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1. SVC UNALLOCATED CAPACITY BIGINT 8 SVC UNMANAGED CAPACITY BIGINT 8 SVC UNMANAGED COUNT INTEGER 4 MDISK GROUP CAPACITY ALLOCATABLE CAPACITY BIGINT 8 ALLOCATED CAPACITY BIGINT 8 SVC CLUSTER ID CHAR 16 SVC MDISK GROUP ID INTEGER 4 SVC MDISK GROUP NAME VARCHAR 64 UNALLOGATED CAPACITY BIGINT 8 MDISK GROUP CAPACITY HISTORY ALLOCATABLE CAPACITY BIGINT 8 BVQ MDISK GROUP ID INTEGER 4 SVC CLUSTER ID CHAR 16 SVC MDISK GROUP CHANGED TIMESTMP 10 SVC MDISK GROUP DELETED SMALLINT 2 SVC MDISK GROUP ID INTEGER 4 SVC MDISK GROUP NAME VARCHAR 64 UNALLOGATED CAPACITY BIGINT 8 SVC CLUSTER HIST 1 YEAR ALLOGATED CAPACITY BIGINT 8 CODE LEVEL VARCHAR 63 CONSOLE IP VARCHAR 21 CREATED TIMESTMP 10 DELETED SMALLINT 2 ID CHAR 16 IP_ADDRESS VARCHAR 15 LICENSE COMPRESSION CAPACITY DOUBLE 8 LICENSE FLASH DOUBLE 8 LICENSE REMOTE DOUBLE 8 LICENSE VIRTUALIZATION DOUBLE 8 MARKER DATE TIMESTMP 10 NAME VARCHAR 64 REAL CLUSTER ID CHAR 16 SECOND IP ADDRESS VARCHAR 15 SERVICE IP ADDRESS VARCHAR 15 STATS FREQUENCY INTEGER 4 STATS STATUS VARCHAR 3 TIMEZONE VARCHAR 40 TOTAL FREE SPACE BIGINT 8 USER S GUIDE BVQ REPORTING BVQ DATABASE VIEW SCHEME FOR REPORT SCHEME LEVEL 1 0 0 0 238 BVQ user s guide v15 TOTAL_MDISKGRP_CAPACITY BI
2. NOTES VARCHAR 2048 CLUSTER SVC_CLUSTER_ID CHAR 16 SVC_CLUSTER_NAME VARCHAR 64 CLUSTER_CAPACITY SVC ALLOCATABLE CAPACITY BIGINT 8 SVC ALLOCATED CAPACITY BIGINT 8 SVC CLUSTER ID CHAR 16 SVC_CLUSTER_NAME VARCHAR 64 SVC LICENSE FLASH ENTITLED DOUBLE 8 SVC LICENSE FLASH USED DOUBLE 8 SVC LICENSE REMOTE ENTITLED DOUBLE 8 SVC LICENSE REMOTE USED DOUBLE 8 SVC LICENSE VIRTUALIZATION ENTITLED DOUBLE 8 SVC LICENSE VIRTUALIZATION USED DOUBLE 8 SVC UNALLOCATED CAPACITY BIGINT 8 CLUSTER CAPACITY HISTORY SVC ALLOCATABLE CAPACITY BIGINT 8 SVC ALLOCATED CAPACITY BIGINT 8 SVC CLUSTER CHANGED TIMESTMP 10 SVC CLUSTER DELETED SMALLINT 2 SVC CLUSTER ID CHAR 16 SVC_CLUSTER_NAME VARCHAR 64 SVC LICENSE FLASH ENTITLED DOUBLE 8 SVC LICENSE FLASH USED DOUBLE 8 SVC LICENSE REMOTE ENTITLED DOUBLE 8 SVC LICENSE REMOTE USED DOUBLE 8 SVC LICENSE VIRTUALIZATION ENTITLED DOUBLE 8 SVC LICENSE VIRTUALIZATION USED DOUBLE 8 SVC UNALLOCATED CAPACITY BIGINT 8 CLUSTER CAPACITY HISTORY 1 YEAR MARKER DATE TIMESTMP 10 SVC ALLOCATABLE CAPACITY BIGINT 8 SVC ALLOCATED CAPACITY BIGINT 8 SVC CLUSTER CHANGED TIMESTMP 10 SVC CLUSTER DELETED SMALLINT 2 SVC CLUSTER ID CHAR 16 SVC_CLUSTER_NAME VARCHAR 64 SVC LICENSE FLASH ENTITLED DOUBLE 8 SVC LICENSE FLASH USED DOUBLE 8
3. CPU R Prestage O min O avg max O rate R Stage O min O avg max O rate W Destage 0 min 0 avg max O rate Data transfer 0 min 0 avg Q max O rate Track lock O min 0 avg max 0 rate Track access 0 min 0 avg max 0 rate Tabelle 58 Description performance metrics node Metric Unit Description Axis Cache fullness R W min CFMN Read and write cache fullness minimum R W avg CFAV Read and write cache fullness average R W max CFMX Read and write cache fullness maximum W min WCFMN Write cache fullness minimum W avg WCFAV Write cache fullness average W max WCFMX Write cache fullness maximum Cache CDCBs per list Demote ready count DRLL Number of CDCBs for unmodified data tracks in the demote ready list count Modified count MLL Number of CDCBs for modified data tracks to be destaged in the modified list count Global copy count GCLL Number of CDCBs for data tracks in the global copy list count Cache latencies USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI PERFORMANCE VIEW 93 Metric Unit Axis BVQ user s guide v15 Description W Destage min ms op DLMN Destage latency minimum ms op W Destage avg ms op DLAV Destage latency average ms op W Destage max ms op DLMX Destage latency maximum ms op W Destage rate ops s DLC
4. Dateiname STD 01 ACC COST CAP ORGUN DL1 FMT rptdesign Dateityp Birt reporting file v ffnen Abbrechen Click on Save as and enter the path for saving Different formats can be selected as file types PDF is the preferred report format Afterwards the report is created automatically In large IT environments this process can take a certain period of time USER S GUIDE BVQ REPORTING CREATING REPORTS 222 BVG user s guide v15 BYQ Reporting Configure report olx l Speichern xi Account Report Cost amp capacity per org unit Speichern in Eigene Dateien sl 2 Bl GEHE Accounting report covering current cost real and virtual capacity GiB and 7d average IO rate IO s grouped by the business organizational units BYQ Cost center Application group Application and VDisk group DB2LOG Report STD D1_ACC_COST CAP_ORGUN_DLI_FMT rptdesign Parameters Output GE Dateiname STD D1_ACC_COST CAP_ORGUN_DLI_FMT pdf STD 01_ACC_COST CAP_ORGUN_DL1_FMT pdf A Save as Dateityp PDF Portable Document Format with SVG charts v Next Laos l After generating the report it can be opened and evaluated by using a PDF reader o Optionally custom reports are also possible in which special adaptations can be implemented on the company s requirements 2 3 ODBC access to the BVQ reporting scheme 23 1 Content e Content e
5. USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI OBJECT TYPES 149 BVG user s guide v15 Corresponds to a logical disk of a storage subsystem LUNs which is assigned to a SVC V7000 Storage pool composed of SVC MDisk logical disks For more details on the object type See IBM SVC software installation and configuration guide 1 10 19 1 BVA disk type Disk type found in Describes a type class of disks which are integrated in the managed BVQ disk array Its technical attributes represent typical questions how big how fast and how reliable Groupes e BVQ disk array Is grouped by configurable object relations e No other BVQ objects Configurable attributes Class Classification of the disk s type enterprise lowrange Size Disk s size capacity in GB not in GiB Rotation Rotation speed in U min speed BEST Nei Upper limit of the IO rate Oe for operation under typical load profiles Based on this value the estimated IO density is calculated in linked BVQ disk arrays 1 10 19 2 BVQ disk array Array RAID of one disk type in Represents the attributes of a RAID group of disk s within a storage system This is a delimited IO activity unit Typical usage e RAID 5 array inside a storage system with 7 1 plates results in an IO effective disk count 8 e Some systems combine internally several RAIDs Here the total number of IO effective disks has to be specified
6. Interval Moving Average Emin none DB Data rate Rec Sent Host Received Host Sent O Host Controller Node Overall 0 Controller Node CT Overall Controller Node CT Overall Command rate Rec Sent Host Received Host Sent Host Debug statistics O Link failiure Loss of sync 0 Controller Node Overall 0 Controller Node Overall 0 Controller J Node Overall Loss of signal O Seq proto err Invalid transm word 0 Invalid CRC 0 Buffer credit wait Tabelle 61 Overview performance metrics node port Debug statistics BVG user s guide v15 Data rate Rec sent Host amp Controller 9 Node Overall Received Host amp Controller 9 Node 9 Overall USER S GUIDE BVG GUI PERFORMANCE view 98 BVQ user s guide v15 Debug statistics Sent Host amp Controller 9 Node 9 Overall Command rate Rec sent Host Controller Node Overall Received Host amp Controller 9 Node Overall Sent Host Controller 9 Node Overall Link failiure Loss of sync Loss of signal Sea proto err Invalid transmission word Invalid CRC Buffer credit wait Tabelle 62 Description performance metrics node port Metric label Description Da
7. USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI OBJECT TYPES 150 BVQ user s guide v15 e Other systems like IBM XIV operate all drives in a single assemblage These are entered as an array of all disks into BVQ for example in XIV R10 Groupes e SVC MDisk Is grouped by configurable object relations e BVQcontroller e BVQ disk type Configurable attributes Name Name of the disk arrays RAID level Array s RAID level R1 R3 R4 R5 R6 R10 Disk type Array s BVQ Disk type Disk count Number of IO effective plates e g for a RAID5 with 7 1 plates the value of 8 has to be entered Estimated IO Estimated or desired upper limit of IO density IOps GiB of the disk array density This is the base value from which IO density of grouping storage provider objects derived from This is the threshold for the color scheme IO density heat More hints e RAID DP is registered as a RAID 6 e The IO density of SSD drives can be rounded to 10 IOPS GiB Determination of IO density for Easy Tier drives A SSD has a assumed IO density of 10IOPS GiB and a certain percentage of SSD storage is contained in our Easy Tier drive The IO density of the disk part IODDisk is calculated with BVQ and corrected by using the following formula LOD neis Ea OD an i LOD Beispiel IO Dichte Disk OD 0 5 IOPS GiB IO Dichte SSD IOD 10 IOPS GiB SSD Anteil n 7 0 07 TOD 1 0 07 0 5 0 07 10
8. e SVC VDisks of the group DB2 Logs RZ1 are only permitted to be placed in SVC MDisk groups which in turn are placed on subsystems in RZ1 e SVC VDisk of the group filesystem business critical are only permitted to be placed in SVC MDisk groups which in turn are placed on enterprise subsystems In the treemap this compliance state is expressed by the following surfaces colors Tabelle 40 Color scheme data class compliance meaning of the colors Color Symbol Condition Meaning MW Gr n e Compliant The objective is met the VDisk copies are compliant with the conditions in the BVQ VDisk group relation MW Geb A Incomplete Specification is not complete Go ig Not Specification of the condition compliant is not met compliant i Undefined No specifications are defined for the object Faded S Not Object type is not affected Object type applicable The compliance status for the default VDisk group relation type is determined for the object type VDisk copy aggregation source and separately determined for the VDisk group relation All other object types displaying the condition type determine its state by aggregation Symbol Condition Description Compliant VDisk copy the placement of the VDisk copies complies with the USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 64 BVQ user s guide v15 Symbol Condition Description conditions of all assigned VDisk group relations
