The document presents Emulex Corporation's OneCommand® Vision 2.1, a software solution aimed at enhancing business performance through proactive I/O management. It emphasizes the importance of monitoring end-to-end storage performance to identify and resolve I/O issues that could impact application responsiveness and revenue. The release includes features such as hardware-agnostic monitoring and intelligent analytics to ensure efficient management of SLAs associated with storage cloud environments.

1. emulex.com/vision
OneCommand® Vision: Real Insight Made Simple
Improve Your Business Performance and Availability with Proactive I/O Management
Introducing Release 2.1:
Powerful LUN SLAs that put you in control
February 2012

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3. Welcome!
Erick Crowell
erick.crowell@emulex.com
Release 2.1:
Powerful LUN SLAs that
Bill Sytsma
put you in control
bill.sytsma@emulex.com
February 2012
Software Group

4. Agenda
Introducing I/O Management
I/O Management in action
OneCommand® Vision
Cool Stuff Available in Release 2.1
Q&A
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5. The Big Picture
Yo u r a p p l i c a t i o n s
run on storage
Business
Competitiveness if storage under
performs
= y o u ’ r e ra c i n g a
slower car
Application
Competitiveness
=
Storage I/O
Competitiveness
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6. What the experts are saying …
50% “..half or more of the database time is
attributable to storage I/O”
Storage - Gartner’s Sept 2011, “Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring”
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)
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7. Existing Management Solutions Focus Elsewhere
Missing the Blind Spots
Traditional SAN Infrastructure …
“CPU and “PING works, “SAN has low “Plenty of Storage &
Memory are OK” Temp is OK” utilization” No hardware failures”
Application Database X
Server Server
Fabric Storage Target
Application Server SAN
Performance SW Mgmt. SW Mgmt. SW
Array Mgmt. SW
SRM Tools
None of these tools are telling you …
• I/O distribution is critically unbalanced “Plenty of
• I/O is slowing down over time capacity”
• Application performance is about to fall off a cliff
• I/O issues are impacting revenue
Traditional Tools are insufficient for end-to-end I/O performance
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8. Today’s Complex I/O Path
Major Technology Shifts have complicated the storage Path
Traditional SAN Infrastructure …
X
Fabric Storage Target
Problem: Storage
Today, complexity has evolved at every point in the path Response Times are
monitored from HERE
LUN 0
WWID A
VM VM VM VM
FCoE LUN 1
VM VM VM iSCSI WWID B
VM VM VM VM Fibre
VM VM VM LUN 1
Channel
LUN 2 WWID C
Converged /
Storage Multi I/O Complex Virtual Physical
Hypervisor Caching -path Aggregators Networks Storage Storage
Server Fabric Storage Target
Or .. from
Need to measure ‘end-to-end’ performance and health HERE
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9. Taking an Application View of Performance
Solution: Monitor Simplify the problem …
from application’s
perspective …
WWID A
WWID B
Storage Multi- I/O Converged Virtual Physical
Hypervisor
Caching pathing Aggregators Networks Storage Storage
I/O Management:
• 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
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10. Application View Matters: The Lever Effect
I/O
I/O
I/O
I/O
I/O
I/O I/O WWID A
I/O I/O
I/O
I/O
I/O
I/O
I/O
Complex I/O Path I/O I/O WWID B
Application Storage
Many factors, including queue depths
on the server and the storage,
contribute to this multiplier effect
Application View
of Performance Storage View
of Performance
(High Latency)
(Low Latency)
The “Lever Effect” produces much higher latencies for the
Application, compared to the latency seen at the Storage
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11. Performance in Virtual Server Environments
Compounding the Oversubscription Problem
1 2
Latency Spikes Detected
3
VMware I/O Timeouts
Physical server / port oversubscription 8:1
4
Unintended
spindle
LUN 0 !
contention
Target Port A RAID
LUN 1 Set 1
!
!
Target Port B LUN 0 RAID
! Set 2
! LUN 1
Virtual Physical
Storage Storage
Virtual oversubscription 160:1 (20 guest / hypervisor)
“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
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12. Storage Migration to the Cloud
Using ‘real-world’ SLAs to manage performance before and after
Enforce SLA on
Establish SLAs based local and remote
Migrate Application
on ‘real-world’ 3 storage pools to use new storage
2 performance 4
Cloud Storage Migration
1 Baseline local
application I/O
performance LUN 0
LUN 0
? Monitor
SLAs post
migration
"OneCommand® Vision’s application-centric view of performance provides the
only solution to effectively manage SLAs associated within this storage ‘cloud’”
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13. Ruling Out Storage
Knowing where to look helps to speed problem solving …
I/O Latency is
normal
Target Port Traffic No Storage
is balanced Events
2 3
1
Examine I/O Profile Check I/O Analyzer
Application Outage!
4 Rule out Storage
in 5 minutes
Server Problem
? Storage Problem
“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
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14. Enabling I/O
Performance Assurance
Bill Sytsma
Head of Global Sales
Software Group

