The document discusses storage management challenges and solutions with VMware's vRealize Operations, highlighting the importance of storage visibility as a critical cloud management capability. It presents various management packs and partnerships that enhance storage operations, including significant insights into vendor-specific storage architectures and performance metrics. Furthermore, it emphasizes VMware's potential to lead in the software-defined storage market through its comprehensive operational management strategies and tools.

1. Justin Griffin
Storage Management with vRealize
Operations

2. Storage Pain Points
Lack of storage visibility remains a major pain-
point for customers
Which domain in your troubleshooting process breaks because of
lack of information?
(Source: VMworld 2012 SFO, Group Discussion Survey)
1 2 3 4
5 % 5 %
1 8 %
7 3 %
Legend
1. Compute
2. Storage
3. Network
4. Other?
 Historically, SAN issues are hard to
troubleshoot
• vSphere deployments are predominantly SAN
based
• Over 500 unique issues (multiple SRs per PR)
reported from the field over the last few years
• Current reactive approach takes a long time to
resolve issues and causes downtime
2014 survey of cloud operations
management customers ranked storage
visibility as the 3rd most important cloud
management capability
2014 survey of cloud operations
management customers ranked storage
visibility as the 3rd most important cloud
management capability

3. $38B
Storage market revenue opportunity
for external controller-based disk
storage in 2014 – IDC
11k
Number of people who registered for
the Virtual SAN public beta in just six
months
$1.8B
Commercial software-based storage
revenue by 2015 with Hyper-
converged being the fastest growing
segment – IDC
95%
Percentage of beta TechValidate survey
respondents would recommend Virtual
SAN
90%
Percentage of beta TechValidate survey
respondents who believe Virtual SAN will
do to storage what vSphere did to
compute
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Big Storage Opportunity
VMware Uniquely Positioned to be Software-Defined Storage leader

4. Storage Strategy
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Offer Storage operations as a core capability of the vC Ops Product
Enable operationalization of Software Defined Storage constructs
Provide deep storage support through partner solutions

5. vC Ops approaches to Storage Operations
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•Brocade
•Cisco
• Network Switches
OOB storage visibility in core product for Topology, stats and faults for
performance, cap and configuration management
vC Ops Suite
Editions
vC Ops Suite
Editions
Management Pack for
Storage Devices
Management Pack for
Storage Devices
Storage
Arrays
Storage
Arrays
• DELL Compellent, Equilogic, MD
• EMC Isilon, VMAX, Symmetrix, Clariion, VNX
• FUJITSU Eternus
• HITACHI Unified storage
• HP 3Par, XP, EVA
• IBM XIV
• NEC iStorage
• NetApp
Vendor-specific
Management Pack
Vendor-specific
Management Pack
VASAVASA
FabricFabric
CIM/SMI-SCIM/SMI-S
• QLogic
• Emulex
• Intel
HBAHBA
CIMCIM
11 22
Deeper visibility into intricacies of specific vendor architectures
for advanced diagnostics
NFS and iSCSI support targeted
for 2015
NFS and iSCSI support targeted
for 2015

6. Storage operations needs by persona
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vSphere AdminvSphere Admin
 Topology/Objects
 VM, Datastore, Host, HBA/NIC, Fabric/Switch, Array/LUN
 Availability
 HBA Links, Port Up/Down, LUN available/not available, APD,
PDL
 Performance Stats
 Read/Write IO, Throughput, Bandwidth, Latency for HBA, Fabric
and LUN
 Capacity
 Generic capacity containers using the objects & metrics above
 Configuration
 Link Speed, Max/Optimal Speed, Number of ports, Vendor Info,
Firmware Version, Zone Name, Disk Free, LUN Size, SPBM
Profiles
 Topology/Objects
 Disk, Disk Group, Pool, LUN, SP, Cache, SP Port
 Availability
 Up/Down info on all objects above plus physical components
(e.g. power, fan)
 Performance Stats
 Comprehensive performance stats on all objects above plus
physical components
 Capacity
 Comprehensive capacity containers using the objects & metrics
above
 Configuration
 Disk Type, Disk Speed, Disk Group Size, RAID Level,
S.M.A.R.T, Caching Details, Pool type (Thick/Thin), Disk Tiers &
Perf Profiles, Encryption, Replication, Compression, SP Config
(LUN masking, Speed), Service Time, Data Integrity Checks,
Workload Profile (e.g. SQL), Best Practices
 Chargeback
 Disk type, rpm, capacity, raid level, DME, Data movers, control
station, protocol licenses
Storage AdminStorage Admin
Delivered through Management Pack for Storage
Devices
Delivered through Management Pack for Storage
Devices
Delivered through partner Management Packs

