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10EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterReporting on Your Datacenter

100EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterMonitoring Your Datacenter

Configuring and Controlling Your Datacenter101CHAPTER 4Configuring and Controlling Your DatacenterEMC Ionix ControlCenter simplifies the tasks around

102EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your DatacenterLogging in to SAN AdvisorThe administrator

Validating and optimizing a SAN configuration103Configuring and Controlling Your Datacenter1. Enters the name of the new snapshot definition and click

104EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your DatacenterFigure 76 SAN Advisor Select Fabrics page

Validating and optimizing a SAN configuration105Configuring and Controlling Your Datacenter5. Matches the items that do not match the EMC Support Matr

106EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your Datacenterd. When finished, clicks Next. The Take Sn

Validating and optimizing a SAN configuration107Configuring and Controlling Your DatacenterClicks the snapshot name, and then clicks View Report to vi

108EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your DatacenterFigure 82 Report Selection - “Overview” i

Validating and optimizing a SAN configuration109Configuring and Controlling Your Datacenter4. Opens Card 10 Port 7 of the Connectrix® ED-10000M and cl

Identifying IT assets for accounting11Reporting on Your DatacenterFigure 2 Areas of Interest step of the Query Builder7. On the Areas of Interest pag

110EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your Datacenter6. Clicks the submit button to send change

Validating and optimizing a SAN configuration111Configuring and Controlling Your Datacenter2. Clicks the Host Information tab to view the HBA driver a

112EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your Datacenter5. Clicks the Add HBA button to replace th

Validating and optimizing a SAN configuration113Configuring and Controlling Your Datacenter2. On the Tools menu, selects Edit Rule Set and displays th

114EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your Datacenter•Object — Host• Attribute — OS Vendor• Ope

Validating and optimizing a SAN configuration115Configuring and Controlling Your DatacenterFigure 94 Defining a new hostFor detailed information on t

116EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your DatacenterFigure 95 SAN Advisor Connections page6.

Validating and optimizing a SAN configuration117Configuring and Controlling Your DatacenterFigure 97 The new host is connectedThe administrator can n

118EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your DatacenterFigure 98 Selecting snapshots for compari

Allocating storage to a host from a Symmetrix array119Configuring and Controlling Your DatacenterImplementing changesUsing SAN Advisor’s Compare Repor

12EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterReporting on Your DatacenterFigure 3 Select Columns Step of the Query Builder9. Adds

120EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your DatacenterAn Oracle DBA has requested 40 GB of RAID

Allocating storage to a host from a Symmetrix array121Configuring and Controlling Your Datacenter2. Enters the Ionix ControlCenter login. The dashboar

122EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your DatacenterFigure 103 Areas of Interest step of the

Allocating storage to a host from a Symmetrix array123Configuring and Controlling Your Datacenter•Arrays.#LUNs• Arrays.#Array Ports•Arrays.#Disks• Arr

124EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your Datacenter11. Clicks Next to go to the Create Filter

Allocating storage to a host from a Symmetrix array125Configuring and Controlling Your DatacenterNote: If this Query is likely be run again in the fut

126EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your DatacenterFigure 107 Determining if desired type of

Allocating storage to a host from a Symmetrix array127Configuring and Controlling Your DatacenterTo do this, the administrator:1. In the Console tree,

128EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your Datacenter5. Verifies the flag settings for the host

Allocating storage to a host from a Symmetrix array129Configuring and Controlling Your Datacenter3. Compares the number of devices on the channel to t

Identifying IT assets for accounting13Reporting on Your Datacentermore information about working with User-Defined Fields, refer to the Ionix ControlC

130EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your DatacenterDetermining if configured storage is avail

Allocating storage to a host from a Symmetrix array131Configuring and Controlling Your DatacenterFigure 113 Properties view showing unconfigured stor

132EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your Datacenter3. Creates five standard volumes and five

Allocating storage to a host from a Symmetrix array133Configuring and Controlling Your DatacenterFigure 115 Symmetrix devicesCreating BCVsThe adminis

134EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your DatacenterFigure 116 Define BCVs4. Clicks Execute t

Allocating storage to a host from a Symmetrix array135Configuring and Controlling Your DatacenterGatekeeper devices may also need to be added to the h

136EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your DatacenterWhen the execution steps have completed, t

