IBM Spectrum Control Overview
Markus Standau
November, 2016
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IBM Spectrum Storage Family
Spectrum SuiteA single software license for all your changing software-defined storage needs. Straightforward per-TB pricing for the entire Spectrum Storage suite
Spectrum Control Analytics-driven data management to reduce management costs by up to 50%
Spectrum Protect Optimized data protection to reduce backup costs by up to 38%
Spectrum Virtualize Virtualization of mixed environments stores up to 5x more data
Spectrum Accelerate Enterprise storage for cloud deployed in minutes instead of months
Spectrum Scale High-performance highly scalable storage for unstructured data
Spectrum Archive Fast data retention that reduces TCO for active archive data by up to 90%
IBM Cloud Object Storage
Massively scalable and highly efficient object storage
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Why Storage Management?
How much storage do I have available for my applications?
How well are my storage systems performing (RAS)?
How reliable is my SAN?
When do I need to buy more storage?
How can I automate provisioning and add approvals?Which servers, applications and departments
are the primary consumers of my storage?
How do I simplify and centralize
the management of my storage
infrastructure?
How is the capacity used, and is
there any wasted space?
How do I maintain storage service levels?
How is my storage being used? How do I know the storage is not the bottleneck for user
response time issues?
Is the storage infrastructure
available and performing as needed?
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Managing data growth remains the top storage concern ……and other concerns are increasing
What are your top storage concerns?
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Overview
Single Point of Control for the daily storage administration tasks
� Collecting / displaying information ➜ online documentation• Status, asset, capacity, topology and performance• Storage, Fabric, Server und VMware
• Everything else ➜ launch element manage from context� Server information ➜ Agentless and with Storage Resource Agents
Basic Services
• Each system comes with it’s own management UI
• While each of the “element managers” is optimized for one purpose, no one is able to answer such questions as:
… for you environments consisting of
– Block Storage
– File Storage
– Object Storage
– Hybrid Cloud scenarios
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Common Problem: Isolated management of connected systems
Advantage Disadvantage
• Optimal integrated• GUI offer a rich set of functions• CLI typically offer all functions
• Different interfaces for each device• Different look and feel across types and
vendors• Lack of overview on status, capacity,
configuration
How much storage do I have available for my applications?
How well are my storage systems performing?
How reliable is my SAN?
When do I need to buy more storage?
How can I automate provisioning and add approvals?
Which servers, applications and departments
are the primary consumers of my storage?
How do I simplify and centralize
the management of my storage
infrastructure?
How is the capacity used, and is
there any wasted space?
How do I maintain storage service levels?
How is my storage being used? How do I know the storage is not the bottleneck for user response time issues?
Is the storage infrastructure
available and performing as needed?
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Overview
*) eMail, SNMP, Scripts, Omnibus, Event Log/Syslog
Service Monitoring
Forwarding *)
… know what‘s going on
� Thresholds for performance and error metrics as well as capacity
� Status of volumes, pools, systems, SAN connections,…
Status Polling,
CIM IndicationsNative API
Events Alert Definition Alert Destination
Multi metric/condition & suppression
Single Point of Control for the daily storage administration tasks
� Collecting / displaying information ➜ online documentation• Status, asset, capacity, topology and performance• Storage, Fabric, Server und VMware
• Everything else ➜ launch element manage from context� Server information ➜ Agentless and with Storage Resource Agents
Basic Services
• Each of the devices comes with some sort of notifying the administrator of problems
• Simply having a central log is easy to achieve when you set up:
– One group eMail receiver
– A syslog server
– SNMP manager, Omnibus, …
• What’s missing is the overview of the status of components in once central place
– When you know that there is an abnormal situation, you can quickly open the element manager to figure out what’s wrong
– Industry standard have been created for this kind to
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Monitoring
• Check what’s supported:All versions: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?&uid=swg21386446
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How does this look like
