OnCommand Insight 6.3 Hands-on Lab Guide - NetApp...THIS IS A LAB GUIDE FOR ONCOMMAND INSIGHT 6.3...

OnCommand Insight 63

Hands-on Lab Guide Dave Collins Technical Marketing Engineer August 2012

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Contents

1 INTRODUCTION 4

BEGIN LAB 5

2 INVENTORY AND ASSURANCE NAVIGATION AND VIEWS 5

21 INVENTORY 6

Storage Arrays 6

Grouping 6

Switches 7

Paths 8

Analyze Path Violation 8

Virtual Machines and Data store 10

3 ASSURANCE 11

31 APPLYING POLICIES TO MONITOR CONFIGURATION AND PERFORMANCE 11

32 FIBRE CHANNEL POLICY SETTINGS 12

33 VIOLATIONS BROWSER 14

34 PORT BALANCE VIOLATIONS 16

35 DISK UTILIZATION VIOLATIONS 17

4 PERFORMANCE 18

41 STORAGE PERFORMANCE 18

42 SAN PERFORMANCE (SWITCH PORT PERFORMANCE) 21

43 CANDIDATES FOR HOST VIRTUALIZATION BASED ON ACTUAL PERFORMANCE 23

44 STORAGE ARRAY PERFORMANCE BASED ON SAN TRAFFIC 24

45 STORAGE TIERING AND ANALYSIS 24

46 SWITCH ISL TRAFFIC VISIBILITY AND OPTIMIZATION 25

47 VIRTUAL MACHINE AND DATA STORE PERFORMANCE TROUBLESHOOTING END TO END

PERFORMANCE ISSUES USING ldquoANALYZE PERFORMANCErdquo 26

48 VM PERFORMANCE 29

49 APPLICATION AND HOST PERFORMANCE 29

5 PLANNING TOOLS 30

51 TASK AND ACTION PLANNING AND VALIDATION 30

52 SWITCH MIGRATION TOOL 33

6 DATA WAREHOUSE 35

61 INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW 35

62 PLAN - CAPACITY FORECAST DASHBOARD 37

63 TIER DASHBOARD 41

64 ACCOUNTABILITY AND COST AWARENESS 42


65 UNCHARGED STORAGE 45

66 IOPS VS CAPACITY REPORTING IN THE DATA WAREHOUSE 45

67 DIGGING INTO THE DETAILS 47

68 VM CAPACITY REPORTING 50

7 CREATE AD-HOC REPORT 53

71 HOW TO CREATE A CUSTOM SHOWBACKCHARGEBACK REPORT USING BUSINESS INSIGHT

ADVANCED 53

Steps to create this report 53

Adding variable costs per VM to your chargeback report 59

Adding Fixed Overhead costs to your chargeback report 63

Formatting and Grouping the report by Application and Tenant 65

CLEANING up the report and running it 66

72 OTHER OPTIONS FOR AD-HOC REPORTS USING QUERY STUDIO 69

8 SCHEDULING REPORTS FOR DISTRIBUTION 76

9 ENDING COMMENTS AND FEEDBACK 78


THIS IS A LAB GUIDE FOR ONCOMMAND INSIGHT 63 ASSURE PERFORM PLAN AND DATA WAREHOUSE (DWH) Content Note This lab is designed to help you understand the use cases and how to navigate OnCommand Insight server and DWH to demo them I did not call out each use case specifically but provided a smooth flow to learn how to use and demo OnCommand Insight while picking up the use cases along the way Itrsquos also designed so you donrsquot have to show the whole demo but you can pick out particular areas you may want to show your customer This is not all inclusive nor is it designed to show you all features and functions of OnCommand Insight

However please note that each portion of this lab builds on the past steps so it is assumed that you will learn how to navigate as you go through the lab In other words we stop telling you how to get somewhere but tell you to go there because yoursquove stepped through in previous steps

This is primarily built to run against the current OnCommand Insight (Demo_V63gz dated 3212012) and DWH demo db (UPdated_dwh_Demo_630_with_performancegz dated 06012012) Screenshots shown are accurate to those databases at the time of this publishing Your results may vary depending on your database but the functionality is still the same regardless of the data Total lab time is about 1-4 hours depending on experience Itrsquos a large book but lots of pictures Your feedback is welcome My address is at the end of this document Have Fun

1 INTRODUCTION

Using 100 Agentless technologies OnCommand Insight automatically discovers all of your resources and provides you a complete end-to-end view of your entire service path With OnCommand Insight you are able to see exactly which resources are being used and who is using them You can establish policies based on your best practices enabling OnCommand Insight to monitor and alert on violations that fall outside those policies

OnCommand Insight is a ldquoREAD ONLYrdquo tool that inventories and organizes your storage infrastructure to enable you to easily see all the details related each device and how it relates to the other devices in the SAN and the entire environment OnCommand Insight does not actively manage any component

It is also a powerful tool for modeling and validating planned changes to minimize impact and downtime for consolidations and migrations OnCommand Insight can be used to identify candidates for virtualization and tiering

OnCommand Insight correlates discovered resources to business applications enabling you to optimize your resources and better align them with business requirements You can use this valuable information to help you reclaim orphaned storage and re-tier resources to get the most out of your current investments

OnCommand Insight provides trending forecasting and reporting for capacity management

OnCommand Insight enables you to apply your business entities for reporting on usage by business unit application data center and tenants OnCommand Insight provides user accountability and cost awareness enabling you generate automated chargeback reporting by business unit and applications

You can download a full customer facing demo video from

OnCommand 62 Full demo with Table of Contents for easy viewing (For best viewing download and unzip the zip file and play the HTML doc from your local drive)


httpscommunitiesnetappcomdocsDOC-14031

BEGIN LAB

2 INVENTORY AND ASSURANCE NAVIGATION AND VIEWS

Letrsquos take a look at the discovery and inventory of storage switches VM systems etc

Log onto OnCommand Insight by selecting the OnCommand Insight ICON from the desktop

Sign-on using Adminadmin123

From the main screen select the dropdown ICON that looks like a calendar

at the top left corner of the screen and select InventorygtHosts You should see hosts from the demo db

You can use this menu to select Inventory Assurance Performance or Planning categories OR to make it easier to navigate you can activate the Navigation Pane as follows (recommend you use the Navigation Pane as itrsquos easier when you start)

o Select ToolsgtOnCommand Insight Settings from the menu bar

o Check the ldquoUse Navigation Panerdquo box about half way down the right panel of the settings box and select OK

o Notice the full menu bar down the left side of the screen This will make it easier for you to navigate


21 INVENTORY

Expand the Inventory menu by clicking on the Inventory Button on the Navigation Pane as shown below

STORAGE ARRAYS

o Select Storage Arrays from that menu This opens up the MAIN VIEW of storage

o Select the NetApp array called Chicago o As you see Insight provides a full inventory including family model number and

serial number and other elements USE the scroll bar to see more columns to the right

o Note the Icons across the bottom of the screen These are Microviews You can toggle them on and off to select more detail about what you have selected in the main view

o Cycle through the micro views to get an idea of what is there o Select Internal Volume and Volume Microviews (as shown above) o You can select the Column Management ICON to add and subtract more

columns from the view Question Which microview can you add the DeDupe savings column

GROUPING

You can group the information in any of the table views in main and micro views by selecting the dropdown in the upper right corner of the table view and selecting a grouping

o Group the storage devices by model number This enables you to see all of


your arrays grouped by model number o Re-group the main view to NO Grouping

Select the SEARCH icon from the top of the Main View In the search window below the main table type NTAP and see the array selected You can step through looking for next or last occurrence of the word NTAP Close the search window by clicking the X in the red box on the left

SWITCHES

Using the same navigation select switches from the Inventory menu (no pictures here) View the switches and get the names IP addresses model numbers and firmware in the main view View the ports and zone members and all other elements using the micro views You can use the Inventory menu to provide you with views of hosts storage switches VMs etc Letrsquos look closer at paths

Search


PATHS

OnCommand Insight then correlates the paths The paths are the logical and physical elements that make up the service path between the application VM and or host and its storage Paths include Fibre Channel Cloud iSCSI NFS Block NAS etc Now letrsquos set up the views shown here and detailed steps below

Select Paths from the Inventory menu

Group by Host then Storage As you can see here from the fiber Channel prospective when we select a path were looking at the exact paths between the host and it storage through the redundant fibre connections

