IBM SVC Storwize analysis and monitoring: BVQ storage in Balance (English)
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- SVA is a leading IT systems integrator in Germany with over 460 employees across 13 locations. - New challenges in storage include improving efficiency, enhancing service quality, and adapting investments to measured needs. - BVQ software provides a solution for monitoring, analyzing, planning, and adding value to storage environments. It uses a treemap and heatmap visualization to provide insights into capacity, performance, risks, and inefficiencies across IBM Storwize and SVC storage systems. - BVQ helps reduce storage costs, improve efficiency, avoid risks, and add business value through its monitoring, reporting, and analytics capabilities in a single, modular tool.
IBM SVC Storwize analysis and monitoring: BVQ storage in Balance (English)
- 1. Keep your storage in balance BVQ – Business Volume Qualicision
- 2. AGENDA page 2 SVA company overview New challenges in the storage sector The solution The benefits Customer references and examples A closer look at BVQ
- 3. Profile and business objective: page 3 SVA is one of Germany´s leading system integrators for data center infrastructure. The company, headquartered in Wiesbaden, was founded In 1997 and has today more than 460 employees at 13 locations In Germany. The business goal of SVA is to combine high-quality IT-products of different manufacturers with SVA´s outstanding project know-how and flexibility, to achieve optimal solutions for our customers. BVQ – KEEP YOUR STORAGE IN BALANCE , March 2015 SVA serves today more than 200 SVC customers. The leading SVC partner in Europe!
- 4. SVA GmbH locations page 4BVQ – KEEP YOUR STORAGE IN BALANCE , March 2015 Berlin Hannover Hamburg Dresden MünchenStuttgart Saarbrücken Karlsruhe Headquarter Wiesbaden Düsseldorf Köln Greven Dortmund
- 5. March 2015 BVQ – KEEP YOUR STORAGE IN BALANCE page 5 Felix Alexander Graduate Engineer Former IBM sales manager CEO, management spokesman Philipp Alexander Graduate Engineer CFO Sven Eichelbaum Business Economist CIO Management board:
- 6. AGENDA page 6 SVA company overview New challenges in the storage sector The solution The benefits Customer references and examples A closer look at BVQ
- 7. March 2015 BVQ – KEEP YOUR STORAGE IN BALANCE New challenges in the storage sector Harmonizing growth and cost means to ensure growth, to reduce cost and to provide storage services of highest quality. page 7 Challenges: 1) Improving storage efficiency 2) Enhancing service quality 3) Adapting investments to measured needs
- 8. March 2015 BVQ – KEEP YOUR STORAGE IN BALANCE page 8 Reduced cost because of improved efficiency! Full usage of existing capacity and precise planned enhancements. New challenges in the storage sector Reducing storage costs Optimizing load distribution Improving efficiency Increasing utilization
- 9. March 2015 BVQ – KEEP YOUR STORAGE IN BALANCE page 9 Capacity 100% 100%Performance Utilizing all capacity Utilizingallperormancecapabilities New challenges in the storage sector Efficiency is achieved by measuring, assessing and controlling. This is the base for efficient use and precise capacity planning. This goal cannot be achieved by assuming facts! Reducing storage costs Optimizing load distribution Improving efficiency Increasing utilization
- 10. March 2015 BVQ – KEEP YOUR STORAGE IN BALANCE page 10 Reducing storage costs Improving operational safety Monitor, analyze, identify risks Proactive Management Optimizing load distribution New challenges in the storage sector Monitoring and analysis help to identify risks at an early stage to avoid problems before they rise. The quality of the storage service is improved sustainably! Increasing service quality Improving efficiency Increasing utilization
- 11. March 2015 BVQ – KEEP YOUR STORAGE IN BALANCE page 11 Highly verified investments Adding business value to storage Charge back, SLM, alerting, VMware integration Modular expansion, new disciplines New challenges in the storage sector Monitoring and analysis help to improve efficiency and quality. Why not going a few steps further by integrating new services to generate added value? Reducing storage costs Increasing utilization Improving operational safety Increasing service quality Monitor, analyze, identify risks Proactive Management Optimizing load distribution Improving efficiency
- 12. AGENDA page 12 SVA company overview New challenges in the storage sector The solution The benefits Customer references and examples A closer look at BVQ
- 13. March 2015 BVQ – KEEP YOUR STORAGE IN BALANCE page 13 Small storage pool Large storage pool Storage pools High performance High capacity Archive … Storage system IBM SVC IBM Storwize family The solution With BVQ, companies gain the ability to discover complex relationships within their storage environment - displayed by a simple and clear screen design.
