EMC - VNX2 - VNX Monitoring and Reporting

1. Overview

VNX Monitoring and Reporting is a software solution that extends Unisphere for VNX capabilities by providing unified performance and capacity trending information of VNX storage systems. This solution complements Unisphere's health alerts and Analyzer archive files in order to improve the efficiency of your storage environment.
VNX Monitoring and Reporting automatically collects Block and File storage statistics along with configuration data and stores them in a database that can be viewed through dashboards and reports. This solution can retrieve information from one or several VNX storage systems, including legacy CLARiiON and Celerra systems, that are qualified for support. VNX Monitoring and Reporting is a versatile solution to help you understand storage utilization and workload patterns for problem diagnosis, trend analysis, and capacity planning

2. Hand-on Lab

Add a Storage System
The Adding a System page is where you specify the information required for VNX Monitoring and Reporting to access your storage system. You need to specify a unique name that will be used to identify this storage system and type of data collection; Unified, Block, or File. Unified data applies to integrated systems that contain both block storage (SAN) and file storage (NAS) hardware components. Legacy CLARiiON CX4 and Celerra NS systems that are supported can be added here as well

Adding a VNX System

• 1. Click the Add New node to view the fields needed to add a storage system

• 2. The Adding a System page displays the system information to be entered. Notice that the mandatory fields are indicated with a red asterisk

Reporting
Now that the VNX has been added to VNX Monitoring and Reporting, storage statistics and configuration data can be collected. VNX Monitoring and Reporting stores this information in a database that can be viewed through dashboards and reports.

• 1. To view the reports, click Open Reporting Interface

Report Tree
On the left panel of the main page is a report tree where reports are organized into parent and child relationships. The report tree is a dynamic hierarchical tree used to navigate between nodes. You can browse the tree by clicking each entry; reports are generated and displayed in the main page.

• 1. In the report tree, expand Systems > Summary > System Summary

• 2. Under System Summary, select the Block entry representing your VNX system

• 3. In the List of arrays section, click the entry for VNX5400

View Different Metrics
The main page displays a summary of the storage system components and statistics. As you scroll down this page, you can see that statistics are displayed in the form of charts, graphs, and lists.

• 1. Observe the different types of system data collected

Analyze Read/Write Throughput and Bandwidth
VNX Monitoring and Reporting allows users to “drill-down” to underlying reports to get more detailed views of a selected component. Let’s take a look at the write performance of this VNX system. Note that your graphs may look different than the screenshots.

• 1. Scroll down to analyze the Read/Write IOPS (IO/s) and Read/Write Bandwidth (MB/s) graphs

• 2. In the Read/Write IOPS (IO/s) graph, hover your mouse over the Write IOPS line. Tracing the Write IOPS line willdisplay different IO values and timestamps of when the IO values were recorded

Analyze Storage Utilization
Let’s analyze the storage utilization of the VNX system.

• 1. In the Block Usable Capacity (TB ) section, click the free space portion of the pie chart

View LUN Capacity
Scroll down to the LUNs Current Performance section to find the Demo LUN and view its capacity utilization. Click the entry for the Demo LUN.

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