Select Topology micro view icon from the bottom of the Main view

Use Filter to find host kc_ordev7 by mousing over the top of the Host column until you see a funnel Then type kc in the Host column top cell

Expand kc_Ordev7 and the array ports in the main view

Select the RED Violation port of kc_ordev7

Select Zoning Masking Port micro views

In this particular case you can see that you have one green path which is good across the fiber channel but the other path is blue See legend on right of topology WHAT IS NOT CONFIGURED (Hint Blue and yellow make green)

ANALYZE PATH VIOLATION

OK letrsquos analyze the violation

Topology microview

Good Path

Bad Path

Group by


There are a couple ways you can analyze the violations You can select violation micro view from bottom icons or you can simply right click and select ldquoAnalyze Violationrdquo from the Red Path for kc_ordev7 in the main view This opens a root cause analysis screen below

o Expand the violation and change information in the lower pane What is the cause of this violation

The violation tells you that the number ports this change from 2 to 1 which went against the Redundancy Policy and cause violation If you look down at the last changes that occurred you can see that masking was removed which denied access from that host through its HBA

Right Click and select gtgtgtgtgt


to the FA port on the array and all the way to the volume To fix the violation the administrator needs to reverse those changes and that violation automatically resolves itself

Close the Analyze Violation screen

VIRTUAL MACHINES AND DATA STORE

OnCommand Insight gives you a complete inventory of the VM environment This is discovered through a Data source configured to talk with Virtual Center Details include all internal configurations and elements of the VMs ESX hosts the technologies as well as all the information to correlate the path from VMs to its storage and details about how that storage is configured to the disk including performance (if you have OnCommand Insight Perform License installed) Wersquoll discuss performance later in this demo Select Datastore from the Inventory menu

Scroll down the main view and select DS-30 in the Main view

Display the Topology and Virtual Machine micro views to show which VMs are using Datastore DS-30

Toggle through the micro view icons below to show the details of VM VMDK capacities the storage the backend storage in the arrays and resources You can see full end to end visibility from the Host through a virtualized storage environment to the backend storage

Note You can also select Hosts and Virtual Machines from the Inventory Menu and cycle through the microviews noting the end to end visibility

Donrsquot forget to use the Microview ICONS


3 ASSURANCE

31 APPLYING POLICIES TO MONITOR CONFIGURATION AND PERFORMANCE

Now that weve gathered the inventory and pull all this information into the Database lets start to apply policies so we can monitor and get alerts on violations Wersquoll talk about setting global policies changes and the new violation browser Wersquoll show how we can analyze performance talk about some port balance violations and disk utilization violations Initially we set global policies within OnCommand Insight so we can monitor the environment alert us when something falls outside those policies There are several policies available

Select Policy from the top menu bar

Select Global Polices

What thresholds can you set from here

Select Violation Severity from the left menu of the global policy window


What Severities can you set for each threshold

Select Violation Notification What are the possible violation notification options

32 FIBRE CHANNEL POLICY SETTINGS

We set fibre channel policies to determine and keep track of path redundancy We can set options such as no SPF (single point of failure) or redundant We can set it for minimum number of ports on the host the storage and the maximum number switch hops We can set exceptions around different volume types that would not necessarily require redundancy like BCVs R1 and R2 We can also set policy exceptions around smaller volumes it wouldnt have redundancy like EMC gatekeepers

From the Policy menu on the menu bar Select Fibre Channel Policy


What type of redundancy can you set from here

What is the default number of ports Volume Type Exceptions

What Volume exemptions can you select

You can set redundancy policies on physical storage behind a virtualizer (Backend Path)


33 VIOLATIONS BROWSER

Letrsquos take a look at the violation browser The Violations Browser allows us to see the impact of the violations on your business elements in one place and helps us manage the violations on all of those global policies you saw above

From the Assurance Menu on the left select Violations Browser (Note At this point you might want to increase your viewing real estate here by closing down the navigation pane on the left To close the navigation pane go to ToolsgtOnCommand Insight Setting and uncheck the Navigation Pane box You can use the same process to turn it back on later)

Back in the Violations browser expand the All Violations explorer to reveal the violation categories This shows violations like Datastore Latency Disk Utilization Volume and internal volume IOPS and response times Port Balance violations etc These should look familiar to you from the global policies that we just reviewed a few minutes ago

As you can see you can look at the violations all pile here as you can see over 12000 violations (NOTE Donrsquot let this scare you Usually most violations are caused by events that create multiple violations per event You fix one event and a bunch of these go away) We can see detail on each of these violations by performing the following


Select the show violations impact icon to view all the violations in context by business entity application host virtual machine datacenter etc

Expand the Impacted Business Entity explorer and drill down to Earth Thermal Tracking

Expand and select Disk Utilization

Sort the Description column descending Now you can see Element Description Severity and Violation type

Select the top violation element called Disk DISK-14 of Storage Virtualizer

In the Impact Details microview toggle the Host Virtual Machines Applications and Business Entities and Storage icons to view the details of the impact of the violations Here we see the impact on one application called City Limits owned by one business entity called Green CorpgtAlternate EnergygtGeothermalgtEarth Thermal Tracking on one host However 10 virtual machines are affected by this violation from one array

The chart in the Violation Event microview shows the history and trending of the utilization on this one disk over time From here we can analyze the performance details as wersquoll see later in this demo REVIEW

What are the categories that show impact of violations

What Business Entity is impacted by these violations

What is the Utilization of this disk

Which hosts are being affected by this violation

Which VMs are being affected by the violation

Wersquoll do some troubleshooting using these violations and Analyze Performance later


34 PORT BALANCE VIOLATIONS

Letrsquos take a look at port balance violations These are violations showing imbalance on SAN traffic from hosts Arrays and Switches These are not performance related violations

Using either the Navigation Pane or dropdown menu Open Assurance

Select Port Balance Violations

Group by Type then Device

Expand Hosts and sort the Device column ascending

Select device Host nj_exch002 Note that this host has a balance index of 81 That means the difference in distribution of traffic (or the load) between the HBArsquos on this host Any index over 50 indicates significantly unbalanced ports on a device

Select the Switch Port Performance microview Note that over 88 of the traffic distribution is going across one HBA in only 11 of the traffic going across the other A failure on the heavily used HBA could choke that application This could indicate that port balancing software is not configured on this server not configured at all or not installed

Now collapse the Hosts and expand the Storage devices

Select various storage devices and view the traffic distribution in the switch port performance microview to understand the balance across the storage ports

These port balance violations provide valuable data on how your environment is configure and optimized It allows you to quickly determine where you need to optimize your configurations based on actual usage These are balance violations within each device not necessarily traffic related performance violations Wersquoll look at performance a bit later


35 DISK UTILIZATION VIOLATIONS

We looked Disk Utilization Violations in the Violations Browser a few minutes ago because we got alerted to a violation But if you didnt look at the error you can go directly to disk utilization violations here and troubleshoot your issues the similar to how we did in the Violations Browser The difference is the Violations Browser breaks down the violations by how it impacts your Business Entities Applications Data Centers etc so you can troubleshoot by business priorities while Disk Utilization Violations lets you easily see your most critical utilization issues and troubleshoot from the disk utilization violation back to the hosts You can also add columns to show applications and Business Entities if you want

Letrsquos take a look how you can use Disk Utilization Violations to quickly identify and drilldown to where your issue is

Select Disk Utilization Violations from the Assurance Menu

Sort the Utilization column descending to bring your heaviest utilization to the top

Here you see the utilization of each disk that exceeded the Disk Utilization threshold we

set earlier in our Global Policy In relation to each violation you see the disk array

hosts that access this disk the date and time the violation occurred the percentage of

utilization as well as IOPS and Throughput

Select the disk with the highest utilization

Now select the Volume Usage of Disk microview to get details on volume usage and

performance

Sort the Disk IOPS descending and select the top Volume Usage of Disk Here I see

the volume with the highest usage along with the disk throughput and percentage info by

volume and host

Exceeded Threshold

Host with highest IOPS

Switch Traffic OK


Select Switch Port Performance microview I see that my load appears to be balanced

(distribution column) across the storage ports so thatrsquos most likely not a SAN or network

configuration issue

Since this disk did cause a utilization violation I can identify possible host candidates that can cause the high utilization on the disk OR I can see that the disk may have too many volumes carved from it and I may need to spread that load out across more disks