- 14. March 2015 BVQ – KEEP YOUR STORAGE IN BALANCE page 14 Storage pool utilization Size of pools Size of volumes Free capacity Secure drag & drop volume migration * * Connected to BVQ SLA management rules Reports : for example capacity growth The treemap offers an in-depth view on storage details – such as pools, volumes and their utilization. Volume migration is simplified via drag and drop... The solution
- 15. March 2015 BVQ – KEEP YOUR STORAGE IN BALANCE page 15 Capacity and performance overview Available capacities Used / free capacities Performance judgment high low Supports performance planning and risk management Provable assessment of performance needs Early detection of capacity and performance shortages The solution Analysis methods are displayed and combine the views with reviews on performance, efficiency, risks and errors. Highly efficient multidimensional views can be saved as favorites.
- 16. March 2015 BVQ – KEEP YOUR STORAGE IN BALANCE page 16 Green = storage is balanced! Capacity / performance ratio Cost / TB OK Nothing to change Blue = storage is unbalanced! Capacity / performance ratio not OK Cost / TB too high Add more volumes with better performance Plan for cheaper storage The solution The BVQ analysis method ‘BVQ Heatmap’ displays the adequate storage classes as green areas. The blue areas indicate too expensive storage classes. A clear reference for possible savings potential.
- 17. March 2015 BVQ – KEEP YOUR STORAGE IN BALANCE page 17 Red = storage is unbalanced! Operational risk On performance issue, first candidate for higher performance storage Close monitoring and plan for more performant storage Yellow = high performance demand May develop to operational risk Seen from performance aspects: next candidate for higher performance storage Close monitoring The solution The BVQ Heatmap also indicates risks. The red and yellow areas may evolve to a risk which will be indicated early by a yellow coloring of the surrounding storage pools.
- 18. March 2015 BVQ – KEEP YOUR STORAGE IN BALANCE The BVQ Treemap is a highly efficient tool for quick overview and monitoring. With a single click you can start the deeper analysis of the measured data. The playground for experts and unmatched by other tools in its depth and possibilities. page 18 Analyze storage performance problems Gain in-depth knowledge and solve potential problems The solution
- 19. • Clear presentation of many important dependencies on one single screen • Fast and in-depth analysis capabilities • Many disciplines in a single tool: – Basis: monitoring, reporting, analysis and alerting – Modular expansions available: accounting, service level management, copy services management and VMware integration March 2015 BVQ – KEEP YOUR STORAGE IN BALANCE BVQ is the most advanced monitoring and analysis software for the IBM storage systems SVC (SAN Volume Controller) and the Storwize family, allowing a maximum of results with a minimum of complexity. page 19 The solution
- 20. February, 2013 BVQ – KEEP YOUR STORAGE IN BALANCE THE SOLUTION BVQ Base Edition can be extended by 4 optional packages. This makes it easy to add value to storage for different needs. page 20 BVQ Base Edition • BVQ Treemap Module for capacity and performance monitoring and reporting engine with ODBC access to BVQ data • BVQ Performance View for technical analysis • BVQ alerting and analysis modules • BVQ IO Density Heat Map analysis • BVQ Response Time Compliance analysis • BVQ Space Efficiency with compression and Thin Provisioning analysis page 20 SVC CAPACITY BASED LICENSE STORWIZE V7000, V5000 ENCLOSURE BASED LICENSE STORWIZE V3700 SYSTEM BASED LICENSE BVQ Accounting Package Storage cost Interactive monitoring on organizational layers Accounting reports BVQ Service Level Manage- ment Package Ensures compliance with storage class related SLA’s Checking and reporting compliance based on policies BVQ Copy Services Package Ensures that the mirrored data is up-to-date Displays, monitors and analyzes metro / global mirror BVQ VMware Integration Package Monitors VMware storage related objects in context with SVC/Storwize objects Displays effectiveness of VM Thin Provisioning
- 21. • Low complexity • Easy to install and maintain • Modular expandability – only one single server needed – virtual servers possible – only 1 or 2 hours for installation – several different storage systems on one installation possible March 2015 BVQ – KEEP YOUR STORAGE IN BALANCE Installation in a few hours on a single server for a variety of storage systems. Thus you can master complex environments with easy-to-manage systems. page 21 BVQ Application BVQ GUI VMware BVQ VMware Scanner BVQ Reporter Cognos Reporter Excel, Birt, ... Other applications open ODBC Interface SVC / Storwize BVQ SVC Scanner The solution
