View this webinar session to learn how you can transform your storage infrastructure into a business enabler. You will learn: Tips and tricks to streamline storage performance monitoring across your Hitachi environment. How to define and enforce performance and capacity objectives for key business applications by establishing storage service level management. How to create storage service level management reports that satisfy the needs of multiple IT stakeholders (that is, CIO, architect, administrator). For more information on controlling costs of sprawling storage with storage analytics white paper: http://www.hds.com/assets/pdf/hitachi-white-paper-control-costs-and-sprawling-storage-with-storage-analytics.pdf

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TRANSFORM STORAGE
INTO A BUSINESS ENABLER
STORAGE ANALYTICS
Mike Rowley, Sr. Solutions Architect
Darryl Fujita, Technical Software Specialist
Michael Knouse, Software Solution Specialist

2. WEBTECH EDUCATIONAL SERIES
Storage Analytics: Transform Storage into a Business Enabler
Attend this webinar session to learn how you can transform your
storage infrastructure into a business enabler.
You will learn
• Tips and tricks to streamline storage performance monitoring across
your Hitachi environment
• How to define and enforce performance and capacity objectives for
key business applications by establishing storage service-level
management
• How to create storage service-level management reports that satisfy
the needs of multiple IT stakeholders (i.e., CIO, architect,
administrator)

3. DATA CENTER MANAGEMENT

4. DATA CENTER MANAGEMENT

5. HITACHI COMMAND SUITE
 Across all tiers of storage
 Across management functions
 Across file, block and content
UNIFIED MANAGEMENT
Unified Management Framework
Configure Analyze Mobilize Protect
Business Intelligence
ApplianceFile ContentUnifiedBlock
HDIHNAS HCPHUSVSP, USP, AMS,
HUS

6. HITACHI COMMAND SUITE
1. Single-point view
2. View from
business and
storage
perspective
3. Unified
management
Configuration Performance
Mobility Reporting Analysis

7. HITACHI DEVICE MANAGER (HDVM)
Among other things, HDvM allows storage administrators to
 Provision / unallocate storage to hosts
 Carve LDEVs
 Virtualize volumes
 Manage pools (create, expand, shrink, delete)
‒ Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning
‒ Hitachi Dynamic Tiering
 Collect against hosts
‒ Understand host to storage correlation
‒ Report on host capacity usage, mappings, memberships in groups, etc.
 Create point-in-time reports of storage, including
‒ Capacity utilization (% used, RAW, usable, etc.)
‒ Host mappings and storage paths
‒ Array configurations
DEVICE
MANAGER

8. MANAGE PERFORMANCE
WITH HITACHI TUNING MANAGER
Tuning Manager provides the ability to monitor and manage
performance from the host down to the storage (end to end)
SVR
SAN
LUN
CACHE
RAID/PHYS
LUN
Appls. Canned and custom reports
- Capture “normal” profile for each
host
- Know when it becomes “abnormal”
For hosts where
performance is critical;
not on every host
HTnM
Performance
detail for
every key
component
response
time
Agent Set performance threshold alerts
- Detect the problem before the
server team does
 Host to Storage correlation
- Drill down by application to tune
for better performance
- Host to storage response time
 Array Performance detail
- I/O response time within the
array
- Utilization/bottleneck analysis
from controller port to spindle
throughput

9. HITACHI COMMAND DIRECTOR DASHBOARD
BOS/HDvM
HTnM HRpM
Configuration
Repl MgmtPerf details Tiered Stg
HDT
HCmD
HTSM
BOS(HDvM+HDP)

10. Storage Analytics:
Hitachi Command
Director

11. BUSINESS ANALYTICS PRODUCT LINE
Enable customers to transform visualizing the data
center from an operational view to a more strategic,
business- centric view where elements are measured,
correlated, “trend-ized,” visualized and strategized

12. BUSINESS ANALYTICS PRODUCT LINE
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Configuration Analytics Mobility Protection
Operational View
Business Analytics
Strategic View
Usage Patterns SLO Compliance Capacity Planning
Chargeback
Storage Allocation Performance Tuning Data Migration Replication
Pair SyncTechnology upgradesPool Creation
Storage Allocation
CAPEX OPEX Storage Economics

13. SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE OVERVIEW
Command Director web server
 Accessed through web
browsers
Command Director
license server
 Validates licenses
 Performs user
authentication
Tuning Manager data
collector
 Installed on Hitachi Tuning
Manager server
 Used to collect storage
system performance data
 Managed from Command
Director server

14. HITACHI COMMAND DIRECTOR:
FOCUS ON KEY CUSTOMER BUSINESS INITIATIVES
Visibility
Application
SLO Compliance
Chargeback
Capacity Planning
Business
Initiatives
CAPEX reduction
Increased utilization
Storage Economics
ROI analysis
Cost justification
SLA compliance
Delayed buying
Never run out
Increased ROI
Reduce MTR
Application view
Know what you have
OPEX reduction

15. HITACHI COMMAND DIRECTOR:
VALUE PROPOSITION
Helps transform IT from a cost center to a
service-oriented business
DATA CENTER VISIBILITY
Have complete visibility into
your data center with
application-centric views of
storage (supply and demand)
to minimize OPEX
Global dashboard
Business and
customer view of
applications
(demand)
Storage array view
(supply)
SLO COMPLIANCE
Define application service level
objectives (SLO) to monitor for
compliance purposes;
proactively identify SLO issues
and reduce OPEX
Application SLO
monitoring
SLO violation
investigation
Seamless integration
with Hitachi Tuning
Manager for deeper
analysis
SERVICE CHARGEBACK
Offer tiers of service to
customers and charge back
accordingly to ensure ROI
while reducing CAPEX
Service and chargeback
models
(Based on hardware tiers, pool
and service levels)
Chargeback and
compliance reports for
customers
Interface to external
chargeback systems
CAPACITY PLANNING
Understand data center
economics and conduct
intelligent capacity planning
based on historical trends to
reduce future CAPEX
Standard reports to
identify underutilized
and overutilized
resources
Historical capacity
and performance
utilization trend for
applications
If-else modeling for
advanced capacity
planning

16. DEMONSTRATION

17. HITACHI COMMAND DIRECTOR SUMMARY
 Data center visibility
 Asset inventory and measurement across applications, servers and storage
 Chargeback
 Chargeback reporting based on capacity consumption, application service levels or
SLO compliance
 Application service level objective compliance
 Global dashboard to monitor business applications against their service level
objectives
 Capacity planning
 View application-based capacity utilization trends to properly plan for future growth
Hitachi Command Director
Enables customers to transform visualizing the data center from an
operational view to a more strategic, business-centric view where
elements are measured, correlated, “trend-ized,” visualized and
strategized

18. QUESTIONS AND
DISCUSSION

19. UPCOMING WEBTECHS
Mainframe Series – last session
 Why Networked FICON Storage Is Better than Direct Attached
Storage, Oct 3, 9 a.m. PT, 12 p.m. ET
Also in October
 Maximize Availability and Uptime by Clustering your Physical Data
Centers within Metro Distances, Oct 24, 9 a.m. PT, 12 p.m. ET
Check www.hds.com/webtech for
 Links to the recording, the presentation and Q&A (available next week)
 Schedule and registration for upcoming WebTech sessions

20. THANK YOU