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Traditional functions
Performance Reporting
… look what‘s going on1. Using predefined reports in Web GUI2. Interactive reporting functions:
• Multiple metrics• Table or Chart • Parallel windows for comfortable analysis• Drill down to related components
Proactive Performance Monitoring
… notice something is not working as intended� Default alerts and custom alerts� New: Service Management on groups
• Performance threshold• Error thresholds• Status changes
Advanced Functions
Service Catalog
Storage Provisioning
Standardized� Service Classes
• Properties/Settings• Storage Pools Tiers• Approval Workflow
� Capacity PoolsOptional grouping function
Service
Catalog
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RecommendationCurrent measured workload
New or additional workload
… take some actions
� Balance pools ➜ a kind of re-distribute storage volume� Analyze tiering ➜ increase efficiency by finding the right tier for the workload� Transform volumes ➜ Thick-to-Thin/Compressed or move volume(s) to another pool
Analytics and Optimization functions
(scheduled) Execution
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More Advanced Functions
Volume Reclamation
…let Control to the time consuming work� Look for volumes not mapped to server
� Check if they are used as target volumes� Look for volumes that are mapped,
but don’t get any IOsIf a volumes appears to be unused, but you still need it,simply exclude it from the analysis
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More Advanced Functions
Volume Reclamation
…let Control to the time consuming work� Look for volumes not mapped to server
� Check if they are used as target volumes� Look for volumes that are mapped,
but don’t get any IOsIf a volumes appears to be unused, but you still need it,simply exclude it from the analysis
Application and department views
…see your storage as others see it� At-a-glance views of your most important users and
applications� Assess storage health� Understand storage consumption and costNotice and fix issues faster
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Functions in Spectrum Control – full comparison
1) Only IBM Storwize V7000 Unified and IBM SONAS 2) requires IBM Spectrum Virtualize
Spectrum Control V5.2.12 Editions
Features Insights Standard Advanced
Deployment method SaaS On premises On premises
Asset and capacity management • • •
Topology Basic • •
Agentless Servers • • •
Non-IBM device support • •
Storage Resource Agents • •
VMware Hypervisor support/Plug-In/VASA • •
NAS Discovery Minimal Basic Basic
Monitoring/Alerting • •
Storage and Fabric Performance/Error Reporting Storage only • •
Cloud Configuration (Service Classes/Capacity Pools/…) • •
Provisioning and Service Classes File1) File1) and Block
Enable Automatic Zoning for Fabrics/Switches •
Custom reporting (including predefined reports) • •
Rollup reporting •
Reclamation analysis of unused volumes • •
Tiering support across pools Capacity PlanningRecommend and
implement 2)
Balance workload across pools • 2)
Volume Transformation • 2)
Service Management (Chargeback & Consumer reports) •
• Software as a Service offering for storage management
• Made available on IBM Marketplace
• Hosted in IBM Softlayer data center
• Simple „pay as you go“ model
• Solution focus:
– Easy setup => in less than 30 minutes
– Easy use => simplified UI
– Easy maintenance => IBM is doing this for the customer, incl. upgrade, backups, security checks and fixes
• Primary design goal:
• Online demo: https://sidemo.ib.ibmserviceengage.com/GuidedDemo/
• Free trial: ibm.biz/TryStorageInsights
Note: Not all page are available in all languages right now
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What is Storage Insights?
Spectrum Software Packages
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Protect Archive
Accelerate Scale
SpectrumVirtualizeCompression
SpectrumVirtualizeEncryption
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Spectrum Control Advanced Edition
Analytics &Optimization
IBMCopyServicesManager *)
Standard
Help us …
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Input and Feedback - Your participation is valued
• Shape the future of storage management
– Learn what’s on the horizon and provide feedback that reflects your needs
– Watch designs progress from wireframes to implementation
– Sign up here:https://www-304.ibm.com/software/support/trial/cst/forms/nomination.wss?id=5306
• Refine functions and provide more diverse test situations
– Get access to beta code and provide feedback on new functionality
– Lab advocates will help you understand and work with new functions
– Collaborate with experts and other customers
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• Check your enhancement ideas with other users
– User Request for Enhancements (RFE) on DeveloperWorks
– No additional registration required, uses IBM IDhttps://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/
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