4 PERFORMANCE

OnCommand Insight provides performance information from end-to-end This is different from the violations we discussed above in that it provides pure performance information of Volumes Internal Volumes (FlexVols) Storage Pools (Aggregates) and Disks Performance also provides performance of VMs Switches ESX Hyper-V VMDK and Datastores From here we can use this to troubleshoot congestion contention and bottlenecks identify heavily used storage pools volumes and disks SAN ports that are heavily used possible candidates for physical to virtual host virtualization and optimizing your storage and tiering

From the Navigation Pane or the dropdown menu expand the Performance menu

Here we see that OnCommand Insight collects and shows you storage performance

switch performance data store performance VM performance and even application

performance as it relates to storage performance

41 STORAGE PERFORMANCE

From the Performance menu select Storage Performance

Sort Top Volume IOPS column descending (if not already done)

Select Array called Sym-0000500743hellip in the main view (should be near the top)

Use Scroll Bars to see more performance info in all windows


Use the Horizontal slide bar in the main view to see the volume response times and

IOPS as well as disk utilization and IOPS columns (far right) Notice there is no Internal

Volume performance information because the EMC Symmetrix does not contain any

Wersquoll look at a NetApp Array shortly to see Internal Volume (FlexVol) performance

Now in the Main View notice the column called Volume Partial RW This indicates

there are volumes on that array that are misaligned (wersquoll see more detail later)

Select the microviews at the bottom to show you details of disk performance and

volume performance Which microviews did you open (hint view below) Notice this

provides detailed throughput IOPS response times at the volume and disk level

Close the Disk Performance microview

Select the column customize icon in the header of the Volume Performance

microview

Use the vertical scroll bar to view all the columns that can be added or removed from

this report

Select Partial RW and the Storage columns and click OK This adds columns to the

Volume Performance report showing you each Volume on each array that is misaligned

(Note you can get a complete list of all your misaligned volumes by selecting all the

arrays in the main view above) Additionally you can group the volumes by storage to

make it easier to view all the misaligned volumes across your entire enterprise by array

(See figure below)


Now Select the Symmetrix-FAST array and toggle the Chart microview on Here you

see OnCommand Insight showing EMC FAST auto-tiering You can also see the

NetApp Hybrid Aggregates by selecting the We can also chart this performance over

time

Partial ReadWrite indicated volume mis-alignment

Notice FAST-T Volume performance


OnCommand Insight provides complete end to end performance views through virtualize storage Letrsquos take a look

Select the storage array called Virtualizer from the main view (Note This is a V-Series

machine but OCI provides the same visibility through other virtualizers as well)

Toggle on the Virtual Machine Performance microview

Toggle the Backend Volume Performance and Datastore Performance microview on

Use the slide bars at the bottom of the microviews to see more of the performance

columns in each view (Whoopshellip there is a red mark in the Latency column We will

analyze this later)

I know this is a bit busy but I wanted to demo to you that you can have deep performance visibility from the VM through the Datastore to the frontend virtualizer array through the backend volumes You can also drill down performance to the disks on that backend array and you can also select the Switch Port Performance microview to visualize the performance on the SAN so you can see very deep performance information from end to end We will ldquoanalyzerdquo these performances from end to end a bit later

42 SAN PERFORMANCE (SWITCH PORT PERFORMANCE)

Switch performance is the actual performance on the SAN at the switch

Select Switch Port Performance from the Performance Menu OnCommand Insight

knows whether the switches are connected to Arrays and Hosts so it shows you the

performance in context to the host or Array instead of the switch prospective


Using the dropdown at the top of the table group the main view by ldquoConnected Device

Type then Namerdquo

Using the dropdown next to it set the timeframe to ldquoLast Weekrdquo and hit the refresh

icon to the right

Sort the Distribution column Descending (arrow pointing down)

Expand Hosts

Expand hosts ny_ora1 and exchange_ny1

If you look at the Value and Distribution columns you can see how HBArsquos are balanced

on these hosts On host ny_ora1 you see three HBAs that are balanced very well But

looking at host exchange_ny1 you see that one of your 2 HBAs has over 95 of the

traffic load on it while the other one has less than 5 of traffic So you can see an

imbalance of the load across your HBArsquos Perhaps the multipath software is not

configured correctly doesnt work or installed but not turned on However also look at

the fact that one HBA is 4GB the other is 2 GB The admins may have purposely

configured this host traffic to compensate for the slower HBAhellip

Select the Port Performance Distribution and Port Performance microviews to view

this analysis over time


Select exchange_ny1 from the main menu above View the performance and

distribution of both HBArsquos If you select one or the other the performance and

distribution charts change to show you the details of what yoursquove selected This function

is the same throughout OnCommand Insight GUI

43 CANDIDATES FOR HOST VIRTUALIZATION BASED ON ACTUAL PERFORMANCE

This performance from the host SAN prospective shows you which are the busiest servers and which are candidates for virtualization

Toggle off the 2 performance charts

Collapse the expanded columns using the Collapse All Groups ICON on top of the

main view


Expand Hosts again Notice your busiest servers are at the top of the list

Use the vertical slide bar to go to the bottom of the host list to see your least busy

hosts As you see here there are many hosts down near the bottom that have hardly

any traffic Note If you have virtualization project going on you can very quickly isolate

which physical hosts dont have much traffic to the applications and conduct your due

diligence on those applications for possible relocation to VM environment

You can also use the same information here to choose which ESX hosts are good candidates to move those applications based on how much traffic they are generating on the SAN

44 STORAGE ARRAY PERFORMANCE BASED ON SAN TRAFFIC

We use the same logic and methods optimizing the traffic across the storage ports of the arrays

Collapse the Hosts section and expand the Storage section

You can see the busiest arrays at the top

Expand storage array XP 1024 to see the traffic flow through the storage ports In this

case over 80 of the traffic is going across two of the six ports on the storage arrays

Not very well-balanced You can rebalance this traffic OR using this information you

can select a lesser used storage port to provision your NEXT Tier 1 application too This

helps you intelligently provision and optimize your environment using real traffic analysis

45 STORAGE TIERING AND ANALYSIS

Similarly like you did with the hosts you can see the storage arrays that are NOT so busy

Scroll to the bottom of the Storage Array list


There are several expensive tier 1 Symmetrix and other arrays at the bottom of this list

that have very little traffic accessing the arrays These arrays may have lots of data on

them but nobodys using them Armed with this information you could take a look at the

application data on these expensive tier 1 arrays and move the applications to less

expensive tier 2 or tier 3 arrays OR archive it Then you can decommission or

repurpose these expensive arrays (LOTS of ROI potential here)

46 SWITCH ISL TRAFFIC VISIBILITY AND OPTIMIZATION

OnCommand Insight shows you only the ISLrsquos (Inter Switch Links) under the switches category

Collapse the Storage category in the main view and expand the Switch category

Expand Switch 78 and hcis300


As we saw with Hosts and Arrays we can see exactly how well balanced the traffic is across the iSLrsquos Switch hcis300 is well balanced but on Switch 78 we see that 90 of the traffic is going across one switch link and only 9 of the traffic across the other If this is a trunk this is severely out of balance

We also see which are the busiest and least busy switches This allows us to balance out (optimize) our environment as well as weed out the least busy switches

47 VIRTUAL MACHINE AND DATA STORE PERFORMANCE

TROUBLESHOOTING END TO END PERFORMANCE ISSUES USING ldquoANALYZE

PERFORMANCErdquo

Letrsquos put all this performance information to good use

USE CASE I may have gotten a call from a user that was complaining that the application on VM 70 is running slow or I may have received the alert from the threshold being breached Letrsquos troubleshoot the problem

Select Virtual Machine Performance

Select Custom from the ldquoTimeframerdquo dropdown menu next to the grouping menu Enter

the dates January 1 2012 through now

Then hit the Green Recycle button next to the dropdown

Sort the VM Disk Top Latency column descending to get the longest latency at the top

Here we are seeing that in fact VM-70 does not appear to have any performance issues but we do see very high CPU Memory and Data Store Latency on VM-60 and VM-61

Look at column 2 The common factor between Vm-70 (the user complaint) and VM-60 is DS-30

Open the Datastore Performance microview to validate the high latency time


Right click on VM-60 and select Analyze Performance

This opens an analysis of everything associated with VM-60 and DS30

See the tabs across the top of the window Each of these tabs provides in-depth visibility into performance within each category

