tivoli storage productivity center... what’s new in v4.2.2?
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During its beta test of TPC 4.2, Insurer reported improved productivity and time-to-value. Enhanced storage resource agents reduced scan run times. New APIs and enhanced topology maps provided an end-to-end view of the environment for better decision making. Real-time monitoring of replication models and role-based access eliminated previously time-consuming manual processes...TRANSCRIPT
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Tivoli Storage Productivity CenterWhat’s new in v4.2.2?
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Top storage management pain points
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Controlling out-of-control storage growth
Planning for capacity upgrades
Minimizing performance bottlenecks
Minimizing outages & keeping SAN highly available
Simplifying the management of multi-vendor storage devices
Source: Storage Wave 14
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Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Modular Approach to Advanced SRM
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Basic Editionor
SSPC
Diskor
Disk Select
Data Standard EditionorSelect
• Single mgmt. console
• Hardware configuration
• Heterogeneous storage support
• Health monitoring• Capacity mgmt.• Provisioning • Simple fabric mgmt.• FlashCopy support
• Performance mgmt.• Near real-time data
path performance metrics
• Trend analysis
• DB, host, file system & file-level capacity analytics
• Disk utilization analytics
• Automated archiving
• Advanced SAN Planning
• Best practice provisioning
• Proactive configuration change mgmt
• Performance optimization
• Complete SAN fabric performance mgmt.
• Storage replication mgmt.
• DR & Business Continuity
• Continuous DR testing
• Hyperswap mgmt.
Replication
+ Basic Edition + Basic Edition + Basic Edition
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Key management challenges we are addressing in v4.2.2
1. Storage tiering reports
2. XIV support enhancement
3. Storwize V7000 Unified support & additional enhancements
4. TPC Select
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Feature Benefit
Insights on storage tiering that can aid in moving data to alternate tiers of storage – thus containing TCO
Advanced copy services support and integration of DR planner
•Both block and file level support for unstructured data
•Reports on local disks for Storwize V7000
•Now advanced management tools packaged & priced ‘per enclosure’
•Ideal for DS midrange systems, Storwize V7000 and XIV
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1. Storage tiering reports
What this is:
• Leverage storage virtualization and TPC information to identify data that could be moved to an alternate tier of storage
• Storage Tiering Reports was developed by IBM Systems Lab Services to address specific customer needs for better management of storage tiers
Benefit to you:
• Identifies the hottest and coolest Managed Disk Groups and Virtual Disks based on performance to assist in up tiering, down tiering and re-tiering decisions
• Provides capability to make “proactive” volume placement decisions
• Answers the question: “How hard are we pushing our hardware in comparison to its capability?”
Drill down to vdisk performance report
Drill down to vdisk performance report
Rank by read I/O comparing to read
I/O capability
Rank by read I/O comparing to read
I/O capabilityRank by available read I/O rate
Rank by available read I/O rate
[+] More on storage tiering reports
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2. XIV enhancements
What this is:
• Storage Optimization support
• Advanced SAN Planning support based on capacity and performance history; Incorporates TPC for Replication for disaster recovery planning
• TPC for Replication support
Benefit to you:
• SAN Planner – gather up XIV provisioning along with capacity and performance history into an automated end-to-end provisioning recommendation and action
• Performance Analytics - identify hotspots and transparently migrate data from one array to another to improve overall throughput
• For SVC virtualizing multiple XIV systems, or multiple XIV systems with competitive system in large-scale enterprise environments
• Copy Services
• Central control of your replication environment
• Simplify and automate your replication tasks
[+] More on XIV support
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3. Storwize V7000 Enhancements
Storwize V7000 Unified Support
• Enable end-to-end block and file storage management with a single GUI
• Extends storage configuration management across the entire environment
• Centralizes management of both block and file storage
• Improve storage utilization and service levels
• SAN Topology health and alert status
• Complete block performance management with performance history, trending and thresholds to improve SLA
• Reduce storage complexity to make your team more productive
• Storage reporting across host file systems, databases and storage
• Correlation to host usage
• Ties to Tivoli Storage Manager and Information Archive for complete information lifecycle management
• Internal Disk reports for Storwize V7000
V7000 Unified
V7000 Unified
6UStorwize V7000 UnifiedStorwize V7000 Unified
TPC Select
Internal Disk report under Data
manager – Managed Disk
Internal Disk report under Data
manager – Managed Disk
[+] More on Storwize V7000 UFS support
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4. New packaging – TPC Select
Benefit to you:
• Competitively priced: $12,300 per storage enclosure
• Upgrade from Disk Select to Select: $6,600 per enclosure
• Fabric performance and ‘hotspots’ analysis for trouble shooting, performance tuning and storage optimization
• Host, file system and file-level capacity analytics
• Advanced SAN provisioning and planning capability for volume placement recommendation and execution
• Storage tiering reports for better and quicker decision to place data in the right storage
Storwize V7000
What this is:
• TPC Standard Edition with simplified licensing, i.e. priced ‘per enclosure’