15. Performance Management is Difficult
Historically …
Storage performance is managed at the Causing over a decade of frustration
storage end of the equation managing storage performance
Today …
Complexity has evolved at every point in the path Problem: Storage
Response Times are
monitored from HERE
LUN 0
WWID A
VM VM VM VM
FCoE LUN 1
VM VM VM iSCSI WWID B
VM VM VM VM Fibre
VM VM VM LUN 1
Channel
LUN 2 WWID C
Converged /
Storage Multi I/O Complex Virtual Physical
Hypervisor Caching -path Aggregators Networks Storage Storage
Server Fabric Storage Target
Or .. from
Need to measure ‘end-to-end’ performance and health HERE
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16. ROI Basics
The Economic Advantages of I/O Management
1 2
Expose under-utilized SAN-Attached Detect I/O Performance problems before
Servers and LUNs they become Application Problems
What does underutilization cost? What do slowdowns cost?
 Quick Example  Quick Example
 250 SAN-Attached Servers
 500 Storage Adapters  10% Performance Degradation
 1 Petabyte SAN Storage  1 % Time Degraded per Year
 SAN Infrastructure & SW  $100 K Revenue per Hour
$ 4 Million in Total Costs $ 876 K Annual Loss in Revenue
Repurpose as little as 5% of Lower the occurrence of
underutilized infrastructure … application slowdown by 25% …
Save $200K Annually Save $219K Annually
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17. I/O Performance and Availability Management
• Application View of Performance
• Whole SAN performance analysis tool
• Addresses the I/O blind spot
I/O
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
Scalable software-only solution
• Requires no special hardware
• Cross-platform, vendor agnostic design
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18. Feature Highlights
emulex.com/vision
2011 SearchStorage Product of the Year Winner
Storage Management Tools – Medal Winner

19. Release v2.1 Delivers …
Support for AIX & Linux KVM
(v6.1)
Flexible Data Export
– Export Performance Data Directly from the Web Application
PDF Readers
Imports Into Microsoft Excel
Intelligent Event Decoding
– RSCN & Check Condition Decoding
Role Based Management
– Three Levels of User Permissions
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20. LUN Performance SLA Alerts
Taking an application centric view of performance provides the only
solution to effectively manage SLAs associated within this storage ‘cloud’
SLA 2:
Private
High IOPs
SLA 1: Storage Cloud
High IOPs &
Throughput
SLA 3:
Throughput Public
Storage Cloud
Application
Server
Availability@Performance™ (A@P)
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?
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21. OneCommand® Vision
Solution Benefits
Real Insight
Application View of I/O Performance
Made Simple
Easy to use, scalable software architecture
Multiple Hypervisor Support
B 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
Multiprotocol Support
Fibre Channel (1,2,4,8,16 Gbps), FCoE (10 Gig-E)
Shared-LUN Aware
Visibility into shared SAN resources
Intelligent Analytics and Correlation
Root cause analysis of SAN slow-downs
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22. 2011 SearchStorage Product of the Year Winner
Learning More … Storage Management Tools – Medal Winner
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 Contact:
– France: 33 (0) 158 580 022
Bill Sytsma
bill.sytsma@emulex.com
Global Sales Lead, SW Group
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23. 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
• bill.sytsma@emulex.com
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24. Thank you !
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