Selecting the Disk tab I see that although I have a few high ldquotoprdquo utilization overall

utilization and IOPS are relatively low so that can rule out a hot disk issue


Select Volumes tab and Internal Volumes tab I see there are some relatively high Top

Response times but still very low IOPS which tells me other factors are affecting

response time and the slowness of the application on VM-70

Select Backend Volumes we see the storage is virtualized and we can see the

performance on the backend volumes here Here I see some possible higher IOPS but

still no glaring issues in performance

To make sure I donrsquot have a SAN problem I select the Switch Performance tab It

shows an imbalance between the 2GB HBArsquos on ESX1 where VM60 and 70 are and a

potential optimization or outage issue but no gridlock

Select Hosts tab This tab shows me that host ESX 1 is the same host that holds VM-

60 and VM-70 VM-60 appears to be causing very high CPU and Memory usage which

is causing contention with time sharing during disk access thus creating a high Disk

Latency But the Disk IOPS are still very low


Deduce that VM-60 is probably not sized right for the application that is driving it hard This is probably whatrsquos causing the disk latency issue So chances of a disk issue are slim

48 VM PERFORMANCE

VM Performance helps you troubleshoot the same scenarios Here you can understand whats going on the whole environment


Sort column Top Disk Latency in descending order so the largest latency rises to the

top In this case VM 61 here is chewing up a lot of memory and a lot of CPU time but

using Low Disk IOPS The VM appears to be causing the latency issues

Select VM-61 You can open a micro view and see the VMDK performance as well

Add chart microview

You can also a break it out by volume performance and data store performance thus

giving you a more holistic picture of the environment and help you troubleshoot to

resolution

The takeaway is you can troubleshoot performance issues from many different angles and go in many different directions to quickly narrow down the problem

49 APPLICATION AND HOST PERFORMANCE

You can add to any of these performance views your applications and hosts to help you understand how your performances affecting your applications That is important to the business customer You can drill down and understand where the performance issue is by showing you visibility from the application all the way to the disks

Scroll down to ESX1

Use the horizontal slide bars in the main and microviews to see performance info


OnCommand Insight shows you performance from the host prospective all the way back to the storage but remember it does not have agents on the host so it cannot show you the details of the performance on the host itself

Review questions

What is the value of Analyze Performance

What are the areas we can view performance matrix under Analyze Performance

5 PLANNING TOOLS

51 TASK AND ACTION PLANNING AND VALIDATION

OnCommand Insight as 2 plan tools to help you plan validate and monitor changes in your environment One is a change management tool and the other is a migration tool for switches only

The change management tool (or What-IF) helps you to create tasks and actions within those tasks using a wizard It helps you logically configure changes that you need to make test and validate those changes before you make them and monitor the progress of changes as you make them This significantly reduces your risk when making changes because you can pretest them before you make any actual changes in your environment

NOTE Remember OnCommand Insight is a READ ONLY tool so it does not perform any active tasks Use it in the planning validating and execution monitoring of your change management


Select Planning Menu

Select Plans to access the tool

Select the task ID oadmin 01082007 ndash Replace HBA Clearcase1

Notice the Actions list for the task These are generated by you to help you logically and

accurately list out the tasks

To add more actions simply right click in the action area and select ldquoAdd Actionrdquo

In the new action window scroll down and select the action you want to perform You

can add description and other parameters then select OK


Then you can pre-validate the actions to ensure you know the results of each action

BEFORE you actually perform the task To do this right click the task and select

Validate task

As you see below OnCommand Insight validates each action against the current

configuration in your environment to validate what has been completed correctly

(GREEN CHECKMARK) what is not completed (BLANK BOX) and what is not

completed correctly (RED X)


When you build the action list OnCommand Insight automatically compares your

planned changes to your existing environment and anticipates any future violations that

could occur if you made these changes without correcting planned actions OR

violations that already exist in your environment

Once you complete creating your list of action items you can right click and validate the actions as many times as you want until completed OnCommand Insight validates every one of these actions It will show you whether the actions are complete correctly done wrong or not completed at all It gives you a preview into potential issues before you make the changes thus lowering your risk

52 SWITCH MIGRATION TOOL

The migration tool provides you with instantaneous visibility into all of the environment and business entities that will be affected by a migration to new or updated switches Say you want to just update the firmware on a switch What-ifhellip it goes down in the middle of the upgrade What does it affect in your environment Knowing this ahead of time can reduce your risk by giving you the complete picture of whom and what will be affected by the interruption

The Migration tool allows you to tell OnCommand Insight which switches that you want to upgrade or replace Because OnCommand Insight knows all hosts storage arrays volumes business units applications that are affected by this change it can provide you with the current violations as well future violations that will occur when the switches pulled out This enables you to validate the total impact of the changes you want to make BEFORE you make them so you can reduce your risk by fixing issues before they occur

NOTE Remember OnCommand Insight is a READ ONLY tool so it does not perform any migration tasks Use it in the planning and execution monitoring of your migration

Under Planning menu select Migrations This shows you the migration tasks already

created and the existing impact on your business entities of existing proposed changes

here

To add a new task right click on the task area and select Add Task


Complete task details above and click Next to select Switch (s) to migrate

Select the switches to be updated or replaced and click Finish

Select the new task in the main screen and use the microviews to provide you with

affected paths impact and quality assurance views


Using this information you can speed up the time for you to migrate switches because it cuts the due diligence time and lowers your risk because you know the impacts before you take any actions


6 DATA WAREHOUSE

61 INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW

Letrsquos introduce you to the data warehouse Wersquoll talk about the Datamarts and navigation and then wersquoll go into the reports and wersquoll finish by showing you how to create Ad-hoc reports using Query Studio

The data warehouse is made up of several Datamarts Datamarts are sets of data that relate to each other

Open a browser and go to httplocalhost8080reporting

Log on using adminadmin123

If you receive this page uncheck the ldquoshow this pagehelliprdquo and select My Home


Data warehouse (DWH) Home Page Public Folders

The data warehouse has several built-in Datamarts thoroughout the data warehouse (DWH) Above you see the 3 primary Datamarts called Chargeback datamart Inventory Datamart and Storage Efficiency Datamart Additionally we have two folders which contain other Datamarts for Capacity and Performance

Select the Capacity 63 folder

As you can see there are other Datamarts that are Capacity related Datamarts including Internal Volume Volume Storage and Storage Pool and VM Capacity Datamarts provide you with easy to use data elements related to those specific catagories making it easier for you to use the existing reports but more importantly help you create your own custom reports using drag and drop technology wersquoll show later in this lab

Select the Storage Capacity Datamart

DataMart and folders

Public Folders


There are 4 folders located within EVERY Datamart Most built in reports are in the Reports folder Any custom reports you create you MUST save them in the Customer Report or Customer Dashboard folders in order to save them during Upgrades

Select Dashboards (notice the BREADCRUMBS to help you navigate)

Which dashboards are located in the folder

62 PLAN - CAPACITY FORECAST DASHBOARD

The data warehouse has over 200 built-in dashboards and reports Letrsquos take a look at a few

The capacity forecast dashboard provides a history of how storage is been used as well as trends and forecast out to the future It shows by data center and by tier

Select that Capacity Dashboard This may take a bit of time to paint so be patient

The capacity forecast dashboard provides you with trending and forecast of your

capacity across your entire environment NOTE your data in the picture may vary

depending on the demo db you are using and the date (because itrsquos a trending chart)

While we are at it letrsquos also stage the tiering dashboard in a new window by holding the

shift key and selecting the Tiering Dashboard so we can discuss it is well in a few

minutes

Folders

Dashboard

Reports

Navigation

Bread crumbs


When it first opens you see in the upper left the Capacity Consumption Forecast report by Datacenter and Tiers The initial view shows how much storage is left in each datacenter by tier before it reaches 80 (adjustable by user) of capacity The graph on the right depicts the usage trending and forecasting over time The ldquoReset Selectionrdquo button resets the graphic to show storage trending across the entire enterprise

Select TokyoGold-Fast block on the matrix Notice the graph at the right changes to

reflect the storage consumption trending and forecasting for that tier at that datacenter


Reset the Storage Capacity Trend chart by clicking the Resets Selection next to the

Matrix chart The chart on the right will show the trending and forecasting for the entire

enterprise

Scroll down the dashboard to view the list of reports on the right side Each of the

dashboards has a list of related reports on the lower right hand side You can select

from any number of different reports to provide the detailed information that you need