9. License end Grace perio Licensed clu Current clus Capacity dif Other cluste License status _ Dec 31 2099 Dec 31 2099 64 TiB 20 02 TiB 43 98 TiB 000002006160 Ok 0000020063E0 000002003020 svc3 View top Jan 1 2008 0000020063E0 Dec 31 2099 Dec 31 2099 20 02 TiB 43 98 TiB Onno 000002008020 SYC3 Scan per Jan 1 2008 0000020063E0 Dec 31 2099 Dec 31 2099 20 02 TiB 43 98 TiB Ee 000002008020 Cluster Name Module License start License end Grace perio Licensed clu Current clus Capacity dif Other clust License status Scan topology Jan 1 2008 Dec 31 2099 Dec 31 2099 64 TiB OByte 64 TiB 000002006080 Ok Al View topology Jan 1 2008 Dec 31 2099 Dec 31 2099 64 TiB OByte 64 TiB 000002006080 Ok Scan perfor Jan 1 2008 Dec 31 2099 Dec 31 2099 64 TiB 0 Byte 64 TE 000002006080 Ok View perfor Jan 1 2008 Dec 31 2099 Dec 31 2099 64 TiB 0 Byte 64 TiB 000002006080 Service lev Jan 1 2008 Dec 31 2099 Dec 31 2099 64 TiB 0 Byte 64 TiB 000002006080 Compliance Jan 1 2008 Dec 31 2099 Dec 31 2099 64 TiB 0 Byte 64 TE 000002006080 Tabelle 7 License table chapter discovered undiscovered cluster Tables Discovered clusters Table of licensed and already recognized SVC V7000 clusters Undiscovered clusters found in license Ta
10. The object coloring according to the scheme IO density heat paints the objects of the treemap based on an assessment by comparing the configurable estimated IO density of the object type BVQ disk array e Color scheme response time compliance The object coloring according to the scheme response time compliance colors the objects of a treemap based on an assessment of the configurable design response time from the object type SVC MDisk group 1 5 4 5 Color scheme group compliance With the object stainings of the object scheme group compliance the compliance of BVQ configured placement ruels can be checked in the treemap Abbildung 48 Topology color scheme submenu 24 Topology af Object type Object type BVQ qualified Capacity efficiency gt Service level gt Performance gt Compliance Overall compliance Data class compliance Mobility zone compliance VDg relation compliance The following color schemes belong to this group e Color scheme overall compliance The object staining according to the scheme overall compliance colorizes the objects of the treemap according to the combined status of all compliance conditions e Color scheme data class compliance The object color scheme data class compliance colors the objects of the treemap according to the SLA conformity defined in the BVQ DC to SC placement rating e Color scheme mobility zone compliance The object colorin
11. t YODBC Datenquellen Administrator Benutzer DSN System DSN Datei DSN Treiber Ablaufverfolgung Verbindungs Pooling Info Installierte ODBC Treiber Name Driver da Microsoft para arquivos texto txt csv Driver do Microsoft Access mdb Driver do Microsoft dBase dbf Driver do Microsoft Excel xls Driver do Microsoft Paradox db Driver para o Microsoft Visual FoxPro IBM DATA SERVER DRIVER for ODBC D Programme installable IBM 2_Express 9 IBM DB2 ODBC DRIVER IBM DB2 ODBC DRIVER DB2COPY1 Microsoft Access Driver mdb se f al Mit einem ODBC Treiber k nnen ODBC Programme Informationen von ODBC Datenquellen abrufen Verwenden Sie das Installationsprogramm des jeweiligen Treibers um neue Treiber zu installieren Abbrechen Ubemehmen Hilfe VODBC Datenquellen Administrator Benutzer DSN System DSN Datei DSN Treiber Ablaufverfolgung Verbindungs Pooling Info Benutzerdatenquellen Hinzuf gen Name treer Entfernen Microsoft Access Driver mdb BVQ ODBC local MySQL DB MySQL ODBC 3 51 Driver dBASE Dateien Microsoft dBase Driver dbf Konfigurieren Excel Dateien Microsoft Excel Driver xIs IBMSWG Microsoft Access Driver mdb Microsoft Access Datenbank Microsoft Access Driver mdb ODBC MySQL DB Local BVQ MySQL ODBC 3 51 Driver SellingChain Microsoft Access Driver mdb Visio Database Samples Microsoft Access Driver MDB In e
12. BVQ GUI KEY FIGURES OF THE BVQ STORAGE ENVIRONMENT 127 BVQ user s guide v15 Aggregated object type Basic objekt type Performance indicators SVC controller port MDisk all SVC IO group Node all SVC cluster Node all SVC MDisk group MDisk all BVQ VDisk group VDisk all BVQ application VDisk all BVQ application group VDisk IOR DR RT RT Score R BVQ cost center VDisk IOR DR SVC Host VDisk all BVQ data class VDisk all BVQ storage class MDisk all BVQ SLA VDisk all BVQ mobility zone MDisk all BVQ VDisk group relation VDisk all 1 10 Object types Overview of all object types available in BVQ USER S GUIDE BVA GUI OBJECT TYPES 128 BVG user s guide v15 Abbildung 85 BVQ known object types and their relations Caption Thin arrows SVC internal object relations Thick arrows BVQ editable object relations Relation is configured in the source object Thick edged objects BVQ objects Thin edged objects SVC objects Object colors Objects standard colors in the BVQ GUI Green objects Objects of the IT storage environment Turquoise objects Transform objects Blue objects Business relevant objects 1 103 Overview object types There are 2 different object types USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI OBJECT TYPES 129 BVQ user s guide v15 SVC Representation of objects in the SVC BVG database Their attributes an
13. BVQ user s guide v15 3 ANNEX 3 1 Most important links Interesting links for further information Web link directory e BVQ Wiki http bvqwiki sva de e BVG Homepage http www bvg software com ANNEX MOST IMPORTANTLINKS 245
14. BVQ user s guide v15 Abbildung 17 Tab toolbar Dar ho Abbildung 18 Main menu Favorites File Object Lists Favorites vw vs F Add to favorites Ctrl D ve Open Favorites Ctrl I ASE x 1 3 1 1 Tab overviews To get a better orientation in a variety of open tabs two types of tab overviews can be used 1 Tab overall view displays all open tabs as thumbnails in a window 2 Tab single preview shows the selected tab in a thumbnail Each tab has a title which is completly displayed in the Tooltip Tab total list Abbildung 19 Calling up the tab overview File Object Lists Favorites vo Iho 0 Cluster MDisk group With a click on the little magnifying glass left next to the tabs the tab overview is opened If the mouse pointer is moved over one of the thumbnails it is zoomed in and can be activated by a mouse click USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI FAVORITES AND TABS 20 Abbildung 20 Example of a tab overview Cluster MDisk BVQ user s guide v15 MDisk group Disk tin E beete rests Single preview of tabs MDisk group Cluster Host ZK ee IT s I H H mm MDisk perf AMS_SATA_CO_3 AMS_SATA_CO_2 AMS 5 If you rest the mouse pointer slightly longer over a tab the Tooltip for tabs which fully displays the title opens first After extra dwell time a preview image for this tab opens 1 3 2 Favo
15. BVQ user s guide v15 Represents the target classification of a volumes group and defines the retail price factor The description of a data class is typically found in service level performance catalogs for end users It is closely related to the BVG storage class which is on the contrary the guality class of managed storage hardware group of storage pools The color attribute is the base for the staining of affected objects in the treemap with color scheme data storage class Groupes e Indirectly via the currently valid BVQ SLA BVG VDisk group e BVQSLA e BVQ DC to SC placement rating Is grouped by configurable object relations e No other object type Configurable attributes Name Name of the data class Color Selection of the representation color within the treemap TSE eter Default value of the retail store price in GiB versus default cost ratio in the BVQ ratio storage class which is allocatd to a BVQ SLA during the assignment Comment Comment field 1 10 14 4 BVQ DC to SC placement rating Requirements for placement combinations of and A placement rating contains a user configurable rating for each combination from data classes to storage classes This serves to propose a suitable placement of VDisks in MDISK groups storage classes and additionally to display an assessment of the actual situation the color scheme DC2SC placement rating Groupes e No other BVQ objec
16. Comment Comment field 1 10 12 3 BVA application group Application group groups e g for the representation of specialized procedures business processes etc The BVQ application group is a grouping object type which combines one or more BVQ applications Typical usage e Representation of specialized procedures or business processes within a cost center or a cost carrier of a company e g SAP HR SAP Test SAP development SAP production Groups e BVQ application Is grouped by configurable object relations e BVOQ cost center Configurable attributes Name Name ofthe application group Comment Comment field 1 10 12 4 BVA cost center Cost center combines e g cost carriers customers and departments of a company The BVQ cost center is a grouping object which combines one or more BVG application groups Typical Usage USER S GUIDE BVA GUI OBJECT TYPES 136 BVQ user s guide v15 e Representation of cost centers or cost units customers departments of a company which subordinates one or more BVQ application groups e g human resources end user name SAP cost center 4711 Groupes e BVG application group Is grouped by configurable object relations e No other type of objects Configurable attributes Name Name of the cost center Comment Comment field 1 10 13 BVQ placement rules Placement guidelines for volumes Group of storage po
