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Lab Exercise 13: Configure Unisphere Analyzer

Purpose:

To configure Unisphere Analyzer, using EMC Unisphere

Tasks:
Each student will perform the following activities:

Verify whether or not Unisphere Analyzer is installed on
a storage system
Configure Unisphere Analyzer

References:
CLARiiON Host Integration and Management Student Guide


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Lab Exercise 13
Part 1: Configure EMC Unisphere Analyzer


Step Action
1 Create a folder on your primary windows server called Lab_Archives .

Mouse over the Monitoring menu and select Analyzer

From the Settings window select the Customize Charts this will launch the Customize
window and bring the user to the General tab.



2 On the General tab, check Advanced and Antialiasing , click Apply

3 Click the Survey Charts tab and configure the thresholds. Click on each box to insert a
check mark and then change each Value accordingly.

Check the Include Component LUNs checkbox
Check the Utilization checkbox; set the value to 10 %
Check the Throughput checkbox; set the value to 75 IOs/s
Check the Bandwidth checkbox; set the value to 30 MBs/s
Check the Response Time checkbox; set the value to 25 ms
Check the Average Queue Length checkbox; set the value to 5

Click Apply


4 Click the Archives tab.

Create a Default Archive location of c:\Lab_Archives.

Check the box to make the default dump location the same as the archives.

Select the Performance Survey chart radio button is selected.

Leave the QoS Manager box checked.

Ensure the Always use search dialog if there is more than is checked.
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Verify that the Initially Check All Tree Objects box is unchecked.

Click OK

End of Exercise 13

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Lab Exercise 14: Capture CLARiiON Performance Data

Purpose:

To capture performance data from a CLARiiON storage system, using
EMC Unisphere and EMC Navisphere Secure CLI

Tasks:
Each student will perform the following activities:

Capture CLARiiON performance data with EMC Unisphere
Analyzer

References:
CLARiiON Host Integration and Management Student Guide



CLARiiON Host Integration and Management with SnapView Lab Guide

Lab Exercise 14
Part 1: Capture CLARiiON Performance Data with the
Unisphere Analyzer GUI


Step Action
1 The instructor will specify a method to generate I/O on Windows drive R5_P
(Base_RG_5 LUN_A51) This will normally be done using I/OMeter in accordance with
Lab Appendix D; however, verify this with your instructor.

From the Settings window. Select Performance Data Logging

Check to verify Data logging is Started if not, click Start and exit.

Note: If Data Logging was not previously enabled it can take up to10+minutes to archive
enough samples for the previous steps.

2 From the Archive Management window, select Retrieve Archive.

3 The Retrieve Archive dialog appears.

Choose your primary storage system as the source.

Check the SPA checkbox.

Click Create New.

Save the archive to the default location after it completes.

Click Retrieve / Yes.

When the Retrieve Status pane shows DONE. Click Done button. The Analyzer
archive file is now saved on your management station in the directory you created in the
previous steps.

Repeat the process to retrieve a file from SP B and save it.

You should now have two .nar files saved.

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Step Action
4 Use Windows Explorer to verify the file is on your Windows host.

Double-click this .nar file. Is it legible?

5 From the Archive Management window select Merge Archive

Select the two files to merge ( SPA and SPB ) using the browse option

Click Merge/Done and verify that the file was created.


6. From the Archive Management window select Dump Archive.

From the Dump Archive screen use the browser to select the xxxxx merge.nar file
Click Open

From the Dump Archive window check the Generate Dump Name

From the Dump Archive window check the Overwrite Existing File

Click Next

Click Next at the Time screen to accept the defaults

7 Select two or three Objects and move them to the right side window.
Click Next.

Select two or three Attributes and move them to the right side window.

Click Next at the Customize Output screen.

Click Finish at the Summary screen.

Verify the creation of the file, open and view the file from the default location.
(Lab_Archives)

What type of file was created?



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Lab Exercise 15: Display CLARiiON Performance
Information

Purpose:

To display CLARiiON performance information, using EMC Unisphere
Analyzer

Tasks:
Each student will perform the following activities:

Display CLARiiON performance information graphically
Configure the graphical interface for specific purposes
Save graphs and data for later use

References:
CLARiiON Host Integration and Management Student Guide


CLARiiON Host Integration and Management with SnapView Lab Guide

Lab Exercise 15
Part 1: Display CLARiiON Performance Information - GUI


Step Action
1 Open the performance archive file using EMC Unisphere ( Monitor >Analyzer )

Archive Management > Open Archive

Locate and select the .nar file for SPA ( Lab Files directory)

2 Select OK to the Set Time Range window.

The Performance Survey window appears.

Locate Base_RG_5 LUN_A51 ( P drive)

3 Double -click each of the five performance parameters in turn, and view the results.

i.e. Utilization, Throughput etc

6 Double click on the Total Throughput window to open it.

Expand and check the Base_RG_5 LUN_A51, Component 0, Base_RG_5 LUN_A51 and
the first disk (bus_enc_disk)

Save the Total Throughput Optimal (I/O/sec) graph. Right-click the graph and choose
Copy >Graph

Right-click again and Choose Save As

Note: The choices for the file are .jpg or .csv

Save the graph the Lab_Archives folder as a .jpeg file and name it total throughput.jpg

7 On your primary window server, view total_throughput.jpg by double-clicking it in
Windows Explorer

8 Is the drive still highlighted?
Is the full legend displayed? Or only a partial? Close the file


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Step Action
9 Save the data for Total Throughput - Optimal (I/O/sec). Right-click the graph and choose
Copy >Data

Right-click again and Choose Save As

Save the graph to c:\Lab_Archives as a .csv file and name it total_throughput.csv

10 View the .csv by double-Clicking it in Windows Explorer
View the file with Wordpad when the Open With prompt appears.

What does the term optimal refer to?



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