• Complementary to TPC for Disk Select (formerly TPC for Disk Midrange Edition)
• For management of XIV (new), Storwize V7000, DS3000, DS4000, DS5000 as stand-alone devices or when attached to an IBM SVC. Supports any devices attached to Storwize V7000
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Upgrade to Select
Restricted to managing DS3000, DS4000, DS5000, Storwize V7000 and XIV as stand-alone devices or when attached to an IBM SVC and IBM SVC Entry Edition
SVC, SVC EE and/or VDS controllers are not counted as enclosures when computing Select pricing within these environments
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TPC SelectIncludes TPC Basic Edition, TPC for Disk,
TPC for Data and more
• Enables end-to-end heterogeneous storage resource management with advanced analytics
• Provisioning planners provide workflow-like process for end-to-end storage provisioning
• Configuration change management to enable proactive management
• Performance analytics for optimization and tuning
• Host, file system and file-level capacity analytics
List price: $12,300 per enclosure
TPC for Disk Select• Performance management for
SAN and attached disk storage devices
• Near real-time data path performance statistics
• Historical performance reports to help diagnose problems
• Performance trend analysis• Export report data for offline
processing
List price: $8,099 per enclosure
Upgrade at $6,600 per encl.
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Why upgrade?
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Features v4.1 v4.2 v4.2.1 v4.2.2
Integration w ith Tivoli Integrated Portal
Storage Resource Agents
Launch in context & Single sign-on
Storage Optimizer
Improved 'hot spot' management
Disk Midrange Edition (priced per enclosure)
SAN Planner w izard
Native interface for DS8000, SVC & XIV
Configure Devices w izard
Automated end-to-end provisioning
Support for Pow erVM AIX and DS8800 R6
Comprehensive support for Storw ize V7000
Storage tiering reports
XIV copy service & DR planner support
Storwize V7000 Unified support
TPC Select (priced per enclosure)
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More information
Web page Data sheet Demo Youtube video
– TPC demo– Cloud & storage management– Importance of SRM
Pulse 2011 storage management sessions Analyst report: Gartner Magic Quadrant for
SRM 2010 Tivoli storage blog Webcast: Unified management for your
virtualized storage infrastructures
Whitepapers Storage management solutions: deriving
substantial benefits from IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Storage Optimizer
Managing Virtualized Storage Environments with IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
Managing Storage Area Network Configurations
Leverage the IBM Tivoli advantages in storage management
Optimizing capacity and management of file systems and databases
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Tivoli Storage Productivity CenterOverview
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Information explosion
30 billionEstimated number of RFID tags produced annually in
2010, embedded in products, buildings, fleets,
passports and even animals
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1 trillionInternet connected
devices will lead from 500M in 2006 to 1Trillion in 2011
18%Was the growth in 2010 year to year for External Disk Systems, reaching
$21.2 Billion in value$.70 per $170% on average is spent on maintaining current IT
infrastructures versus adding new capabilities
Storage requirements growing 20-40% per year
Information doubling every 18-24 months
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Data growth is inescapable …
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Variety of Information
– Information Technology holds the promise of bringing a variety of new types of information to the people who need it
Volume of Data
– Data is growing exponentially
Velocity of Change
– Acquisitions
– Mergers
– Consolidations
– ILM, Data Retention initiatives
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Pressures on your storage teams are mounting…
Higher service level requirements
Mergers / consolidations
Long retention periods
Data outside the DC
x86 Virtualization
Social Media
Security
Effectively dealing with these changes requires a better approach …
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Tivoli Storage Productivity Center enables IT to…
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Gain comprehensive insights for improved
service delivery
Manage SAN through policy-driven
recommendations
Establish and achieve storage service level
agreements
Optimize resource utilization for enhanced
return on storage investments
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Case study: A large US insurance companyReducing storage management effort by 50%
Business challenge:
Insurer has used IBM® Tivoli® Storage software (both storage expert and TPC) on IBM AIX for 9 years to centralize monitoring of storage performance, capacity utilization. However, with growing complexity of its storage environment and rapidly increasing data volumes, the company needed to further simplify management and reduce storage TCO
Solution:
During its beta test of TPC 4.2, Insurer reported improved productivity and time-to-value. Enhanced storage resource agents reduced scan run times. New APIs and enhanced topology maps provided an end-to-end view of the environment for better decision making. Real-time monitoring of replication models and role-based access eliminated previously time-consuming manual processes
Benefits:
50 percent reduction in time involved in managing the TPC environment and ability to reassign several FTEs to new strategic initiatives
Dramatically faster problem determination through enhanced topology views
Enhanced decision making through improved data availability, quality and accuracy
Solution components:
IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center 4.2
Customer Quote:
“Elimination of the agent manager and use of storage resource agents themselves should be reasons to upgrade. The amount of resource savings you get is going to pay for itself.”