17. VIRTUAL capacity 2 x REAL capacity 2 x USED capacity FREE capacity always 0 USER S GUIDE BVG GUI KEY FIGURES OF THE BVQ STORAGE ENVIRONMENT 117 BVQ user s guide v15 No inflexible rule At the beginning the REAL and USED capacity can be less than the VIRTUAL capacity If REAL and USED capacity are growing because of write procedures eventually the situation occurs that the REAL and USED capacity become greater than the VIRTUAL capacity Finally the state of a FAV VDisk copy can be reached Calculated complementary metrics Consumer metrics in provider objects BVQ also calculates consumer metrics for a provider object by aggregating the values of linked consumer objects Provider metrics in consumer objects In order ito get comparable values in the treemap visualization provider metrics are also assigned to storage consumers as follows TOTAL capacity REAL capacity UNALLOCATED capacity 0 1 9 1 3 Output of metrics in the object detail view s information groups In the object detail view category accountables subdivision capacities the metrics are clearly divided and displayed in the following information groups Information group storage pool TOTAL REAL 512 byte ALLOCATABLE REAL Extent UNALLOCATED ALLOCATABLE gt 0 Extent ALLOCATED gt 512 byte WASTED gt 512 byte Bar chart RE allocated unallocated
18. 0 4 IOps GiB Current 0 01 IOps GiB Current 0 01 IOps GiB Current 0 IOps GiB Utilisation 3 Utilisation 2 Utilisation 1 Peak object 3 Peak object 2 Peak object 1 Estimated I O The estimated maximum I O density of the object based on the estimated IO USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 58 BVQ user s guide v15 density density of the object BVQ disk array Current I O The objetc s measured I O density density Hence the object s area size is derived in the aspect perfomance gt IO density Utilisation The object s measured I O density based on the estimated I O density Peak object The measured I O density of the most used sub object only for aggregating object types based on its estimated I O density Hence the object staining is derived in this color scheme How to usage of coloring strategy IO density heat 1 Define the estimated IO rate in the BVG disk type and the estimated IO density in the BVG disk array and connect the arrays with the correlating SVC MDisks 2 Chose the following predefined favorite Analysis performance gt IO density heatmap cluster MDg VDisk copy 3 The result is the following visualization of a heatmap in the treemap Abbildung 53 Color scheme IO density heat screenshot heatmap Le E emal KEE 1 wigan A 1 5 4 16 Color scheme response time compliance Search The object coloring according to the scheme response
19. 08 00 09 00 10 00 11 00 12 4 Tue 13 Wed 14 December 2011 Help for VDisk cache performance metrics Time 1 Ges Scanner Cloud Memory 1 6 1 Main panels Tabelle 44 Performance view main panels Purpose Panels Functions Sa ll Start time Allocation of the visible time period the chart area of the time period duration end time performance view by choosing start time duration and end time Loading and Draw Automatically or manually reloading and drawing of the the Drawing manual auto load curves in the diagram area of the performance view Sze Kelt Auto adjust Manual triggering of the value axes automatic scaling in value axes the graph area of the performance view Objects and Options dialog The dialog options in the performance view allows you to metrics select the objects and their metrics to be displayed as a load curve in the chart area DIRETA Chart area In the chart area of the performance view the load curves USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI PERFORMANCE VIEW 71 BVG user s guide v15 Purpose Panels Functions curves of selected objects and performance metrics are displayed 1 6 2 Walkthrough Calling Select objects in the treemap and call the performance view via the pop up menu Selecting time Set the desired time period period Selecting metrics Select the desired metrics and objects Analyzing chart Now the graph can be i
20. 369 83 GiB 18 1 Space eff saved capacity 633 78 GiB 30 9 Total capacity efficiency 962 61 GiB 47 0 VDisk copy V j USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 53 BVG user s guide v15 1 5 4 10 The object coloring scheme space efficiency paints the objects of the treemap based on the data reduction by Thin Provisioning Color scheme space efficiency Tabelle 30 Color scheme space efficiency meaning of the colors Color Efficiency Value range Meaning BE Red Bad 0 24 Low data reduction by thin provisioning PU Yellow Average 25 49 Average data reduction by thin provisioning BEE Green Good 50 79 High data reduction by thin provisioning IN Blue Excellent 80 100 Very high data reduction by thin provisioning H Faded Not space eff Object is not configured for space efficiency HED Object type Not applicable Object type is not affected Abbildung 50 Color scheme space efficiency treemap 8 show details screenshot VDisk SAPD1 D1 3 7 GiB AnuLateu Capacity Ir um IVVU 75 Wasted capacity 7 98 MiB 0 2 Virtual capacity 10 GiB 100 0 Real capacity 3 7 GiB 37 0 Used capacity 3 49 GiB 34 9 Free capacity 211 24 MiB 21 VDisk ors HM VDisk copy prim ae mn A E EEE UUT VDisk copy sec in Uncompressed used capacity 3 49 GiB 100 0 Compression saved capacity 0 Byte 0 0 Used capacity 3 49 GiB 100 0 VDisk copy Ec ee Copy virtual ca
21. BVQ disk array Determination of the threshold value per storage pool SVC MDisk group For each BVQ disk array the so called estimated IO density a threshold value for the IO density can be defined It is automatically calculated on the basis of the underlying BVQ disk type and the RAID level of the BVA disk arrays The IO density threshold for correlating SVC MDisk groups is also calculated by BVG based on this threshold Calculation of the measured IO density The currently measured IO density is based on the performance indicators IO rate IOR minus the read cache hit rate R RCH available in the known integration intervals This IO rate is approximately egual to the storage system IO rate also neglecting the write cache hits on dirty data The result is further divided by the storage capacity on which the IO can potentially be distributed IOCap Depending on the object s type a matching metric from the storage capacities is used e Storage providers ALLOCATABLE capacity e Storage consumers USED capacity Entire formula IOdensity IOR IOR RCH IOCap USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 57 BVQ user s guide v15 For VDisk copies and their groupings the read and write IO is attributed to the primary side The secondary copies only get the write IO The determined IO density can also be displayed in the aspect performance Comparison of threshold values This color scheme compares the IO density t
22. Cache hit W CTWHs CTWs cache hits on dirty data of write data re writes before destage Cache hit R amp W amp P CTRHs CTWHs CTRHPs CTRs CTWs CTPs cache hits on all valid data of read and write data Cache hit R amp P CTRHs CTRHPs CTRs CTPs cache hits on all valid data of read data Cache hit CTRHPs CTRs cache hits on prestaged read ahead data of read Prestage data Cache size R MiB CV CM 512B clean cache data MiB Cache size W MiB CM 512B modified dirty write cache data MiB Cache size MiB CV 512B valid read prestaged amp write cache data MiB R amp W Below cache IO rate R ops s CTRM read cache miss operation rate ops s IO rate W ops s CTD write cache destage operation rate ops s IO rate ops s CTRM CTD CTP total cache operation rate ops s R W P IO rate R P ops s CTRM CTP total read cache operation rate ops s IO rate ops s CTP read ahead cache prestage operation rate ops s Prestage Data rate R MiB s CTRMs 512B read cache miss data rate MiB s Data rate W MiB s CTDs 512B write cache destage data rate MiB s Data rate MiB s CTRMs CTDs CTPs 512B total cache data rate MiB s R W P Data rate R P MiB s CTRMs CTPs 512 total read cache data rate MiB s Data rate MiB s CTPs 512B read ahead cache prestage data rate
23. Configurable attributes e The SVC node can be associated to a BVQ controller 1 10 19 5 SVC MDisk Corresponds to a logical disk of a LUNS which is assigned to a SVC V7000 Groups e No other BVQ objects Is grouped by configurable object relations e BVQ disk array e SVC controller e SVC MDisk group Configurable attributes e No configurable attributes 1 10 19 6 SVC MDisk group Storage pool composed of logical disks Groupes e SVC MDisk e BVQ mobility zone e SVC extent Is grouped by configurable object relations USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI OBJECT TYPES 153 BVQ user s guide v15 e BVQ mobility zone e BVG storage class Configurable attributes Cost ratio Storage costs per GiB in versus retail price in the BVG SLA of the BVQ VDisk group Design response Maximum target response time of the storage pool based on its SVC time MDisks This is the threshold for the color scheme response time compliance Comment Comment field 1 10 20 SVC advanced copy services Advanced copy functions of the SVC such as flash copy and remote copy SVC flash copy mapping Flash copy mapping between source and target SVC VDisk SVC flash copy consistency Consistency group of flash copy mappings group SVC remote copy relationship Remote copy relation between master und auxiliary SVC VDisk SVC remote copy consistency Consistency group of remote copy relations
24. Hosts Location and Contact e SVC Nodes Location O Hint Discovery of technical Information e Example DS3500 o Opening DS Storage Manager o Calling up Profile USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 207 BVQ user s guide v15 o Reading out Information from Sections Controller Cache MTM Serial Numbers Raid Information Qualifying Site amp Room 1 Start the Qualification in the Task Menu with Edit gt Site and klicken on Add 2 Enter a Name for the Site Repeat Procedure with every Site 3 Carry out the same steps for the Sie Room Edit gt Room and allocate to each Room the appropriate Site Clue The Comment Field can be utilized for additional Information like e g Personal Contacts a Qualifying Disk Types For the Qualification of Disk Types the disk attributes have to be determined first e Class Does it concern Lowrange ATA SATA PATA Enterprise FC SAS SCSI or SSD Storage e Capacity What capacity do the Disks have available e Rotation Speed What numbers of revolution do the Disks have e Max est I O rate Is the Speed determined out of rotation This Value can also be adapted Starten the Qualificaton in the Task Menu with Edit gt Disk types and click on Add IE Qualifying Disk Controller For the Qualification of the Controller you select the correspondent Class and Room and register the Cache Size The Room Information must be entered so that the object Controller can be full