- 22. AGENDA page 22 SVA company overview New challenges in the storage sector The solution The benefits Customer references and examples A closer look at BVQ
- 23. The return on your investment: • Avoid misinvestments at an early stage – very high savings potential >> 75% • Helps to secure operations • Adds additional value to your storage • Cost effective monitoring, reporting and analysis solution • Small footprint – easy to manage, saves administration cost • Storage investment protection BVQ is the solution for companies of any size. For monitoring, analysis, planning, solving problems and to add more business value to storage value. BVQ – favorable price models for each size page 23 BVQ for SVC Favorable tier price model BVQ for Storwize Enclosure base price model regardless of capacity BVQ for Storwize V3700 System based – one license per system - capacity independent
- 24. • Reduction of purchase cost – BVQ analyzes how well the available performance is utilized – Allows optimized planning of the performance requirements – Base for choosing more effective storage classes – Reduces cost/TB, less hardware, less maintenance and management cost, less power cost • Reduced storage management cost • Avoid operational risks • Master and avoid performance bottlenecks • Proactive problem detection and avoidance • Creating additional storage values Minimizing purchase cost is a factor in an enterprise environment. Thus the costs of many other cost objects are reduced in succession. Benefit: reduction of purchase cost page 24 BVQ for SVC BVQ for Storwize BVQ for Storwize V3700
- 25. Planned investment 80TB of high-end storage is exhausted and should be extended. March 2015 BVQ – KEEP YOUR STORAGE IN BALANCE See how one of our customer‘s saved 75% on investment costs! The BVQ Heatmap analysis uncovered a large difference between perceived and real measured necessities. Knowledge based on facts is the base for optimized investment page 25 Migrate blue volumes and free up storage class High EndMid Range Newlowendclass Revised result after BVQ analysis • IO density analysis shows many blue volumes on high-end. • many of these with no business needs for high-end • final result: 60% of all capacities can be moved to lower class storage Free space on high end storage class no further extension needed. Extension of low-end for only a ¼ of the high-ends costs Savings: 75%
- 26. • Reduction of purchase cost • Reduction of management cost – One tool for SVC / Storwize monitoring, reporting, analysis and alerting – Easy to use, highly effective presentation of results with the Treemap – Increases efficiency of storage administrators – Reduces invests in other tools, education and IT environment. • Avoid operational risks • Master and avoid performance bottlenecks • Proactive problem detection and avoidance • Creating additional storage value Many management disciplines summarized in one product. BVQ is easy to use and provides fast understanding of complex relationships by using the treemap. Benefit: reduced management cost page 26 BVQ for SVC BVQ for Storwize BVQ for Storwize V3700
- 27. Highly integrated presentation of results! 2.5PB and thousands of volumes at a glance! A one-click interface allows performance analyses, storage efficiency or more different capacity analyses. Highly integrated presentation of results provides an excellent overview page 27 BVQ – KEEP YOUR STORAGE IN BALANCE , March 2015
- 28. Go from the big picture into detailed granularity. Detect problem areas with the clearly displayed treemap and analyze them into depth. The first step of problem solving and proactive management. With one single click detailed analysis of each object page 28 BVQ – KEEP YOUR STORAGE IN BALANCE , March 2015
- 29. • Reduction of purchase cost • Reduction of storage management efforts • Avoid operational risks – Storage systems do not know critical business rules – SLAs or disk mirror placement rules must be checked by admin. Consequences of crept errors may be fatal – BVQ can learn technical and business rules (SLAs) and alerts early on errors • Master and avoid performance bottlenecks • Proactive problem detection and avoidance • Creating additional storage value Storage systems do not understand business needs. BVQ learns technical and business-related rules including monitoring of their implementation. This leads to efficient indication of possible errors before they arise. Benefit: reduced operational risks page 29 BVQ for SVC BVQ for Storwize BVQ for Storwize V3700
- 30. A storage system can trigger alerts if technical reasons exist. BVQ also knows business needs and risks and warns you if they are violated. The below displayed error would perhaps only be noticed in the case of a failed failover! BVQ Alerting – application example page 30 BVQ – KEEP YOUR STORAGE IN BALANCE , March 2015 Data mirror – violated safety rule! Mirrors no longer physically separated - alert is triggered!
