EMC ViPR SRM IT Infrastructure Monitoring System Demo

    We bring to your attention the EMC ViPR SRM system - monitoring of the customer’s computing infrastructure built on equipment from various manufacturers.
    This solution was demonstrated at the EMC stand at the MUK-Expo exhibition, the demonstration was live, not slides, using the mounted stand as an example.
    Video demonstration.



    For those who do not want to watch the video, decryption and screenshots are under the cut (we apologize for the quality of the screenshots, since they are taken from the video recording of the monitor) .

    What kind of product is this? Just a couple of slides. Existing infrastructures are growing fast enough, there is a lot of virtualization. Very often there is growth due to the equipment of various vendors, it is not always possible to monitor all components [of the infrastructure]. Therefore, administrators of large infrastructures are faced with the tasks of managing and monitoring the infrastructure. The product that EMC offers, in addition, allows you to monitor disparate heterogeneous infrastructures consisting of storage systems, servers, backup systems, there is also the possibility of analyzing the use of resources and we can draw conclusions: - how is the infrastructure growing? - where are the bottlenecks? - What you should pay attention to?
    I will now show the interface itself.



    You see that there are possibilities for customizing the interface - the MUK logo has been added. The interface is divided into several sections. The Dashboard section allows you to get information collected from various sources about the state of the infrastructure and storage system. The Explore section allows us to objectively, for each device, get the extended information specific to this component. The Operation section allows us to collect status information, warnings about errors in infrastructure devices that are added to the control system interface. The planning section is designed to analyze various indicators and identify trends in infrastructure for various aspects. PortLibrary - specialized reports that were prepared by EMC to obtain information on a certain type of equipment.
    Let's go through all the interfaces [more info]. The current performance, since the equipment presented at our booth, is not so much [as is usually the case in infrastructure]. We now have: - EMC VNX storage system, Data Domain backup storage system, - a couple of virtualization servers. We did not add the switch to the management infrastructure, so it is not visible here.



    To begin with, we connected the VNX system and we can obtain the following information from it. Everything is summarized in visual graphs, which can be a report for the higher management, if necessary. We see: - how much raw space we have, - how much usable space we have, - how much is free, - and how much is actually used.



    Then there is such a graph that allows you to see the trends in the use of our storage systems. We do not have a lot of resources now, but we can describe our components according to certain parameters: allocate them into groups of resources with certain characteristics, we can divide [visually] these resources to understand how they are used. For each of the sections, we can get the relevant information simply by clicking on them.

    Charts can also be customized, we can remove some of the parameters. For example - usable capacity, display only what we need. Well and so on.


    Let me go back to the dashboard again. For example, for two resources that are available in our storage system, we see: - what kind of resource is this, - what are the trends of its use, and the forecast about when we will exhaust our space, according to our management system: in 5 days we fill the space and continue to grow.



    It is also possible, if we have a number of consumers who are in our infrastructure, [we can track how they] use resources. We can provide payment, or billing for the use of resources, for these units. We can describe in our control system the corresponding components that are used by various departments. And then determine how resources are disposed of and how much it can all cost.



    Next, let's move on to the Explore section. For example, the following number of components has been added to our infrastructure.



    There is one repository, a number of hosts, and the common value of all components in our infrastructure.
    For example, we can get information on the store by clicking on the appropriate item and go to the page with information on this device.



    We see that this is a block type device, model 5400, corresponding to firmware. The amount of raw space that we can get by configuring all the resources. And depending on what properties the device has, VNX systems are unified systems, they can work with both block data and file data, we have corresponding sections. We looked at storage pools with configured storage.



    The moment on which I would like to draw attention. The system is built in such a way that by clicking on the appropriate items, we move from the section to the section responsible for a specific device for each of the reports.

    Section Operation. Since our infrastructure [at this stand] is very small, we will not see [a lot of information]. No error notifications, messages.

    Section Planning. It is responsible for obtaining information about current trends in our infrastructure regarding, say, storage capacity.


    The graph summarizes information on all parameters: - free space, free space in the pool, - how much is used from it for block access resources, - for file access, etc. Here is the information on forecasting



    Here we have a second system for backing up Data Domain, which shows those [who use resources].
    Let's go back to 5400. The figure of the total space available in the storage is 11 TB, the configured is 2.9. Based on the observations of the observation system, we will achieve 100% coverage within 11 days if we use storage systems as we use now.



    The next section is Report Library. The ViPR SRM system has a large number of ready-made reports that we can use. I will demonstrate some of them now. Here are the ready-made reports and infrastructure monitoring modules.



    We see that we can monitor Microsoft SQL servers, Oracle, MySQL DB servers, Cisco UCS infrastructure solutions, that is, we can connect through the server management interface, or to the UCS manager, and get a lot of information about the status of Cisco infrastructure servers from it UCS. [Templates] Ericson, physically hosts - through SNMP we can receive information and consolidate in our management console; UPS, IBM Ris-technologies, [various] virtualization systems: - Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware vCenter, and many others. [There are templates] of various storage devices from both EMC itself and third-party vendors: - Hitachi, HP EVA, NetApp, etc. These are all kinds of modules that you can purchase, they are licensed by functionality, [with which you can observe for infrastructure.

    Back to the reports. I would like to pay attention to monitoring the virtualization infrastructure. We have summary information on the use of resources, we can see our events, our virtual machines, under what OS they are located.



    Here are our hypervisor hosts. We see the availability of this resource in the time interval from the beginning of the observation. A number of machines are 100% available.



    It is possible to download and use this utility for 30 days for free. Actually, we use this trial license - all the functionality is available. Then after the trial period, you can buy the licenses you need, only those that you need to monitor the corresponding infrastructure.

    Installation is extremely simple, there are, as I said, ready-made templates that we can use. If, however, is not what we need, we can use SNMP to collect information from devices, and we can configure it according to our needs as we like. At the same time, there is a set of possibilities for generating reports: - according to the schedule, - mailing, - exporting data in various formats. Suppose we are interested in this report, we make a PDF from it, and according to the schedule we send it to e-mail, for example, confirmation of the need to purchase new equipment, or to make any changes to this infrastructure.

    There are various representations: Exel, all kinds of pictures. The system allows us to export any report manually, or based on a schedule. Actually everything that I wanted to tell you [as part of this short demonstration].


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