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KJ Bedard
Principal Corporate Systems Engineer
January, 2013
Objectives
At the end of this presentation users will:
Unisphere
for
VMAX
Performance Capabilities
Quick Summary of Array Performance with Drill Down Capability
Heatmaps
Diagnostic, Historical, or
Real Time
Categorized by:
Front-end
Cache
Back-end
Drives
Drill down to component
level
ProSphere
Unisphere
SYMCLI
SMI-S Providers
STORAPI
SYMAPI
Enginuity
SYMAPI DB
SMAS
Adobe
Flash
and
Internet
Browser
clients
Unisphere
IP
Network
JBoss Framework
IP Network
VMAX Service
Processor
SAN
ESX Servers
Adobe
Flash
and
Internet
Browser
3) Virtual Infrastructure
ENTERPRISE
2 2 0 R
SAN
IP Network
SMAS Server or VM
PowerEdge
2650
2) Mainframe Management
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Software Requirements
Licensing:
Array-based license (no separate license for
Performance option)
Requires:
Solutions Enabler 64-bit version 7.5
Enginuity
Symm 6 (5671 Enginuity)
Symm 7 (577x Enginuity)
64-bit OS
Windows Server 2003/2008
Red Hat AS/ES 5 and 6
SUSE Linux 10 and 11
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Permission
Administrator
All Roles
StorageAdmin
Monitor
SecurityAdmin
None
Local and LDAP/AD users and roles are stored in the symauth
database in SFS
User roles are assigned per Symmetrix
User roles cannot be specific to storage groups or specific volumes
SMAS can be used with SYMACLs to provide device level security
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Configuration
Monitoring
Properties
Status
Alerts
Administration
User-level security, logging, auditing
Access-control management
Wizards
Storage Provisioning
LUN migrations
FAST and FAST VP
Replication
Replication
Configuration and control
Discovery of objects and status
SRDF monitoring
Command Line Generator
Performance
Monitoring, Heatmaps, Dashboards and
Historical Trending
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Basic Unisphere
Functionality
Properties of the System Dashboard
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VMAX IDs
VMAX Model Numbers
Code Levels
Alerts
Used Space, Free Space, Allocated Space
All directors
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Double-click to
select a VMAX.
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FE details are
displayed
including; status,
port, type, port
ID and more
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Physical and
Virtual
capacities are
displayed.
Select a thin
pool and
double-click to
display details.
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From these screens, users are provided with all options to create/remove volumes to/from
the pool, or create/remove TDEVs, bind/unbind or enable/disable devices in the pool.
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Basic Unisphere
Functionality
Examining Software License Keys
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VMAX with
Unisphere Entitlement
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Select Settings.
Select Electronic
Licenses.
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and
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The Usage screen displays the feature, activation type, capacity type
and licensed capacity (in TB).
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Select Administration
in the lower right-hand
corner of the Home
screen.
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Click on a user to
select it. Options to
Create, Edit and
Delete become
available.
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A Summary screen
displays all details.
Select Finish to
create the new user
and role.
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Basic Unisphere
Functions
Changing VMAX parameters
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Settings can be
found in the lower
right-hand corner of
the screen.
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Enable Auto
Meta and define
parameters for
meta creation.
Parallel Access
Volume is a
mainframe
extent lock
mechanism.
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Define SRDF
director link
percentages for
sync/async and
copy I/O.
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Basic Unisphere
Functionality
Creating Storage Groups
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Step 1. Complete
the selections
and select Next
to continue.
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Step 3. A summary
screen displays all user
selections, and
indicates how many
new devices must be
created in order to
satisfy this request.
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Using Wizards
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Using Wizards
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Using Wizards
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Using Wizards
Existing storage
templates are
displayed.
Click Create to
create a new
template.
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Using Wizards
Step 1. Complete
the dialog
selections.
Click Next to
continue.
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Using Wizards
Step 2. Complete
the dialog
selections.
Click Next to
continue.
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Using Wizards
Optional:
Advanced
options can be
selected for
pre-allocating
capacity and
meta volume
configuration.
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Using Wizards
Step 3. A summary
screen is displayed
containing all parameters
for the new template.
Select Finish to
complete this
Wizard.
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Using Wizards
Select a
template to
view details.
Storage
Template
details.
Options are
available to
Create, Delete,
Update or
Cancel.
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Different types of
volumes can be
created in various
ways.
Select Create
volumes to use
the Wizard.
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Optionally select a
pool to bind the
new volumes.
Run Now, or
schedule for later.
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Execute the
selected job now.
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A new status
indicates the job is
running.
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Select an
Initiator from
the drop-down
list. Click Add
to display the
user choice.
Click Finish to
complete the
Wizard.
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When a host is
successfully
created, Select
Provision storage
to this host.