- 31. • Reduction of purchase cost • Reduction of storage management efforts • Avoid operational risks • Master and avoid performance bottlenecks – Performance bottlenecks may happen at any time – Reasons for this are often very difficult to understand – Often hardware expansion is the reaction. That way, problems are reduced at great expense but not solved. – BVQ offers root cause analysis to solve problems selectively • Proactive problem detection and avoidance • Creating additional storage value Performance bottlenecks happen in small and big environments. The effects are always high cost and many other subsequent problems. With pride we observe: ‘BVQ is the reference class in the performance analysis of SVC and Storwize’ Benefit: performance analysis to master bottlenecks page 31 BVQ for SVC BVQ for Storwize BVQ for Storwize V3700
- 32. BVQ reference customer German Post After 4 hours server outage we lose 50.000 €/h ($ 65,000 per hour) in every of our 4 locations. We respond to this with the highest quality standards and pro-active monitoring and analysis. Also partly as a service. BVQ customer reference stories March 2015 BVQ – KEEP YOUR STORAGE IN BALANCE Unexpected performance bottlenecks are not only just annoying situations. They are unwanted, hard to master and mean high risk factors. In the worst case, they can lead to a halt tomorrow. The proactive analysis with BVQ helps to avoid such situations. page 32 Find more detailed information here Analysis reveals the true reasons of bottlenecks - the first step to problem solving
- 33. Storwize V7000 Performance problem solved Data collection started on Thursday, first analysis on Wednesday – project finished on Monday. March 2015 BVQ – KEEP YOUR STORAGE IN BALANCE Unexpected performance bottlenecks are not only just annoying situations. They are unwanted, hard to master and high risk factors. In the worst case, they can lead to a halt tomorrow. The proactive analysis with BVQ helps to avoid such situations. page 33 Find more detailed information here Analysis reveals the true reasons of bottlenecks - the first step of problem solving
- 34. • Reduction of purchase cost • Reduction of storage management efforts • Avoid operational risks • Master and avoid performance bottlenecks • Proactive problem detection and avoidance – Admins using BVQ have better knowledge about their systems’ limits – With this knowledge many problems are avoided before they happen – Periodic ‘Health checks’ further improve the stable operation • Creating additional storage value Administrators using BVQ have a better knowledge of the limits of their systems. They can react very quickly and avoid many problems with the help of their knowledge and experience. Benefit: proactive problem detection and avoidance page 34 BVQ for SVC BVQ for Storwize BVQ for Storwize V3700
- 35. Risk analysis: checks for overload situations within nodes, caches and SAN ports Performance bottleneck analysis: are there visible signs of bottlenecks? how can they be solved ? Capacity and usage analysis: actual capacity and performance utilization with extrapolation for full utilization Storage tier analysis: is the data allocated to suitable storage classes? Which investments should be done in the future? Storage efficiency analysis: checks efficiency and effect of Thin Provisioning and compression. Easy Tier analysis: how effective is Easy Tier working in the environment? March 2015 BVQ – KEEP YOUR STORAGE IN BALANCE A BVQ Health Check uncovers weak points in SVC / Storwize environments. Many BVQ customers therefore request it 1-2 times a year as value-added service to improve the operational safety within their storage environments. BVQ Health Check page 35 Click here for more information
- 36. • Reduction of purchase cost • Reduced storage management efforts • Reduced operational risks • Master and avoid performance bottlenecks • Proactive problem detection and avoidance • Creating additional storage value – Integrates new disciplines in storage management – Improves efficiency of storage administration – Connects storage monitoring with the VMware world, monitors the stability of data mirrors, enables accounting or sets the basis for Service Level Management Creating added storage value means to support business requirements far beyond the mere storage of data. Much of this can be found already in the basic edition of BVQ and special disciplines can be added as required. Benefit: additional storage value page 36 BVQ for SVC BVQ for Storwize BVQ for Storwize V3700
- 37. AGENDA page 37 SVA company overview New challenges in the storage sector The solution The benefits Customer references and examples A closer look at BVQ
- 38. EXAMPLE: PLANNING ANALYSIS • BVQ customer in Switzerland • Onsite service: planning analysis • Requirement: High- end storage is fully utilized and has to be extended • Analysis shows: most of the volumes on the high end storage don´t have high end performance requirements (Volumes represented in blue in the BVQ analysis) • An interview with the customer revealed , that only a few of these volumes with poor performance had to remain on the high-end storage because of business reasons • Result of analysis with recommendation: – Recommendation: establishment of a new Nearline storage class – High end storage usage can be reduced immediately by 60% – Move volumes into appropriate storage classes Result is cost reduction: • Nearline storage costs (less than) ¼ of the originally planned HE storage class. 75% saving for storage expansion BVQ Return on Invest Whitepapers Migrate Volumes to less expensive Storage
- 39. EXAMPLE FOR BVQ PROBLEM SOLUTIONS BVQ CUSTOMER AEPONA (NORTH IRELAND) • Offsite service measure • History: – Extreme performance problems – 6 months of analysis without any improvement • Project: – 09/20/2013: Scan started – 09/25/2013: Web conference 25th September, 2013 – 09/29/2013: End of service – 09/30/2013: End of project • Result: Problem was completely solved in just 10 days!
