What's New in

OnCommand Insight 7.0.1

September 2014

Rev 1.1
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 The Value of OnCommand Insight To Our
Customers
 Cost Management Visibility
 What do we have? where is it?
 How do applications map to the infrastructure?
 Has it changed?
 Operational Troubleshooting Availability
 What is the impact of change?
 Do we have redundancy?
 Quality of Service
 Where are the risks?
Across the multi-vendor infrastructure
Predictability & Performance
Servers  Where is the bottleneck?
 Where to optimize and tune?
 How do we tier applications?
Network
Capacity Management & Utilization
 How much of what we bought are we using?
 Who’s using and paying for it?
Storage  Do we have to buy more?

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 What’s New in OnCommand Insight v7.0.1

Management and Currency Usability

Analysis
• Storage Manager Dashboard
• VM, ESX Performance in DWH
• Host File System Level
Utilization
• Simplified and Improved
NPIV modeling
• EMC Data Domain
• IBM XIV Performance
• Violin Memory *BETA
• Published Rest API
• Common Access Card
support
• Firefox support for Data
Warehouse
• IBM Cognos Business
intelligence Package
updated (10.2.1)
• Link and launch Swing UI

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What’s New in OnCommand Insight v7.0.1

Management and Analysis

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 Storage Manager Dashboard
A dashboard designed for Managers and Business Analysts for application capacity planning
and identifying cost saving opportunities
NEW

Contents
Storage summary level information for
used vs. allocated capacity, connected
vs. total switch ports,

FC bandwidth and Storage capacity

trends by tier

Storage traffic trend for yesterday, last 7

days and last 6 months

Top 10 demanding applications

Daily storage performance by tier

Orphaned capacity by tier

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Storage Manager Dashboard examined
 Total, Used & allocated 12 Month trended
capacity (PB).
 Total, Used, Targeted & Forecasted Capacity
(PB)
 Connected vs. Total switch ports
 12 month trended connected ports. Total,
Used, Targeted & Forecasted ports usage(K)
 Last 5 weeks Connected FC utilization %.
 Actual, Low, Mid, high port utilization % graph

 Tier used capacity 12 month trend

(PB)
 Total, Used, Targeted , Forecasted
 Tier capacity (PB) by Tier
 Tier capacity number of months till full

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Storage Manager Dashboard examined

 Traffic (TB) for previous day (black).

 Daily mean for last 7 days (dark
grey)
 Daily mean Last 6 months (light
grey)

 Greater than > 6 months to full

 Data Centers and associated tiers
 Color coded capacity forecast indicators
 Less than < 3 months to full
 Between 3 to 6 months to full

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Storage Manager Dashboard examined

 Top 10 storage consumers

− 12 month used capacity (TB) trend by consumer
− Current used capacity (TB)
− Stacked consumer capacity proportion (TB)
− Last day response time (ms)
− Response time 25% and 75% percentiles
− Peak average response time (ms)
− Median response time (ms)
 Storage Tiers daily performance
− Lowest , peak , Median response times (7
days)
− 25 & 75 % percentile latency (7 days)
− Service level start, End .

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Storage Manager Dashboard examined

 Orphaned Capacity
− Orphaned capacity by tier (TB)
− Actual orphaned capacity

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Storage Manager Dashboard User configurable SLO’s
• Login to the data Warehouse
• Select the Public Folders >Capacity > storage and Storage Pool Capacity datamart
• Select Reports
• Select the More… Configuration hyperlink for the Storage Manager Dashboard
• Select Set properties hyperlink
• Select the Report tab
• Under Prompt values: select the Edit… hyperlink

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Storage Manager Dashboard User configurable

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 VM and ESX Performance available Data Warehouse
 Compute performance data for planning and forecasting compute service trends

 Enables the creation of dashboards and reports with data such as IOPs, throughput,
response time, and utilization

VM and ESX Identify Pin point under

opportunities to performing
Capacity and move VMs to Compute
Performance IaaS resources

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Simplified and improved NPIV modeling (direct
acquisition)

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Simplified and improved NPIV modeling (indirect)
 The logical connections of N-ports to the core switches are displayed if NPV devices are not
directly acquired

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Host Utilization Pack (Available with separate purchasable license)
Agentless Host and VM File system Level Utilization available in Web UI and Data Warehouse

 O/S type, CPU, Memory and FQDN

 File system listing & type (C:\ D:\) (NTFS/FAT32)
 File System Used Capacity (GB)
 File System Total Capacity (GB)
 Supports Windows Physical and Virtual
 Logically map file system to back-end block
storage (Clustered Data ONTAP, 7-Mode
CLARiion)

*Available in September

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 Host Utilization Pack Licensing

 “Host Utilization Pack”

 Requires a separate purchasable license

 Licensed based on number of hosts

 No minimum for number of hosts purchased

 Volume pricing on banded # of hosts .