The dashboard also contains some dial graphics showing you storage consumption and capacity in your enterprise and each datacenter

Continuing down the left side of the Dashboard these charts show you business level

storage consumption by business entities Here we can drill down to see usage by

tenant Line of Business Business Unit and Projects


Right click in this graphic and you can drill down to view storage usage by line of

business drill again to business unit and by project

As you can see you get really detailed information on consumption by your business entities from Tenant LOB Business Unit Project and Application in a very quick form


63 TIER DASHBOARD

Letrsquos take a look at the tiers dashboard that we opened up a few minutes ago by selecting it from the tabs at the bottom of your Windows screen

Note Your data may vary depending on the database used for this demo

This dashboard gives us a different perspective on how storage is growing and how is being used As you see it looks like gold tier has remained relatively stable over the past few months while gold-fast storage which is more expensive storage has grown considerably over the past couple months This tells you how your tiering initiatives are progressing Bronze which is hardly grown at all could be an indication that wersquore spending too much money on storage You might want to review your storage usage using OnCommand Insight to see how the storage is being consumed and by whom

Scroll down Lets look a little closer OnCommand Insight shows storage usage by

business units applications and by tier This enables you to understand how storage is

being used You can also by data center tier and business entity

As we did in the last report you can right click and drill down and look at consumption by

tenant line of business business unit project and application You can understand how

your data is being consumed at multiple levels and aspects

Select the ldquoReturnrdquo ICON at the top right of the Tier Dashboard to return to the folder


There is a new Storage Tier Report located in the Storage and Storage Pool Data Mart Letrsquos take a quick look at it

Use the BreadCrumbs to navigate back to Capacity 63 folder

Then select Storage and Storage Pool Capacity DataMart and Reports folder

Next select the Storage Capacity By Tier Report to view the report below This report shows your capacity by tier and how it trends over time It also provides a great detail and summary report at the bottom showing each Array tiers and how much capacity is used and the percentage (lots of information on a single report)

64 ACCOUNTABILITY AND COST AWARENESS

The standard data warehouse chargeback reports are more about accountability than all chargeback Wersquoll show you this now Wersquoll also show you how to create your own powerful ldquocustomrdquo chargebackshowback reports using Business Insight Advanced later in this lab

Select Public folders in the breadcrumbs on top left of the Data warehouse window

Select Chargeback Datamart

In the chargeback Datamart and select reports folder to access various reports that

show capacity and accountability


Select Capacity Accountability by Business Entity and Service Level Detail Here

you have the option to customize this report to your needs by selecting service levels

resource types applications and host and storage names You also have the option of

selecting the business entity by using the dropdown to select any or all of the business

entities and projects

Select all in each category to give you a good representation of the in-depth reporting

Then click finish

Chargeback DM


The report provides a very detailed version of the capacity utilization by business entity application and the host its running on the storage array the volume the actual provisioned and used storage This report is grouped by business unit as well as applications this provides you with a good representation of whos using what storage

Note the scroll bar for scrolling on page 1 and they you can also use the Page UPPage Down links at the bottom to go to page 2 etchellip

Select the Return Icon in the upper right to return to the folder of reports


65 UNCHARGED STORAGE

You can also generate reports that help you understanding what storage is NOT being accounted for

Select ldquoCapacity Accountability by Uncharged Capacity per Internal Volumerdquo This

provides you with a complete listing by array and volumes and how much storage is not

being charged or accounted for

You get FULL accountability of which storage is being accounted and which storage is NOT being accounted for across the entire enterprise regardless of storage vendor

66 IOPS VS CAPACITY REPORTING IN THE DATA WAREHOUSE

Lets look at performance versus capacity and orphaned storage by last access This adds another dimension into how your storage is being used

Open the Performance Datamart (hint use breadcrumbs to select Public Folders and

then select the Performance Datamart)

Select the Internal Volume Daily Performance folder This provides really good

pictorial view of how your storage being used


Select reports and select Allocated used internal volume Count by IOPS Ranges

This provides capacity versus IOPS report which is very interesting

Select Last Year time period

Select All Storage models and Tiers and Click Finish

Select all arrays and all tiers to give you a full view of how your storage is being used

(or not being usedhellip)

Looking at the results Remember this is storage accessed over the past year The resulting report shows you all the storage that has (or has not) been accessed over the past year


As you see from the first bar there are over 7300 volumes that have not been accessed over in the past year If we look at it in terms of size over 34 PB has had zero accessed the past year Note this actually real customer but the names have been sanitized

You can see how impactful this is There is over 34 PB of storage that has had zero use for a year This information enables you to start making business decisions on the storage how to better understand how itrsquos being used so you can reclaim and re-purpose some of that storage (Talk about ROI)

67 DIGGING INTO THE DETAILS

These charts are really nice but you need the detail to effectively work on identification and recovery OK lets go look at the underlying details

Go back to Volume Daily Performance 63 folder and drill down to Reports (hint itrsquos

in the Performance Datamart )

Select the Array Performance report This gives you a complete breakdown of the

performance for all storage from the arrays all the way down to the volumes

Select one year and set the IOPS parameter you want to filter on (I usually start at

default)

This report starts with the Orphan Summary

Select Page down to view the Storage array summary

Over 7300 Vols Over 34 PB

Storage access for a year


As you see this is pretty high-level It shows the total amount of raw and allocated

capacity in each Storage device vs the total IOPS and the max IOPS actually used over

the past year This tells a very compelling story but itrsquos still high level

Page down a few pages and reach the bottom of this section You see a Glossary

terms explaining the column headings


Now continue to page down to the Host tables This shows you the hostname the

raw and allocated capacity by host and the IOPS accessed over the past year This is

more detail than the Storage tables above

Page down past the host tables and you look at the orphaned volumes prospective

Here is a great deal of details that you can use These are all the volumes that have not

been accessed in a full year It shows you the Array name volume capacities

hostname as well as the applications and tiers that have not been accessed in the last

year

Page down to the ldquoVolume by IOPS tables (may be several pages down) This shows

you the storage array volume capacity host application tier Max and total amount of

IOPS So we can say its a pretty well-rounded report that shows you actual usage (or

lack thereof) so you can go reclaim the storage that is not used


68 VM CAPACITY REPORTING

There are several different reports in the VM capacity Datamart

Navigate to the VM Capacity 63 Datamart

As you see we have several reports built-in here already

Select VM Capacity 63 and then navigate into the Reports folder

Select VM Capacity Summary


Select all so we see the VM Capacity across the entire Enterprise (spanning multiple

vCenters

The results show all the VMs their capacity the data store the actual capacity the VM names in the provisioned storage and commit ratio of each VM across your entire environment NOTE I paged down to the bottom so you can see the total storage and commitment across your whole enterprise plus a glossary of terms

Select the ldquoreturn buttonrdquo in the upper right corner of the report (looks like a left turn

arrow)


Next select Inactive VMs report to show you VMs that have not been accessed in a

defined period of time (default 60 days)

Set this time threshold and click Finish

This is an excellent report showing you which VMs are powered off and how long they have been powered off as well as how much capacity each one of those is holding that nobody else can use It gives you all the details including the datacenter VM OS ESX host cluster VMDK and how long itrsquos been powered off Armed with this information you can go recover these VMs cover can reclaim storage


7 CREATE AD-HOC REPORT

Letrsquos show you how easy it is to create custom reports in the data warehouse

71 HOW TO CREATE A CUSTOM SHOWBACKCHARGEBACK REPORT USING

BUSINESS INSIGHT ADVANCED

Below is a great example of the custom Chargeback or Showback Report that you will create It shows usage by Business Entity and Application including variable cost of VM based on configuration fixed Overhead and Storage usage

STEPS TO CREATE THIS REPORT

Watch a video on how to create this report Note You need a user name and password for this community To obtain them click the Become a Member link

OnCommand Insight Reporting Portal is accessed through httpltreporting-

servergt8080reporting

Enter User name and Password credentials

From the Welcome page select My home

From the Launch menu (at the top right corner of the OnCommand Insight Reporting

portal) select Business Insight Advanced

From the list of all packages that appears click on the Capacity ltversiongt folder

and then click on VM Capacity ltversiongt

Create a new report by selecting New from the dropdown in the upper left corner or