- 40. EXAMPLE FOR BVQ PROBLEM SOLUTIONS CUSTOMER IN SOUTH AFRICA • Offsite service measure • History: – Performance problems with ISCSI attached servers – Open complaint with IBM • Project not yet completed Preliminary results: Storwize is the wrong contact for the complaint Problems can be found in the ISCSI connection with the servers • Finish time-consuming search on the Storwize! Perform analysis of server connections!
- 41. E-Postbrief‘ brings the secrecy of correspondence into the Internet. Accurately and efficiently with Storwize V7000 and BVQ The German Post and DHL corporate brands offer a unique portfolio of logistics and communication. Customers are offered both easy to use standardized products as well as innovative and tailored solutions - from dialog marketing to industrial supply chains. Organization of a new storage infrastructure with BVQ Based on the existing SVC environment with analysis of BVQ Requirement: low complexity Requirement: lowering TCO The precisely formulated demands on manufacturers were formulated with the help of BVQ New infrastructure as a result of detailed tendering Storwize V7000 with the following storage-mix: 1,4TB SSD, 137TB 900GB SAS, 437TB 3TB SATA BVQ Base Edition for Storwize V7000 Extended benefits with BVQ Optimal mapped storage-phased approach for performance, capacity, storage classes Highest efficiency in space and power because fewer discs are needed Continuity in the administration because of the close relation to V7000 for SVC, continued usage of BVQ possible BVQ references in the Internet
- 42. Sika Germany GmbH is a subsidiary of the leading Swiss company Sika AG The manufacturer of industrial sealants and adhesives, construction chemical product systems employs more than 1,100 people in Germany. Sika AG is an ideal partner for architects, planners, builders, trade and commerce as well as for industrial production in Germany. Sika already develops successful innovations for tomorrow in its own research laboratories. March 2015 BVQ – KEEP YOUR STORAGE IN BALANCE Targets achieved with BVQ Capacity and perfor- mance reporting Optimize storage usage Proactively prevent errors Improve stability of SVC environment Lower administrative efforts with storage The Sika success story Customer success cases page 42
- 43. Voith sets standards in the markets energy, oil & gas, paper, raw materials and transport & automotive. Founded in 1867, Voith employs more than 42,000 people, generates €5.6 billion in sales, operates in more than 50 countries around the world and is today one of the biggest family- owned companies in Europe. Customer request A solution for transparent performance management and to enable optimized load distribution within the virtualized (SVC) storage infrastructure.March 2015 BVQ – KEEP YOUR STORAGE IN BALANCE Advantages with BVQ Performance management and load monitoring in real time Fast implementation Avoidance of performance peaks and bottlenecks Business and service-level oriented Easy management of SVC infrastructure The Voith success story Customer success cases page 43 Bernd Nagel, Team Manager Global Application Infrastructure Voith IT Solutions ‘BVQ allows us a detailed analysis of the performance and utilization of our storage infrastructure. With this information and through the management of BVQ we could avoid bottlenecks and subsequently achieve higher utilization while improving performance’.
- 44. The SSB, Stuttgarter Straßenbahn AG, is one of the largest and most modern transport operators in Germany and has won numerous awards for its achievements in recent years. Customer request A solution to optimize load and performance of the virtualized storage environment (SVC) March 2015 BVQ – KEEP YOUR STORAGE IN BALANCE Advantages with BVQ Automatic performance analysis in the background Clear presentation of Performance / capacity utilization and history Performance of different layers like application storage system etc. Identification of high performers Supports process to re- balance a storage system The SSB success story Customer success cases page 44 Alexander Müller, responsible for storage and supply, Stuttgarter Straßenbahn AG ‘With BVQ it was only a small effort to achieve excellent load distribu- tion on our different storage tiers. The root causes of performance problems are easy to find can often be solved with some movements in the storage’.