Allocating storage to a host from a Symmetrix array137Configuring and Controlling Your DatacenterFigure 118 Step 1 of the VSAN wizard3. In step 1 of

138EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your DatacenterFigure 119 Step 2 of the VSAN wizard with

Allocating storage to a host from a Symmetrix array139Configuring and Controlling Your DatacenterFigure 120 Move Members From Other VSANs dialog box5

14EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterReporting on Your DatacenterFigure 4 Report listing all arraysListing of hostsTo comp

140EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your DatacenterNote: The administrator can click Review Z

Allocating storage to a host from a Symmetrix array141Configuring and Controlling Your DatacenterZoning the host and storage portsNow that Host l82ar1

142EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your DatacenterFigure 124 New Zone dialog boxNote: Zonin

Allocating storage to a host from a Symmetrix array143Configuring and Controlling Your DatacenterNote: New zone Zone_l82ar156 is now created with host

144EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your DatacenterThe Add To Zone Set dialog box appears wit

Allocating storage to a host from a Symmetrix array145Configuring and Controlling Your DatacenterFigure 127 Viewing zone set differences before activ

146EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your DatacenterControlCenter does not save copies of zoni

Allocating storage to a host from a Symmetrix array147Configuring and Controlling Your DatacenterThe administrator already enabled masking on the Symm

148EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your Datacenterc. For 3-Select Storage Port, selects Port

Allocating storage to a host from a Symmetrix array149Configuring and Controlling Your DatacenterNote: Optionally, the administrator could click Edit

Identifying IT assets for accounting15Reporting on Your Datacenter• Hosts.UDF.LocationNote: The columns listed above containing the appellation “UDF”

150EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your DatacenterFigure 131 Device Group Wizard5. For Devi

Allocating storage to a host from a Symmetrix array151Configuring and Controlling Your DatacenterFigure 132 Creating a device group6. Selects the hos

152EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your DatacenterFigure 133 Associating devices to the dev

Allocating storage to a host from a Symmetrix array153Configuring and Controlling Your DatacenterA pop-up box confirms that the device group was creat

154EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your DatacenterFigure 135 Establishing BCVs with standar

Allocating CLARiiON devices (LUNs) to a host155Configuring and Controlling Your Datacenter2. Enters the Username and Password that provide the necessa

156EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your DatacenterTo do this, the administrator:1. In the Co

Allocating CLARiiON devices (LUNs) to a host157Configuring and Controlling Your Datacenter1. On the Console toolbar, clicks the pull-down menu of the

158EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your DatacenterFigure 139 StorageScope report showing av

Allocating CLARiiON devices (LUNs) to a host159Configuring and Controlling Your Datacenter◆ Finds available LUNs◆ Adds LUNs to the storage groupDeterm

16EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterReporting on Your DatacenterFigure 5 Report listing all hostsListing of switchesTo co

160EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your DatacenterFigure 141 Available unmapped LUNsThe adm

Allocating CLARiiON devices (LUNs) to a host161Configuring and Controlling Your DatacenterFigure 142 Adding LUNs to the storage group4. Finds the app

162EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your DatacenterDiscovering host devicesThe administrator

Adding devices to a CLARiiON metaLUN for a host163Configuring and Controlling Your DatacenterFigure 144 LUNs are now available to the application ser

164EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your DatacenterAfter acknowledging the alert, the adminis

Adding devices to a CLARiiON metaLUN for a host165Configuring and Controlling Your Datacenter2. Expands the CLARiiON array containing the metaLUN for

166EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your Datacenter2. Selects the appropriate RAID group and

Adding devices to a CLARiiON metaLUN for a host167Configuring and Controlling Your DatacenterFigure 148 RAID groups and LUNs by componentReviewing an

168EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your DatacenterFigure 149 Review MetaLUN configuration2.

