1. 1© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. EMC MANAGEMENT INTEGRATION FOR MICROSOFT PRIVATE CLOUD EMC Symmetrix VMAX, EMC VNX, EMC Storage Integrator (ESI) for Windows Suite, Microsoft System Center 2012 Strategic Solutions Engineering (SSE) EMC Solutions Group (ESG) Michael Morris – Principal Solutions Engineer Ike Aikemu –Solutions Engineer Alex Bowers – Senior Solutions Engineer Application to Infrastructure management and monitoring Optimized storage for elastic infrastructures Automated storage provisioning

2. 2© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved.  EMC Proven Solutions  Solution overview –Application requirements –System Management –VNX storage pool allocation  Results –VNX in-tier rebalance –Application results –System Center 2012 SP1 ▪SCOM, SCVMM, SCO  Summary –Solution pack  Q&A Agenda

3. 3© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. EMC Proven Solutions Approach Capture and define Test and validate DocumentPublish Singapore Shanghai, China Cork, Ireland Hopkinton, MA Santa Clara, CA Vienna, Austria 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 Requirements …real world Solutions

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5. 5 Solution Purpose  Microsoft System Center 2012 SP1  VMware ESXi and Windows Server Hyper-V 2012 –Multi-hypervisor environment  EMC Symmetrix VMAX 10K, EMC VNX5700 –Multi-array environment  EMC Storage Integrator (ESI) for Windows Suite  Mixed application workloads This objective of this solution is to demonstrate EMC’s integration with Microsoft System Center 2012 SP1, which allows support for Windows Server 2012 for management of a Microsoft private cloud environments.

6. 6© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Solution Overview  System Center 2012 SP1 –Provides centralized management –Windows Server 2012 support  ESI Management Packs for SCOM –Monitor health & performance  EMC SMI-S provider –Allows SCVMM 2012 SP1 to easily manage and provision EMC storage  ESI PowerShell –Allows automated provisioning and allocation of EMC storage with SCO 2012 SP1  SCVMM 2012 SP1 –provides simplified and centralized management of both ESXi and Hyper-V VNX  Automatic in-tier rebalance  FAST VP policies for workload co-location

7. 7© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Application ItemQuantity/Type/Size Exchange Mailbox Count5,000 Mailbox Size2 GB IOPS (per mailbox)0.10 IOPS AvailabilityDAG, 2 Copies Disk type, number, and RAID type48 * 2TB NL-SAS, RAID 1/0 DB LUN size per server1700GB * 20 (10 DB LUNs per server) LOG LUN size per server100GB * 20 (10 log LUNs per server) SharePoint Total User Count5,000 Usage Profile (%browse/%search/%modify/%download)60/10/10/20 User Concurrency10% Total Data4.4 TB Total Site Collections (Content DBs) Count5 Sites per Site Collection10 - 100 Document Size Range200 kb – 2 MB Disk type, number, and RAID typeVNX FAST VP enabled Storage Pool SQL Server SQL – IOPs (Disk Transfers/sec)Try to achieve 5,000 IOPS SQL Server Instances1 Workload typeTPC-E Like SQL Server Production VM16 vCPU / 64GB SQL User Databases1 User DB – 500GB Disk type, number, and RAID typeVNX FAST VP enabled Storage Pool Application requirements..workload profiles

8. 8© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Hyper-V cluster ESXi cluster VNX5700VMAX 10K SCOM 2012 ESI SCVMM 2012 Agent(VM)Agent ESI Service System Management …how it all works SCO 2012 SMI-S

9. 9© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 18 Disks (0-17) SAS (Pool 0 -Tier 1) 8+1 4+1 12340 FLASH DRIVES (Pool 0 – Tier 0) 4+11mirror 2.0 1.0 12345670 NL-SAS (Pool 0 – Tier 2) 6+26+2 0.1 18 Disks (0-17) SAS (Pool 0 -Tier 1) 8+1 4+1 3.0 4567 FAST Cache (Array Resource) 1+1 0.0 1+1 VNX Storage Pool Allocation Application consolidation …for SQL & SharePoint! …available if required! …but not required in this solution! Do you want to mark the disks which you added in later in the re- balance?

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11. 11© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. VNX in-tier rebalance - Physical Disk Utilization (%) …in-tier rebalance following storage pool expansion

12. 12© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. VNX Physical Disk Utilization (%) …disk utilization across all configurations Disk Configurations Baseline configuration: 18 * SAS (R5 *, 8+1) + 8 * NL-SAS (R6, 6+2) with additional SAS drives (18 * drives added): 36 * SAS (R5, 8+1) + 8 * NL-SAS (R6, 6+2) with Flash drives 36 * SAS (R5, 8+1) + 8 * NL-SAS (R6, 6+2) + 5 * Flash (R5, 4+1)

13. 13© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. SQL Server results …SQL Server workload hosted on VNX Results Over x 4 increase in IOPs between base and final configuration Latency reduced from 23ms Read / 13ms Write to 2ms Read / 2ms Write VNX storage pool expansion and enabling FAST VP

14. 14© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. SharePoint & Exchange results …SharePoint workload on VNX, Exchange on VMAX 10K SharePoint – Medium Farm Browse Modify, Search and Download test times –were completed in less than 3 seconds Passed tests/sec were constant, averaging 29.83 –which equates to 17,900 users @ 10% concurrency Exchange – 5,000 Users, 2 * Copies Information Store Avg. Latency was 1.9ms (<10ms) I/O Database Reads Avg. Latency was 7.35ms (<20ms) I/O Database Writes Avg. Latency was 3.5ms (<20ms) I/O Log Writes Avg. Latency was 5.5ms (10ms)

