1. Storage: Optimize, Monitor, Automate
Hello everyone and thank you for attending this breakout session. I am Bertrand Martin, Sentry Software’s CEO. I am here today to present the solutions developed by Sentry to help you monitor, optimize and automate storage.

2. Agenda IT = Compute + Network + Storage Optimize Storage
Storage is key. BMC and Sentry solutions around storage
Optimize Storage
With Sentry and BMC TrueSight Capacity Optimization
Monitor Storage
With Sentry and BMC TrueSight Operations Management
Challenges and Conclusion

3. IT = Compute + Network + Storage
Why Storage is Important

4. IT = Compute + Network + Storage
The value is in the data. Always
3 domains
Compute
System Administrators
Network
Network Administrators
Storage
Storage Administrators
… of equal complexity
Storage
Data
Compute
Present
Network
Transport
User
Consumes
… work together to deliver a service

5. Storage Infrastructure
SAN Switches
Connect the servers (hosts) and disk arrays (storage)
Monitor FC Ports
Link, Speed, Type
Traffic
Brocade, Cisco and various OEMs
Disk Arrays, Storage Systems
Store the data, read and write
Disks, controllers, storage pools, LUNs
Monitor
Storage allocation
Data traffic, I/Os
EMC, Hitachi, NetApp, IBM, HP, Dell, Fujitsu
Backups
Store the data long-term, WORM
Backup Servers
Retrieve the data from the servers (hosts)
NetBackup, TSM, NetWorker, etc.
Tape libraries
Store the data on tape
Quantum, IBM, VTL .

6. BMC and Sentry’s Portfolio Around Storage
Function
Products
Discover
BMC Atrium Discovery and Depending Mapping (ADDM)
Modules for Dell, EMC, Hitachi, HP, IBM, NetApp, etc.
Monitor
BMC TrueSight Operations Management
Modules for Veritas NetBackup, IBM TSM, EMC Networker, etc.
Optimize
BMC TrueSight Capacity Optimization
Modules for Dell, EMC, Hitachi, HP 3PAR, NetApp, etc.
Automate
BMC Atrium Orchestrator
Modules for Cisco, Brocade, Dell, EMC, Hitachi, IBM, NetBackup, etc.

7. With BMC TrueSight Capacity Optimization and Sentry
Optimize Storage
With BMC TrueSight Capacity Optimization and Sentry

9. Pain Points Reported by Managers

10. What Storage Vendors Ship, What Customers Deploy
If we now have a look at what customers usually deploy we can notice that cloud computing does not represent much. This means that storage still needs to be managed internally. Storage management will therefore continue to have an impact on your budget.

11. Storage Budget

12. Storage Capacity Optimization
Collect data about storage systems
EMC, Hitachi, NetApp, Dell, HP 3PAR
IBM (coming)
Out-of-the-box views and reports
Ensure enough capacity is available for future demand
Don’t make unnecessary investments
Reports on storage consumers. Se

13. Consolidated, Vendor-Agnostic Architecture
ETLs collect data
Vendor-specific
Capacity metrics
Performance metrics
Normalized data
Consolidated views out-of-the-box
Customizable

14. Look Inside, Look Ahead Locate available capacity
Predict and prevent saturation (trend analysis)
Manage over-subscription and thin provisioning

15. Optimize: Reclaim Unused Capacity
Disk Array Content

16. Storage Utilization Reports

17. With BMC TrueSight Operations Management and Sentry
Monitor Storage
With BMC TrueSight Operations Management and Sentry

19. Time Spent in Storage, 2014 H1

20. Compute + Network + Storage in One Console
Improve performance by quickly arbitrating between servers, network and storage
Reduce costs with reduced complexity

21. Vendor-agnostic Architecture

22. Immediate Visibility Into the SAN
Identify disk arrays under hard pressure
Identify big users (servers)
Analyze the impact of the nightly backups
Analyze the impact of a new application

23. In-depth Monitoring of All Disk Arrays
Diagnose unbalanced workload
Between controllers, disks, LUNs
Keep an eye on capacity
Consumed, subscribed, thin provisioning
Detect Hardware failures
Power supplies, FC ports, disks, controllers, etc.
Detect performance bottlenecks
Ports? Controllers? Volumes? Disks?

24. Storage Performance Impact

25. Performance and Availability of Backups
Detect mechanical problems
Tape libraries, tape drives
StorageTek, Quantum, IBM
Detect backup software problems
Veritas NetBackup
Symantec BackupExec
EMC NetWorker
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
HP Data Protector
CA ARCserve
Availability, performance and capacity
Ensure compliance with backup policies
Report problems with backup clients

26. How BMC and Sentry helps manager your storage infrastructure
Conclusion
How BMC and Sentry helps manager your storage infrastructure

27. Challenges and Solutions
Challenges Without BMC and Sentry
Unpredictable storage growth
Delays because of shortages
Buy more than needed
Wasted capacity
Performance problems
Long time-to-resolution
Multi-vendor complexity or vendor lock-in
Failed backups
Failed restores
Failed compliancy
Solutions With BMC and Sentry
Plan ahead
Don’t run out of capacity
Buy what is necessary only
Optimized capacity
Improved performance
Wide and in-depth visibility
All storage vendors are covered and consolidated into one view
Monitored backups
Restore will work
Compliancy is ensured