Adding devices to a CLARiiON metaLUN for a host169Configuring and Controlling Your DatacenterFigure 150 Relationship view showing new LUNs in metaLUN

Identifying IT assets for accounting17Reporting on Your Datacenter◆ Areas of Interest step: Selects Switches from the Connectivity grouping◆ Select Co

170EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your DatacenterAdding HP XP LUSEs to a hostThis example d

Adding HP XP LUSEs to a host171Configuring and Controlling Your DatacenterThe Relationship view shows that host l82ar122 is connected to the HP XP arr

172EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your DatacenterFigure 152 Use Properties view to determi

Adding HP XP LUSEs to a host173Configuring and Controlling Your Datacenter3. The New LUSEs dialog box appears (Figure 153 on page 173).Figure 153 Cre

174EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your DatacenterThe two LUSEs consisting of nine 2.29 GB R

Adding HP XP LUSEs to a host175Configuring and Controlling Your DatacenterFigure 154 Add the host port to a host group3. In the Available Host Ports

176EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your DatacenterThe Masking view appears (Figure 155 on pa

Adding HP XP LUSEs to a host177Configuring and Controlling Your DatacenterNote: The administrator can drag an LDEV from Masking view into Path Details

178EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your DatacenterFigure 157 Reviewing the configuration ch

Deallocating storage from a host179Configuring and Controlling Your Datacenter4. On the Console toolbar, clicks the Properties button and displays the

18EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterReporting on Your DatacenterFigure 6 Report listing all switches

180EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your DatacenterDetermine amount of free space available o

Deallocating storage from a host181Configuring and Controlling Your DatacenterThe Storage Deallocation Wizard starts (Figure 160). The dialog box show

182EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your DatacenterTo create the new policy, the administrato

Deallocating storage from a host183Configuring and Controlling Your DatacenterFigure 161 Create a new deallocation policySelecting allocation pathsTh

184EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your DatacenterFigure 162 Paths to be deallocatedThe adm

Deallocating storage from a host185Configuring and Controlling Your DatacenterFigure 163 Review Deallocation TaskThe administrator completes the deal

186EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your DatacenterFigure 164 Deallocation succeededThe admi

Allocating storage using AutoPath187Configuring and Controlling Your DatacenterFigure 165 Free Space view showing successful deallocationAllocating s

188EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your Datacenter◆ Adds LUNs to an existing storage group (

Allocating storage using AutoPath189Configuring and Controlling Your DatacenterDetermining if type of connection is availableThe administrator uses To

Tracking which assets belong to a department (CTO)19Reporting on Your DatacenterTracking which assets belong to a department (CTO)This example demonst

190EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your DatacenterChecking for existing path between host an

Allocating storage using AutoPath191Configuring and Controlling Your DatacenterFigure 170 Properties view showing new storage allocated to hostDiscov

192EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your Datacenter

Allocating storage using AutoPath193Configuring and Controlling Your Datacenter

194EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your Datacenter

Allocating storage using AutoPath195Configuring and Controlling Your Datacenter

196EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your Datacenter

Allocating storage using AutoPath197Configuring and Controlling Your Datacenter

198EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your Datacenter

Allocating storage using AutoPath199Configuring and Controlling Your Datacenter

EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your Datacenter2Copyright © 2003 - 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Published in the USA.Publ

20EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterReporting on Your DatacenterFigure 7 Hosts by Group report2. Reviews the report outpu

200EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your Datacenter

Allocating storage using AutoPath201Configuring and Controlling Your Datacenter

202EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterConfiguring and Controlling Your Datacenter

Allocating storage using AutoPath203Configuring and Controlling Your Datacenter

Virtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix Devices193CHAPTER 5Virtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix DevicesVirtual Provisioning is EMC's implementat

194EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterVirtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix DevicesCreating, mapping, and masking Symmetri

Creating, mapping, and masking Symmetrix thin devices to a host195Virtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix DevicesFigure 172 SMC launch dialog box4. Se

196EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterVirtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix Devices.Figure 173 Create Device Pool dialog8

Creating, mapping, and masking Symmetrix thin devices to a host197Virtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix DevicesVerifying thin pool creationIn SMC Con

198EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterVirtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix DevicesFrom the tree view, expands the Pools,

Tracking which assets belong to a department (CTO)21Reporting on Your Datacenter3. Uses the Settings section of the dialog box to specify a Name and O

Creating, mapping, and masking Symmetrix thin devices to a host199Virtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix DevicesCreating data devices from Ionix Contr

200EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterVirtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix Devices•Emulation — FBA• Capacity — 1024 Cyl (

Creating, mapping, and masking Symmetrix thin devices to a host201Virtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix DevicesFigure 179 Config Session dialog/ My

202EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterVirtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix DevicesFigure 180 SMC Log windowVerifying dat

Creating, mapping, and masking Symmetrix thin devices to a host203Virtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix DevicesIn Ionix ControlCenter Console1. From

204EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterVirtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix Devices4. Confirms each Data Device has a LUN

Creating, mapping, and masking Symmetrix thin devices to a host205Virtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix Devices3. Clicks the Thin Device tab. 4. Ente

206EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterVirtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix Devices.Figure 184 Expanded thin pool with th

Creating, mapping, and masking Symmetrix thin devices to a host207Virtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix Devices5. From the tree view, right-clicks th

208EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterVirtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix Devices7. Reviews the Configuration, LUN Capac

22EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterReporting on Your DatacenterTracking which assets belong to a department (Operations M

Creating, mapping, and masking Symmetrix thin devices to a host209Virtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix DevicesIn SMC ConsoleSelects the CC61_Upgrade

210EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterVirtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix Devicesc. Clicks Move then clicks OK on the SD

Creating, mapping, and masking Symmetrix thin devices to a host211Virtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix Devices2. Verifies the reservation lock icon

212EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterVirtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix DevicesFigure 190 Mapped thin devices display

Creating, mapping, and masking Symmetrix thin devices to a host213Virtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix Devices4. Clicks Show Devices and displays al

214EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterVirtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix DevicesUpon completion, displays the new thin

Creating, mapping, and masking Symmetrix thin devices to a host215Virtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix Devicesare automatically mapped and masked an

216EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterVirtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix DevicesFigure 194 Masking View Management— Cr

Creating, mapping, and masking Symmetrix thin devices to a host217Virtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix Devices3. Enters a Masking View Name and sele

218EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterVirtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix Devices6. Clicks Add to move the devices to th

Tracking which assets belong to a department (Operations Manager)23Reporting on Your DatacenterFigure 9 Viewing the assets of the Manufacturing group

Creating, mapping, and masking Symmetrix thin devices to a host219Virtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix DevicesFigure 197 Masking View Management —

220EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterVirtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix Devices8. Selects New for Port Group Name or c

Creating, mapping, and masking Symmetrix thin devices to a host221Virtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix DevicesFigure 199 Masking View Management —

222EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterVirtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix Devices13. Selects New for Initiator Group Nam

Creating, mapping, and masking Symmetrix thin devices to a host223Virtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix DevicesFigure 201 Masking View Management -

224EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterVirtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix DevicesFigure 202 Masking view displayed in S

Creating, mapping, and masking Symmetrix thin devices to a host225Virtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix DevicesFigure 203 Masking View displayed in

226EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterVirtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix Devices3. Creates a primary partition and assi

Monitoring Symmetrix thin pool utilization using Ionix ControlCenter alerts227Virtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix DevicesObserving the changing cap

228EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterVirtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix Devicesa. Opens a web browser window and types

24EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterReporting on Your DatacenterFigure 10 Displaying the Topology view3. Drags the Manufa

Reporting on virtual provisioned storage using StorageScope229Virtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix DevicesFigure 205 StorageScope SRM/All Arrays/Su

230EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterVirtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix DevicesFigure 207 StorageScope SRM/Array Summ

Reporting on virtual provisioned storage using StorageScope231Virtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix DevicesFigure 208 StorageScope SRM/Array/Thin Po

232EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterVirtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix Devices2. From SRM View selects Thin Pools (Fi

Reporting on virtual provisioned storage using StorageScope233Virtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix Devices5. Locates and selects the desired thin po

234EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterVirtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix DevicesFigure 211 StorageScope SRM/all Thin P

Reporting on virtual provisioned storage using StorageScope235Virtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix Devices2. Uses the procedures “Creating and Bindi

236EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterVirtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix DevicesVerifying additional storage added to p

Reporting on virtual provisioned storage using StorageScope237Virtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix Devices1. From the StorageScope menu, selects Ana

238EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterVirtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix DevicesFigure 215 StorageScope Enterprise Sum

Tracking which assets belong to a department (Operations Manager)25Reporting on Your DatacenterFigure 11 Viewing physical connections in the Topology

