Datasheet OnCommand Insight Perform End-to-end performance for NetApp and multivendor storage environments KEY BENEFITS • Improve resource utilization while avoiding negative performance impacts. • Quickly identify and correct performance problems and bottlenecks. • Understand performance trends and take action—add resources or rebalance load— before bottlenecks occur. • Validate and optimize storage tiering and service levels. • Choose the best resources for new applications. • Monitor NetApp ® FAS (clustered Data ONTAP ® and Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode), E-Series, V-Series, and FlexArray, and other major vendor storage platforms. The Challenge Avoid bottlenecks and troubleshoot application performance problems as quickly as possible The move to advanced virtualization and the cloud makes performance more important than ever. Optimizing performance is the key to unlocking the potential that lies latent in your infrastructure. You have to be able to avoid bottlenecks, quickly troubleshoot performance problems, and tune your environment to achieve maximum performance and meet service-level objectives. Otherwise, utilization suffers, driving up management costs and forcing you to overinvest in capital assets. The Solution Optimize performance for maximum return NetApp OnCommand ® Insight Perform is the answer. As part of the NetApp OnCommand Insight suite that helps you manage storage as an end-to- end service and integrate storage into your entire IT service-delivery chain, Insight Perform provides a breadth of performance information and facilitates troubleshooting and optimization. OnCommand Insight Perform helps you improve performance, from your virtual machine environment, through your storage network, and down to your disks. It gathers near-real-time VM, fabric, and storage performance data from your environment; maps it to applications, hosts, and service paths; and correlates that data. It lets you proactively perform load balancing on your VMs, servers, storage, compute, and SAN switch infrastructure to avoid congestion or contention. When work- loads are balanced, you can safely increase resource utilization without risking application brownouts and unplanned outages. You can also maximize the ROI of your existing storage assets, deferring capital expenditures. “If your organization is looking for a way to easily manage operations, cost, and service quality, ESG Lab recommends the latest version of NetApp OnCommand Insight, a lightweight management platform with real-time, big data analytics for dynamically changing, heterogeneous storage environments.” Source: ESG Lab Review, NetApp OnCommand Insight 7, June 2014
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OnCommand Insight PerformEnd-to-end performance for NetApp and multivendor storage environments
KEY BENEFITS
• Improve resource utilization while avoiding negative performance impacts.
• Quickly identify and correct performance problems and bottlenecks.
• Understand performance trends and take action—add resources or rebalance load—before bottlenecks occur.
• Validate and optimize storage tiering and service levels.
• Choose the best resources for new applications.
• Monitor NetApp® FAS (clustered Data ONTAP® and Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode), E-Series, V-Series, and FlexArray, and other major vendor storage platforms.
The ChallengeAvoid bottlenecks and troubleshoot application performance problems as quickly as possibleThe move to advanced virtualization and the cloud makes performance more important than ever. Optimizing performance is the key to unlocking the potential that lies latent in your infrastructure. You have to be able to avoid bottlenecks, quickly troubleshoot performance problems, and tune your environment to achieve maximum performance and meet service-level objectives. Otherwise, utilization suffers, driving up management costs and forcing you to overinvest in capital assets.
The SolutionOptimize performance for maximum returnNetApp OnCommand® Insight Perform is the answer. As part of the NetApp OnCommand Insight suite that helps you manage storage as an end-to-end service and integrate storage into your entire IT service-delivery chain, Insight Perform provides a breadth of performance information and facilitates troubleshooting and optimization.
OnCommand Insight Perform helps you improve performance, from your virtual machine environment, through your storage network, and down to your disks. It gathers near-real-time VM, fabric, and storage performance data from your environment; maps it to applications, hosts, and service paths; and correlates that data. It lets you proactively perform load balancing on your VMs, servers, storage, compute, and SAN switch infrastructure to avoid congestion or contention. When work-loads are balanced, you can safely increase resource utilization without risking application brownouts and unplanned outages. You can also maximize the ROI of your existing storage assets, deferring capital expenditures.
“If your organization is looking for a way to easily manage operations, cost, and service quality, ESG Lab recommends the latest version of NetApp OnCommand Insight, a lightweight management platform with real-time, big data analytics for dynamically changing, heterogeneous storage environments.” Source: ESG Lab Review, NetApp OnCommand Insight 7, June 2014
With the following key OnCommand Insight Perform capabilities, you can:
• Improve VM, server, array, switch, and fabric utilization without compromising performance
• Detect multipath configuration errors through traffic analysis
• Identify the best VM, host, array, and switch resources to allocate to a new application
• Monitor storage response time and correlate it with individual application performance
• Optimize storage allocation to accelerate application performance
• Validate tiering allocations and verify that all datasets are on the optimal tier
Improve Utilization Without Compromising PerformanceIn most IT environments, some or all resources may be overprovisioned as a hedge against performance bottle- necks. To avoid problems, administrators often hesitate to push utilization above relatively modest limits. That is because of the difficulty of simultaneously monitoring performance on servers, networks, and storage, and of identifying and correcting performance problems.