- 45. Advantages with BVQ More transparent capacity and performance utilization of the storage systems BVQ is business and service level oriented as requested Cost savings due to allocation of storage volumes now based on clear facts Performance peaks and bottle- necks can now be avoided Clear presentation with the BVQ GUI Fast and uncritical installation March 2015 BVQ – KEEP YOUR STORAGE IN BALANCE Ericsson is a world-leading provider of telecommuni- cation equipment and services to mobile and fixed network operators. Over 1,000 networks in more than 180 countries use our network equipment, and more than 40 per cent of the world's mobile traffic passes through Ericsson networks. The Ericsson success story Customer success cases page 45 Dr. Reinhard Waas, Team Leader Unix and BVQ- users, LHS Telecommunications GmbH & Co. KG ‘With BVQ we have achieved a good mix and balance of storage pooling with performance load isolation. This resulted in better storage performance and optimized storage efficiency’.
- 46. BVQ webpages and contacts page 47 BVQ on the Internet www.bvq-software.com BVQ technical wiki page with videos and technical whitepapers http://bvqwiki.sva.de BVQ mail contact bvq@sva.de www.sva.de
- 47. AGENDA page 48 SVA company overview New challenges in the storage sector The solution The benefits Customer references and examples A closer look at BVQ
- 48. BVQ application areas Monitoring, surveillance and reporting Keeping an eye on performance and capacity indicators and documenting them Supporting storage planning and cost reduction Finding cost-optimal storage mix, supporting Easy Tier planning Problem-free operation, finding and solving storage problems Checking for typical bottlenecks, finding and solving problems VMware integration Viewing and monitoring VMware objects in context with SVC objects Usage based billing of storage cost Organizational management of storage resources Monitoring storage-related SLAs Ensuring SLA compliance Surveillance of remote copies and snapshots Ensuring the currentness of mirrors and copies BVQ application examples http://bvqwiki.sva.de/x/VwAo
- 49. Monitoring with BVQ Treemap – overview - monitoring Capacities and performance at a glance Plenty of analysis capabilities Performance, capacity, utilization, cost, price Integrated alerting module Wrong storage location, violated limits… Settings can be saved as favorites Performance view - analysis In-depth performance and bottleneck analysis Highly interactive module allows ad hoc-analysis Analysis can be saved as favorite Detailed performance data for the last 7 months Resolution of measurement data down to 1 minute The BVQ GUI supports the typical operation of the administrator. The treemap provides an overview and expertise for daily monitoring. The BVQ Performance View is the expert mode, which allows in-depth analysis to clarify conspicuous performance situations.
- 50. Visualization of storage load - IO density – the BVQ Heatmap Determines the load (IOPS / GIB – ‘IO density’) which is exerted by a volume on the sub-storage. It is calculated for all storage tiers such as volume, MDisk, MDG, controller, array, … Coloring shows how well a volume uses the existing performance. Why is this valuable? Rapid assessment, whether volumes are placed on the correct storage classes Quick identification of capacity overload or weak capacity utilisation Basis for extension planning Hot or cold? Best place for a volume? The BVQ Treemap combines capacity and utilization information at a glance. BVQ is familiar with the performance capabilities of the storage system and can compare them on many levels with the current performance.
- 51. Storage load response time compliance Compares the volume’s latency to the maximum value of their storage class Conspicuous volumes are marked Combination of all storage objects possible Multiple evaluation options Higher objects ‘inherit’ the result Small deviations become visible Why is this valuable? Quick overview, if the response time of individual volumes or disks deviates from the expected value Problems are quickly isolated xx Another example - BVQ knows the expected response times of the storage pools. If the expected value is not met, the affected volume will be colored. If this volume is host-related, the host will also be marked.
- 52. Optimizing storage efficiency Monitors whether the useage of Thin Provisioning and / or Compression leads to the desired success for individual volumes. Evaluation for all storage levels Why is this valuable? Storage efficiency stresses critical system resources (CPU performance and write cache) Compression is limited to 200 volumes per node pair Data can change over time and changes the benefit of compression The analysis-treemap for storage efficiency, shows objects which have more or less advantage of Thin Provisioning or compression. Thus the utilization of these functions can be monitored over time and optimized. Compression is efficient Compression not effcient Switch off
- 53. Measurement interval down to 1 minute The BVQ standard measurement interval is 5 minutes. This setting provides a good overview but in order for a better problem-detection and analysis, it can be lowered during operation to 1 minute. Same CPU pathway with 1 min interval
- 54. Reporting functions Development of capacities, performance Accounting reports Special reports on request Open interfaces allow access from other tools such as Excel or Cognos Can be automated - integration into Intranet Can be integrated into other system management environments like Nagios The database of BVQ is the source of all information. Reporting is another way to access this information. There are also other ways to report the data e.g. via Excel or Cognos, for which BVQ uses an open database schema.
