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VERITAS Storage Extension for EMC
DELIVERING PERFORMANCE
MANAGEMENT IN
ENVIRONMENTS WITH EMC2
SYMMETRIX AND CLARiiON
STORAGE SYSTEMS
By collecting performance metrics from Symmetrix
Series and CLARiiON storage systems and correlating
this data with additional information collected by
VERITAS Indepth™ for Oracle, DB2 UDB or SQL
Server, VERITAS Storage Extension for EMC provides
an unprecedented view of your application
performance infrastructure. This holistic, ‘user-tospindle’ view provides the ability to quickly and
proactively detect performance bottlenecks, improve
application performance, leverage infrastructure
investment, and make the best use of scarce
personnel resources.
VERITAS Storage Extension for EMC is linked to EMC
Storage systems via EMC’s API Runtime Kit and
provides a breakdown of I/O operations per unit and
displays statistics on all I/O levels for each Unit,
Device, Hyper, and Director. Storage Extension for
EMC correlates logical files and activities in the
database to the physical locations on the EMC disks
where the objects reside. In addition, Storage
Extension for EMC is correlating this information back
to operating system, database, and application metrics
so that when a device is busy, you also know what
impact, if any the busy device is having on the user’s
application.
In addition, Storage Extension for EMC provides
information on the Host Channel Interface, Channel
Director, Cache, and Disk Director.
VERITAS Storage Extension for EMC houses all the
information it collects in a rich data store, the
Performance Warehouse, which virtually eliminates
the need to “recreate” problems. The VERITAS
Storage Extension for EMC solution uses lowoverhead technology to capture performance
information 24 X 7, so you can quickly delve into a
performance bottleneck. Over time, the Performance
Warehouse provides the historical perspective
necessary to facilitate long-term trending, analysis,
and reporting.
HIGHLIGHTS
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Provide correlated view of storage, database,
applications, and OS performance metrics
Link I/O requests with the specific action on the
disk arrays
Identify and isolate root cause of application I/O
wait bottlenecks
Provide actionable information and direct the user
to solve the performance problem
Save historical collection for performance trending
and capacity planning
Low overhead while gathering data and
performing “what if” analysis
BENEFITS
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Find problems before the end user is affected
Optimize performance by bridging logical (data
files) to physical (EMC2 Storage system)
Expedite data retrieval by optimizing data
placement in the EMC2 Storage system
Focus scarce IT resources on real issues rather
than finger pointing and “blamestorming”
Align tuning goals with the end user experience
Optimize RAID configurations to support database
and application performance
Compare I/O activity across Symmetrix devices.
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DISCOVERING THE VERITAS STORAGE
EXTENSION FOR EMC DIFFERENCE
Designed to work with EMC2 Symmetrix and
CLARiiON Storage systems, utilizing EMC2’s own
SRM API, VERITAS Storage Extension for EMC fulfills
two critical performance management functions in the
EMC2 storage environment: (1) monitoring and tuning,
(2) viewing and correlating.
VERITAS Storage Extension for EMC not only
monitors the infrastructure but also provides a
methodology to investigate anomalies and resolve
problems. This can all be done safely through
simulations without affecting production environments.
Monitoring and Tuning
A technically unparalleled sampling method allows
VERITAS Storage Extension for EMC to monitor
database performance without imposing appreciable
CPU overhead. As a result, VERITAS Storage
Extension for EMC can gather information from
business applications, the database, operating system,
and EMC2 storage systems without impacting
performance.
By mapping logical data files to physical storage devices, the user
can optimize database/EMC performance.
DISCOVERING VERITAS INTERPOINT
When VERITAS Storage Extension for EMC finds excessive I/O
waits, it allows you to effectively drill down into the physical devices
associated with the database.
When paired with other Precise solutions like
VERITAS Interpoint software, VERITAS Storage
Extension for EMC is the only performance
management solution that helps businesses with
EMC2 storage systems environments surpass their
performance needs—end to end, bottom to top—while
boosting their competitive advantage and the return on
their technology investments. Solutions like VERITAS
Interpoint software add a unique dimension to
performance management—a holistic view of your
business environment.
Viewing and Correlating
Because it spans the infrastructure, VERITAS Storage
Extension for EMC can pinpoint the cause of a
performance problem—wherever that problem occurs
in your environment and before that problem degrades
your performance. VERITAS Storage Extension for
EMC2 provides a comprehensive performance
management solution that helps eliminate the
guesswork and slash the time to problem resolution
when compared to conventional monitoring and tuning.
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HOLISTIC VIEW OF TRANSACTION
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Available for:
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VERITAS Indepth™ for Oracle 6.2.1
(CLARiiON and Symmetrix)
VERITAS Indepth™ for DB2 UDB 2.5
(Symmetrix only)
VERITAS Indepth™ for SQL Server 1.5
(CLARiiON and Symmetrix)
File System
• VERITAS File System version 3.4 or higher
(Raw Volumes and Raw Devices supported)
Logical Volume Management
• VERITAS Volume Manager version 3.1 or higher
Tailored to Oracle Applications, SAP R/3, and
PeopleSoft, VERITAS Interpoint software monitors
your database as well as your ERP applications to
identify and track problematic SQL statements to their
origins-ERP users, modules, transactions, programs,
screens, reports, requests. Using VERITAS Storage
Extension for EMC’s core technology, which allows it
to continuously capture and correlate information from
ERP applications and the database, VERITAS
Interpoint gets to the root of a database performance
problem regardless of its cause—database
parameters, ERP applications, user customizations or
extensions, or EMC2 Symmetrix or CLARiiON system
configurations. VERITAS Interpoint drills down to
pinpoint the resource-consuming SQL statements
executed by the ERP application. By optimizing the
way ERP applications access your database and work
with your Symmetrix and CLARiiON storage systems,
VERITAS Interpoint software and VERITAS Storage
Extension for EMC maximize the performance of your
ERP applications and help you meet—and exceed—
your business goals.
Supported Management Consoles
• EMC’s ControlCenter Console
• CA Unicenter TNG 2.1 or higher
• HP OpenView 5.1 or higher
• Tivoli NetView 5.1 or higher
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