7. vCenter Operations Management Packs Future
From “data pipes” to complete solutions
Relationships &
dependency
AdaptersAdapters
Management
Packs
Performance Capacity Config
Dashboards & Badges
Reports
Logs
Data acquisition
Problem Definitions
Remediation
Recommendations
VMware NetApp
Adapter
VMware NetApp
Adapter
VMware EMC
Symmetrix Adapter
VMware EMC
Symmetrix Adapter

8. Partner Storage Solutions

9. Partner Storage Solutions Don’t see your
storage provider?
Let us know so we
can get them into
our partner program
Don’t see your
storage provider?
Let us know so we
can get them into
our partner program

10. Value Proposition : Single-pane-of-glass Management via Hitachi Management Packs
with vCenter Operations Manager
HITACHI STORAGE
VM LAYER
HITACHI UCP
VM Admin
Admin
• Quick Diagnostic
• Overall Visibility
• Identify high level
storage issues
HCS
vCOps Adapter
vCOps Adapter

11. Hitachi Storage Management Pack & Hitachi Converged Infrastructure Management
Packs for VMware vCenter Operations Manager
 Simple
 Single-pane-of-glass management
 Easily consumable dashboard for critical parameters
 Simple drill-down for inspection and health status
 Agile
 Fastest issue resolution due to deep insight into
resources
 Monitor, Manage and provision from vCenter
 Efficient
 Enhanced operational efficiency due to optimum
resource utilization
 Improved performance management resulting into
better performance management

12. Dell Storage Solution Packs for Equalogic and Compellent
The Dell Storage Solution
Pack delivers a single, view
of virtualized infrastructures
(servers to storage).
The solution packs delivers
performance analysis and
increased insight into
storage to help detect
capacity and performance
issues so they can be
corrected before they
cause a major impact.

13. Dell Storage Solution Packs for Equalogic and Compellent
The Dell Storage Solution
Pack provides increased
visibility, metrics and a rich
collection of storage
analytics for Dell Storage
infrastructures in virtual
environments.
The solution packs contain
Pre-packaged Dell Storage
dashboards for alerts,
health, performance,
capacity and top-utilization
metrics.

14. Available from partner Blue Medora
vCOps Management Pack for NetApp
• The Blue Medora vCenter Operations Management Pack for NetApp Storage provides end-to-end
visibility, analytics, and capacity planning for workloads running on NetApp Storage. The
Management Pack for NetApp Storage utilizes the vCenter Operations Manager analytics engine to
unveil deep insights into NetApp storage capacity and performance issues. Automated analysis
exposes early indications of impending performance and capacity issues before they can negatively
impact the business.
• The vC Ops Management Pack for NetApp Storage extends vCenter Operations Manager by
adding NetApp specific metrics and analytical views for storage systems running in clustered Data
ONTAP or 7-mode.

15. Available from partner Blue Medora
vCOps Management Pack for NetApp
• Single pane of glass
• Several metrics from various storage objects
• Pre-defined dashboards and analysis
• View end-to-end relationship from VM to storage
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NetApp Data ONTAP (7 / cDOT)
VMware vCloud SuiteVMware vCloud Suite
VMware vCenter Operations
Manager
VMware vCenter Operations
Manager
NetApp Data ONTAP
Management Pack
Health, Performance and Capacity
Management