25. MDisk SVC gt gt MDisk gt MDisk gt MDisk gt gt gt gt controller Musk VDisk MDisk MDisk MDisk port SVC N A gt VDisk Cluster gt gt gt 3 node Cluster VDisk VDisk VDisk VDisk SVCIO N A gt VDisk Cluster gt gt gt gt group Cluster VDisk VDisk VDisk VDisk SVC 2 gt MDisk gt MDisk gt MDisk gt SX x gt cluster MDisk group group group VDisk VDisk VDisk VDisk copy copy copy BVQ gt gt VDisk gt VDisk gt VDisk KI 2 x SX VDisk VDisk VDisk VDisk VDisk VDisk group BVQ by gt VDisk gt VDisk gt VDisk gt gt XS SX applicatio USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI KEY FIGURES OF THE BVQ STORAGE ENVIRONMENT 122 BVQ user s guide v15 Aggrega ALLOCATA ALLOCA UNALLOCA VIRTU REAL USED FREE ted BLE TED TED AL object type n VDisk VDisk VDisk VDisk VDisk BVQ p gt VDisk gt VDisk gt VDisk gt gt e gt applicatio VDisk VDisk VDisk VDisk VDisk n group BVQ cost gt gt VDisk gt VDisk gt VDisk gt 2 py gt center VDisk VDisk VDisk VDisk VDisk SVC host gt gt VDisk gt VDisk gt VDisk x 3 3 gt VDisk VDisk VDisk VDisk VDisk SVC SX gt VDisk gt VDisk gt VDisk gt gt gt gt VDisk to VDisk VDisk VDisk VDisk VDisk host map BVQ 2 gt VDisk gt VDisk gt VDisk gt gt gt gt data VDisk VDisk VDisk VDisk VDisk class BVQ gt gt MDis
26. Node Metrics of the object type node which can be displayed as load curves in the perfomance view Node port Metrics of the performance object type node port derived from the object type SVC node MDisk group cache Metrics of the performance object type MDisk group cache partition partition derived from the object type SVC node Node to node Metrics of the performance object type node to node are derived from the object type SVC node 1 6 9 1 VDisk performance metrics Metrics of the object type VDisk which can be displayed as charts in the perfomance view USER S GUIDE BVG GUI PERFORMANCE view 83 Abbildung 68 Screenshot options dialog VDisk perf options xy esx apps02 d svccluster Visible 1 Interval Above cache 10 rate Data rate Latency Worst latency Transfer size Cache Cache hit Cache size gr Ow gr Ow OR OR w grw Ow Ow O Rew raw LI Prestage LI Prestage Prestage O rawar 0 R amp P UI Prestage O r Below cache IO rate Data rate Latency Transfer size OR Ow O R W P R P UI Prestage O R w p Ore Prestage OR Ow R amp w amp P R amp P UI Prestage OR Ow O rawap rar 0 Prestage OR Cache modes for writes Data per mode Cache Qw JA Global mirror Writes Ow Dswo gewot gews Dem Tabelle 53 Overview performance metrics VDisk BVG user s guide v15 IO ra
27. Screenshots Abbildung 93 Screenshot staining File Edit Favorites i 7 ve like OT Cluster MDisk group VDisk X Scanner Cloud Memory Last reload from DB 5m 11s ago USER S GUIDE BVA GUI USE CASES 218 BVG user s guide v15 Abbildung 94 Screenshot staining File Edit Favorites 36 li OT Cluster MDisk group VDisk E E Eos EEA Pr E vr Ivsilvos II r mr FP FFF Scanner Cloud Memory Last reload from DB 10m 45s ago i USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 219 BVG user s guide v15 Abbildung 95 Screenshot staining File Edit Favorites We o lie OT Cluster MDisk group VDisk X BYQP Cluster MDiskg Search kal USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USECASES 220 BVQ user s guide v15 2 USER S GUIDE BVO REPORTING 2 1 Reports overview 2 1 1 Standard reports The standard reports are components of the BVQ performance and premium edition The following standard reports are provided in BVQ e Accounting report STD 01_ACC_COST CAP_ORGUN_DL1_FMT Can only be applied with the accounting package Overview about accounting units applications and their utilisation of storage e Historical Cluster Capacity Report STD 02 CAP REALCAP LICCAP VIRTU DL1 FMT Historical evaluation of SVC Storwize Systems e Disksystem Capacity Report STD 03 CAP CAP CNT STGPR DL1 FMT Evaluation of the connected disksystems 2
28. VDisk MDisk node For other object types Pls are obtained by aggregating the base Pls aggregated Pls Thus for example the PI IO rate for a VDisk group is calculated by summing the condensed VDisk PIs which are condensed in the VDisk group e The grouping objects are used to select the base objects The calculation uses the most recent state of the group membership when aggregating USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI KEY FIGURES OF THE BVQ STORAGE ENVIRONMENT 126 BVG user s guide v15 e Undefined underlying data aggregation points are ignored note for mean values correspondingly reduced number of elements e f more than 20 of the underlying data aggregation points are undefined the aggregated PI is undefined Aggregation methods Aggregation methods Description gt Sum The aggregated PI is defined as the sum of defined base Pls Mean The aggregated PI is defined as the arithmetic mean of the base Pls sum of the defined basic Pls number of defined basic Pls Performance indicator Basic PI IOR Aggregation method DR RT IO RTS R RCH CPU ajJaja A A M xxxP Peak Pls are not defined for the aggregation Aggregated object types Aggregated me e BVQ controller MDisk all SVC controller MDisk all BVQ disk type MDisk all BVQ disk array MDisk all USER S GUIDE
29. e The localization of performance problems e Finding the volume which is the potential source of the excessive load Which volumes just suffer from the side effects e Optimizing the utilization or costs by redistributing to cheaper storage e Finding the storage consumers with the highest load consumer perspective e Finding of resources storage providers with the most free load reserves provider perspective USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 44 BVG user s guide v15 Here is an example for the representation of the topology in a performance aspect Abbildung 41 Topology aspect performance view mid term I O rate R W A Custer WDisk LE 23 Aspects Perf mid gt TO rate R W Object color Object type Ba luster 1 ORR MD SSD_INTERNAL_SVC1 MD_IOR 76 IO s 1 5 3 4 Aspect cost amp price Price and cost aspects are focused on the representation of specific financial accounting variables Aspect Multiplier Purpose MDisk group cost ratio Shows costs based on the total capacity of storage providers or the capacity occupied by storage consuming objects VDisk group current Displays sales price based on the virtual capacity of storage SLA price ratio consuming objects Aspect cost The cost aspect allows the examination of the costs incurring by storage providers Before cost aspects can be used the storage pools MDISK groups have to be configured with the factor cost
30. e The placement of two VDisk groups to each other can be monitored by assigning this pair to a BVQ VDisk group relation It is useful for both methods to divide the VDisk group according to their copy groups For example all primary mirror VDisks into one MP the secondary mirrors into the other VDisk group MS Typical usage e Illustration of a group of VDisks with the same purpose typically the same quality BVQ data class and serving the same application BVQ application e g CD images DB tablespaces DB redo log filesystem volumes archive volumes system boot volumes Groups e SVC VDisk e BVQSLA e BVQ VDisk group relation Is grouped by configurable object relations e BVQ application e BVQ mobility zone e BVQ VDisk group relation Configurable attributes Name Name of the VDisk group Comment Comment field 1 10 12 2 BVQ application Application e g Oracle Windows File Service Oracle DB Service SAP DB Service grouping The BVQ application is a grouping object type which combines one or more BVQ VDisk groups Typcal usage e Illustration of applications referenced to a technical procedure such as Oracle File Service Prod SAP SAP Test Groupes USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI OBJECT TYPES 135 BVG user s guide v15 e BVG VDisk group Is grouped by configurable object relations e BVQ application group Configurable attributes Name Name ofthe application
31. passende VDisk Gruppe aus Eine Mobility Zone kann hierbei f r mehrere VDisk Gruppen verwendet werden Geben Sie f r die Mobility Zone P die Mobilty Zone an in welcher sich die prim ren Kopien der VDisks in der VDisk Gruppe befinden sollen Geben Sie f r die Mobility Zone S die Mobilty Zone an in welcher sich die sekund ren Kopien der VDisks in der VDisk Gruppe befinden sollen Somit k nnen gespiegelte VDisks VDisk Mirror unterschiedlichen Mobility Zones zugewiesen werden USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 194 BVQ user s guide v15 BVQ ID 364 Name GPFS MR Production Links to related objects Application SVA GPFS GPFS Production Application Group GPFS Production Application 193 v D Newest Add fi Mobility zone P v fi Mobility zone S Not assiqned y VDisks gpfsini_rh_boot 313 20 d PSE GPFSIN1 EL 523 20 PSE GPFSIN2 EL 524 20 PSE GPFSIN3 BI 525 204 Links to related objects svel FST2 SAS HE 53 gt svel FST4 SAS MR 49 svel FST4 SATA CO 52 svel SWV1_SAS_MR 51 VDisk Group Relations MDisk groups svel Quorum 50 u VDisk groups SLAs Comment Mobility Zone Compliance Check ber Object Colors Mobility zone compliance werden in der Einf rbung die falsch platzierten Objekte rot angezeigt Korrekt platzierte Objekte werden immer gr n angezeigt Blaue Objekte weisen darauf hin dass keine Complianceregeln bestehen