- 55. BVQ application areas Monitoring, surveillance and reporting Keeping an eye on performance parameters and documenting them Supporting planning and development, cost reduction Finding cost-optimal storage mix, supporting Easy Tier planning Problem-free operation, finding and solving storage problems Checking for typical bottlenecks, finding and solving problems VMware integration Viewing and monitoring VMware objects in context with SVC objects Performance-based billing of storage cost Organizational management of storage resources Monitoring storage-related SLAs Ensuring SLA compliance Surveillance of remote copies and snapshots Ensuring the currentness of mirrors and copies BVQ application examples http://bvqwiki.sva.de/x/VwAo
- 56. High performance class Typical storage management problems Existing capabilities are underestimated Required performance is overrated No measuring instrument to find a proper assessment Storage is calculated too high-valued (too expensive) due to security standards BVQ approach - avoiding wrong investments and revising with the next expansion Finding the adequate storage-mix via analysis Enabling investments into convenient storage classes Rapid assessment analysis by BVQ Heatmap Only one volume needs 2000 IOPS Only some volumes need 500 IOPS Most of the volumes need 100 IOPS or less Low-end class The Capacity Performance Analysis is one of the analysis techniques developed to detect the assignable performance requirements quickly and clearly. BVQ Capacity and Performance Analysis All non-orange areas are stored too expensive
- 57. Quick analysis at the push of a button - even for many clusters simultaneously The BVQ Heatmap analysis is the capacity performance analysis at the push of a button! Mean values of 7 days to 5 minutes give a quick overview. In this case shown below 2.5PB in 6 SVC clusters. High amount of blue volumes big savings potential!
- 58. BVQ application areas Monitoring, surveillance and reporting Keeping an eye on performance parameters and documenting them Supporting planning and development, cost reduction Finding cost-optimal storage mix, supporting Easy Tier planning Problem-free operation, finding and solving storage problems Checking for typical bottlenecks, finding and solving problems VMware integration Viewing and monitoring VMware objects in context with SVC objects Performance-based billing of storage cost Organizational management of storage resources Monitoring storage-related SLAs Ensuring SLA compliance Surveillance of remote copies and snapshots Ensuring the currentness of mirrors and copies BVQ application examples http://bvqwiki.sva.de/x/VwAo
- 59. Technical analysis – Risk analysis Just a few steps are required to answer many questions. A BVQ expert can make a statement about potential risks in just a few minutes. Typical risk areas SVC / Storwize nodes utilization Overloaded partitions caches? SAN properly sized? SAN failures or impairments in the SAN? Backend storage systems performance? Unilateral overload? Pro-active: risk assessment, avoiding bottlenecks Re-active: solving performance problems The BVQ Performance View is the playground of the experts. We have developed many techniques for a controlled in-depth analysis of the storage. One of them is the so-called BVQ Risk Analysis.
- 60. BVQ application areas Monitoring, surveillance and reporting Keeping an eye on performance parameters and documenting them Supporting planning and development, cost reduction Finding cost-optimal storage mix, supporting Easy Tier planning Problem-free operation, finding and solving storage problems Checking for typical bottlenecks, finding and solving problems VMware integration Viewing and monitoring VMware objects in context with SVC objects Performance-based billing of storage cost Organizational management of storage resources Monitoring storage-related SLAs Ensuring SLA compliance Surveillance of remote copies and snapshots Ensuring the currentness of mirrors and copies BVQ application examples http://bvqwiki.sva.de/x/VwAo
- 61. VMware integration package Monitoring VMware areas in the SVC context • Connections from VMware storage objects to SVC/Storwize objects • Capacities of VMware objects (VM virtual machines, VM disks, … ) in SVC volumes • Free capacities in VM data stores • Thin Provisioning storage efficiency of VMware objects A BVQ scanner for VMware fetches the storage-related information from the VMware- installation and integrates them into the BVQ storage structure. Then current information like the utilization of the VMware storage is available.
- 62. Two examples for storage-VMware representations Example: which VM is within the volumes? Overview about the capacity utilization of the volumes What happens during migrations, who is affected? Example: which volumes support the VM? Typical starting point for a performance analysis Performance problem in a VMware object Question: which storage supplies the object? The flexibility of the treemap is a big benefit here as it is easy to display which SVC volumes include VMware objects. For example also the presentation of volumes supporting a VMware virtual machine is important.