Host count 1 to 350
351 to 700
701 to 1100
1101 to 2000
2001 to 3000
3001 to 5000
5001 to 7000
7001 to 10000
10001 to 15000
15001 to 20000
20001 to 99998
99999 to 999999

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 Host Utilization Pack Data Warehouse Metrics

 Enables Chargeback and Capacity Planning

 Drag and drop host report authoring
 File System relationship to Storage Resource and Tier
File System trending for:
 Allocated Capacity
 Used Capacity
 Capacity Utilization

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New VMDK landing page

 Associated
Virtual Machine,
Data store,
Storage resource
and latency
 Capacity (GB),
Latency, IOPs,
Throughput

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New Disk landing page

 Associated Storage,
Storage
Pool/Aggregate,
 Backend Volume,
Role, Utilization %,
IOPs, Throughput,
 Status, Speed, Size,
Type, vendor,
Model, Location

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What’s New in OnCommand Insight v7.0.1

Currency

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Currency
 Published Rest API

 Official data source support:

– IBM XIV Array Performance

− Data Domain
− Isilon

 Violin (Beta) support in DWH

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 Published REST API
 Standard set of REST APIs

 Simplifies integration with NetApp and other 3 rd party software offerings

 Accessible through OnCommand Insight WebUI

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Enhancements
 Enabled Firefox support in Data Warehouse

 Snapmirror support across multiple OCI environments

 The notification symbol on the Asset pages, indicating that immediate attention is required, is
changed from an exclamation point to a circle
 A name column is added to the Ports table on all applicable Asset pages (for example, Host,
Hypervisor, and VM)
 Asset page performance chart graph colors are enhanced for better viewing

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 Not in the headlines
 Additional licenses for reporting authors now available!
− Cognos Author bundle
− Gives customers ability to purchase additional Cognos authors.
− An additional part number is required, which can be ordered after June 2014

 Renaming of “Business insight Advance” report editor to “Workspace Advanced”

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What’s New in OnCommand Insight v7.0.1

Usability

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Support For Common Access Cards (CAC Cards)
 Common Access Card (CAC Cards) support for secure authentication into OnCommand
Insight and ActivClient™ computer systems
 Introduced for both the OnCommand Insight WebUI and Java UI

 Leverages LDAP configuration settings

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 Link and Launch in Java UI
 In 7.0.1 navigation between the latest WebUI feature and the Java UI has been
made simpler with the addition of “Link and Launch” swing UI capabilities.

 Right click a monitored resource and select “Open in Web UI” or select the
Global Launch Icon located near the Global Search Window

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New Graph Icon Enables Quick Correlation of Resources

 New graph correlation icon

 Hover-over icon easily adds “Additional Resources” to correlation view

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 Simplify Management of Credentials Using Compute
Resource Groups
 Group of Hosts and VMs that share a
common credential set (Username/Password)

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 Extended Web Browser Support

 New support for Firefox and Chrome Web Browsers for Operational Server
and Data Warehouse
• Firefox (Operational Server and Data warehouse report authoring/viewing)
• *** Chrome (Operational Server WebUI and Data Warehouse report
viewing only)

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 Deprecated data sources

• Deprecation announcement for the “Storage Capacity” datamart and “capacity fact table
(dwh_capacity.capacity_fact)” .

• The deprecation notice has ended for the Connectrix7 Data source and has been
removed from the OnCommand Insight product.

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OnCommand Insight v7.0.1 Summary
Storage Manager Dashboard
Improved NPIV modeling
Published REST API’s
DWH VM Performance
DWH Host Utilization
New Disk and VMDK landing
pages
CAC support
Expanded Browser Support

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Resources: ESG Lab Review
“If your organization is looking for a
way to easily manage operations,
cost, and service quality, ESG Lab
recommends the latest version of
NetApp OnCommand Insight, a
lightweight management platform
with real-time, big data analytics for
dynamically changing,
heterogeneous storage
environments.”

Source: ESG Lab Review, NetApp OnCommand Insight 7, June 2014

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Resources
 Netapp.com: www.netapp.com/oncommandinsight
 NetApp University - Getting Started: https://
communities.netapp.com/community/netapp_university/getting_started
 Customer Community: https://
communities.netapp.com/community/products-and-solutions/data-storage-software/storag
e-management-software/oncommand-insight
 Quick Start OnCommand Insight Installation Video
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuvCHg-a3gw&feature=youtu.be

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