APTARE IT Analytics Certified Configurations Guide

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Product(s): APTARE IT Analytics (10.5)
  1. Portal and database servers
    1.  
      Portal supported operating systems
    2.  
      Recommended portal configurations
    3.  
      Oracle Database and Memory Requirements
    4. Supported browsers and display resolution
      1.  
        Linux portal server: Exported and emailed reports
    5.  
      Supported third-party and open source products
  2. Data Collector server configurations
    1.  
      Data Collector supported operating systems
    2. Data Collector server memory and CPU guidelines
      1.  
        Customize the Linux file handle setting for large collections
      2.  
        Factors impacting Data Collector performance and memory requirements
    3.  
      Data Collector prerequisites
    4.  
      Firewall configuration: Default ports
  3. Capacity Manager configurations
    1.  
      Supported storage arrays and access requirements
    2.  
      IBM Arrays: Modify profile
    3.  
      Creating a NetApp user with API privileges
    4.  
      Creating a NetApp cluster-mode user with API privileges
    5. Array/LUN performance Data Collection
      1.  
        Port performance metrics
    6.  
      EMC Isilon metrics
    7.  
      NetApp cluster-mode metrics
    8.  
      EMC Symmetrix enhanced performance metrics
    9.  
      Host resources prerequisites and configurations
    10. Host access privileges, sudo commands, ports, and WMI proxy requirements
      1.  
        Access requirements by OS
    11.  
      WMI proxy requirements for Windows host Data Collection
    12.  
      Host resources supported configurations
    13.  
      Supported host bus adapters (HBAs)
  4. Cloud configurations
    1.  
      Supported systems and access requirements
  5. Virtualization Manager configurations
    1.  
      Supported versions
    2. Virtualization Manager Data Collector requirements for VMware
      1.  
        Creating a VMware Read-Only user
    3.  
      Virtualization Manager Data Collector requirements for Microsoft Hyper-V
  6. File Analytics configurations
    1. Data Collector probes by storage type
      1.  
        CIFS shares
      2.  
        Host inventory probe
  7. Fabric Manager configurations
    1. Switch vendors
      1.  
        Download Cisco Data Center Network Manager
  8. Backup Manager configurations
    1.  
      Backup solutions and versions
    2.  
      Centralized NetBackup Data Collection requirements
    3. Veritas NetBackup 8.1 (and later) requirements for centralized collection
      1.  
        Required Software
  9. Internal TCP port requirements
    1.  
      Internal TCP port requirements
    2.  
      Internal portal server ports
    3.  
      Internal data collector ports

Array/LUN performance Data Collection

The following array families are supported for block storage LUN performance and port performance data collection.

See Array/LUN performance notes.

Table: Array Family

Array Family

Rd/Wrte IO/sec

Total IO/sec

Rd/WrteMB / sec

Rd/Wrte Cache Hits/sec

Rd/Wrte Respond(ms)

Total Respond(ms)

Dell Compellent

X

X

X

X

--

--

EMC VNX (CLARiiON)

X

Calc.

X

X

X

Calc.

EMC Symmetrix

X

X

X

X

--

--

EMC XtremIO

Calc.

Calc.

Calc.

--

X

X

HDS Tuning Manager

X

Calc.

X

X

X

X

HP 3PAR

X

X

X

X

X

X

IBM SVC

X

X

X

--

--

--

IBM XIV

X

X

X

X

X

X

NetApp ONTAP 7-Mode (Block only)

X

Calc.

X

--

--

Avg Latency

Pure Storage FlashArray

X

Calc.

X

--

X

Calc.

Array/LUN performance notes

The following notes apply to array families are supported for block storage LUN performance and port performance data collection.

Table: Array families supporting block storage LUN performance and port performance data collection.

Array Family

Notes

EMC VNX (CLARiiON)

For CLARiiON arrays: The minimum FLARE OS version required to capture response times is 04.30.000.5.524 A11. Note that VNX (Block) will have completely different FLARE releases and all support the collection of the counter fields needed for capturing response time, starting with FLARE version 05.31.000.5.006 A01. Enable statistics logging on the VNX system.

EMC XtremIO

For EMC XtremIO, the values obtained are averages over the time interval. The Read/Write/Total IOs and the Read/Write MBs are multiplied by the time interval and persisted.

HDS Tuning Manager

For Hitachi arrays: To collect performance data from Hitachi Tuning Manager, the Data Collector must be installed on the same server as Tuning Manager. And, a single Data Collector policy must be used to collect both the capacity data from the Device Manager server and the performance data from the Tuning Manager server.

NetApp ONTAP 7-Mode (Block only)

For NetApp ONTAP 7-Mode (Block only): Total response time is the average latency (ms) for all LUN read and write operations. Performance data is collected for both iSCSI LUNs and FC LUNs.