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EMC PROSPHERE
TECHNICAL REVIEW
Storage management built for the
cloud computing era
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• End-to-end visibility
• Capacity utilization and trending
• Alerting and monitoring
• Managing data wherever it resides
• Keeping pace with technology
• Lowering costs
Storage Management Challenges

ProSphere At a Glance
 Storage management for the cloud
computing era
– Performance monitoring and analysis
– Monitoring and alerting
– Capacity reporting and analysis
– Configuration reporting and validation
 Achieve storage management with
two modules
– ProSphere
– Storage Configuration Advisor

With ProSphere You Can…
• Troubleshoot end to
end performance
• Report on Capacity
• Consolidate alerts

 Ground up and organically built-out
 Principals guiding ProSphere development
– Performance and scalability with minimal resources
– Ease of…Use, Deployment, Maintenance
– Accelerating time-to-value
– Architectural openness - integration and open APIs
– Broad platform coverage through standards
ProSphere Architecture Tenets

Introducing EMC ProSphere
 Two clicks
– To search and see end-to-end
– Compare host and storage metrics
 Federated and scalable
– Manage more than 1.2 million volumes,
36,000 SAN ports, and 18,000 hosts
 Less than 60 minutes to install
– Discover your environment in fewer than
eight hours
 75% less hardware
 0 agents
“The ease of
configuration and
discovery and the
ability to collect end-
to-end performance
without agents is
brilliant.”
STORAGE ENGINEER,
MULTI-NATIONAL
INVESTMENT FIRM

ProSphere Improvements Over
ControlCenter
 Agent-less discovery
 Virtual appliance deployment
 Improved scalability with lower hardware
requirements
 Multi-site management
 Improved user interface
 Built to support new technologies faster
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Manage Data Wherever It Resides
 Federated architecture
managed from a browser
 Search across data center
sites
 Quickly attain an end-to-end
view and drill down for more
details
Multi-Site Federation

EMC ProSphere
• Multiple instances of ProSphere
• One click to Federate
• Scalable across Geographies
Federated Synchronization

See host to SAN details
in ProSphere, then…
Keep Pace with Technology
 Faster support for new
technology
– Industry-standard protocols
– Web services interfaces
 Leverage engineering
investments
– Element Manager
integration
– Launch in context
 Seamless user experience
– EMC common user interface

Lower the Cost of Ownership
 No agents
 Fast and easy to install
– Deploy virtual application in
under 60 minutes
– Discover your environment
in fewer than eight hours
 Auto-update to the latest
release
– Over the Internet
– From a local file
 75% less hardware
ProSphere reduces server count
3 data
centers:
Current Application ProSphere
Resource Pool
VMware Virtualization
x86 Architecture
6 virtual
guests +
existing
providers
Resource Pool
x86 Architecture
5 virtual
guests +
existing
providers
Resource Pool
x86 Architecture
4 virtual
guests +
existing
providers
19 hosts +
providers
11 hosts +
providers
11 hosts +
providers
41 physical
servers
15 virtual guests on
10 physical servers

Manage Infrastructure as a Service
 Set service level policies with
Fully Automated Storage
Tiering for Virtual Pools
(FAST VP)
 Monitor service levels end to
end with ProSphere
 Quickly detect and isolate
performance issues
 Validate configuration
compliance
Manage performance and the impact of change
across your virtual infrastructure

Performance Management
 Monitor performance end to
end
 Analyze and troubleshoot
problems in a few clicks
 Gain visibility across
virtualization layers and data
center sites

End-to-End Visibility
 Two clicks to an end-to-end
view
 Drill down in one click
 Compare host to LUN
performance in two clicks
 Pan and zoom with a bird’s-
eye view
 Smart Groups improves
productivity at scale

Compare Host-to-LUN Performance

Two Clicks to an End-to-End View

Drill Down in One Click

Pan and Zoom with a Bird’s-Eye View

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Troubleshooting Performance
Search for 150
Returns lglac150
End-to-End lglac150

ProSphere Capacity Reporting
• Total raw capacity to usable
• Used vs. Free
• Array usage by Purpose
• Thin Pool Monitoring
• Service Level reporting by array and host
• Historical trending

ProSphere Dashboard
ProSphere 1.5 Technical Presales for STCs 21

Capacity Reporting and Analysis
 Manage array capacity
utilization and trends
 Analyze capacity by tier
across data centers
 Create host capacity and
chargeback reports by tier
or policy

ProSphere Capacity Analysis
Recognize how much storage you have, who’s using it, and when
you’ll need to buy more.
Increase utilization rates and storage efficiency to keep storage
costs under control.
 Track and Trend Storage
Utilization
 Provide Chargeback (or
Showback)
 Reclaim Wasted Storage
 Improve Capacity Planning

Single view
pane of all
federated
arrays
ProSphere Capacity Reporting
arrays
represented in
pie charts
Details for
array 149

Aligns Storage Services with the Business
EMC ProSphere
 Monitor impact of FAST policies
– “Have I selected the right policy?”
 Align costs with business through service level views

FAST Optimizes Performance and Cost
Identifying Flash and SATA drive targets
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Flash drive
targets
SATA II
targets
Disk Volumes
I/Os