- 63. Representation ‘stand alone’ available for non-SVC volumes VM SCSI volume not SVC /Storwize VM SCSI volume of SVC/Storwize Observation of the storage connections in VMware Independent from SVC or Storwize systems Also objects from other storage systems are visible. The VMware scanner detects all relevant VMware storage objects, no matter if they are connected to SVC or Storwize or not. This provides a complete map of the VMware storage structure.
- 64. VAAI traffic SCSI traffic Detailed expert metrics
- 65. BVQ application areas Monitoring, surveillance and reporting Keeping an eye on performance parameters and documenting them Supporting planning and development, cost reduction Finding cost-optimal storage mix, supporting Easy Tier planning Problem-free operation, finding and solving storage problems Checking for typical bottlenecks, finding and solving problems VMware integration Viewing and monitoring VMware objects in context with SVC objects Performance-based billing of storage cost Organizational management of storage resources Monitoring storage-related SLAs Ensuring SLA compliance Surveillance of remote copies and snapshots Ensuring the currentness of mirrors and copies BVQ application examples http://bvqwiki.sva.de/x/VwAo
- 66. BVQ accounting - extension of storage objects in the operating organizations New organizational levels of monitoring: Cost Center, application groups, applications, volume groups Cost-oriented monitoring and billing for all organizational levels Topology, storage usage and performance analysis based on applications or cost centers Cost and prices of organizational levels Reporting and accounting BVQ accounting enables the combination of volumes to organizational structures like applications or cost centers. This provides an organizational view over the storage, which can be then used for accounting and other purposes.
- 67. Accounting functions - a relevant result for the billing of storage costs The accounting report is a standard BVQ report Alternative database access: Loading the data into a spreadsheet and finishing via pivot tables Loading the data into an enterprise application for integration into existing applications Database scheme of BVQ is open and published Allows integration of BVQ into enterprise applications such as Data Warehouse or Asset Databases. Reports often are the result of accounting which then will be further evaluated. It might also be useful to transform data into more editable formats. BVQs’ data formats are open to support such integrations.
- 68. BVQ application areas Monitoring, surveillance and reporting Keeping an eye on performance parameters and documenting them Supporting planning and development, cost reduction Finding cost-optimal storage mix, supporting Easy Tier planning Problem-free operation, finding and solving storage problems Checking for typical bottlenecks, finding and solving problems VMware integration Viewing and monitoring VMware objects in context with SVC objects Performance-based billing of storage cost Organizational management of storage resources Monitoring storage-related SLAs Ensuring SLA compliance Surveillance of remote copies and snapshots Ensuring the currentness of mirrors and copies BVQ application examples http://bvqwiki.sva.de/x/VwAo
- 69. Service Level Management functions Storage and management of storage-related SLAs Monitoring of SLAs and other storage rules Data placement rating: Green: compliant to storage rules Red: violation against storage rules Yellow: sub-optimal but compliant Disk placement: ‘disk group relations’ Example: mirrors may not be established on the same system, monitoring pools, systems, rooms, sites Cost and price calculation For all storage objects and levels Violation of SLA rule Storage capacity is acceptable by SLA Storage capacity corresponds to SLA BVQ can monitor the fulfillment of SLAs. With SVC or Storwize it is very easy to move volumes with via migrations and thus breaking SLA rules unnoticed. BVQ displays them via GUI or uses alerts when this happens.
- 70. BVQ application areas Monitoring, surveillance and reporting Keeping an eye on performance parameters and documenting them Supporting planning and development, cost reduction Finding cost-optimal storage mix, supporting Easy Tier planning Problem-free operation, finding and solving storage problems Checking for typical bottlenecks, finding and solving problems VMware integration Viewing and monitoring VMware objects in context with SVC objects Performance-based billing of storage cost Organizational management of storage resources Monitoring storage-related SLAs Ensuring SLA compliance Surveillance of remote copies and snapshots Ensuring the currentness of mirrors and copies BVQ application examples http://bvqwiki.sva.de/x/VwAo
- 71. Copy services package Displaying and monitoring Flash copy and remote copy Relation-mappings Consistency groups cluster partnership Coloring by state Consistent, disconnected, stopped, … Another added value is representation and monitoring of flash copies or mirrors. Broken mirrors are shown as well as the transfer rate within a mirror-link. An important added value for more safety in this critical area!
- 72. • Direct connection to the BVQ server with a remote desktop application • BVQ can be operated very efficiently on a handheld or tablet device March 2015 BVQ – KEEP YOUR STORAGE IN BALANCE The graphical representation of the treemap is also perfect to be used on mobile devices. The benefits page 73
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