16. HP StoreFront Analytics for VMware vCenter Operations
Manager
HP StoreFront Analytics for vCenter
Operations Manager provides customers
using HP 3PAR StoreServ storage with
operational dashboards to gain deep
insights and visibility into the health, risk
and efficiency of the storage
infrastructure’s performance and capacity
capabilities.
Highlights
• Simple health monitoring of VMs and HP
3PAR StoreServ arrays
• Custom integration adds 3PAR-specific
intelligence to vCOps
• Lower risk of downtime with rapid
troubleshooting
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17. NEC Storage Analyzer for vCenter Operations
NEC M-series Storage
• NEC Storage Analyzer for vCenter
Operations enable to integrate
performance management of NEC
Storages and VMs.
– Ease to analyze performance problems VMs
and Storage and to discover their causes.
– Display VMs and Storages performance
status and their relations in a GUI.
– Make vCops a single point to monitor both of
server and storage resources.
SAN
vCops Dashboard

18. • ISIS is the back-end (IBM
Storage Integration Server).
• The MP collects XIV
information from ISIS.
• Enable to monitor XIV
through vC Ops.
• The MP reports XIV
information(resources,
performancem, events...) to vC
Ops.
XIV Management Pack Overview

19. FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS Adapter for VMware vCOps
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ETERNUS DX S3 can be monitored and managed by
VMware vCOps
Easily grasp the relation between objects in vSphere
and ETERNUS DX
Visualize impact to Storage due to workload changes.
Promptly alert Storage related incidents to VM admins
Proactively deal with any Storage issues such as
capacity shortage or performance impact
Customizable dashboard provides high flexibility
Simplify VMware vSphere and Storage management thorough
intuitive interface.

20. X-IO ISE Management Pack for VMware vCenter Operations
• Get a birds-eye view of all ISE storage systems from one dashboard
• Easily and quickly see workload details for ISE storage systems
• See exactly which datastores are on a given ISE
• Use the powerful relationship views and performance metrics to quickly troubleshoot performance and health
issues

21. X-IO ISE Management Pack for VMware vCenter Operations
• Explore performance metrics for individual ISEs, such as queue depth, read/write
latency, throughput and IOPS

22. ViPR Analytics Pack for vCenter
Operations
Benefits
 Import ViPR topology, metering and
event data
 Pre-configured custom dashboards for
consolidated storage and compute views
Overview
 Aggregate compute and storage metrics
for end-to-end analytics
 Visualize anomaly, workload, capacity
remaining, reclaimable waste dashboards
for ViPR managed storage
vCenter OperationsvCenter Operations
ViPR vCops adapterViPR vCops adapterViPR vCops adapterViPR vCops adapter
Custom Dashboards for ViPR + vCenterCustom Dashboards for ViPR + vCenter
ViPR
VASA Provider
VNX Isilon
3rd Party
VMAX

23. EMC Storage Analytics
• Proactively monitor VNX and VMAX storage performance and capacity
• Detect faults and issues in real-time with actionable information
• Provides health alerts and health scores to help identify when mission critical
resources are at risk of reaching capacity in the future
• Plan ahead with historical and trending capabilities
• Customizable dashboards—import dashboards via shared User Community
• Built on proven VMware vCenter Operations Manager Analytics and
Visualization platform
• Plug-In to vCenter Operations Manager

24. EMC Storage Analytics Technical Overview
• EMC Storage Analytics links VMware vCenter
Operations for storage with an EMC Adapter
• Data provided by:
• Connecting/Collecting data from storage systems and passing to vCenter
Operations collector
• VSOM presents aggregated data through alerts, dashboards and
predefined reports to users
• Dashboards: Storage Topology, Storage Metrics,
VNX Overview, VMAX Overview, Top-N
• Topology mapping enables health scores and
alerts from storage components to vCenter
objects
• Block and File Metrics collected based on
“Resource Kinds” like Storage Processor, FAST
Cache, Pool LUN, etc.
CUSTOMIZED DASHBOARD

25. Customizable Views
ESA Dashboard Xchange https://community.emc.com/community/connect/esa
Build your own
Dashboard

26. Where to find vCenter Operations Management Packs
http://Solutionexchange.vmware.comhttp://Solutionexchange.vmware.com

27. What’s Next

28. Specialized Storage Alerts

29. Capacity and Time Remaining Badge Calculations

30. Storage Scenario Planning Projects

31. Storage Reports