Complete the
selections in order
to provision storage
to the newly
created host.
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Select FAST.
Selecting the FAST tab automatically directs the user to the FAST Dashboard.
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FAST Policies
Create and manage policies
Associate Storage Groups
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Select Tiers to
create and
manage storage
Tiers.
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Options are
available to
Create, Edit,
View Details or
Delete a Tier.
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Any Storage Group running under a FAST Policy is indicated in the list of Storage
Groups as shown above. Options are available to Associate, Reassociate, or
Disassociate to/from a FAST Policy.
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Unisphere
Performance Option
Overview
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Settings
Thresholds and Alerts
Real Time Monitoring
Diagnostic Drill Down
User-defined Dashboards
Performance Charts
Real Time, Diagnostic and Historical Views
Heatmaps
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Unisphere Performance
SRDF Tracking
Advanced alerting
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Dashboards
Standard, Pre-defined
Customizable User-defined
FAST Environment, SRDF, FE
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Components monitored
Symmetrix
Front-end (FE) directors
Back-end (BE) directors
Remote Data Facility
(RDF) directors
External (DX) directors
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Heatmap Capability
Quick Summary of Array Performance with Drill Down Capability
Heatmaps
Diagnostic, Historical, or
Real Time
Categorized by:
Front-end
Cache
Back-end
Drives
Navigate to Analyze - drill
down to component level
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Alerts
Array
FE Director
Monitor KPIs
BE Director
Cache Partition
SRDF Groups
Method of Notification
Device Groups
Storage Groups
Virtual Pools
Syslog
SNMP
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Unisphere
Performance Option
Basic Functionality
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Monitor view
Using pre-defined and user-defined dashboards
Analyze view
Viewing real time, diagnostic, and historical data
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Performance - Settings
The performance
module and features
live under the
Performance tab on
the main menu.
Select Settings.
Select System
Registrations to view
and manage performance
registrations.
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Performance - Settings
Select a storage
array and click
View Details.
Select Apply to
register this
array and begin
data collection.
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Performance - Settings
Users configure
all alerts and
thresholds by
selecting System
Settings.
Other available features from System Settings include: Metrics, Real Time
Traces, and Reports.
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Expand EMC
Dashboards.
Select
Heatmap.
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FA, DA and
Cache slot
allocations are
displayed.
Click a Director
to see
utilization
details.
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Analyze View
Select Performance
from the Main Menu.
Select Analyze.
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Analyze View
Navigating the Analyze View allows users to view
Symmetrix system data for various collection ranges.
Real Time: The previous 1 hour. Real Time view collects data
between 2 and 5 seconds for a limited group of metrics. The
data is available for the previous hour.
Diagnostic: The previous 4 hours. Diagnostic view collects
data every 5 minutes for root cause analysis. The data is
available for the previous 7 days.
Historical: The previous 24 hours. Historical view collects
data in 15 minute intervals for trending and planning. The
data is available for the previous 3 years.
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Analyze View
The user selects specific KPIs or All metrics, and then selects a
chart style. Three metrics are displayed and charted here. Five
different chart styles are available. By default, all averages for
each metric are displayed, and/or the user can display the
maximum, or high water mark, for each metric.
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Analyze View
Select Display
Thresholds
from the drop
down menu.
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Basic
Troubleshooting
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Basic Troubleshooting
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Refresh view
Perform Symmetrix discover
Ensure array registration
Symmetrix Discover
Check SYMCLI output
Refresh Screen
Check Unisphere for VMAX Online Help
Online Help
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Verify that .*dcf.gz files being sent to the *\symapi\stp\spa\DMF_* directory are
being processed by SMAS.
This directory should be empty
If files are present, it means that SMAS might have crashed at some point. Check
for core dumps , hs_err* files, mini-dumps.
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smas.log
\EMC\SMAS\jboss\server\default-em\log
symapi-<date>.log
\EMC\SYMAPI\log
storevntd.log
\EMC\SYMAPI\log
hs_*.err files
\EMC\SMAS\jboss\bin
run.log
\EMC\SMAS\jboss\bin
jboss.xml
\EMC\SMAS\jboss\server\default-em\deploy\domain-symm.ear\domain-symm-ejb.jar\META-INF
<hostname>.err
\EMC\SMAS\jboss\server\default-em\data\msq\data
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Questions?
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Resources
Location
Product Support
Page
Unisphere
Online Help
vLab Portal
https://support.emc.com/products/27045
Available at Powerlink or on support.emc.com here:
https://support.emc.com/docu43577_Unisphere-for-VMAX-V1.5-ProductGuide.pdf?language=en_US
https://portal.demoemc.com/
VMAX 10K
Central
http://one.emc.com/clearspace/community/active/vmax_10k_central
EMC Demo
Center
http://www.emcdemocenter.com
Powerlink
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