FAST Optimizes Performance and Cost
Storage TiersFAST Policies
Platinum
25%
50%
25%
Silver
25%
75%
Storage Groups
Development_SG
Oracle_SG
Exchange_SG
Flash
400 GB Flash
RAID 5 (3+1)
FibreChannel
146 GB 15K FC
RAID 1
SATA
1 TB SATA
RAID 6 (14+2)
Acquisition$
55 TB
244 x 300 GB
15K FC Disks
55 TB
136 x 300 GB
15K FC Disks
8 x 73 GB EFD
32 x 1 TB SATA 60% more drive IOPS
28% fewer drives
21% less power and cooling
17% lower drive costs

ProSphere FAST Utilization

Federated Tiered Storage (FTS)
 Use external LUNs as back-end disks for Symmetrix
 Leverage VMAX software functionality with external arrays
FA DX FA
 Migration  Extend life of old arrays  Tiering

Encapsulation vs. External Provisioning
Back-end Array
LUN
e-disk
Thin Devs
TDATs
Disk Group
LUN LUN
Encapsulation
Pool
Back-end Array
LUN
e-disk
Thin Devs
TDATs
Disk Group
LUN LUN
Externally Provisioned
Pool
• Data maintained on original LUN
• No FAST
• LUN treated as physical disk
• Available as a FAST tier

FTS Monitoring in ProSphere
Encapsulated and
Externally
Provisioned
volumes in use
Unused
Externally
Provisioned
volumes
Column for FTS
Storage per
array

FTS Monitoring in ProSphere
Location column
indicates which
LUNs are via FTS

Smart Groups Improve Productivity
enter Smart
Group identifier
Include all
servers that have
Lglac as part of
description

EMC ProSphere
• Software Update Notifications
• Update from Powerlink
• Deploys as 3 VMs
Easy Online Downloads

ProSphere Upgrade Process

Virtual Appliance Simplifies Deployment

ProSphere Reporting
– Array-based Chargeback
– Custom reports
– Federated capacity reports
– Export and Print reports
– Customizable dashboards
• Chargeback Reporting

ProSphere Console Customization
Filter Data Tools
(Add or Remove Columns)

EMC Storage Configuration Advisor
 Track changes and validate
configurations
 Automated host-to-storage
path monitoring and alerting
 Verify compliance with the
EMC Support Matrix
 Obtain reports and trend
analysis to improve change
processes

With EMC ProSphere You Can….
• Assure storage service levels
across your virtual
infrastructure
• Control the cost of capacity
growth
• Optimize storage services to
align with business objectives

ProSphere REST Examples – Array List
https://<hostname>/srm/topology/msa/types/StorageArray/instances

ProSphere REST Examples – Array Cap
https://<hostname>/srm/capacity/msa/instances/StorageArrayCapacityData/tag:srm@em
c.com,2011:srmstorage:StorageArray::CLARiiON+APM00112100464

Host
Properties
ProSphere Host Discovery Options
Active Agent-less
Pro: full host details, no agents to deploy/manage
Con: some credentials required
Passive Agent-less
Pro: no host credentials
Con: hostname only, no host details
Agent Based Discovery (2013)
Pro: no remote credentials
Con: agent management
SAN Switch SAN Switch
Discovery
Appliance
Host
Device
LUN
SMI-S
SNMP

Fabric-> Brocade Top TalkersArray Configuration -> SMCArray Performance -> SPA
Integration with Element Managers

ProSphere’s Minimum Deployment
Requirements
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Number of vCPUs & Average
MHz Utilization
RAM (GB) Storage (GB)
ProSphere
Application
4
(2516 MHz)
8 230
Discovery Engine
4
(1305 MHz)
8 40
Historical Database
4
(1212 MHz)
6 230
Collector
2
(606 MHz)
6 20

ProSphere Recommended Deployment
Deployme
nt type
# Arrays /
# LUNs
# Hosts/
# Host
devices
#
Switches
/ # Ports
# ESX /
VMs
ProS.
App
Hist.
DB
Disc.
Eng
Collector
s
Standard 13 / 55,000 500 / 32,000 23 / 1,800 16 / 400 1 1 1 0
Scale-out -
1
25 / 110,000 1000 / 64,000 45 / 3,600 32 / 800 1 1 1 1
Scale-out -
2
38 / 165,000 1500/ 96,000 68 / 5,400 48/ 1,200 1 1 1 2
Scale-out -
3
51 / 220,000 2000 / 129,000 91 / 7,200
64 /
1,600
1 1 1 3
Scale-out -
4
63 / 275,000 2500 / 161,000 113 / 9,000
80 /
2,000
1 1 1 4

Customer profile: Ohio Health
8 award-winning hospitals built around you
 Capacity views, trending analysis = next purchase decision
 Online help was extensive with WIKI features
“I have used ControlCenter for many years and ProSphere’s capacity views are
extensive, give me everything I need to understand what is provisioned, and
with the trending capability clearly shows when I need to make the next
storage purchase.”
- Rich Crompton, Storage Administrator
Ohio Health

Customer profile: Saint Raphael
Fourth largest hospital in Connecticut
 Capacity views, trending analysis = next purchase decision
 Much easier than ControlCenter to deploy and discover
“I have used ControlCenter for many years and ProSphere’s user interface was
much nicer than I anticipated. The capacity views are extensive, they let me
know exactly what I have, how it’s used, and with the trending analysis clearly
shows when I need to make the next storage purchase.”
- George Nye, Storage Administrator
Hospital of Saint Raphael

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