Create New if you are on the Business Insight Advanced landing page


From the pre-defined report layouts New pop-up choose List and click OK

In the lower right pane select the Source tab and expand Advanced Data Mart

from the VM Capacity package

From the Advanced Data Mart expand Business Entity Hierarchy and Business

Entity and drag Tenant and place it on the report work area

Collapse Advanced Data Mart and expand Simple Data Mart

From Simple Data Mart drag Application and place it on the report work area to

the right of the Tenant column (TIP Make sure you place it on the blinking gray

BAR on the right of the previous column or it will give you an error)

Now we are going to drag multiple columns to the palate to save time building the report

We will be reporting on the total of processors (cores) and the memory that is

configured for each VM So letrsquos grab the following elements from the VM

Dimension under the Advanced Data Mart

From Advanced Data Mart expand VM Dimension


Select the next columns IN THE FOLLOWING ORDER

From Advanced Data MartgtVM Dimension hold the control key and select the

following columns (in order)

o VM Name

o Processors

o Memory

Click and Drag VM Name and place it on the report work area to the right of the

Application column NOTE All the columns should follow in the order you selected

them similar to screenshot below (your data will differ but columns will be the same)

Now letrsquos bring Capacity information onto the report

From Simple Data Mart hold the control key and select the following columns (in

order)

o Tier

o Tier Cost

o Provisioned Capacity (GB)

Click and Drag Tier column and place it on the report work area to the right of the




To create a summary of cost per GB hold the control key and select Tier Cost

and Provisioned Capacity (GB)

Then Right Click the Provisioned Capacity Column and select Calculate and

select the multiplication calculation

Business Insight Advanced has created a new column for you completed the calculations and put it in the report

Next letrsquos format and re-title the column name

Right click on the new column head and select Show Properties


In the lower Right corner scroll down to the bottom of the properties box and

select the ellipsis on the Data item name box Change the name to Storage Cost

and click OK

Note the column heading is now Storage Cost

Now select one of the numeric values in that column and select Data Format

ellipsis from the properties box in the lower right corner

From the Data Format dialog box select currency from the Format type dropdown

As you see from the Properties dialog box there are lots of options you can set to

format the currency numbers in this column The default is USD so letrsquos just click OK

to set the default You will see the column reformat to USD


Here is our current report Letrsquos filter out storage that is NOT being charged

Select any BLANK cell in the Tier Cost Column and click on the filter ICON in the

top toolbar

Select Exclude Null

Here is our current report Notice all the cells that had NO cost associated with those tiers are deleted leaving you with only the storage that has charges associated with it (TIP in another report you can actually reverse the logic and show only storage that is NOT being charged as wellhellip)

You can also format the Tier Cost column with USD currency as well if you want


OK that was easy but not complete Letrsquos add other cost factors into your chargeback report for cost of VM Service Levels by configuration and fixed overhead costs used by each application

ADDING VARIABLE COSTS PER VM TO YOUR CHARGEBACK REPORT

Letrsquos say the customer wants to charge per VM based on the of CPUs and Memory itrsquos configured with To do that we need to first create a VM Service Level comprised of the of CPUs and Memory configured for each VM Then allocate cost per Service Level

To create a VM Service Level we are going to drop in a small conditional expression to build the Service Levels per VM This is an easy example of the flexibility of Business Insight Advanced in creating reports (DONrsquoT panic you can skip the conditional expression and just put a fixed cost on each VM if you want See the Overhead example later onhellip but humor me here in this lab)

Select the Tier Column to place where we want to insert the new columns

Select Toolbox tab at lower right corner and double click the Query Calculation

ICON

In the Create Calculation Dialog box name the column VM Service Level and

select Other Expression and click OK


In the Data Item Expression dialog box copy and paste the following VM Service

Level conditional expression into the Expression Definition box and select OK

(note if you are remoted into the OnCommand Insight server you may have to

create a text document on the OnCommand Server desktop to cut and paste

this into prior to pasting it into the Expression box)

Below is an example of the conditional expression that gives you the if-else condition for VM Service Level

IF([Processors] = 2 AND [Memory] lt 2049)

THEN (Bronze)

ELSE (IF([Processors] = 2 AND [Memory] lt 4097)

THEN (Bronze_Platinum)

ELSE IF([Processors] = 4 AND [Memory] lt 8193)

THEN (Silver)

ELSE IF([Processors] = 4 AND [Memory] gt 8193)

THEN (Silver_Platinum)


THEN (Gold)


THEN (Gold_Platinum)

ELSE (tbd))


Business Insight Advanced will validate the conditional expression (nice to know if

you got it right) and create the column called VM Service Level and populate it

based on the query (If you get an error your Conditional expression probably has

a syntax or other error)

You will see a new column added called VM Service Level with the various Service

Levels for each VM based on the of CPUrsquos and memory each has (At this point

there may be duplicates in the list but not to worry We are not finished formatting or

grouping the report)

Next letrsquos add a column that calculates the cost per VM based on Service levels we just established


ICON

In the Create Calculation Dialog box name the column Cost Per VM and select

Other Expression and click OK

In the Data Item Expression dialog box cut and paste the conditional expression for Cost of VM (below) in the Expression Definition box and select OK


Example of conditional expression for Cost per VM

IF([VM Service Level] = Bronze) THEN (10) ELSE(IF([VM Service Level] = Bronze_Platinum) THEN (15) ELSE IF([VM Service Level] = Silver) THEN (20) ELSE IF([VM Service Level] = Silver_Platinum) THEN (25) ELSE IF([VM Service Level] = Gold) THEN (40) ELSE IF([VM Service Level] = Gold_Platinum) THEN (55) ELSE (30))

You will see a new column added called Cost Per VM with variable costs for each

VM based on the Service Level

Next format the data in the Cost per VM column to USD currency as you did above


ADDING FIXED OVERHEAD COSTS TO YOUR CHARGEBACK REPORT

Letrsquos say the customer has determined that the total cost for Overhead (including items like heatAC Floor space Power Rent Operations personnel helpdesk etc) is $24 Per VM Letrsquos create a column called Cost of Overhead and apply this fixed cost (note you can do this for any fixed costs rather than use SQL as well)


ICON above

In the Create Calculation Dialog box name the column Cost of Overhead and


In the Data Item Expression dialog box enter a cost of 24 in the Expression

Definition box and select OK

You will see a new column added called Cost of Overhead with 24 for each VM

(Note at this point there may be duplicates in the list but not to worry We are not

finished formatting or grouping the report)


Next format the data in the Cost of Overhead column to USD currency as you did

above Then drag the column header and drop it to the right of the Storage Cost

column as shown below

Subtotaling naming and saving the report

Now that we have a cost per VM overhead and the cost per storage usage by Tenant Application and VM letrsquos sum the total costs and finish formatting the report by Tenant and Application

Hold the control key down and select a numeric cell in the Cost per VM Storage

Costs and Cost of Overhead columns Right click one of the numeric cells and

select Calculate and the add function for the three columns

This will create a new column called ldquoCost per VM+ Storage Costs + Cost of Overheadrdquo and calculate each row

Now format the column for USD currency and retitle the column to ldquoTotal Cost of

Servicesrdquo

Name the report ldquoTotal Storage VM and Overhead Cost by Tenant and

Application Chargeback (Showback) ldquoby double clicking the title area


Now save it to the Customer Report folder using the same name

FORMATTING AND GROUPING THE REPORT BY APPLICATION AND TENANT

We are not done yet Now we need to format the report by grouping subtotaling and totaling by tenant and application

Hold the control key down and select ldquoCost per VM Provisioned Capacity

Storage Costs Cost of Overhead and Total Cost of Servicerdquo columns

Select the Total ICON from the Summary dropdown ICON


If you Page down to the bottom of the report you will see total columns Wersquoll clean

up the summary Rows in a minute

Letrsquos Group the report by Tenant and Application

Hold the control key down and select Tenant and Application columns

Select the Grouping ICON from the top toolbar

CLEANING UP THE REPORT AND RUNNING IT

To Clean up the report right click and delete the Summary ROWS (not columns)


Then Go to the bottom of the report hold control key and select both Summary

Rows and right click and delete them (Leave the TOTAL rows)

Save the report

Now letrsquos run the report to see how it looks

Select the Run ICON from the toolbar and run the report as HTML (note the formats

you can run it in if you wanthellip)

The report will show like this in its final format Irsquove paged down in the report below to show you subtotals and you can page to the bottom and see the totals by Company and Total of all resources charged