32. 1 Calling the object detail view The object detail view can be accessed by double click or show details from the context menu for a treemap object the object list of the performance options dialogs as well as from the tables view Abbildung 78 Calling the object detail view ra Objed colons Obie pe VD VMFS01 prod VD_IOR 121 IO s amp Edit Add Delete E Show in list Show details Open SVC CLI 2 Show VDisk performance graphis PA Show MDisk performance graphis amp Show Node performance graph s ID Show Node Port performance graph s M Zoom to selection fa Reset zoom Ctrl 0 1 8 2 Overview object detail view An object detail view is subdivided as follows e Categories fold out areas o Subdivisions tables with separate headings Information groups common color markings 183 Categories Usually the object detail view is divided into the following main categories In individually folding areas corresponding information is displayed in tabular form e Attributes e Accountables USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI OBJECT DETAIL VIEW 109 BVQ user s guide v15 e Topology e Service level amp compliance e Performance Abbildung 79 Object detail view categories Accountables Topology y o Service level 9 amp Compliance 9 y YDisk performance Q Depending on which topology aspects is set a matching category is already opened 1 8 3 1 Attributes This sect
33. 2 VDisk gt p gt VDis VDis VDis k k k copy copy COPY 2 VDisk gt 2 gt VDis VDis VDis k k k copy copy copy N A N A VDisk 9 N A gt Extents N A gt p gt VDis VDis VDis k k k copy copy copy For other object types capacity metrics are obtained by aggregation indirectly Thus for example the VIRTUAL VDisk capacity for a VDisk group is calculated by summing up the VDisk group which contains the combined VDisk VIRTUAL capacity The grouping objects are used to select the USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI KEY FIGURES OF THE BVQ STORAGE ENVIRONMENT 121 BVQ user s guide v15 base objects The group membership which is displayed at this point of time counts Aggregation methods Aggregation method Description The aggregated value is defined as the sum of defined basic values Aggregated object types Aggrega TOTA ALLOCATA ALLOCA UNALLOCA VIRTU ted L BLE TED TED AL object type BVQ gt gt MDisk gt MDisk gt MDisk gt 2 gt gt controller Musk VDisk MDisk MDisk MDisk SVC gt gt MDisk gt MDisk gt MDisk gt gt gt gt controller MDisk VDisk MDisk MDisk MDisk BVQ disk gt gt MDisk gt MDisk 3 MDisk gt gt gt gt type MDisk VDisk MDisk MDisk MDisk BVQ dek gt gt MDisk gt MDisk 3 MDisk gt gt gt gt array MDisk VDisk MDisk MDisk
34. 408 199 svei 00000200616006A8 353 119 swc1 000002006 1600648 gt 4071 198 svei 0000020061600648 352 118 svei 0000020061600648 245 5 oc 00000200616006A8 275 38 svel 0000020061600648 272 35 svc1 0000020061600648 EI 34 svel 000002006 1600648 274 37 svel 00000200616006A8 273 36 svel 0000020061600648 318 83 svei 0000020061600648 Placement pol VMWare Add i The creation of a vdisk is controlled by the svc The removal of a vdisk is controlled by the svc A Depending on the internal BVQ license key some object types and their menu items are disabled USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI MAINMENU 9 BVQ user s guide v15 123 Menu favorites Main menu favorites opens the favorites selection which allows access to stored topology views and performance views Abbildung 8 Main menu favorites a File Edit Favorites 7 vw Va Addtofavorites Ctrl D i ve Open favorites Ctrl F A BYQ Tabelle 4 Main menu favorites functions Main menu functions favorites Add to favorites Allows you to save all views performance graphs included Open favorites Opens selection of favorites 1 2 4 Menu Main menu provides access to functions for license managing information about the GUI memory consumption scanner status and code version Abbildung 9 Main menu Deva File Edit Favorites amp Update BYQ license 2 Display BYQ license mi
35. BVQ GUI OBJECT TYPES 142 BVG user s guide v15 Color Selection of the imaging color within the treemap Default cost ratio Default value for the storage costs in GiB allocated in assigning a SVC MDisk group Default design Default value for the desired response time in ms l0 allocated in response time assigning a SVC MDisk group Comment Comment field 1 10 14 2 BVQ SLA Service level agreement associates a and details on prices GiB and run time A BVQ SLA belongs to exactly one BVG VDisk group but per BVG VDisk group one or more BVQ SLA can be configured which don t overlap themselves in a time period This also applies for the referenced objects which are describing the service level Changing and shortening are only possible by deleting and re creating The BVQ SLA includes information about e Validity period start and end date e With the end customer agreed price factor for the virtual capacity of his SVC VDisk in GiB Groupes e No other objects Is grouped by configurable object relations e BVQ data class e BVG VDisk group Configurable attributes Valid from Date valid from Valid to Date valid to iil End customer price per GiB in versus costs of the SVC MDisk group Comment Comment field 1 10 14 3 BVQ data class Data class arranges with equal quality requirements USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI OBJECT TYPES 143
36. BVQ ROOM NAME VARCHAR 64 BVQ SITE ID INTEGER 4 BVQ SITE NAME VARCHAR 64 SVC CLUSTER ID CHAR 16 SVC CLUSTER NAME VARCHAR 64 SVC NODE ID INTEGER 4 SVC NODE NAME VARCHAR 64 TOPOLOGY COST CENTER APPLICATION GROUP APPLICATION VDISK GROUP BVQ APPLICATION GROUP ID INTEGER 4 BVQ APPLICATION GROUP NAME VARCHAR 64 BVQ APPLICATION ID INTEGER 4 BVQ APPLICATION NAME VARCHAR 64 BVQ COST CENTER ID INTEGER 4 BVA COST CENTER NAME VARCHAR 64 BVG VDISK GROUP ID INTEGER 4 BVQ VDISK GROUP NAME VARCHAR 64 TOPOLOGY SITE ROOM CONTROLLER CLUSTER ARRAY MDISK USER S GUIDE BVQ REPORTING BVQ DATABASE VIEW SCHEME FOR REPORT SCHEME LEVEL 1 0 0 0 241 BVQ user s guide v15 BVQ_ARRAY_ID INTEGER 4 BVQ_ARRAY_NAME VARCHAR 64 BVQ_CONTROLLER_ID INTEGER 4 BVQ CONTROLLER MERGE ID INTEGER 4 BVQ CONTROLLER MERGE NAME VARCHAR 64 BVQ MDISK ID INTEGER 4 BVQ ROOM ID INTEGER 4 BVQ ROOM NAME VARCHAR 64 BVQ SITE ID INTEGER 4 BVQ SITE NAME VARCHAR 64 SVC CLUSTER ID CHAR 16 SVC CLUSTER NAME VARCHAR 64 SVC_CONTROLLER_ID INTEGER 4 SVC CONTROLLER NAME VARCHAR 64 SVC MDISK ID INTEGER 4 SVC MDISK NAME VARCHAR 64 VDISK BVG VDISK GROUP ID INTEGER 4 BVQ VDISK ID INTEGER 4 SVC CLUSTER ID CHAR 16 SVC VDISK ID INTEGER 4 SVC VDISK NAME VARCHAR 64 SVC VDISK UID CHAR 32 VDISKCOPY CAPACITY BVQ V
37. Filtern E Aus Text Quellen Verbindungen aktualisieren gt Verkn pfungen bearbeiten Externe Daten abrufen Verbindungen Sortieren L Al vi fr A B iG D E F G H 1 2 Datenquelle auswahlen 3 i Datenbanken Abfragen OLAP Cubes lt Neue Datenguelle gt BUILDSWG Abbrechen 6 dBASE Files Durchsuchen Z Excel Files 8 IBMSWG Optionen 9 MS Access Database MS SQL Server6 Approach a 10 MS Spee SL Seven Armed fr 11 12 IV Query Assistenten zur Erstellung Bearbeitung von Abfragen verwenden 13 Query wizard choose columns Ga fed 7 Mappel Kompai Start Einf gen Seitenlayout Formeln Daten berpr fen Ansicht T Aus Access E E la Al Verbindungen 24 Y A Aus dem Web T Eigenschaften Aus anderen Vorhandene Alle 2 Sortieren Filtern Esi Aus Text Quellen Verbindungen aktualisieren Ver kn pfungen bearbeiten Externe Daten abrufen Verbindungen Sortieren L welche Spalten sollen in die Abfrage eingeschlossen werden Verf gbare Tabellen und Spalten Spalten in Ihrer Abfrage SYC_UNKNOWN_PORT N UID SVC UNKNOWN PORT CUR WC Sch SVC_VDISK E CREATED YDISK_CUR DELETED E SVC VDISKCOPY NAME 1 SVP VNISKENPY PIIR GOV RATIO u GOV_RATIO_TYPE Datenvorschau der ausgew hlten Spalte 10 11 12 13 14 Vorschau anzeigen Optionen Zur ch Abbrechen 15 16 WAN AW wine Query wizard filter data USER S GUIDE BVG REPORTING ODBC
38. GiB TUUT OIW TUU 75 1 38 MiB 0 0 269 98 GiB 100 0 70 67 GiB 26 2 65 26 GiB 24 2 5 41 GiB 20 _ EE a SBS 258 2 GiB 100 0 192 94 GiB 74 7 65 26 GiB 25 3 269 98 GiB 192 94 GiB 11 78 GiB 199 3 GiB Color scheme compression rate 100 0 71 5 44 738 The object coloring according to the scheme compression rate colors the objects based on the compression rate Tabelle 32 Color scheme compression rate meaning of the colors USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 55 BVQ user s guide v15 Color Efficiency Value range Meaning WE Red Bad 0 24 Low compression rate EHI Yellow Average 25 49 Average compression rate Green Good 50 79 High compression rate mm Blue Excellent 80 100 Very high compression rate Faded No compression Object is not configured for compression ED Object type Not applicable Object type is not affected 1 5 4 13 Color scheme data and storage class The object staining according to the scheme data and storage class colors the objects in the treemap according to the custom colors of the BVQ storage class or BVQ data class Depending on an object s belonging it is colored in the same color like the storage or data class Tabelle 33 Topology color scheme Color Condition Color BVQ Objects with configured storage class storage class Color BVQ Objects with configured data class da
39. If needed a performance analysis for each displayed object can now be done with the right mouse button e Example2 which average data processing rates are used by the volumes of the SAP installation Set VDisks in the topology navigator and choose aspect perf long gt data rate R W Set a meaningful name fragment for the SAP discs in the object search see Topology view The found SAP disks are highlighted in orange details are made visible via zoom or the pop up window USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 39 BVQ user s guide v15 153 Topology aspects The aspects of the topology view allow to refocus the display according to certain priorities The main function of the aspects is to specify the size factor for the displayed area size in the treemap Depending on the aspect s selection the objects with the largest capacity load cost are also represented as the largest areas The following aspect categories are available Tabelle 23 Topology aspect selection The aspect topology is focused on the representation of the objects hierarchical order The aspect capacity is targeted to management of storage capacities The performance aspect is focused on the analysis of IO load performance and visualizes predicted load performance indicators Price and cost aspects are focused on the representation of specific financial accounting variables Object type in the top level of the treemap is d