Reporting on virtual provisioned storage using StorageScope239Virtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix DevicesFigure 216 StorageScope Enterprise Summar

240EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterVirtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix Devices3. From the Array Report, Details for A

Reporting on virtual provisioned storage using StorageScope241Virtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix DevicesHost reportsTo run a report for hosts:1. F

242EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterVirtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix Devices4. Using the Find box in Adobe Reader,

Reporting on virtual provisioned storage using StorageScope243Virtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix DevicesFigure 221 StorageScope Thin Pools query

244EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterVirtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix DevicesNote: The SAN must be discovered for th

Reporting on virtual provisioned storage using StorageScope245Virtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix Devices◆ In the StorageScope Query Builder, creat

246EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterVirtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix Devices5. From the Snapshot listing, clicks th

Analyzing performance of virtually provisioned storage247Virtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix Devices8. From the StorageScope menu, selects Dashboar

248EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterVirtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix DevicesIdentifying host connected to thin pool

26EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterReporting on Your DatacenterAllocating storage for a new applicationThis example demon

Analyzing performance of virtually provisioned storage249Virtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix Devices4. Enters credentials in Performance Manager lo

250EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterVirtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix DevicesFigure 229 Performance Manager console

Analyzing performance of virtually provisioned storage251Virtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix Devices1. From Performance Manager console, selects Fi

252EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterVirtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix DevicesFigure 231 Performance Manager console

Analyzing performance of virtually provisioned storage253Virtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix DevicesData devicesTo display data device performance

254EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterVirtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix Devices1. Selects Metrics in the bottom pane.

About Virtual Provisioning255APPENDIX AAbout Virtual Provisioning EMC Ionix ControlCenter has extended it capabilites to perform Virtual Provisioning,

256EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterAbout Virtual ProvisioningVirtual Provisioning overviewWhy Virtual ProvisioningBusine

Virtual Provisioning overview257About Virtual ProvisioningHow Virtual Provisioning worksStorage allocation operations are performed in thin device ext

258EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterAbout Virtual ProvisioningGraphical representations of Virtual Provisioning are shown

Understanding how much storage is allocated to an application27Reporting on Your DatacenterUnderstanding how much storage is allocated to an applicati

Virtual Provisioning overview259About Virtual ProvisioningFigure 235 Thin device relationship to storage pool devicesBenefits of Virtual Provisioning

260EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterAbout Virtual ProvisioningVirtual Provisioning can improve storage capacity utilizati

Virtual Provisioning overview261About Virtual ProvisioningPerformance implications of Virtual PrivisioningThe performance implications for the use of

262EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterAbout Virtual ProvisioningVirtual Provisioning glossaryHigh level terminologyVirtual

Virtual Provisioning glossary263About Virtual ProvisioningThin pool terminologyThin Pool Total Capacity Total (writeable) size of the thin pool, exclu

264EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterAbout Virtual ProvisioningThin device terminologyThin Device Subscribed CapacityThe s

EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your Datacenter265 AacknowledgingFree Space alert 89switch port alert 79alertsacknowledging 79, 89addre

Index266EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your Datacentera VSAN 136, 140deallocation policies 181device groups 149, 153HP XP LUSELUSEs 17

IndexEMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your Datacenter267configuringcreating 172Mmapping storage devices on Symmetrix ar-rays 134maskingg

Index268EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your Datacentermapping storage devices 134masking devices 146, 149verifying port fan-in ratio 1

28EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterReporting on Your DatacenterFigure 13 Hosts By Group report4. Under Settings, keeps t

IndexEMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your Datacenter269Performance 129Properties 26, 44, 90, 91, 129, 131, 160,179, 188, 191Relationshi

Index270EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your Datacenter

Understanding how much storage is allocated to an application29Reporting on Your DatacenterFigure 14 Hosts By Group report9. Refreshes the Interactiv

EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your Datacenter3CONTENTSChapter 1 Introduction The Challenges...

30EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterReporting on Your Datacenter• Network File System (GB)• VMFS Capacity (GB)• Used VMFS

Charging departments for storage use31Reporting on Your DatacenterCharging departments for storage useThe examples below demonstrates two different wa

32EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterReporting on Your Datacenter•Chargeback.# File Systems• Chargeback.Accessible (KB)• Ch

Charging departments for storage use33Reporting on Your DatacenterFigure 15 Host Chargeback reportCharging departments for file group usageIn the sce

34EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterReporting on Your Datacenter5. Clicks OK to create the file group.6. Repeats this proc

Charging departments for storage use35Reporting on Your DatacenterNote: “Creating file groups” on page 33 provides instructions for creating a file gr

36EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterReporting on Your DatacenterConfiguring database space for a new applicationThis examp

Configuring database space for a new application37Reporting on Your DatacenterFigure 16 Databases report setup5. Selects a Name and Output Format for

38EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterReporting on Your Datacenter8. Clicks Run Now to generate the report. The dialog box w

Configuring database space for a new application39Reporting on Your DatacenterBuilding the custom queryTo build a custom query displaying database con

4EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterContents Allocating CLARiiON devices (LUNs) to a host... 1

40EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterReporting on Your Datacenter• LUNS.LUN Capacity6. The storage administrator does not f

Configuring database space for a new application41Reporting on Your Datacenter11. The DBA and the storage administrator examine the storage configurat

42EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterReporting on Your DatacenterPreventing application outages due to out-of-space conditi

Preventing application outages due to out-of-space conditions43Reporting on Your DatacenterFigure 20 Relationship viewChecking the available space in

44EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterReporting on Your DatacenterFigure 22 Dragging a file system to a Properties view5. I

Predicting storage needs more accurately45Reporting on Your DatacenterPredicting storage needs more accuratelyThis example demonstrates how a Storage

46EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterReporting on Your DatacenterPooling storage resourcesThis example demonstrates how an

Pooling storage resources47Reporting on Your Datacenter4. Uses the Settings section of the dialog box to enter a Name and choose an Output Format for

48EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterReporting on Your DatacenterFigure 26 All Hosts reportThe report in Figure 26 on page

Pooling storage resources49Reporting on Your Datacenter11. Reviews the results of the report to determine whether there is significant unused host-acc

Introduction5CHAPTER 1IntroductionThe ChallengesToday, many businesses face ever-increasing challenges regarding reporting on, monitoring, configuring

50EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterReporting on Your DatacenterCollecting utilization statistics for managementThis examp

Collecting utilization statistics for management51Reporting on Your Datacenter7. If desired, filter the query output to include or exclude certain val

52EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterReporting on Your Datacenter1. Logs in to StorageScope as documented under “Identifyin

Identifying old and large files53Reporting on Your DatacenterIdentifying old and large filesIn this example, the storage administrator wants reduce wa

54EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterReporting on Your Datacenter• Files.Compressed9. Clicks Next to go to the Create Filte

Identifying old and large files55Reporting on Your DatacenterThe query in Figure 31 on page 55 shows a listing, sorted by hostname, of those files in

56EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterReporting on Your DatacenterTo complete this task, the storage administrator:1. Logs i

Identifying old and large files57Reporting on Your DatacenterFigure 32 Filtering the large files query 11. Clicks Next to go to the Select Sorting, G

58EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterReporting on Your DatacenterFigure 34 Report listing all large files15. Reviews the r

Identifying a host performance problem59Reporting on Your DatacenterIdentifying a host performance problemThis example demonstrates how a UNIX adminis

6EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterIntroductionThe SolutionThe EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.x family of storage management so

60EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterReporting on Your Datacenter2. Selects Repository losbd200, the Repository holding the

Identifying a host performance problem61Reporting on Your DatacenterFigure 37 Performance Manager consoleIn the Performance Manager Console, the View

62EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterReporting on Your DatacenterFigure 38 Metrics panesThe Metrics panes contain lists of

Identifying a host performance problem63Reporting on Your Datacenter15. On the Analysis toolbar, clicks the Graph Per Metric ( ) button to create a gr

64EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterReporting on Your DatacenterIdentifying a storage array performance problemContinuing

Identifying a storage array performance problem65Reporting on Your Datacenter5. In the bottom pane, selects response time (ms).6. Clicks the Graph Per

66EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterReporting on Your Datacenter1. In the middle Metrics pane, selects all of the devices.

