Overview:
Optimize performance and diagnose issues across physical storage and virtual machines with EMC Storage Analytics (ESA). This software lets you extend VMware vRealize Operations analytics to supported EMC storage platforms.
Out-of-the box custom visualizations and health indicators (badges) help you quickly deploy EMC infrastructure support within vRealize Operations Manager.
Dashboards heat maps and other visual tools provide deep visibility into your EMC infrastructure. Actionable capacity and performance analysis help you troubleshoot identify and act on issues fast. Whether you are a storage administrator or a VMware administrator you can get the view you need.
Single Tool For Managing VMware And EMC Environments
The EMC Storage Analytics solution delivers a single end-to-end view of virtualized infrastructures (servers to storage) powered by VMware® vRealize&trade Operations analytics engine. EMC Storage Analytics (ESA) delivers actionable performance analysis and proactively facilitates increased insight into storage resource pools to help detect capacity and performance issues so they can be corrected before they cause a major impact. ESA provides increased visibility metrics and a rich collection of storage analytics for Isilon OpenStack EMC® RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines ScaleIO VMAX®/VMAX3® VNX® VNXE vVNX VPLEX® and XtremIO storage infrastructures in VMware virtual and physical (VNX and VNXe) environments. Benefits include:
- Comprehensive visibility and customizable dashboards for storage administrators showing health performance and capacity metrics
- Visualize and detect the storage impact of application workload changes
- Simplify troubleshooting and reduce IT infrastructure management complexity
- Problem detection (performance and capacity anomalies) isolation and remediation actions to ensure service levels
ESA provides users with simple dashboards to optimally manage their EMC storage environment:
Topology &mdash provides greater visibility across the VMware and storage domains in terms of an end-to-end mapping. Mappings include storage system components and storage system objects and virtual infrastructure objects. Topology mapping enables health scores and alerts from storage system components such as storage processors and disks to appear on affected vCenter objects such as LUNs datastores and VMs.
Metrics &mdash provides metrics based on &ldquonormal&rdquo behavior of that application workload (which it learns over a period of time) after which it can analyze and make sense of all the data that has been collected and appropriately point out anomalies in behavior. This dashboard displays resource and metrics for storage systems and graphs of resource metrics.
Overview &mdash populates heat maps that show administrators the health of their system and reflects which workloads are stressed. In addition it shows performance and capacity utilization statistics for various resources including FAST Cache and Fully Automated Storage Tiering for Virtual Pools (FAST VP).
Performance &mdash provides a single view of the most important performance metrics for the resources. For instance the XtremIO dashboard provides percent utilization of the Storage Controller CPUs key volume and SSD metrics and sparklines.
Communication &mdash view a collection of heat maps that provide a single view of the performance of the communication links for a VPLEX configuration.
Create-Your-Own-Dashboard &mdash choose from a list of several templates and customize the look of your dashboard based on your environment.
EMC Storage Analytics Plugs Into VMware Vrealize Operations
VMware vRealize Operations Management goes beyond the embedded functionality in EMC Storage Analytics (ESA) to provide a simplified approach to operations management across virtual physical and cloud infrastructure. With vRealize Operations you can benefit from improved visibility across heterogeneous infrastructure and applications to ensure quality of service and quickly detect issues.
Unlike traditional approaches designed for static physical environments that can overwhelm you with data vRealize Operations is designed specifically for highly scalable dynamic infrastructures and is:
- Automated &ndash Patented self-learning analytics provide a higher degree of automation and deliver nearly 70% productivity gains and 30% reduction in resource consumption.
- Integrated &ndash An integrated approach to performance capacity and configuration management helps you better manage the environment.
- Comprehensive &ndash Built on an open and extensible framework vRealize Operations delivers performance capacity change configuration and compliance management application discovery and monitoring and cost metering.
The Best Storage For Virtual Environments
EMC storage arrays are the ideal system for VMware virtualized application environments based on the award winning integration capabilities. Adding EMC VPLEX and XtremIO to the storage infrastructure delivers continuous availability for missioncritical applications.
EMC Storage Analytics builds upon existing VMware integrations such as Unisphere® EMC Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI) for vCenter VASA (vSphere&trade API for Storage Awareness) and VAAI (vStorage APIs for Array Integration) to provide both storage and virtualization administrators with visibility into the entire environment. Each can use their familiar management interface to view both virtual and physical resources transparently provision storage integrate replication and access and offload storage functions to the array. Together these integrations and EMC Storage Analytics improve the collaboration between storage and virtual administrators and the availability and performance of application workloads.
Key Features:
- Helps you maintain service levels proactively
- Integrates EMC Storage Analytics with VMware vRealize Operations
- Supports Microsoft Hyper-V on VNX and VNXe platforms using System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
- Supported on EMC Unity Avamar VNX VNXe3200 VMAX VMAX3 VMAX All Flash Isilon RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines ScaleIO VPLEX and XtremIO systems
- Shows dependencies: end-to-end topology mapping from virtual machines to disk drives
- Supplies rich storage analytics including statistics for EMC FAST Cache and FAST VP
- Includes customizable dashboards: see symptoms alerts and recommendations through VMware vRealize Operations interface and EMC Unisphere
Powerful Integration
- Joint EMC and VMware-ready solution to improve visibility across storage and virtual workloads
- Built using patented analytics dynamic thresholding and deep storage metrics
- Preconfigured customizable dashboards for storage & virtualization administrators
- Helps you optimize performance simplify operations and deliver a better service experience
Expanding Existing IndustryLeading Virtualization Integration
- Integrated views for storage and virtual machine relationships available in Unisphere and VMware vRealize
- Intelligent offload of VMware vSphere operations to the array to accelerate VMware storage tasks
EMC Storage Analytics further extends the integration capabilities across EMC and VMware solutions to provide out-of-the box analytics and visualization in addition to the above existing integration points.
Specifications:
| Storage Analytics Specifications |
| Supported Platforms | Unity
VMAX All-Flash
VMAX3
VMAX
VNX
VNXe
Isilon
XtremIO
VPLEX
Avamar
ScaleIO
RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines |
| Product | EMC Storage Analytics Products |
| Solution For | Storage Management |
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