40. Legend Object s native metric gt Calculated by aggregation of related objects USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI KEY FIGURES OF THE BVQ STORAGE ENVIRONMENT 118 Information group space efficiency Thin Provisioning BVQ user s guide v15 Capacity Provider Consumer Min granularity VIRTUAL gt 512 Byte REAL gt 512 Byte USED 2 Grain size FREE Grain size Bar chart Virtual i an d Used Free IE Legend Object s native metric gt Calculated by aggregation of related objects Information group compression Metric Calculation Description Uncompressed used capacity uncompressed used capacity Theoretical size of the uncompressed used capacity Compression saved capacity Cs uncompressed used capacity used capacity Compression gain saved capacity by compression Used capacity U used capacity Compressed capacity Bar chart U Cs Ratio of compressed U capacity to compression gain Cs All percentages are based on the theoretical size of the uncompressed capacity uncompressed used capacity 100 Information group capacity efficiency Metric Calculation Description Copy virtual copy virtual capacity capacity V Sum ofthe virtual SUM vdiskcopy virtual capacity capacity of all VDisk copies USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI KEY FIGURES OF THE BVQ STORAGE ENVIRONMEN
41. MDisks Array Array Array Array Array Nodes Room Room Room Room Hosts Room Room Room Room Controllers 9 Room Room Room Room DiskArrays 9 i USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 201 BVQ user s guide v15 Entry Performan Perf Acc Perf SLM Edition Premium Edition Editio ce Edition Edition ben tigt ben tigt ben tigt ben tigt DiskTypes Q Q Q Application EJ B ApplicationGro ApplicationGroup S up Application Costcenter Costcenter Groups Costcenter E Q B Oo SLA s 3 2 PriceRatio VDiskGro PriceRatio VDiskGro Up up Primary amp Primary amp Secondary copy data Secondary copy data class class Data 3 Eine Data class Eine Data class classes muss zu allen muss zu allen bestehenden bestehenden Storage classes ein Storage classes ein DC to SC placement DC to SC placement rating besitzen rating besitzen Storage B B B Eine Storage class Eine Storage class classes muss zu allen muss zu allen bestehenden Data bestehenden Data classes ein classes ein DC to SC placement DC to SC placement rating besitzen rating besitzen DC to SC Ba PlacementRating placement Dataclass ratings Storageclass Mobility 3 MDiskGroup MDiskGroup zones VDiskgroup EJ Ba 2 VDiskGroups 2 VDiskGroups relations Rooms Site Site Site Site Site 0 Q 0 Legende USER
42. Not VDisk copy the placement of the VDisk copies violates the condition of compliant one or more assigned VDisk group relations A Incomplete VDisk copy at least one of the assigned VDisk group relations refers to undefined BVQ objects room site Compliant VDisk group relation the placement of all assigned VDisk copies complies with the requirement of the VDisk group relation Not VDisk group relation the placement of one or more assigned VDisk compliant copies violates the condition of the VDisk group relation A Incomplete VDisk group relation at least one of the assigned VDisk copies lacks relations to BVQ objects that are required for the VDG rel room site 1 5 4 21 Object type specific color schemes Some object types have a specially adapted color scheme for a better representation of their specific properties These are e Color scheme SVC controller port SVC node port SVC host port e Color scheme port connect e Color scheme VM virtual machine Color scheme port connect The special coloring of the object type port connect colors the ireemap s objects depending on the connected port and the active inactice status of the connection Colors of connected SVC port types Tabelle 41 Meaning of the color object type port connect WU Green SVC controller port IW Turquoise SVC node port USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 65 BVG user s guide v
43. O rate Tabelle 60 Description performance metrics MDisk group cache partition Metric Unit Description Cache fullness Axis W min PFMN Write cache fullness minimum W avg PFAV Write cache fullness average W max PFMX Write cache fullness maximum Messages In flight min ops MIFMN Lowest messages in flight count in interval ops In flight avg ops MIFAV Average messages in flight count in interval ops In flight max ops MIFNX Highest messages in flight count in interval ops In flight rate ops s MIFCN Message rate count s In flight guide min ops MIFGMN Lowest messages in flight guide count in interval ops In flight guide avg ops MIFGAV Average messages in flight guide count in interval ops In flight guide max ops MIFGNX Highest messages in flight guide count in interval ops In flight guide rate ops s MIFGCN Message guide rate ops s USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI PERFORMANCE VIEW 96 Metric Cache latency Unit Axis BVQ user s guide v15 Description W Destage min ms op DLMN Destage latency minimum ms op W Destage avg ms op DLAV Destage latency average ms op W Destage max ms op DLMX Destage latency maximum ms op W Destage rate ops s DLCN Destage rate ops s R Prestage min ms op PLMN Prestage read ahead latency mini
44. S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 202 BVQ user s guide v15 Nicht Bestandteil der Edition Keine Qualifizierung m glich notwendig Es wird kein Objekt ben tigt BVQ Qualified Status liegt bereits vor 1 12 1 9 Anzeige von Qualification Compliance und Placement Rating Mit den Editoren f r VDisk group relations Mobility Zones und SLAs ist die Abbildung von Compliance Vorgaben SLA Regeln und Objekt Qualifizierung m glich So lassen sich Zust nde an verschiedenen Stellen der BVQ GUI anzeigen und schaffen dadurch einen erheblichen Mehrwert und bersicht Folgende M glichkeiten ergeben sich daraus Compliance Check Die Einhaltung der eingegebenen Vorgaben pr fen Dies betrifft e Data class compliance Aktuelle VDisk Platzierung bez glich ihrer Data Class e Mobility zone compliance Aktuelle VDisk Platzierung bez glich ihrer Mobility zones e VDisk group relation compliance Aktuelle VDisk Platzierung bez glich ihrer VDisk group relations e Overall compliance Zusammenfassung der drei obigen Zust nde Placement rating Eine Bewertung aus Data Class und Storage Class pr fen e Aktuelle Bewertung der VDisk Platzierung bez glich ihrer Data Class und Storage Class Qualification state Die Vollst ndigkeit der BVQ Qualifizierung von Objekten pr fen In der GUI gibt es grunds tzlich zwei verschiedene Darstellung die sich zum Anzeigen der Zust nde eignen e Treemap e List views M gliche Zust
45. Sie einen Zeitraum f r die G ltigkeit des SLA s an e Tragen Sie den GiB Preis ein e Betroffene VDisk Gruppe ausw hlen e W hlen Sie die Datenklasse f r die Primary und Secondary Copy aus O Eine VDisk ist erst vollgualifiziert wenn sie mit einem SLA verkn ptt ist USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 200 BVG user s guide v15 BYQ ID valid from 09 22 2011 v non valid to 01 01 2013 v infinite Links to related objects YDisk group Personalabteilung Gehaltsabrechnung SAP Prod SAP Backup 26 v bi Newest 0 add Ei Secondary copy data class A 25 v bi Newest OD sad cap Edit Comment mm Im maIaammma 3 Price ratio required 1 12 1 8 Qualifizierungs Abh ngigkeiten BVQ Qualified Die folgende Tabelle gibt Aufschluss ber die Qualifizierungsabh ngigkeiten der einzelnen BVQ Objekte Ist die Qualifizierungsabh ngigkeit erf llt dann wird das Objekt als BVQ qualifiziert angezeigt und die damit verbundenen Informationen k nnen f r sp tere Auswertungen im BVQ bzw im Reporting genutzt werden BVQ Entry Performan Perf Acc Perf SLM Edition Premium Edition Objekt Editio ce Edition Edition ben tigt ben tigt ben tigt ben tigt VDiskGroup E SLA SLA s VDisks Q Q VDiskGroup VDiskGroup VDiskGroup VDiskCope 0 o s MDiskGrou ResponseTime amp ResponseTime amp ps StorageClass StorageClass
46. Starten Sie die Qualifizierung in der Men leiste mit Edit gt VDisk groups und w hlen sie eine passende VDisk Gruppe aus Eine Mobility Zone kann hierbei f r mehrere VDisk Gruppen verwendet werden Geben Sie f r die Mobility Zone P die Mobilty Zone an in welcher sich die prim ren Kopien der VDisks in der VDisk Gruppe befinden sollen Geben Sie f r die Mobility Zone S die Mobilty Zone an in welcher sich die sekund ren Kopien der VDisks in der VDisk Gruppe befinden sollen Somit k nnen gespiegelte VDisks VDisk Mirror unterschiedlichen Mobility Zones zugewiesen werden a Mobility Zone Compliance Check USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 176 BVG user s guide v15 ber Object Colors Mobility zone compliance werden in der Einf rbung die falsch platzierten Objekte rot angezeigt Korrekt platzierte Objekte werden immer gr n angezeigt Blaue Objekte weisen darauf hin dass keine Complianceregeln bestehen Nutzen sie auch hier die Step by Step gt Compliance rules Funktion um schnell einen berblick ber die Compliance zu erhalten In der Premium Edition m ssen s mtliche hier beschriebenen Qualifizierungsschritte durchgef hrt werden da beide Erweiterungspakete Bestandteil dieser sind O Bei der Entry Edition ist einzig die Qualifizierung der MDisk zu Array m glich Siehe dazu Qualifizierung Disk Arrays Auf die Entry Edition wird daher in diesem Kapitel nicht weiter eingegangen 1 12 1 4 Display of unqual