Insight Perform changes all of that by allowing you to raise utilization across your IT infrastructure without fear of hampering application performance. The Perform module monitors perfor-mance across your entire environment without the need for cumbersome agent installation. It maintains service performance information to help you analyze storage virtualization efficiency, improve load balancing, and improve resource utilization to optimize services. In addition to monitoring storage and storage network devices, Insight Perform can help you monitor applications, hosts, and VMs and understand daily patterns that may transiently affect performance. You can view an application’s actual utilization metrics across your storage assets to optimize application performance.
OnCommand Insight Perform also lets you set and manage thresholds to establish well-defined performance policies. When policies are violated, alerts are posted so that adjustments can be made. You can proactively monitor performance data to identify performance trends and spot changes that might result in policy violations.
Quickly Troubleshoot Difficult Performance IssuesWhen a performance problem does arise, Insight Perform makes it signifi-cantly easier to identify and correct it. You can quickly analyze key metrics such as CPU, memory, and I/O load for both servers and VMs; identify congested hosts and storage network ports; examine application I/O perfor-mance; and determine whether one application is having a performance impact on another.
Insight Perform includes unique features for analyzing virtual environments. The patent-pending correlation engine identifies data sources related to perfor-mance issues, so you can overlay the workloads for further analysis. If a VM is running slowly, you can see whether it is the result of a trend over time or just a spike. You can also see whether underlying datastores are overloaded, analyze contention between VMs, and quickly determine whether a particular VM is bogging down server performance. Insight Perform works with and enhances your IT team’s expertise and intuition. With all your performance data in one
Figure 1) The patent-pending correlation engine of OnCommand Insight Perform identifies data sources related to performance issues, so you can overlay workloads for further analysis.
place, you can identify and correct traffic-flow problems, get optimal performance from all your resources, and reduce or eliminate expensive slowdowns and outages.
Maximize the Benefits of TieringYou probably have multiple tiers of storage: high-performance (and high-cost) storage for your business-critical applications, mid-performance storage for less critical applications, and so on. Wouldn’t it be nice to know whether the datasets you have on various tiers are actually well matched to the capabilities of the storage?
OnCommand Insight Perform makes it simple to map each application to the storage volumes it uses and to view and understand the I/O activity of those volumes. You can quickly identify datasets that are sitting relatively idle on expensive storage and make adjust-ments as appropriate, reducing the rate of storage growth in your most expensive tiers. Because you are able to closely match your applications with the appropriate level of storage performance, service levels improve.
Choose the Best Resources for New ApplicationsProvisioning a new application can be a time-consuming process. You have to identify resources that can physically accommodate the new application and that have the necessary performance margin to avoid bottlenecks. Once again, Insight Perform simplifies the task by giving you all the information you need in one place. You can quickly identify the best hosts, network paths, and storage to meet the projected requirements of new applications.
Get Support for NetApp PlatformsOnCommand Insight Perform offers a holistic view and analysis of NetApp FAS, E-Series, V-Series, and FlexArray. It complements other NetApp software products, such as OnCommand Performance Manager and SANtricity® Storage Manager.
Deploy the OnCommand Insight Modules You NeedOnCommand Insight is composed of four modules (Table 1). You can start with the Perform and Discover modules for performance analysis and inventory
identification, respectively, and then add on from there. Discover is the required base module that identifies your entire inventory and enables integration of all the modules. Perform, Assure, and Plan modules are sold independently, so you can purchase based on your needs.
Learn More About OnCommand Insight Go to www.netapp.com/ oncommandinsight to find out more about the OnCommand Insight integrated product suite, including Insight Perform.
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Figure 2) OnCommand Insight Perform lets you view node performance by tier to validate that you have made optimal decisions when deploying new applications.
Application to storage disk monitoring, threshold alerting, and root-cause analysis (VM, ESX, datastore, volume, and disk performance) •
Ability to predict and alert on performance issues •Change, Configuration, and Compliance Management
Ability to discover, model, monitor, track, and validate configuration-related changes, including proactive change modeling •
Ability to create policies that automatically monitor for IT compliance with regulations, governance, and industry best practices •
Storage service catalog for tiered storage •Capacity Management
Capacity consumption, trending, forecasting, and efficiency •Showback/chargeback, cost analysis •Storage reclamation and reallocation •Canned and custom reporting (role-based tier management; business level by tenant, business unit, project, application, etc.) •
Discover– A single platform that automatically inventories your environment and integrates the modules
Table 1) OnCommand Insight is composed of four modules. Start with the Discover module and add on from there. Perform, Assure, and Plan are sold independently, so you can purchase based on your needs.