Identifying a storage array performance problem67Reporting on Your DatacenterFigure 42 Tab for Configuration view5. On the menu bar, on the File menu

68EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterReporting on Your DatacenterFigure 43 Loading configuration dataConfig – As of 03/31/

Identifying a storage array performance problem69Reporting on Your DatacenterFigure 44 Symmetrix folder and a table of the Symmetrix configurationThe

Reporting on Your Datacenter7CHAPTER 2Reporting on Your DatacenterEMC Ionix ControlCenter provides many solutions for creating detailed reports of you

70EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterReporting on Your DatacenterFigure 45 Graph of Symmetrix disksAnalyzing a storage arr

Identifying a storage array performance problem71Reporting on Your DatacenterFigure 46 Graph of cache hit ratio on the Symmetrix array disk4. In the

72EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterReporting on Your DatacenterFigure 47 Graph showing read misses between Symmetrix dis

Identifying a storage array performance problem73Reporting on Your DatacenterFigure 48 Graph of destaged data on the Symmetrix arrayThe UNIX administ

74EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterReporting on Your Datacenter2. In the bottom Metrics pane, selects total ios per sec t

Identifying a storage array performance problem75Reporting on Your Datacenter6. In the top Metrics panel, under host l82ar155, selects the Physical De

76EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterReporting on Your DatacenterFigure 51 Graph showing times when host l82ar155 accessed

Monitoring Your Datacenter77CHAPTER 3Monitoring Your DatacenterEMC Ionix ControlCenter provides solutions for monitoring your storage assets. Ionix Co

78EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterMonitoring Your DatacenterIdentifying and diagnosing loss of signal for a switch portT

Identifying and diagnosing loss of signal for a switch port79Monitoring Your DatacenterThe alert indicates that the switch port is experiencing 10,303

8EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterReporting on Your DatacenterIdentifying IT assets for accountingThis example demonstrat

80EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterMonitoring Your DatacenterFigure 54 Acknowledge alert dialog box2. Enters a note and

Identifying and diagnosing loss of signal for a switch port81Monitoring Your DatacenterA new view appears below the Alerts view.2. Clicks Topology on

82EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterMonitoring Your DatacenterFigure 56 Expanded Topology viewThe Topology view shows tha

Identifying and diagnosing loss of signal for a switch port83Monitoring Your DatacenterFigure 57 Opening a Path Details viewThe empty view above Topo

84EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterMonitoring Your DatacenterFigure 58 Path Details viewUsing the Path Details view, the

Identifying and diagnosing loss of signal for a switch port85Monitoring Your DatacenterIn the tree, an icon appears next to each folder to which the h

86EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterMonitoring Your DatacenterFigure 60 Reopening the Alerts viewAn Alerts view showing o

Identifying and diagnosing loss of signal for a switch port87Monitoring Your DatacenterThe Clear Alert dialog box appears (Figure 62).Figure 62 Addin

88EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterMonitoring Your DatacenterPreventing a space shortage on a host logical volumeIn this

Preventing a space shortage on a host logical volume89Monitoring Your DatacenterFollowing the company’s procedures, the administrator first acknowledg

Identifying IT assets for accounting9Reporting on Your DatacenterFigure 1 Define Initial Settings step of the Query Builder5. Since the query will be

90EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterMonitoring Your DatacenterA new Properties view opens below the Relationship view. The

Preventing a space shortage on a host logical volume91Monitoring Your DatacenterLocating additional free spaceBecause the logical volume free space ha

92EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterMonitoring Your DatacenterExtending the logical volumeThe administrator identifies som

Fixing a disk transfer rate alert93Monitoring Your DatacenterFixing a disk transfer rate alertIn this example, a senior Windows administrator receives

94EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterMonitoring Your Datacenter4. Clicks the Relationship button on the Console toolbar to

Fixing a disk transfer rate alert95Monitoring Your DatacenterFigure 68 Viewing Symmetrix disk relationshipsThe junior administrator realizes that the

96EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterMonitoring Your DatacenterAutomating the resolution to an Oracle tablespace space shor

Automating the resolution to an Oracle tablespace space shortage97Monitoring Your Datacenter1. Expands the DBA folder and places a checkmark next to t

98EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your DatacenterMonitoring Your DatacenterFigure 71 Viewing the alert textA wrench icon appears in th

Automating the resolution to an Oracle tablespace space shortage99Monitoring Your DatacenterFigure 73 Viewing Tablespace PropertiesClearing the alert