Emulex's OneCommand Vision is a storage management tool that provides visibility into application-level I/O performance across the entire storage area network. Version 3.0 expands support to monitor more host-side and directly-attached storage devices, offers a portfolio of products to meet different customer needs, and provides more detailed performance reporting and alerting functionality. The new release aims to give users improved insight into I/O issues affecting application performance across diverse multi-protocol environments.

1. 2011 SearchStorage
Product of the Year Winner
Storage Management Tools
Silver Medal Winner
emulex.com/vision
Erick Crowell
Program Manager, Software Group

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3. Agenda
I/O Management, Quick Refresher
OneCommand® Vision
Getting more from release 3.0
New! Vision Product Family
Q&A
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4. What the experts are saying …
Business
“The cost for I/O response time needs to be part
Competitiveness of the data center cost structure.”
= - IDC, ‘Data Center I/O Performance Issues and Impacts’
Application “improving I/O completion time will have a dramatic
effect on [application] transaction rate and
Competitiveness scalability.” – Pure Storage.com (Matt Kixmoeller)
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Storage I/O 50% of Application Wait Time
Competitiveness “..half or more of the database time is attributable
to storage I/O”
- Gartner’s Sept 2011, “Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring”
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5. IT Stakes are High
…making storage performance critical
Big…
…Medium…
…small
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6. Existing Management Solutions Focus Elsewhere
Missing the Blind Spots
Traditional Tools are insufficient for end-to-end I/O performance
“PING
“CPU and “SAN has low “Plenty of Storage &
works, Temp is
Memory are OK” utilization” No hardware failures”
OK”
Application Database X
Server Server
Fabric Storage Target
Application Server SAN
Performance SW Mgmt. SW Mgmt. SW
Array Mgmt. SW
SRM Tools
None of these tools are telling you …
“Plenty of
• I/O distribution is critically unbalanced capacity”
• I/O is slowing down over time
• Application performance is about to fall off a cliff
• I/O issues are impacting revenue
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7. Today’s Complex I/O Path
Major Technology Shifts have complicated the storage Path
Traditional SAN Infrastructure …
X
Fabric Storage Target
Problem: Storage
Today, complexity has evolved at every point in the path Performance and Availability
is monitored HERE
LUN 0
WWID A
VM VM VM VM
FCoE LUN 1
VM VM VM iSCSI WWID B
VM VM VM VM Fibre
VM VM VM LUN 1
Channel
LUN 2 WWID C
Converged /
Storage Multi I/O Complex Virtual Physical
Hypervisor Caching -path Aggregators Networks Storage Storage
But…Performance and Availability
Server Fabric Or .. from Storage Target
only matters, and is different, HERE HERE
Or .. from
Need to measure ‘end-to-end’ performance and health HERE
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8. Application View of Performance
Application Network Storage
Application- Server
View: The only
view that
matters.
Application Spindle Back-end
Tools
Block I/O Queue Device Queue
Block I/O I/F Initiator Driver
Measure where it
matters. Under any Multipathing RAID Stack RAID Tools
stress, Application
View can be 5x to 20x Initiator Driver Logical Resources Target Driver
the Storage-Side View. Device I/O Queue Physical Resources Device I/O Queue
Network
Taps
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9. High-Level Architecture
I/O Performance and Availability Management
• Application view of performance
• Whole SAN performance analysis tool
• Addresses the I/O blind spot
I/O
Application Servers Storage
• Historical I/O performance database
• Analytics and Correlation Engine (ACE)
• Monitors I/O latency, path redundancy
• Captures cross-domain I/O errors Scalable software-only solution
• Requires no special hardware
• Cross-platform, vendor agnostic design
• Bare Metal, Hypervisors, Virtual Machines
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10. OneCommand® Vision 3.0 … Give you More!
Version 3.0
Monitor more I/O …
 Expanded support for host-side
and SAN attached devices
 Portfolio of products to meet the
diverse needs of customers
 Simplified deployment & debug
Be More Informed …
 Quickly identify affected
servers, targets, LUNs or groups
 Daily/Monthly rollups
 CSV attachments & archiving
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11. On the Application Server
Monitor More Than Just Networked Storage!
Software RAID / /dev/fdc0c
Backup /dev/fdc0c
/dev/vol1
/dev/sdi
Fibre Channel
/dev/fdc0c
/dev/fdc0c
Host-Side I/O Cache
/dev/vol1
/dev/sdi
/dev/vol1 FCoE
Volume Mgmt. SW /dev/vol2
Logical Volumes
/dev/vol1
/dev/sdj
iSCSI
/dev/sda
/dev/sda SAN Attached Storage
Direct Attached Storage
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12. Vision v3 - iSCSI Support Details
OneCommand Vision 3.0 supports both hardware and software iSCSI
Initiator implementations. These include:
– Pure SW iSCSI
• SW iSCSI Initiators implementations utilizing native operating system (OS) APIs
– Hybrid iSCSI Initiators
• SW iSCSI Implementations utilizing TCP / IP Hardware off-load
– Hardware iSCSI Initiators
• HW iSCSI Implementations using full protocol offload in hardware
iSCSI Session-Level Path Tracking (Windows & Linux)
– Session identified by;
• Initiator IP
• Initiator IQN
• Target IP
• Target IQN
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13. Vendor Agnostic
All Adapters
All Networks
All Storage
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14. Vision v3 - DAS Support Details
OneCommand Vision 3.0 Support the following DAS devices:
– Serial attached SCSI (SAS),
– Serial ATA (SATA),
– Solid State Devices using (SAS / SATA APIs)
OneCommand Vision collects I/O Latency information for DAS devices
– Total I/O count, Average I/O size and I/O completion time.
I/O Analyzer Events will not be reported on DAS devices.
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15. OneCommand Vision v3
Enterprise Storage Network performance analysis toolset
I/O Latency
Dashboard
I/O Profile I/O Analyzer
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16. Release 3.0 – Navigation Control Updates
Device Type Filter
– DAS, FC, iSCSI, &
Logical
Icons updates
– Clean (B&W)
– Distinct icons for
Local & Remote
storage devices
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17. Release 3.0 – Intelligent Alert Updates
LUN SLA Alert Enhancements
– Hourly Alerting, Daily and Monthly SLA Summaries
– Multiple email recipients
Additional Alert Information
– More IO Path and Occurrence Details; Server DNS, server IP
address, adapter, and target alert information, Threshold Value, Observed
Values, …
HTML Email Alerts
– Instead of plain text, to support report links and tables
CSV Data Attachments
– Report format has changed from HTML to CSV
– CSV Attachments retained within the Vision system
Core Alert Updates
– Single Path Alert are no longer generated by default for all groups
– Configurations for periods longer than one day have been removed
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18. Release 3.0 – Intelligent Alert Updates
Extended Data Reporting, Archiving, Interface Refresh
– New charts help to outline which alerts are occurring the most and which group is
experiencing the most occurrences
View extended status, verify if email has been sent, and view CSV
Attachments
– Improved Filtering; View ‘SLA’ vs. ‘Core Alerts’
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19. Release 3.0 – Intelligent Alert Updates – Cont.
Improved Filtering; View ‘SLA’
vs. ‘Core Alerts’
Alert Email Status Indication
CSV Attachments Provide Full
Details of Affected Resource
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20. I/O Reports
Expanded Metrics for each device type
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21. Release 3.0 – Monitoring Point Status Reporting
Major Update, adds improved status reporting
– Not Connected, Connected, and Warnings
– Detailed problem descriptions and ‘tips’
– Group Filter Control
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22. OneCommand® Vision v3.0
Product Portfolio
emulex.com/vision
Options for all departments and Data Centers