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Gain comprehensive insights for improved service delivery
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TPC Capabilities
Detailed topology views for dependencies and connectivity
Analytics for storage utilization, SAN configurations and performance measurement
Comprehensive reporting capabilities with customizable options
Proof Points
Capacity usage metrics
Detailed performance metrics (I/O analysis by storage system, port, switch, etc.)
SAN configuration analyzer
400+ pre-built reports
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Automated discovery & topology viewer
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Discover and manage multi-vendor devices in a single view
End-to-end view of the entire storage path
View connectivity and relationships for physical and virtual storage resources
Context-sensitive menus provide instant access to common functions
Open Detail ViewOpen Detail View
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Detailed trending analysis
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View trend analysis to quickly identify possible application workload contention in the storage array
Place your cursor over the event for more details
Place your cursor over the event for more details
Abnormal Response timeReceived TPC alert
Abnormal Response timeReceived TPC alert
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New Volume UtilizationNew Volume Utilization
Performance metrics
Comprehensive set of performance reports
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Storage Subsystem Performance
Storage Subsystem Controller Performance
Storage Subsystem Controller Cache Performance
I/O Group Performance
Array Performance
Managed Disk Group Performance
Port Performance
Total Virtual Disk I/O Rate
Total Virtual Disk Transfer Rate
Total Managed Disk I/O Rate
Total Managed Disk Transfer Rate
Top 25 Volumes I/O Rate
Top 25 Volumes Data Rate
Top 25 Volumes Cache Hit
Top 25 Volumes Response Time
Top 25 Volumes Disk
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Managed Disk Group Workload Report
Ranked by average read I/O
performance comparing to its
capability
Ranked by average read I/O
performance comparing to its
capability
Ranked by highest I/O Availability
Ranked by highest I/O Availability
Drill down to Vdisk ReportsDrill down to
Vdisk Reports
How much capacity in the pool is
used for the workloads
How much capacity in the pool is
used for the workloads
Read and write response times for the workloads and number of hours/mins the thresholds are exceeded
Read and write response times for the workloads and number of hours/mins the thresholds are exceeded
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Virtual Disk Workload Report
Ranked by average VDisk peak utilizationRanked by average
VDisk peak utilizationRanked by average
VDisk Peak UtilizationRanked by average
VDisk Peak Utilization
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Are the Max and Average
I/O Rate high?
MDisk Group -Workload Activity
Report
Review H igh Activity MDisk Group (MDG)
Are the Response T imes
high ?
ReviewnextMDG
Yes
No
Yes
ReviewnextMDG
No
Click on MDG bar to dr ill down to
VD isks report to find candidates for
relocation.
Identify a low activity MDG that
has adequate capacity and capability for
workload transfer.
Identify the high activity VD isks and
collect capacity and I/O
requirement info.
ReviewnextMDG
Common use case: Start with Managed Disk Group Workload Activity Report to find the hottest Managed Disk group
Comparing read I/O Rate, write I/O rate and Response Times to the theoretical values to decide if the storage pool is reaching it’s capability
Use both capacity allocation as well as performance utilization to determine if workloads should be relocated
Common use case: Start with Managed Disk Group Workload Activity Report to find the hottest Managed Disk group
Comparing read I/O Rate, write I/O rate and Response Times to the theoretical values to decide if the storage pool is reaching it’s capability
Use both capacity allocation as well as performance utilization to determine if workloads should be relocated
Use Case: Analyze Storage Tiering Reports for Tiering Decisions
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TPC Topology on Storwize V7000 Unified
• TPC topology view of health and alert status on Storwize V7000 Unified• Connectivity for physical and logical devices • TPC topology view of health and alert status on Storwize V7000 Unified• Connectivity for physical and logical devices
Alerts on both file and block storageAlerts on both file and block storage
Health status of Storwize V7000U (file and block)
Health status of Storwize V7000U (file and block)
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Storwize V7000 Unified File System ReportingFile System Capacity ReportFile System Capacity Report
File System Statistic Report – User-defined policy to find the largest, most obsolete or orphaned files etc.File System Statistic Report – User-defined policy to find the largest, most obsolete or orphaned files etc.