These reports are extremely flexible to do what you need Notice the drill down

link in the Tenant column (pictured above in the red circle) If you click on the

LINK you will drill down from Tenant to Line of Business then to Business Unit etc

If you Right Click on the link you can drill up as well

You can now schedule this report to run and distribute in various formats like any other OnCommand Insight Data Warehouse report

Remember now that you have created this report every time you run it will provide the latest in usability information You can automate this report by scheduling it to run and email to recipients etc Lots of flexibilityhellip


72 OTHER OPTIONS FOR AD-HOC REPORTS USING QUERY STUDIO

You can also create simple Ad-hoc reports by using Query Studio A very simple example is shown here

Log onto the data warehouse using Adminadmin123 (must be logged on as Admin to use Query Studio)

From Public folders select the Chargeback Datamart

Select Launch menu in upper right corner of the view and Select Query Studio

The Datamart is set up in ldquosimple Datamartrdquo and ldquoadvanced Datamartrdquo Simple DM contains the elements that most users use for reports The Advanced DM contains all the Facts and Dimensions for all the elements At this point wersquoll create this report using the simple DM to show you how easy it is


Expand the Simple DM and do the following

Click and drag the Business Unit to the pallet

Click and drag the Application element to the pallet You see the applications line up

with their proper Business Units

Click and drag Tier over to the Pallet to organize the storage usage by tier

Click and drag ldquoProvisioned raw by GBrdquo (You can select megabyte or terabytes as

well as gigabyte Irsquove selected GB because this is from a volume perspective and

application perspective

To calculate cost we need to add the ldquoTier costrdquo to the report

Click and drag the ldquoTier costrdquo element over place it between the Provisioned Raw and

the Tier column


To filter out any storage without tier cost associated right click the heading of the Tier

Cost Column and select Filter (see below for reference)

o Select ldquoShow only followingrdquo (default)

o Select ldquoMissing valuesrdquo to expand it

o Select ldquoLeave out missing valuesrdquo

o Select OK


See Results below


Now letrsquos calculate the total cost of usage by GB per application

Hold the control key and highlight the ldquoProvisioned Capacityrdquo and the Tier cost

column until they show yellow

Select the green Calculation ICON at top of the edit icons above or right click on the

columns and select ldquoCalculaterdquo


In the calculation window select multiplication and title the new column ldquoCost for

Storage and click Insert It creates a new column completes the calculation

To format the column right click on the new column and select Format Data

Select currency number of decimal points (usually 0) and select 1000rsquos separator

and click OK See how the column is formatted now

Double click the ldquoTitlerdquo on the report and re-title the report ldquoChargeback by Application

and BUrdquo

Now you donrsquot really need the tier cost column so you can delete it by right click on

the column and select Delete

This is good raw report but now letrsquos make it more useful

To group storage cost by Business Unit and Application

Select the Business Unit column (turns yellow) and select the Group by ICON on the top

line

You see the report reformats itself into cost by application by business unit


Click ldquoSave Asrdquo icon and save the report to the public folders

Further Editing

You can go back and further edit the report like this

Letrsquos filter out all the NA and NAs in the BU and Application columns You have to do this one column at a time

Right click the BU column and select filter

In the filter dialog window select ldquoDo not show the following (NOT)rdquo from the

ldquoConditionrdquo dropdown

Select NA and click OK

Do the same for the Application column

Then Save the report again


As you see you now have a better quality report

To exit Query Studio click the ldquoReturnrdquo icon at the top right corner of the screen

8 SCHEDULING REPORTS FOR DISTRIBUTION

OK now the report is saved letrsquos schedule it for running and distribution You can schedule all the built in reports in OnCommand

At the chargeback report we just created (you should be looking at where you saved

ithellip)

Select the schedule ICON on the right-hand side where you can set the properties


As you see on the right you can schedule start and finish date

You can just send this report one time by clicking disable

Set the schedule options for weekly daily monthly etc Schedule to run this report and

send it to yourself at 3pm every Tuesday until Feb 1 2012 As you can see you can

schedule biweekly several times a week several times a day or you can also set up by

month year and even by trigger As you see lots of options

There are a lot of options for report format The default format is HTML but we can

override that default format by clicking and choosing from PDF Excel XML CSV etc

For delivery we can email it save it print the report to a specific printer You can send

the report via e-mail to users distribution lists etc We can include the link of the report


or attached it directly to the email as well NOTE They must be able to log into

OnCommand DWH to access the link

When you are done click OK and the schedule is set

9 ENDING COMMENTS AND FEEDBACK

I hope this Lab was of value to you Your feedback is important to the quality of this lab document Please provide feedback to Dave Collins at davecnetappcom

NetApp provides no representations or warranties regarding the accuracy reliability or serviceability of any information or recommendations provided in this publication or with respect to any results that may be obtained by the use of the information or observance of any recommendations provided herein The information in this document is distributed AS IS and the use of this information or the implementation of any recommendations or techniques herein is a customerrsquos responsibility and depends on the customerrsquos ability to evaluate and integrate them into the customerrsquos operational environment This document and the information contained herein may be used solely in connection with the NetApp products discussed in this document

copy 2012 NetApp Inc All rights reserved No portions of this document may be reproduced without prior written consent of NetApp Inc Specifications are subject to change without notice NetApp the NetApp logo Go further faster xxx and xxx are trademarks or registered trademarks of NetApp Inc in the United States andor other countries All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as suchnTR-XXX-XX


Contents

1 INTRODUCTION 4

BEGIN LAB 5

2 INVENTORY AND ASSURANCE NAVIGATION AND VIEWS 5

21 INVENTORY 6

Storage Arrays 6

Grouping 6

Switches 7

Paths 8

Analyze Path Violation 8

Virtual Machines and Data store 10

3 ASSURANCE 11

31 APPLYING POLICIES TO MONITOR CONFIGURATION AND PERFORMANCE 11

32 FIBRE CHANNEL POLICY SETTINGS 12

33 VIOLATIONS BROWSER 14

34 PORT BALANCE VIOLATIONS 16

35 DISK UTILIZATION VIOLATIONS 17

4 PERFORMANCE 18

41 STORAGE PERFORMANCE 18

42 SAN PERFORMANCE (SWITCH PORT PERFORMANCE) 21

43 CANDIDATES FOR HOST VIRTUALIZATION BASED ON ACTUAL PERFORMANCE 23

44 STORAGE ARRAY PERFORMANCE BASED ON SAN TRAFFIC 24

45 STORAGE TIERING AND ANALYSIS 24

46 SWITCH ISL TRAFFIC VISIBILITY AND OPTIMIZATION 25

47 VIRTUAL MACHINE AND DATA STORE PERFORMANCE TROUBLESHOOTING END TO END

PERFORMANCE ISSUES USING ldquoANALYZE PERFORMANCErdquo 26

48 VM PERFORMANCE 29

49 APPLICATION AND HOST PERFORMANCE 29

5 PLANNING TOOLS 30

51 TASK AND ACTION PLANNING AND VALIDATION 30

52 SWITCH MIGRATION TOOL 33

6 DATA WAREHOUSE 35

61 INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW 35

62 PLAN - CAPACITY FORECAST DASHBOARD 37

63 TIER DASHBOARD 41

64 ACCOUNTABILITY AND COST AWARENESS 42








ADVANCED 53













1 INTRODUCTION











BEGIN LAB












21 INVENTORY


STORAGE ARRAYS







GROUPING






SWITCHES


Search


PATHS












Topology microview

Good Path

Bad Path

Group by

















3 ASSURANCE






























































performance



volume and host

Exceeded Threshold


Switch Traffic OK




configuration issue


4 PERFORMANCE























microview


this report






(See figure below)





time











analyze this later)









Type then Namerdquo


icon to the right


Expand Hosts





















main view





































PERFORMANCErdquo

































48 VM PERFORMANCE







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resolution




Scroll down to ESX1




Review questions



5 PLANNING TOOLS

















Validate task

















here










6 DATA WAREHOUSE














Public Folders














minutes

Folders

Dashboard

Reports

Navigation

Bread crumbs








enterprise













63 TIER DASHBOARD





























Then click finish

Chargeback DM




































default)



















year














vCenters



arrow)











































o VM Name

o Processors

o Memory






order)

o Tier

o Tier Cost
















and click OK











top toolbar

Select Exclude Null










ICON











THEN (Bronze)




THEN (Silver)