23. OneCommand Vision FREE Edition
Affordable Performance and Availability solution for small environments
I/O Latency
OneCommand® Vision
Up to Five Servers
FREE Edition
I/O Latency
– Completion
Times, IOPS, Performance
Up to Two Days of Histrograms
Performance Data Retention
FC, FCoE, iSCSI
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24. OneCommand Vision Essentials
Affordable Performance and Availability solution for small environments
I/O Latency
I/O Analyzer
OneCommand® Vision
Up to 15 Servers I/O Profile
Essentials
Dashboard
Full Featured
Up to 90 Days of FC, FCoE, iSCSI, Direct-Attach
Performance Data Retention
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25. OneCommand Vision Professional
Affordable Performance and Availability solution for small environments
I/O Latency
I/O Analyzer
OneCommand® Vision
1000’s of Servers I/O Profile
Professional
Dashboard
Full Featured
Up to 365 Days of FC, FCoE, iSCSI, Direct-
Performance Data Retention Attach, Logical Devices
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26. v3.0 Product
Portfolio
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27. OneCommand® Vision
Solution Benefits
Real Insight
Application View of I/O Performance
Made Simple
Easy to use, scalable software architecture
Supports all Private & Public Cloud Environments
V M w a r e , H y p e r - V, K V M , X E N , A I X , a n d S o l a r i s
Multiprotocol Support
2/4/8/16G FC, 10GbE, FCoE, 1/10G iSCSI, DAS
Storage Path Aware
Monitor redundancy and multipath effectiveness
Automates Early I/O Issue Detection
Root cause analysis of SAN slow-downs
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28. 2011 SearchStorage Product of the Year Winner
Get More Information … Storage Management Tools – Medal Winner
Explore:
– Emulex.com/vision System
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Talk to the Team: 3.0
– Vision@Emulex.com
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• 14 day Full Feature Trials
• Proof of Concept evaluations Register for
OneCommand® Vision
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Call Emulex:
₋ North America: 877-359-3263 Contact:
₋ United Kingdom: 44 (0) 118 977 2929 Bill Sytsma
Bill.Sytsma@Emulex.Com
Vision Sales Lead, Emulex, SW Group
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29. Questions …
Panelists
Bino Sebastian
– Architecture Lead, Vision Product Team
John Waszak
– Vice President, SW Group
Speaker
Erick Crowell
– Product Manager, Vision SW
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30. Thank you !
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