15. 15© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. VNX Physical Disk Utilization (%) …healthy view of storage pool in Unisphere Disk Utilizations across three tier storage pool Flash (77%), SAS (25%) …hosting OS, SQL Data & SharePoint LUNs (minus contents DBs) NL-SAS (38%) - hosting only SharePoint content database LUN pinned to lowest tier

16. 16© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. LUN Names Tier allocation % SSDSASNL-SAS LUN_1_Admin_VMs1.0598.95 LUN_2_App_VMs0.799.3 LUN_3_SQL_Data48.1451.86 LUN_4_TempDB_And_DB_Logs1.2998.71 LUN_5_SP_ContentDatabases100 LUN_6_SP_ContentDatabases_Logs0.299.8 LUN_7_Config_DB0.7999.21 LUN_8_Search_TempDB0.5399.47 LUN_9_SP_Search_TempDB_Logs1.7498.26 LUN_10_SP_Query_Index0.1999.81 VNX LUN tier allocation …following FAST VP relocation window

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18. 18© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. SCOM – Monitor and Report …single console view …in this solution EMC Storage system monitor ESI management packs for SCOM Reporting Storage Host utilization Chargeback Application monitor Exchange SQL SharePoint OS health monitor CPU Memory Disk volume

19. 19© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. SCOM- Health Monitor for EMC Storage …SCOM storage topology view Overall topology view of storage system in SCOM Import and configure ESI Management Packs for SCOM Health monitor via ESI Service and RESTFul API Storage system topology Array health Space utilization Alerts

20. 20© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. ESI Management Packs for SCOM …monitoring components with SCOM Storage Group Overall Health Monitored Components ESI Service Logical Components –Storage Pools –Snapshot Volume –Storage Group Physical Components –CPU Module –Disk Drive –Enclosure –Network Switch –Memory Module

21. 21© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. SCVMM – Cloud Management …manage both Hyper-V and ESXi …in this solution Storage Management and provisioning via EMC SMI-S provider EMC VNX5700 EMC VMAX 10K Host Management Hyper-V ESXi (via VMware vCenter) VM Provisioning

22. 22© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. SCVMM – EMC Storage Management …storage management Managing both VNX5700 and VMAX 10K Manage EMC storage system via EMC SMI-S provider Discover VNX and VMAX Configure storage pools Create LUNs

23. 23© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. SCO – Orchestrator RunBook Designer …RunBook Designer …no activities of LUN creation in SCVMM IP …Runbook – a series of activities Workflow management 1.Create VM via SCVMM IP (Integration Pack) 2.Create LUN with ESIPS 3.Add Disk to VM…

24. 24© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. SCO – ESIPowerShell toolkit …ESIPowerShell cmdlets Example activity Run.Net script Automatically created based on user input, which: Provisions storage Allocates storage to VM

25. 25© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Hyper-V cluster ESXi cluster VNX5700VMAX 10K SCOM 2012 ESI SCVMM 2012 Agent(VM)Agent ESI Service System Management …how it all works SCO 2012 SMI-S

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27. 27© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Summary This solution highlights the close integration of ESI for Windows Suite with Microsoft System Center 2012 SP1, which allows administrators to control application and EMC storage infrastructure throughout the data center. This includes multi-hypervisor and multi-array environments.  ESI Management Packs for SCOM monitor EMC storage systems.  EMC SMI-S Provider allows storage management with SCVMM  ESI PowerShell allows automated provisioning of EMC storage  SCO provides workflow management  SCVMM manages both ESXi and Hyper-V  VNX automatic in-tier rebalance, following storage-pool tier expansion  FAST VP policies allow co-location of multiple workloads

28. 28© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Solution Pack Collateral …ECN/YouTube InformationLink Whitepaper location's http://www.emc.com/collateral/whitepaper/h11228-management- integration-cloud-wp.pdf Technical Presentation…available soon Solution Webcast…19 th February 2012 Tech Articles:Everything Microsoft @ EMC EMC MANAGEMENT INTEGRATION FOR MICROSOFT PRIVATE CLOUD - Solution homepage https://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-21431 System Center management with ESI and SMI-Shttps://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-21432 Monitoring EMC storage using SCOM 2012 SP1 with ESI Management Packshttps://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-21433 Application monitoring with SCOM Management Packshttps://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-21434 Chargeback with SCOM SP1https://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-21435 SCVMM 2012 SP1 support for ESXihttps://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-21436 EMC SMI-S provider for SCVMM 2012 SP1 allows EMC storage discoveryhttps://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-21437 SCO 2012 SP1 and ESI PowerShellhttps://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-21438 Co-location of SQL Server and SharePoint volumes in VNX storage poolhttps://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-21439 Videos:Everything Microsoft @ EMC / YouTube: EMCProvenSolutions Adding an EMC VMAX and creating a LUN in Microsoft SCVMM 2012 SP1 https://community.emc.com/videos/4949 http://youtu.be/ts_vQlMuqTk Creating and adding an EMC LUN to a host in Microsoft SCVMM 2012 SP1 https://community.emc.com/videos/4950 http://youtu.be/sZw66BoeMVY Automating the creation of a virtual machine and adding an EMC LUN in Microsoft SCO 2012 SP1 https://community.emc.com/videos/4951 http://youtu.be/g3inYLpSYL8 ESI for Windows Suite integration with Microsoft SCOM 2012 SP1 for monitoring EMC arrays https://community.emc.com/videos/4952 http://youtu.be/kdzDt9a5d1M …collateral ECN & YouTube channel: EMCProvenSolutions

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