THEN (Gold)



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63 TIER DASHBOARD





























Then click finish

Chargeback DM




































default)



















year














vCenters



arrow)











































o VM Name

o Processors

o Memory






order)

o Tier

o Tier Cost
















and click OK











top toolbar

Select Exclude Null










ICON











THEN (Bronze)




THEN (Silver)




THEN (Gold)



ELSE (tbd))












ICON














ICON above



















Servicesrdquo





















Save the report






























the Tier column







o Select OK


See Results below














and BUrdquo






line




Further Editing















ithellip)






























main view





































PERFORMANCErdquo

































48 VM PERFORMANCE







Add chart microview



resolution




Scroll down to ESX1




Review questions



5 PLANNING TOOLS

















Validate task

















here










6 DATA WAREHOUSE














Public Folders














minutes

Folders

Dashboard

Reports

Navigation

Bread crumbs








enterprise













63 TIER DASHBOARD





























Then click finish

Chargeback DM




































default)



















year














vCenters



arrow)











































o VM Name

o Processors

o Memory






order)

o Tier

o Tier Cost
















and click OK











top toolbar

Select Exclude Null










ICON











THEN (Bronze)




THEN (Silver)




THEN (Gold)



ELSE (tbd))












ICON














ICON above



















Servicesrdquo





















Save the report






























the Tier column







o Select OK


See Results below














and BUrdquo






line




Further Editing















ithellip)

























































PERFORMANCErdquo

































48 VM PERFORMANCE







Add chart microview



resolution




Scroll down to ESX1




Review questions



5 PLANNING TOOLS

















Validate task

















here










6 DATA WAREHOUSE














Public Folders














minutes

Folders

Dashboard

Reports

Navigation

Bread crumbs








enterprise













63 TIER DASHBOARD





























Then click finish

Chargeback DM




































default)



















year














vCenters



arrow)











































o VM Name

o Processors

o Memory






order)

o Tier

o Tier Cost
















and click OK











top toolbar

Select Exclude Null










ICON











THEN (Bronze)




THEN (Silver)




THEN (Gold)



ELSE (tbd))












ICON














ICON above



















Servicesrdquo





















Save the report






























the Tier column







o Select OK


See Results below














and BUrdquo






line




Further Editing















ithellip)





































PERFORMANCErdquo

































48 VM PERFORMANCE







Add chart microview



resolution




Scroll down to ESX1




Review questions



5 PLANNING TOOLS

















Validate task

















here










6 DATA WAREHOUSE














Public Folders














minutes

Folders

Dashboard

Reports

Navigation

Bread crumbs








enterprise













63 TIER DASHBOARD





























Then click finish

Chargeback DM




































default)



















year














vCenters



arrow)











































o VM Name

o Processors

o Memory






order)

o Tier

o Tier Cost
















and click OK











top toolbar

Select Exclude Null










ICON











THEN (Bronze)




THEN (Silver)




THEN (Gold)



ELSE (tbd))












ICON














ICON above



















Servicesrdquo





















Save the report






























the Tier column







o Select OK


See Results below














and BUrdquo






line




Further Editing















ithellip)


























PERFORMANCErdquo

































48 VM PERFORMANCE







Add chart microview



resolution




Scroll down to ESX1




Review questions



5 PLANNING TOOLS

















Validate task

















here










6 DATA WAREHOUSE














Public Folders














minutes

Folders

Dashboard

Reports

Navigation

Bread crumbs








enterprise













63 TIER DASHBOARD





























Then click finish

Chargeback DM




































default)



















year














vCenters



arrow)











































o VM Name

o Processors

o Memory






order)

o Tier

o Tier Cost
















and click OK











top toolbar

Select Exclude Null










ICON











THEN (Bronze)




THEN (Silver)




THEN (Gold)



ELSE (tbd))












ICON














ICON above



















Servicesrdquo





















Save the report






























the Tier column







o Select OK


See Results below














and BUrdquo






line




Further Editing















ithellip)











































48 VM PERFORMANCE







Add chart microview



resolution




Scroll down to ESX1




Review questions



5 PLANNING TOOLS

















Validate task

















here










6 DATA WAREHOUSE














Public Folders














minutes

Folders

Dashboard

Reports

Navigation

Bread crumbs








enterprise













63 TIER DASHBOARD





























Then click finish

Chargeback DM




































default)



















year














vCenters



arrow)











































o VM Name

o Processors

o Memory






order)

o Tier

o Tier Cost
















and click OK











top toolbar

Select Exclude Null










ICON











THEN (Bronze)




THEN (Silver)




THEN (Gold)



ELSE (tbd))












ICON














ICON above



















Servicesrdquo





















Save the report






























the Tier column







o Select OK


See Results below














and BUrdquo






line




Further Editing















ithellip)





































48 VM PERFORMANCE







Add chart microview



resolution




Scroll down to ESX1




Review questions



5 PLANNING TOOLS

















Validate task

















here










6 DATA WAREHOUSE














Public Folders














minutes

Folders

Dashboard

Reports

Navigation

Bread crumbs








enterprise













63 TIER DASHBOARD





























Then click finish

Chargeback DM




































default)



















year














vCenters



arrow)











































o VM Name

o Processors

o Memory






order)

o Tier

o Tier Cost
















and click OK











top toolbar

Select Exclude Null










ICON











THEN (Bronze)




THEN (Silver)




THEN (Gold)



ELSE (tbd))












ICON














ICON above



















Servicesrdquo





















Save the report






























the Tier column







o Select OK


See Results below














and BUrdquo






line




Further Editing















ithellip)























48 VM PERFORMANCE







Add chart microview



resolution




Scroll down to ESX1




Review questions



5 PLANNING TOOLS

















Validate task

















here










6 DATA WAREHOUSE














Public Folders














minutes

Folders

Dashboard

Reports

Navigation

Bread crumbs








enterprise













63 TIER DASHBOARD





























Then click finish

Chargeback DM




































default)



















year














vCenters



arrow)











































o VM Name

o Processors

o Memory






order)

o Tier

o Tier Cost
















and click OK











top toolbar

Select Exclude Null










ICON











THEN (Bronze)




THEN (Silver)




THEN (Gold)



ELSE (tbd))












ICON














ICON above



















Servicesrdquo





















Save the report






























the Tier column







o Select OK


See Results below














and BUrdquo






line




Further Editing















ithellip)























Review questions



5 PLANNING TOOLS

















Validate task

















here










6 DATA WAREHOUSE














Public Folders














minutes

Folders

Dashboard

Reports

Navigation

Bread crumbs








enterprise













63 TIER DASHBOARD





























Then click finish

Chargeback DM




































default)



















year














vCenters



arrow)











































o VM Name

o Processors

o Memory






order)

o Tier

o Tier Cost
















and click OK











top toolbar

Select Exclude Null










ICON











THEN (Bronze)




THEN (Silver)




THEN (Gold)



ELSE (tbd))












ICON














ICON above



















Servicesrdquo





















Save the report






























the Tier column







o Select OK


See Results below














and BUrdquo






line




Further Editing















ithellip)

































Validate task

















here










6 DATA WAREHOUSE














Public Folders














minutes

Folders

Dashboard

Reports

Navigation

Bread crumbs








enterprise













63 TIER DASHBOARD





























Then click finish

Chargeback DM




































default)



















year














vCenters



arrow)











































o VM Name

o Processors

o Memory






order)

o Tier

o Tier Cost
















and click OK











top toolbar

Select Exclude Null










ICON











THEN (Bronze)




THEN (Silver)




THEN (Gold)



ELSE (tbd))












ICON














ICON above



















Servicesrdquo





















Save the report






























the Tier column







o Select OK


See Results below














and BUrdquo






line




Further Editing















ithellip)
























Validate task

















here










6 DATA WAREHOUSE














Public Folders














minutes

Folders

Dashboard

Reports

Navigation

Bread crumbs








enterprise













63 TIER DASHBOARD





























Then click finish

Chargeback DM




































default)



















year














vCenters



arrow)











































o VM Name

o Processors

o Memory






order)

o Tier

o Tier Cost
















and click OK











top toolbar

Select Exclude Null










ICON











THEN (Bronze)




THEN (Silver)




THEN (Gold)



ELSE (tbd))












ICON














ICON above



















Servicesrdquo





















Save the report






























the Tier column







o Select OK


See Results below














and BUrdquo






line




Further Editing















ithellip)





















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