Port Tapping Session 2 Race tune your infrastructure

Port Tapping Session 2 Race tune your infrastructure

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Tap Module Red adapter indicates TAP port 4

Corning Fibre Channel and Ethernet Tap s 72 Ports per 1U 288 Ports per 4U 5

Virtual Instruments Overview February 2013 Stuart Taylor

Virtual Instruments Proven Leader in Infrastructure Performance Management (IPM) Headquarters - USA San Jose, California Revenue growth 100% yr. EMC Select Partnership launched November 2012 VIP Partner program on fire! Key eco-system relationships Virtual Instruments Confidential 7

Virtual Instruments Confidential 8 The Customers Finance & Insurance Healthcare/Pharma Services Retail & E-commerce Government Manufacturing

9 Why do so many of the worlds largest banks run VI against their environments? Why has the worlds most innovative consumer company trusted VI? The worlds largest commercial SAN uses VI, why? What is it that unlocked this previously impregnable door?

Revolutionary Evolution 1Gb Fibre Channel 2-4Gb Fibre Channel 8-16Gb Fibre Channel 10

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Data Centre Solution Portfolio Applications $150-300M Servers $5-10M Virtual Machines Guests Fabric $2-5M SAN Availability Probe SAN Performance Probe Storage $15-20M TAP = Performance Telemetry 13

Tapping is a SAN Best Practice Traffic Access Points (TAPs): Have been widely deployed in IP networks (LANs, WANs) for 20+ years Provide direct access to all levels of fiber traffic to derive data on SAN/storage performance, utilization, and transmission errors Are used by all system and storage vendors to diagnose device-specific problems Enable IT personnel to: Ensure high application availability Maximize application performance Proactively find problems before users Systematically align CAPEX with business requirements Unlock the unrivaled power of VirtualWisdom through integrated SAN Performance Probes and Protocol Analyzers

Architecture, Features & Benefits VM INFRASTRUCTURE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT Performance Health Utilization Users Application Hypervisor Server Features: Real-Time Time Correlated End-to-End (VM-LUN) Historical Reporting Heterogeneous, vendoragnostic Agent-less Proactive Monitoring Modeling LU N TAP SAN Storage Virtual Server Probe SAN Availability Probe SAN Performance Probe Benefits: Enhanced Application Availability Improved MTTR Trouble Ticket Reduction Application De-risking De-risk Technology Transformation Infrastructure Optimization Improved Virtualization Adoption & Density Virtual Instruments Confidential 15

Why Virtual Instruments Exist? Need to Leverage Significant Existing Investments in FC The FC SAN has lacked any real I/O systems-level performance Lacks self-health, diagnostics and full path transparency I/O Servers & Virtual Machines SAN Cloud FC Fabric I/O Storage Arrays

Why Virtual Instruments Exist? Further Storage Acquisition without Optimising Existing Investments or Visibility into new CAPEX investments The SAN has lacked any real I/O systems-level performance Data growth at an unprecedented rate (average 30-60% CAGR) Servers & Virtual Machines A 200TB shop in 05 growing 50% is now 1PB & will be about 8 PB in 5 years SAN Cloud Storage investments at an all-time high as % of overall IT budget circa 60%

Why Virtual Instruments Exist? The SAN has been a black box, lacking any real I/O systems-level performance, so it s heavily over-provisioned as a result Data growth at an unprecedented rate (average 30-60% CAGR) Storage investments at an all-time high as % of overall IT budget circa 60% Virtualization creating further Challenges in delivering Quality of Service for IT and the Business More abstraction being added by Significant Infrastructure Transformations Increased Loss of visibility End to End Performance issues Adoption of Virtualization deployments slows Virtual Server Cloud SAN Cloud Storage Virtualization Cloud

SAN Availability Probe SAN Availability Probe Software to Optimize Utilization and Availability Reports on link failure, link errors, dropped frames Immediate root cause detection Speed problem resolution Prevent outages and performance problems Historical trending analysis Find multi-path failures Identifies over-provisioned links

Virtual Server Probe Virtual Server Probe Software to Optimize VMware Performance and Consolidation Ratios Increase use of Virtual Servers into tier 1 applications vcenter Collects over 100 vcenter metrics Reduces the risk of implementing mission-critical applications Increases consolidation ratios Offers VM to LUN correlation

SAN Performance Probe SAN Availability Probe software, TAPs, SAN Performance Probe hardware to optimize performance and availability Latency and response time reports Reduce number of array ports Improve performance Queue depth performance impact Identify degraded device metrics Optimize storage tiering Quickly identify root cause Reduce power, space requirements What if modeling for consolidation, reconfigurations

Exchange Completion Time (ECT) in the SAN Transaction Stack SAN Transaction ITL Relationship: Communication between Initiator (HBA), Target (Storage Port) and LUN SAN Transaction Stack: From VM/Host through SAN, Storage down to LUN and back Exchange Completion Time: One communication stream through various and different HW pieces needs one KPI to measure Quality of Performance ECT! Initiator level Target level LUN LUN level

The Software Recording & Playback Change interval in dashboards for easy drill-down and Faster Troubleshooting Ships with suggested tabs and dashboards, but infinite Customization possible Correlation across all installed probe types, from VM to HBA, through switch to LUN Real-Time monitoring of Latency metrics like Exchange Completion Time Alerts & Alarms based on user-definable thresholds, e.g. critical alert when ECT > 40ms

De-Risking Mission Critical Applications Challenge Maintain Application SLA s during disruptive projects such as Data Base Migrations, Storage Migrations, Server Consolidations, Datacenter Transformations No Pre/Post Baseline of Infrastructure I/O performance I/O is main source of transaction degradation Infrastructure transformation capacity planning based on individual element data Server CPU and Memory, Storage Array IOPS vs end to end production performance data Impact Business Transaction Demand, Consolidation of Infrastructure and Virtualization with unknown impact on the Application Performance Applications suffer from performance issues Major IT Migration projects at risk of delay or closure/signoff Why VI? Establish Baseline of Application I/O profile Monitor performance change affect through project Review of existing connected infrastructure and resilience/issues affecting performance Identify current utilization vs optimal and opportunities for improvement Identify opportunities to optimize infrastructure using I/O profiling Baseline performance before and after Base Line of Existing Infrastructure Monitor infrastructure and Application I/O profiles in real-time Instrument Applications

Reducing Trouble Tickets SAN Performance Probe SAN monitoring solution with flexible thresholds and alerts Gathers switched fabric performance statistics Vendor-agnostic view with no impact on switch performance Customer averaged 900+ trouble tickets 1200 per month Number of tickets dropped by more than 65% within 3 months of VirtualWisdom installation 1000 800 600 400 200 Trouble Ticket Incident Volume VirtualWisdom installed Urgent+High Medium Low Total 0

Accelerating Application Deployments SAN Performance Probe Continuously monitors infrastructure and READ/WRITE response times Determines if any changes affect performance Baseline, before change After change real-time update