This presentation will explain OnCommand Insight architecture, introduce the components of NetApp OnCommand Insight, discuss the concepts taught in our OnCommand Insight Operations and Best Practices and OnCommand Insight Advanced Report Creation classes, review some of the new features of OCI, and discuss key concepts for a successful OnCommand Insight deployment.

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What’s New in
OnCommand Insight
Operation and Best
Practices
Presented by Eugene Kashpureff
Fast Lane Senior Instructor

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 Expectations
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Introduction

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 Explain OnCommand Insight architecture
 Introduce the components of NetApp OnCommand Insight
 Discover
 Assure
 Plan
 Perform
 Discuss concepts taught in Fast Lane’s:
 OnCommand Insight Operations and Best Practices course
 OnCommand Insight Advanced Report Creation course
 Discuss key concepts for a successful OnCommand Insight
deployment
 Review new features of OCI
Agenda

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OnCommand Insight Architecture

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 100% agentless, read-only access to storage, SAN, NAS and virtual server devices
 Multi-vendor and multi-protocol discovery, monitoring and reporting
 End-to-end physical and logical visibility
 End-to-end performance monitoring, alerts, analysis, troubleshooting and optimization
 Risk identification and avoidance
 Built-in tools for root cause analysis, capability planning and performance analytics
 Enterprise capacity and performance trending and forecasting
 Flexible enterprise-level and business-level reporting
 No active provisioning or active management of devices
OnCommand
Insight
Architecture What is OnCommand Insight?

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RMI: Remote Method Invocation
REST: Representational State Transfer
JSON: JavaScript Object Notation
DS: Data Source
LAU: Local Acquisition Unit
RAU: Remote Acquisition Unit
ETL: Extract, Transform, Load
OnCommand
Insight
Architecture Firewall-Friendly Architecture
Acquisition
Service DS
(IBM Cognos Content Database)
SANscreen
Service
JSON DS
DS
Web UI
(HTML5)
Java UI
ETL
Web UI
IBM Cognos
Report Engine
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R
A
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W2k
Firewall
Insight Server
DWH Server
HTTPS
HTTPS
HTTPS
Devices
Inventory Data
Performance Data

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Insight includes four products: Discover, Assure, Perform and Plan
OnCommand
Insight
Architecture Insight Product Suite
Discover Assure
Perform Plan
Insight
Products

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OnCommand
Insight
Architecture
Launch the Java UI, administration console and help
Web UI Toolbar
Toolbar
Icon to launch the Java
UI
Online help
Current user
Administration
and settings

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OnCommand
Insight
Architecture Thick Client – Java UI

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OnCommand Insight Discover

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OnCommand
Insight Discover Preparing to Configure Data Sources
 Collect IP addresses, usernames and passwords for these devices:
 Switches
 Device management stations
 Storage systems with IP connectivity
 Management stations that support storage devices without IP connectivity
 VMware and Hyper-V hypervisor servers
 Identify which acquisition unites communicate with the SAN or NAS components

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OnCommand
Insight Discover Three Phases of Device and Host Discovery
1. Create data sources
 Discover switches.
 Discover storage arrays.
 Discover vCenter servers.
 Verify acquisition.
 Review lists of identified hosts.
 Select autoresolution methods.
 Configure autoresolution methods.
 Name identified devices.
2. Use the autoresolution
process
?
 Validate required data sources.
 Search for clues in the
configuration management
database.
 Search manually.
 Add host names.
3. Use the manual
process

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OnCommand
Insight Discover Insight Discovery Architecture – How it Works
HDS
IBM
NFS, IP,
iSCSI, and so on
Cisco
vCenter
OnCommand Insight
MySQL
Server
Engine
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A
U
Data
Sources
Storage
Host
RAU
SAN and NAS
443
WWNWWN
WWNWWN
WWN
WWN
WWN
WWN
WWN
Hosts that are identified by using
the autoresolution process
SNMP
Storage service path:
zoning, mask, map, and
physical
EMC
Data
ONTAP
Brocade
H
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VMVM
VM VMESX
IP Management Interface
FC Interface
IP Interface
Hi-Cmd
VMVM
VM VMESX
Cassandra

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OnCommand Insight Assure

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OnCommand
Insight Assure Insight Assure
 A policy engine that defines customer best practices about the
performance and services of storage, SAN and virtual servers
 Ability to manage policies and analyze violations
 Automatically filtered and easy-to-find exception reports of
violations and vulnerabilities
 High-level visibility across the enterprise

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OnCommand
Insight Assure
Global thresholds and SAN path policies
 Insight policies and thresholds are rules that are used to evaluate
conformance to defined preferences and best practices
 Insight uses two types of policies:
 Global capacity and configuration policies and thresholds
 SAN path policies and FC port balance thresholds
 Policies can be attached to:
 Physical elements
 Logical elements
Policy Management
Switches
Storage
Hosts
VMs = virtual machines

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 Default policies:
 Set thresholds on FC configurations, port balance and thin
provisioning
 Monitor configurations and generate violations when a
threshold is exceeded
 Can be modified or disabled
 Are global, but you can set granular policies on specific
objects
OnCommand
Insight Assure Global Capacity and Configuration Policies

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OnCommand Insight Perform

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 Enables administrators to:
 Create global and granular performance policies
 Set thresholds and alerts for volumes, internal volumes, storage pools, switch
performance, virtual datastore latency, etc.
 Monitors performance and generates violations when performance exceeds thresholds
 Stores all performance data in the Cassandra repository
 Can be modified or disabled
OnCommand
Insight Perform What Does Insight Perform Do?