47. Tabelle stellt ein m gliches Datenklassenszenario dar Anzahl und Benennung der Datenklassen sind nicht fest vorgeschrieben Daten Beschreibun Speicherklass e Bronze Speicherklass e Silber Speicherklass e Gold Abrechnungspreis MEES fiktive Kosten fiktive Kosten fiktive Kosten fiktiv e 15 ET 75 A Datenklasse optimal 100 mit den inakzeptabel inakzeptabel h chsten Anforderunge n A akzeptabel optimal 90 inakzeptabel B optimal akzeptabel 75 inakzeptabel B optimal 50 inakzeptabel inakzeptabel C optimal 7 akzeptabel X 40 inakzeptabel e Datenklasse optimal 20 mit inakzeptabel inakzeptabel niedrigsten Anforderunge n BVA Platzierungsbewertung In BVQ kann die Bewertung der Platzierung f r alle Kombinationen aus Daten und Speicherklassen Kundenspezifisch eingegeben werden Die Platzierung von Datenbereichen auf einer gleichwertigen Speicherklasse ist i d R bevorzugt Die Platzierung von hochwertigen Datenbereichen auf niederwertigen Speicherklassen ist i d R riskant aber g nstig Die Platzierung von niederwertigen Datenbereichen auf hochwertigen Speicherklassen ist i d R zu teuer USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 197 BVQ user s guide v15 Qualifizierung Storage classes Starten Sie die Qualifizierung in der Men leiste mit Edit gt Storage classes und klicken Sie auf Add
48. Then the valid VDisk group is allocated to it The qualification is carried out for the other VDisks as well BYQ ID 30 S C ID 29 Cluster svc1 0000020061600648 Name Ea UID 60050768018580144000000000000165 Properties Size 50 isis Gov ratio 0 1Ofs Links to related objekts IO group lio op D svc1 0 svc1 Preferred node svcini 2 inio grp 0 svel svel vw VDisk group Personalabteilung Gehaltsabrechnung SAP Prod SAP Backup 26 v pl Newest cap Edit Hosts PSE2_VIO1D 3 in cluster svc1 PSE2_YIOZD 14 in cluster svc1 PSE _YIO3D 15 in cluster svc1 PSE _YIO4D 27 in cluster svc1 D Add n levep Editron Lu Delete VDisk copies Values SAPD2 Bi 30XF 1 GiB U 47 GIB R 48 GIB in FST2 SAS HE svc1 STT cop Edit 1 O Delete x JI Gi USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 174 BVG user s guide v15 After these executed qualification steps the first evaluations in the BVQ can take place e g the capacity view performance view on a cost center Capacity view BVG Cost center gt Application group Application rogue ar Cost Center Verwendet 32 59TiB App gruppe VMWare 16 04 TiB Applikation ESX3 11 43TiB VDisks f r Fileserver Aggregated VDisk Performance Short term 4h Mid term 24h Long term 7d 10 rate Bau 27331015 Bro 2 791 1075 Bro 2 647
49. USER S GUIDE BVG REPORTING BVG DATABASE VIEW SCHEME FOR REPORT SCHEME LEVEL 1 0 0 0 235 BVQ user s guide v15 SVC_LICENSE_REMOTE_ENTITLED DOUBLE 8 SVC LICENSE REMOTE USED DOUBLE 8 SVC LICENSE VIRTUALIZATION ENTITLED DOUBLE 8 SVC LICENSE VIRTUALIZATION USED DOUBLE 8 SVC UNALLOCATED CAPACITY BIGINT 8 CLUSTER CAPACITY HISTORY 2 YEARS MARKER DATE TIMESTMP 10 SVC ALLOCATABLE CAPACITY BIGINT 8 SVC ALLOCATED CAPACITY BIGINT 8 SVC CLUSTER CHANGED TIMESTMP 10 SVC CLUSTER DELETED SMALLINT 2 SVC CLUSTER ID CHAR 16 SVC CLUSTER NAME VARCHAR 64 SVC LICENSE FLASH ENTITLED DOUBLE 8 SVC LICENSE FLASH USED DOUBLE 8 SVC LICENSE REMOTE ENTITLED DOUBLE 8 SVC LICENSE REMOTE USED DOUBLE 8 SVC LICENSE VIRTUALIZATION ENTITLED DOUBLE 8 SVC LICENSE VIRTUALIZATION USED DOUBLE 8 SVC UNALLOCATED CAPACITY BIGINT 8 COST CENTER HIST 1 YEAR CREATED TIMESTMP 10 DELETED SMALLINT 2 ID INTEGER 4 MARKER DATE TIMESTMP 10 NAME VARCHAR 64 NOTES VARCHAR 2048 DISK ARRAY BVG ARRAY ID INTEGER 4 BVG ARRAY NAME VARCHAR 64 BVG DISK COUNT INTEGER 4 BVG DISK TYPE NAME VARCHAR 56 BVG IO DENSITY DOUBLE 8 BVQ RAID MODE VARCHAR 4 DISK TYPE BVQ CAPACITY BIGINT 8 BVQ CLASS VARCHAR 10 BVQ DISK TYPE ID INTEGER 4 BVQ DISK TYPE NAME VARCHAR
50. USER S GUIDE BVG REPORTING ODBC ACCESS TO THE BVG REPORTING SCHEME 227 CLI ODEC Settings BVQ Data Source Advanced Settings Data source name Description BVQ DB on bvgdb User ID bvq Password v Save password BVQ user s guide v15 With advanced settings db2cli ini all other parameters can be individually configured The most important attribute is hostname b Oder alternativ in der db2cli ini The db2cli ini is either in the root directory of the unpacked ZIP file or in the directory documented in the IBM info center An example for a db2cli ini Comment lines start with a semi colon BVO authentication SE RVER database bvq protocol TCPIP port 50000 hostname bvqdbl uid bvq pwd bvq autocommit 0 TableType TA BLE Es VIEW SYSTE SchemaList BVQ BVQ_R EPORT 6 View user data source BVQ configure M TA BLE USER S GUIDE BVG REPORTING ODBC ACCESS TO THE BVG REPORTING SCHEME 228 BVG user s guide v15 TODBC Datenguellen Administrator Benutzer DSN System DSN Datei DSN Treiber Ablaufverfolgung Verbindungs Pooling Info Benutzerdatenquellen Name Treiber BUILDSWG Microsoft Access Driver mdb Entfernen IBM DATA SERVER DRIVER for ODE BVQ ODBC local MySQL DB MySQL ODBC 3 51 Driver Konfigurieren dBASE Dateien Microsoft
51. Viathe context menu of an object in the treemap 3 Viathe context functions of the list of linked objects in the object editors 4 Via the context menu of the option dialog of the perfomance view Can muttiple objects be edited simultaneously If multiple objects are selected simultaneously in the tabular view or treemap keep button CTRL pressed at the selection and edit is chosen the attributes or connections of all objects can be changed in one draft Which editors do exist An overview about all BVG object types and their arrangements can be found under object types Object editors are only available for the following object types with BVQ relevant attributes Name Description BVA locations BVQ room Datacenter room within a location in which servers storage subsystems and nodes are located BVA site Datacenter location in which one or muttiple datacenter operating rooms are arranged Storage provider BVQ disk type Disk type which is included in the disk arrays of the storage subsystems BVQ disk array Combination RAID of disks of one type in a storage subsystem BVQ controller Represents a storage subsystem cluster overlapping group of SVC USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI OBJECT EDITORS 158 BVQ user s guide v15 Name Description controllers SVC controller Represents part units port cards controller nodes with different WWNN of a storage subsystem SVC MDisk Com
52. grouping Light blue Capacities or business objects Light red Performance Light green Related object links or topology objects Light yellow Other groupings Light turquoise Previously unused Light orange Previously unused 1 9 Key figures of the BVQ storage environment Read and calculated key figures of the storage environment managed by BVQ about capacity IO load and object counters USER S GUIDE BVG GUI KEY FIGURES OF THE BVQ STORAGE ENVIRONMENT 115 BVQ user s guide v15 Key performance indicators for the management of storage capacities such as assigned free or virtual capacity of an object Financial indicators to support the charging and billing such as storage costs and prices Number of objects linked with objects of another type Key figures for IO load calculated mainly by averaging a series of measurements with different integration periods 1 9 1 Storage capacities Key performance indicators for the management of storage capacities such as assigned free or virtual capacity of an object 1 9 1 1 Visualization of the GUI s storage capacities Information about storage capacities are displayed in the GUI at four locations 1 As a proportionality factor in the topology view s treemap in the aspect capacity 2 Inthe tooltip of the topology view s treemap objects in the aspect group capacity 3 Inthe object detail view in the main chapter accountables 4 Inthe treema
53. gt from other resources gt from Microsoft query Ca EASAN A Mappel Komp Start Einf gen Seitenlayout Formeln Daten berpr fen Ansicht Ey Aus Access E 2 E amp Verbindungen Al 7 gp Aus dem Web JS Sf Eigenschaften ZA m Vorhandene Alle zall Sortieren Filtern Aus Text Queller Verbindungen aktualisieren gt Verkn pfungen bearbeiten Exter D Von SOL Server Sortieren AEN r H Erstellt eine Verbindung mit einer SQL Server Tabelle Importieren Sie Daten in Excel als Tabelle oder PivotTable Bericht Von Analysis Services G H Erstellt eine Verbindung mit einem SQL Server Analysis Services Cube Importieren Sie Daten in Excel als Tabelle oder PivotTable Bericht Vom XML Datenimport XML Datei in Excel ffnen oder Excel zuordnen GA EK Vom Datenverbindungs Assistenten Importiert Daten f r ein nicht aufgef hrtes Format mithilfe des fe IS W Datenverbindungs Assistenten und OLEDB d Von Microsoft Query pi e voos alu P w m gt H S pr 2 Choose a data source gt BVQ USER S GUIDE BVG REPORTING ODBC ACCESS TO THE BVG REPORTING SCHEME 230 BVG user s guide v15 Da id vi i gt Mappel Kompa ca T E 2 T E Start Einf gen Seitenlayout Formeln Daten berpr fen Ansicht Ey Aus Access E Co E 2 Verbindungen zl BA Y A Aus dem Web T Eigenschaften pe Aus anderen Vorhandene Alle z Sortieren
54. guide v15 181 Treemap The treemap is a resource oriented hierarchical representation of selected objects as a rectangular area Due to the large number of memory objects in a Storage Area Network SAN it is very hard to get an overview of the capacities and needs of the individual object However a good overview is desired to decide which store objects are suitbale for an optimization A key feature of BVQ is the treemap This visualization system is aligned on a resource oriented representation Its strength is to allow the user a quick and easy acquisition of proportions and ordinal structures at a high number of objects Treemaps were invented in the early 1990s by Ben Shneiderman Each managed object is represented as a rectangular area e Proportional size The area size is proportional to an object specific factor typical in BVG capacity performance cost The slection of the size factor is made with the help of the aspect selector e Proportional coloring The area coloration can represent other object specific attributes object type class conditions for qualification or compliance The selection of the dye attribute is done with the help of the color selector e Groupings The areas can be interlaced in multiple levels to represent hierarchical groupings Several small areas surrounded by a larger area represent the grouping of the small ones in the large one The selection what type of object is represented i
