitachi environment

• How to define and enforce performance and capacity objectives for

key business applications by establishing storage service-level

management

• How to create storage service-level management reports that satisfy

the needs of multiple IT stakeholders (i.e., CIO, architect,

administrator)

DATA CENTER MANAGEMENT

DATA CENTER MANAGEMENT

HITACHI COMMAND SUITE

Across all tiers of storage

Across management functions

Across file, block and content

UNIFIED MANAGEMENT

Unified Management Framework

Configure Analyze Mobilize Protect

Business Intelligence

Appliance File Content Unified Block

HDI

HNAS

HCP

HUS

VSP, USP, AMS,

HUS

HITACHI COMMAND SUITE

1. Single-point view

2. View from

business and

storage

perspective

3. Unified

management

Configuration Performance

Mobility Reporting Analysis

HITACHI DEVICE MANAGER (HDVM)

Among other things, HDvM allows storage administrators to

Provision / unallocate storage to hosts

Carve LDEVs

Virtualize volumes

Manage pools (create, expand, shrink, delete)

‒ Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning

‒ Hitachi Dynamic Tiering

Collect against hosts

‒ Understand host to storage correlation

‒ Report on host capacity usage, mappings, memberships in groups, etc.

Create point-in-time reports of storage, including

‒ Capacity utilization (% used, RAW, usable, etc.)

‒ Host mappings and storage paths

‒ Array configurations

DEVICE

MANAGER

MANAGE PERFORMANCE WITH HITACHI TUNING MANAGER

Tuning Manager provides the ability to monitor and manage

performance from the host down to the storage (end to end)

SVR

SAN

LUN

CACHE

RAID/PHYS

LUN

Appls. Canned and custom reports

- Capture “normal” profile for each

host

- Know when it becomes “abnormal” For hosts where

performance is critical;

not on every host

HTnM

Performance

detail for

every key

component

response

time

Agent Set performance threshold alerts

- Detect the problem before the

server team does

Host to Storage correlation

- Drill down by application to tune

for better performance

- Host to storage response time

Array Performance detail

- I/O response time within the

array

- Utilization/bottleneck analysis

from controller port to spindle

throughput

HITACHI COMMAND DIRECTOR DASHBOARD

BOS/HDvM

HTnM HRpM

Configuration

Repl Mgmt Perf details Tiered Stg

HDT

HCmD

HTSM

BOS(HDvM+HDP)

Storage Analytics:

Hitachi Command Director

BUSINESS ANALYTICS PRODUCT LINE

Enable customers to transform visualizing the data center from an operational view to a more strategic, business- centric view where elements are measured,

correlated, “trend-ized,” visualized and strategized

BUSINESS ANALYTICS PRODUCT LINE

5 5

Configuration Analytics Mobility Protection

Operational View

Business Analytics

Strategic View

Usage Patterns SLO Compliance Capacity Planning

Chargeback

Storage Allocation Performance Tuning Data Migration Replication

Pair Sync Technology upgrades Pool Creation

Storage Allocation

CAPEX OPEX Storage Economics

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE OVERVIEW

Command Director web server

Accessed through web

browsers

Command Director

license server

Validates licenses

Performs user

authentication

Tuning Manager data

collector

Installed on Hitachi Tuning

Manager server

Used to collect storage

system performance data

Managed from Command

Director server

HITACHI COMMAND DIRECTOR: FOCUS ON KEY CUSTOMER BUSINESS INITIATIVES

Visibility

Application

SLO Compliance

Chargeback

Capacity Planning Business

Initiatives

CAPEX reduction

Increased utilization

Storage Economics

ROI analysis

Cost justification

SLA compliance

Delayed buying

Never run out

Increased ROI

Reduce MTR

Application view

Know what you have

OPEX reduction

HITACHI COMMAND DIRECTOR: VALUE PROPOSITION

Helps transform IT from a cost center to a

service-oriented business

DATA CENTER VISIBILITY

Have complete visibility into your data center with application-centric views of storage (supply and demand) to minimize OPEX

Global dashboard

Business and customer view of applications

(demand)

Storage array view

(supply)

SLO COMPLIANCE

Define application service level objectives (SLO) to monitor for compliance purposes; proactively identify SLO issues and reduce OPEX

Application SLO monitoring

SLO violation investigation

Seamless integration with Hitachi Tuning Manager for deeper analysis

SERVICE CHARGEBACK

Offer tiers of service to customers and charge back accordingly to ensure ROI while reducing CAPEX

Service and chargeback models

(Based on hardware tiers, pool and service levels)

Chargeback and compliance reports for customers

Interface to external chargeback systems

CAPACITY PLANNING

Understand data center economics and conduct intelligent capacity planning based on historical trends to reduce future CAPEX

Standard reports to identify underutilized and overutilized resources

Historical capacity and performance utilization trend for applications

If-else modeling for advanced capacity planning

DEMONSTRATION

HITACHI COMMAND DIRECTOR SUMMARY

Data center visibility

Asset inventory and measurement across applications, servers and storage

Chargeback

Chargeback reporting based on capacity consumption, application service levels or SLO compliance

Application service level objective compliance

Global dashboard to monitor business applications against their service level objectives

Capacity planning

View application-based capacity utilization trends to properly plan for future growth

Hitachi Command Director

Enables customers to transform visualizing the data center from an operational view to a more strategic, business-centric view where elements are measured, correlated, “trend-ized,” visualized and

strategized

QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION

UPCOMING WEBTECHS

Mainframe Series – last session

Why Networked FICON Storage Is Better than Direct Attached

Storage, Oct 3, 9 a.m. PT, 12 p.m. ET

Also in October

Maximize Availability and Uptime by Clustering your Physical Data

Centers within Metro Distances, Oct 24, 9 a.m. PT, 12 p.m. ET

Check www.hds.com/webtech for

Links to the recording, the presentation and Q&A (available next week)

Schedule and registration for upcoming WebTech sessions

THANK YOU