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OnCommand
Insight Perform
IOPS performance heat
maps for storage and virtual
machines
Monitoring Storage Performance
The Storage IOPS view shows the array that has the
largest number of performance correlations.

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OnCommand
Insight Perform Storage Asset Landing Page
Inventory, capacity, and performance summary
Latency, IOPS, and throughput performance
trending and correlation
Time frame

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OnCommand
Insight Perform
Monitoring from the Asset
Dashboard
Monitoring Virtual Machine Performance
The Virtual Machine IOPS view shows the virtual machine that
has the largest number of performance correlations.

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OnCommand
Insight Perform Virtual Machine Asset Landing Page
Inventory, capacity, and performance summary
Performance trending and correlation
Time frame

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OnCommand Insight Plan

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OnCommand
Insight Plan Insight Plan Features
 Capacity collection and reporting
 Correlation
 Tracking of trends
 Forecasting
 Business-level reporting

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OnCommand
Insight Plan Benefits of Plan
 Near real-time data for capacity management and planning
 Capacity trends and forecasts
 Enterprise-wide capacity utilization data
 Chargeback data
 Storage tiering strategy
 Capacity versus performance reporting
 Intelligent provisioning and optimization
 Organized storage resource requests

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OnCommand
Insight Plan Dashboard and Reports
 Plan contains a Storage Manager Dashboard that provides trending and forecasting of
capacity, tier and accountability data
 Built-in reports are available in different formats, such as charts and tables
 Some reports run without inputs or with fixed inputs; other reports prompt you for variables
 Use built-in tools to create custom reports and dashboards

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Annotations, Business Entities
and Applications

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Annotations,
Business Entities
and Applications Five Key Elements
 Business-level reporting requires the following elements:
 Devices that data sources have discovered, such as arrays, switches and virtual
machines
 Hosts and virtual machines, which are automatically or manually identified
 Annotations
 Business entities
 Applications

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Annotations,
Business Entities
and Applications What are Annotations?
 Non-IT tags that are built in to Insight
 Enable you to use non-IT elements to classify and group devices
 Administrators, business managers and executive-level managers use annotations with
business entities and applications to group resources for detailed reports from different
perspectives
 Essentials for building detailed reports from the Insight data warehouse

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Annotations,
Business Entities
and Applications Associating Annotations with Devices
 Insight includes these predefined annotation types, which can be assigned to storage devices.
Switches
Hosts
Switches
ArraysData Center,
Rack
Data Center
Tiers
Switch Level,
Data Center
Data Center
Hot
City, Data
Center, Rack
Tier
Data Center,
City, Rack
SAN/NAS
 Birthday
 Building
 City
 Continent
 Data Center
 Direct Attached
 End of Life
 Fabric Alias
 Floor
 Hot
 Note
 Rack
 Room
 SAN
 State/Province
 Sunset
 Switch Level
 Tier

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Annotations,
Business Entities
and Applications What are Business Entities and Applications?
 Business entities owners of applications
 To Create business-level reports from the data warehouse, you must configure
business entities and applications
 You can define up to four levels of business entities:
 Tenant
 Line of business
 Business unit
 Project
 Business entities can be internal or external customers:
 Service provider (cloud and private customers)
 Internal divisions and departments
 Geographic combinations
 Applications:
 Owned by business entities
 Run on physical or virtual servers
 Use storage, infrastructure and others

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Annotations,
Business Entities
and Applications Multi-Tenant Cost Accountability

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Annotations,
Business Entities
and Applications Errors
Reporting without Correct Tier Definitions
 Incorrectly configured tier
definitions
 106 terabytes of storage that are
not assigned to a tier
 Undefined tiers that are listed in
the report as “N/A”

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OnCommand Insight Reporting

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OnCommand
Insight Reporting Insight Data Warehouse Features
 Consolidation of capacity and performance data
 Multi-tenant, business-level and enterprise reporting
 Global visibility for distributed infrastructures
 Integration of third-part applications
 Long-term storage of information
 Default dashboards and reports
 Custom reports

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OnCommand
Insight Reporting Challenges
Different reports
for different users
Technical Reports
Moment-in-time technical
content from data models;
generated by drag-and-drop
tools, SQL scripts, or both
Departmental Reports
Usage trends and technical and
business content from the
capacity and inventory data
models
Executive Reports
Graphical and business-oriented
data about trends; not overly
technical; containing references
to technical reports for
supporting details
Department or
Business Unit Manager
ExecutiveTechnical Support