Each file system and its available and used file system spaceEach file system and its available and used file system space
Multiple Storwize V7000U in one report
Multiple Storwize V7000U in one report
User-defined characteristics – largest, most obsolete or orphaned files
User-defined characteristics – largest, most obsolete or orphaned files
Mark files for backup or archive to reclaim wasted space and improve storage utilization
Mark files for backup or archive to reclaim wasted space and improve storage utilization
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Manage SAN through policy-driven recommendations
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TPC Capabilities
Best practice guidance based on configuration analyzer and planner wizards
Manage storage and the surrounding SAN with central management tool
SAN-wide performance metrics
Proof Points
SAN Configuration Analyzer & SAN Planner
Drill down to individual storage and SAN components for performance metrics
Provisioning recommendations based on performance and best practices
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Best practice configuration guidance
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Identify storage resources based on capacity and workload profiles
Define policies that enact actions through execution of custom scripts
Create, allocate & provision LUNs via an easy-to-use wizard interface
Automated analysis can be applied to all fabrics, a single fabric, or a single zone set
Identify policy violators
Define Security events that notify IT administrator of zone security violations
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Creating volumes
Provisioning storage from TPC
Assign host ports
Assign volumes to subsystem ports
Create/assign fabric zone
Define RAID level
Create/delete volumes
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Administrators can directly allocate storage, zone the fabric switches and assign host ports
Administrators can directly allocate storage, zone the fabric switches and assign host ports
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Disaster recovery managementwith Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication
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TPC for Replication is software running on a server that manages IBM disk based replication functions
Supports FlashCopy, Metro Mirror, Global Mirror, Metro Global Mirror sessions
Benefits
Provides central control of your replication environment
Helps simplify and automate complex replication tasks
Provides end to end management and tracking of the copy services
Enhances the efficiency of your copy services tasks by reducing the time it takes to execute replication jobs
Continuous testing enabled by practice volumes
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Case study: A global financial institutionEnables 3-site “push button” fail-over
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IBM DS8700IBM System z
Metro Mirrorsynchronous
replication
Global Mirrorasynchronous replication
“We can efficiently swap production sites in a full 3 site solution with just 5 clicks”- Storage Engineer
Data Center 2
Data Center 3
Push Button Failover– Interchangeable Data Centers
(zIDC) automation software
Synchronized Configurations– Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
for Replication helps maintain identical configurations
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Establish and achieve storage service level agreements
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TPC Capabilities
Ensure availability, performance and utilization
Manage end-to-end storage infrastructure with ease and improved control
Monitor and track performance for multi-vendor storage systems
Proof Points
Single management platform to centrally manage the entire storage infrastructure
Performance thresholds, alerting and bottleneck analysis for efficient problem resolution
Native interfaces for XIV, SVC, Storwize V7000 & DS series improves scalability and boosts performance.
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Health impact analysis
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Display resources associated with this data path
Display resources associated with this data path
Configure Topology viewerConfigure Topology viewer
This icon shows if port is connectedThis icon shows if port is connected
Performance Health icon visually shows if any performance alerts have been triggered, most recent performance metrics are also displayed real-time
Performance Health icon visually shows if any performance alerts have been triggered, most recent performance metrics are also displayed real-time
Health icon displays aggregated health status of this resource and its subordinate objects
Health icon displays aggregated health status of this resource and its subordinate objects
Near real-time monitoring
View performance data for components and the entire path
Discover Bottlenecks
Reduce time to problem isolation and resolution
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Policy-based group management
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Group storage resources by application, line of business, or other user-defined requirement
Map storage resources to organizational structure by creating hierarchies of SRGs
Monitor SRG health, performance & alerts to ensure application availability
Debug application connectivity & performance issues easily by looking at SRG view in topology viewer
Customized preferential access to mission critical resources
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Advanced alert management
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Automated control through policies that are customizable with actions that can include centralized alerting, distributed responsibility and fully automated response
Customize Alerting:
Trigger alerts based on critical/warning condition levels Suppress alerts when there are repeated conditions Suppress alerts when there are insufficient repetitions All events shown in ‘Constraint Violations” reports
Trigger conditionTrigger condition
Execute scripts based on trigger conditions from received events
Execute scripts based on trigger conditions from received events
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Change management
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Automatic or manual detection of changes
At-a-glance views of topology information with pop-outs providing detailed change information
