XtremIO 4.0–XMS / Management Improvements
The fourth release of XtremIO is all about scalability, management and matureness, this post covers the management aspects of the array We started to have many many customers with multiple […]
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The fourth release of XtremIO is all about scalability, management and matureness, this post covers the management aspects of the array We started to have many many customers with multiple […]
The fourth release of XtremIO is all about scalability, management and matureness, this post covers the management aspects of the array
We started to have many many customers with multiple XtremIO clusters and they loved the XMS concepts but asked if we can have one XMS manage more than one array, version 4.0 delivers that!, a single XMS can now manage multiple clusters and much much more.
Up to 8 clusters are supported in this release. The managed arrays will have to be (NDU) upgraded to version 4.0.
Multi-Cluster MANAGEMENT
Here’s how it looks, you can simply click the array you want to manage / view
..or, you can simply see it in the main console, things like aggregated performance metrics across your datacenter, things like data reduction and more, again, you can view it as an aggregated view or per cluster, this really gives you a good overview of your XtremIO clusters from a centralized management console.
Tags Management
Think about Gmail, it uses tags for easy searching, we have something similar in mind.
It can align storage management with business needs.
For example, you can tag volumes to “production” and “test”, applications, clusters, consistency groups, snapshots sets. Many entities can be tagged.
Ÿ Flexible tagging – Create tags for any object
Ÿ An object can have multiple tags
Ÿ Filter objects using tags for reports or operations
Ÿ Model hierarchy in tags – if folder-like hierarchy is required
Making Use of Tags
You can then of course, filter your results based on the tags you input.
Managing tags
Tags-managed per object type
However, you can create in GUI tag for multiple objects
A tag has the following properties:
Name
Object Type
Hierarchy (default is root)
Color
Read-only and up user role
Associating tags to objects
XtremIO 4.0 Reporting
Two years historical data for Cluster & Objects
GUI/CLI/REST interfaces to access historical data
Multi-cluster reporting
Security – Reports for a single user or publicly available for all users
Tagging support
Report templates
Ÿ Pre-loaded reports for common queries
Ÿ Use templates as the basis for new report
What can you do with reports?
Provide both real-time & historical data
Stores up to 2 years with variable granularity
Support reporting at different desired levels: Cluster, volumes, IGs, Group of objects etc.
Aggregate objects based on business needs (using tags)
Multiple modes of data access
– Online GUI, printed report, png/csv files
– APIs are available to consume data programmatically
Key Benefits
Provides better visibility of cluster performance and capacity usage over time
Use cases
– Better planning and monitoring
– Trend analysis of performance and capacity
– SLA tracking
– ROI and TCO performance
– Forensics/analytics of performance issues
– Analysis of a single application workload or consolidated workloads
What’s New IN Version 4.0?
Ÿ What did we have in Version 3.0?
– Real-time monitoring data of Clusters & Objects
– GUI based real-time monitor generation
– Limited historical data (7 days of cluster-level performance data)
Ÿ What NEW in version 4.0?
– 2 years historical data for Cluster & Objects
– GUI/CLI/REST interfaces to access historical data
– Cluster-level capacity tracking
– Multi-cluster reporting
– Improved security – Enable reports for a user or make it publicly available for all cluster users
Reports data: Avg, Max, Min time aggregations
Average, Maximum and Minimum historical data values are calculated for the different time aggregation units
Default is Average
Reports Definition
Public/Private reports
Public/private reports
– Private reports are visible only to the user that created the report
– Public reports are visible to all users; editable only to the user who created the report
– By default all reports are Private
– Reports names do not have to be unique
Reports time definition
Time definitions:
– Real-time (real-time monitoring data display; like in version 3.0)
– Last hour (60 min); Last day (24 hours); Last week (7 days); Last year (365 days)
– Custom time – any From date-time to any To date-time