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OnCommand
Insight Reporting Built-in Reports
The Insight data warehouse provides built-in reports:
 Capacity:
 Storage
 Virtual environment
 Switch
 Performance:
 Storage
 Virtual environment
 Switch
 Inventory

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OnCommand
Insight Reporting Benefits of Workspace Advanced
 Simple drag-and-drop reporting for
storage, virtual machine, port capacity
and for performance data models
 Simple formatting, data manipulation,
calculating and sorting
 Simple chart creation
 No steep learning curve
 No need for SQL programming
experience
 Functionality that is primarily for reports
that are made for a specific purpose

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OnCommand
Insight Reporting Overview of Workspace Advanced
In Workspace Advanced, you
can either drag or double-click a data element to
insert it in the report.

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OnCommand
Insight Reporting
Built-in Tutorials for Creating Reports from
Workspace Advanced
 Example reports for the Volume Capacity data mart:
 Orphaned Capacity by Data Center
 Unused Volumes by storage Family
 Interactive Volumes
 Example reports for the Storage and Storage Pool
Capacity data mart:
 Raw Capacity by Data Center
 Raw Capacity by Data Center with Pie Chart
 Raw Capacity Utilization by Data Center
 Raw Capacity by Manufacturer
 Raw Capacity Trend
Note: The tutorials use the name Business Insight Advanced rather than Workspace
Advanced. The tools are identical. You can use Workspace Advanced to complete the tutorials.

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OnCommand
Insight Reporting
 Enterprise reporting tool for creating custom reports
 Enables you to use data from multiple data marts and JOIN criteria to perform complex data operations,
such as creating reports
 Enables you to create reports with embedded links for detailed information
 Requires SQL programming experience
 Primarily used for customized reports and dashboards
Report Studio

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OnCommand Insight
Best Practices

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OnCommand
Insight
Best Practices
As part of pre-installation, complete the following tasks:
 Ensure the involvement of key administrators and managers
 Identify devices and plan data sources
 Establish a capacity management strategy
 Establish a SAN management strategy
 Establish thresholds for performance monitoring policies
 Establish users and roles
 Prioritize issue resolution
 Determine procedures for change control
 Establish management of business entities, applications and annotations
 Identify reporting needs of customers
Pre-Installation Task Guidelines

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OnCommand
Insight
Best Practices
Although you perform the tasks in this lesson on a recurring
basis, you are not required to perform every task every day:
 Review the Insight web UI and correct critical violations and
errors every day
 Perform capacity management, optimization, performance
analysis and updates for business entities, applications and
annotations daily, weekly and monthly
Daily Operations

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OnCommand
Insight
Best Practices
 Address alerts and violations
 Check and resolve data source issues (for which you should subscribe to daily data source reports
 Check and resolve host resolution issues
 Verify completion of backups, and copy backups to an external location if necessary
 Update annotation, business entity and application information
 Backup or export correlation information for annotations, business entities and applications
 Manage users
Daily Insight Server Tasks

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OnCommand Insight
7.1 Updates

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OnCommand
Insight
7.1 Updates
The major improvement for 7.0 is the new web interface based on HTML 5
 Improved user experience
 New dashboards and improved asset search and navigation enable quicker troubleshooting
 Enhanced analytics
 Visualization of correlated and non-correlated resources to simplify and accelerate complex
troubleshooting across layers in the platform
 Scalable architecture
 NoSQL technology to increase the scale of performance management enabling access to more data
 Simplified product administration
 Ease of use white setting up and maintaining the data sources
 Simplified patch deployment across both local and remote acquisition units
 Ability to monitor the health of Insight allocation
 Data warehouse improvements
 Used, allocated and consumed capabilities for internal volumes in storage and storage pool data mart
 Soft limit for storage pool in storage and storage pool data mart
 Volume consumed capacity in volume and storage and storage pool data mart
 Custom vendor-centric reports for NetApp, EMC, HDS and IBM XIV
New in 7.0

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OnCommand
Insight
7.1 Updates
Major new features in OnCommand Insight 7.1:
 Improved performance policy creation
 New asset pages for Fiber Channel troubleshooting
 Ability to create custom dashboards using Insight’s widget library
 REST API
 Data Warehouse improvements
 Ability to install Insight on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
New in 7.1

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Summary
 Explained OnCommand Insight architecture
 Introduced the components of NetApp OnCommand Insight
 Discover
 Assure
 Plan
 Perform
 Discussed the concepts taught in our OnCommand Insight Operations and
Best Practices and OnCommand Insight Advanced Report Creation courses
 Reviewed some of the new features of OCI
 Discussed key concepts for a successful OnCommand Insight deployment

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Related Courses Instructor-Led Courses at Fast Lane
 OnCommand Insight Operations and Best Practices
 OnCommand Insight Advanced Report Creation

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