Helps minimize potential outage impacts from SAN configuration changes
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Device removedDevice removed
Change SummaryChange Summary
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Optimize resource utilization for enhanced return on storage investments
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TPC Capabilities
Analysis-backed intelligent data migration for improved space utilization
Optimized storage and network configuration for better throughput
Storage tasks automated – thus enhancing productivity of storage administrators
Proof Points
Storage Optimizer
Storage Resource Agents can now be deployed automatically and managed without human intervention
End-to-end storage provisioning using new GUI Wizard (data path explorer)
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Efficient storage utilization
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View capacity utilization by computer or storage system
File System and database storage utilization details
Identify wasted space on volumes based on age, file type, or any other user defined filter
Quickly identify aged filesQuickly identify aged files
Mark files for archive to reclaim wasted space and improve storage utilization
Mark files for archive to reclaim wasted space and improve storage utilization
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Virtualization Support
Discover and report the logical aspects to physical relationships within virtualized environments
– VMware
– IBM SAN Volume Controllers
– IBM AIX VIO environments
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VMWare ESX system VMWare ESX system
VMWare Virtual ComputersVMWare Virtual Computers
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Storage Optimization Between XIV Systems
Integrates directly with XIV to enable migration of data to optimize data throughput
Can reduce service times of resource-constrained applications by average of 48% up to 90%
Integrates directly with XIV to enable migration of data to optimize data throughput
Can reduce service times of resource-constrained applications by average of 48% up to 90%
Out-of-band storage optimization engine that lays out a process for optimal storage allocation, migration, and consolidation
Automatically identifies highly utilized systems and provides recommendations to improve disk efficiency
Out-of-band storage optimization engine that lays out a process for optimal storage allocation, migration, and consolidation
Automatically identifies highly utilized systems and provides recommendations to improve disk efficiency
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Utilize collected current and historical performance data as well as accurate analytical models to identify the best configuration for the new storage
– Best practice guidance on the storage configuration to optimize storage network
– Components including hosts, fabric planning (path and zone options based on performance), storage virtualization, storage resource group and replication
Utilize collected current and historical performance data as well as accurate analytical models to identify the best configuration for the new storage
– Best practice guidance on the storage configuration to optimize storage network
– Components including hosts, fabric planning (path and zone options based on performance), storage virtualization, storage resource group and replication
SAN planning including Volume planning, zone planning and path planning
SAN planning including Volume planning, zone planning and path planning
XIV SAN Planning
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Use TPC to Provision New Volumes With Protection
Step 1. Create a replication plan - including SRG, host, source volumes, target volumes and session type
Step 1. Create a replication plan - including SRG, host, source volumes, target volumes and session type
Step 2.Execute the plan – new volumes created on the right storage, volumes assigned to the host, target volumes created on the right storage, replication relationship established and session started
Step 2.Execute the plan – new volumes created on the right storage, volumes assigned to the host, target volumes created on the right storage, replication relationship established and session started
Step 3. Use configuration analysis and the best practices policies to ensure the application is protected, and the subsystems are still connected for replication
Step 3. Use configuration analysis and the best practices policies to ensure the application is protected, and the subsystems are still connected for replication
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Non-intrusive
analysis
Output
Out-of-band storage optimization engine that lays out a process for optimal storage allocation, migration, and consolidation
Automatically identifies hot spots on the disk controller and provides recommendations to improve disk efficiency
Integrates directly with DS8000, DS6000, DS5000, DS4000, Storwize V7000 & SVC to enable migration of data to optimize data throughput
Can reduce service times of resource-constrained applications by an average of 48% up to 90%
Reports &RecommendationsReports &Recommendations
Performance optimization
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Tivoli Storage Productivity Center – Summary of Offerings
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Servers ESX servers Apps, DB’s, file systems Volume managers Host bus adaptors Virtual HBAs Multi-path drivers
What You Need to Manage TPC Can Help
TPC for DataDB, Host, file system
& file-level capacity analytics
Advanced analytics for actual disk usage
Automated archiving
TPC for Disk& Disk SelectPerformance mgmt.Trend analysis
TPC Standard Edition& Select
All this and more…Advanced SAN Planning and provisioning based on best practicesProactive configuration change management Performance optimizationComplete SAN fabric performance mgmt.
TPC for ReplicationDR & Business ContinuityApplications & StorageHyperswap Mgmt.
Basic Edition Single management
console Heterogeneous
storage Health monitoring Capacity mgmt. Provisioning Fabric management FlashCopy support
Integrated InstallPre-loaded Appliance
System Storage Productivity
Center
Start Here …Grow
Storage Networks Switches & Directors Virtual devices
Storage Multi-vendor storage Storage array provisioning Virtualization / Vol. mapping Block + NAS, VMFS Tape libraries
Replication FlashCopy Metro Mirror Metro Global Mirror
… and Mature
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