55. in the results list A final double click and holding down the multi select button at the same time leads to the selection and zoom of correlating objects in the treemap With a single click on the right mouse button all selected objects in the treemap are prompted to light up again By double clicking the right mouse button the treemap is zoomed on all selected objects With Esc the hit list can be closed again Operation s summary Action button Selection in Highlighting in Selection and result list treemap zoom in treemap Single left click e DH Double left click Single right click x oO Q oO Double right click e e Ctrl Shift left click Multiple objects USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 69 BVG user s guide v15 Action button Selection in Highlighting in Selection and result list treemap zoom in treemap Ctrl A Esc Closes the hit list 1 5 5 2 Search with wildcards The search function can be expanded by the usage of wildcards The following placeholders are available as wildcards Question mark Exactly one character Star key Any number of characters 1 6 Performance view In the performance view load curves for selected objects can be displayed in a chart USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI PERFORMANCE VIEW 70 BVQ user s guide v15 Abbildung 59 Overview performance view Determing the time
56. nde der Compliance Tabelle 77 Compliance Zust nde Symbol Zustand Erkl rung Compliant Aktuelle Konfiguration des Objekts erf llt alle vorhandenen Vorgabe n x Not Compliant Aktuelle Konfiguration des Objekts erf llt nicht alle vorhandenen Vorgabe n S Undefined F r das Objekt sind keine Vorgaben definiert Oo Not Objekt Typ ist nicht betroffen USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 203 BVG user s guide v15 Applicable 112 140 Activation and usage of BVQ CLI The BVG CLI is hidden and has to be activated To activate the CLI insert BVG CLI into the search field and press the search button magnifying glass ve mos ma E Q EE Dev mode relevant menu tems activated ik The CLI is now ready to use orientation via help menu File Edit Favorites i Ja BVO CLI Ci Execute on Enter hosdflenn Clears Me 1 12 1 11 Combining multiple SVC controller to one BVQ controller V7 und HDS In particular for HDS and Storwize V7000 To be performed before arrays are created for the controller objects 1 Create new BVQ controller with a suitable name USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 204 BVG user s guide v15 SD sve gt Controllers enD Name I FST2 Dem 2 5WviN2 3 SWVINI 4 AMS JE 5 FST4 053400 6 AMS DE 7 SVC int petri Controllers SVC 00 leste SCH 73 cont
57. objects Call from the treemap The list view can also be accessed from the topology view via show in list in the tree map context menu The selected objects are preselected in the list They can be exported there USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TABLES view 104 BVG user s guide v15 Abbildung 75 Tables view call via the treemap E Object er Object type VD VMFS01 prod VD_IOR 121 IO s amp Edit gt Add Delete E Show in list Show details BW Open svc CUI DA Show VDisk performance graphis 2 Show MDisk performance graphis Jo Show Node performance graphis amp Show Node Port performance graph s Q Zoom to selection 2 Reset zoom Ctrl 0 1 7 1 Filtering Abbildung 76 Tables view filter dialog vpisks Empty Inv add Hide qualified Remove Name UID Sze IO grou Dietz cO Tour GUUSU OOULOSSU LKAUUUUUUUUUUUUSE 7 2 GIG IV Ur U SYLI uy SYLI byg esx02 600507680185801440000000000004C4 100 GiB io grp 0 svei 0 svc1 i bvq_esx03 600507680185801440000000000004CB 100 GB e op D sue 0 sve1 svcint 2 VIOTCL_SSPI_3 600507680185801AA0000000000004D9 50 GiB io op D svei 0 svci svcini 2 299 of 299 values shown i The creation of a vdisk is controlled by the svc The removal of a vdisk is controlled by the svc The filter in the table view allows to display or hide rows according to certain criteria Therefore a string or number hast
58. objects are displayed This aspect provides extended representations for the following paths For all other paths it shows the same view as in the aspect capacity total Tabelle 25 Topology aspect capacity total utilisation meaningful object type paths USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 42 BVG user s guide v15 MDisk group gt VDisk MDisk group gt VDisk copy MDisk group gt Extent MDisk gt VDisk MDisk gt VDisk copy MDisk gt Extent AThe path combinations MDISK group MDISK gt VDisk may lead to misinterpretations if the VDisk is mirrored by VDisk mirror Then the area of the VDisk corresponds to the real capacity sum of both copies Abbildung 39 Topology aspect capacity total utilisation rer re It s clear to see that all VDisk areas from whatever MDISK group are now comparable to each other Just looking at the chart it becomes obvious the VDisk ESX3VMFSO has enough free space in the MDISK group FST4_SATA_CO The displacement of capacities by drag and drop to optimize capacity allocation is particularly simplified just by this aspect USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 43 BVQ user s guide v15 1 5 3 3 Aspect performance The performance aspect is focused on the analysis of IO load performance and visualizes predicted load performance indicators The objects area size is displayed proportionally to the selected performance indicator The
59. packages 160 Usage of the treemap for the optimization of storage costs ccccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 212 Capacity ell ENE Yankee ae ek 214 User s guide BVO reporting Ae EI EELER E EELER 221 Reports 0 1 47 _ 1 SRONBRNERRRRREESEERBERBEERENREREEEEREREEEERSEREEPEEEEEREEEENENEREEESEEEREEEHEIEEEREEEBEEEESHENEEERERFEEEE 221 Standard Ke see RE RE RE ee ee ET MA 221 PENN arven 221 Gustomer orientated reporls n n se 221 Greating reps vasse seere 222 USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI HOW TO START THE GUI 2 2 3 2 3 1 2 3 2 2 3 3 2 3 4 2 3 5 2 3 6 2 3 7 2 3 8 2 4 3 1 BVQ user s guide v15 ODBC access to the BVQ reporting Scheme nnnsnvnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnvennnennnnnnnn 223 SEET EE 223 SETE SR EEE ER EEE emme m mi 224 DOWN EE 224 stalla tiO anne AI O a sete 224 Nr 225 Procedure on 64 bit Systems ne a mala 230 Usage in MS Excel 2007 Eee ee 230 More information REE EEE EE ENE 233 BVQ database view scheme for report scheme level 1 0 0 0 uuuuuuunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 234 GE EEE EE EE s OOS 245 Most important LAKS u 245 USER S GUIDE BVG GUI HOW TO START THE GUI 3 BVQ user s guide v15 BVG Version 3 0 USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI HOW TO STARTTHEGUI 4 BVQ user s guide v15 1 USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI The BVQ GUI is used for visualization and configuration of objects in the maintained storage environment 1 GUI controls gt sva Me
60. pressing a button the aspect is changed to the aspect performance The markings are preserved and show all of the VDisks with their relative load values The VDisks with high load large scaled are deselected with orange frame and the remaining VDisks are moved by drag amp drop into a favorable pool USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 212 BVG user s guide v15 Abbildung 90 Optimizing memory costs Screenshot high load VDisks The example highlights the identification of unfavourably placed datasets and their move to more favourably positions with just a few actions This way high performance and expensive disk space can quickly be freed from capacities which can be provided with the same performance on more favorable memory Abbildung 91 Optimize storage costs VDisks with high IO density By deferring the viewing aspect to aspect capacity it gets obvious how much space was occupied in the pool by non performance volumes With the following drag and drop movement of marked volumes the storage pool in this example was relieved by about 5TB USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 213 BVQ user s guide v15 1 12 3 Capacity efficiency Evaluation of Thin Provisioning space efficency and compression Since SVC code version 6 4 Real time Compression RTC is available in addition to the data reduction Thin Provisioning space efficiency The purpose of this data reduction functionality is to significantly reduce the occu
61. s Datenklassen Mobility Zones VDisks und die VDisk Gruppen Relationen verkn pft Gehalts abrechnung Personal abteilung Mobility Zone Application Application Group USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 187 BVG user s guide v15 Qualifizierung Costcenter ApplicationGroup Application VDiskGroup VDisk Die Qualifizierung gestaltet sich am sinnvollsten wenn man mit den Kostenstellen beginnt und anschlie end zu den Applikationgruppen Applikationen und zuletzt die Qualifizierung der VDisk Gruppen durchf hrt Dadurch kann das neue Objekt stets mit einem vorhandenen verbunden werden Objekt Cost Centers Starten Sie die Qualifizierung in der Men leiste mit Edit gt Cost centers und klicken sie auf Add um die verschiedenen Kostenstellen zu erstellen BYQ ID Name Personalabteilung Links to related objects Application groups values s Add cap Edit Delete Objekt Application groups Starten Sie die Qualifizierung in der Men leiste mit Edit gt Application groups und klicken sie auf Add um die Applikationsgruppen zu erstellen Weisen Sie jeder Applikationsgruppe die passende Kostenstelle zu BYQ ID Name Gehaltsabrechnung Links to related objects Costcenter Personalabteilung 25 vi Applications Values JY Add cap Edit Delete a USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 188 BVG user s guide v15 Objekt Applica
62. the last time from the database from DB Progress When background operations of the GUI operations are running such as bar calculations or loading operations a progress bar is displayed righthand on the status bar By clicking the red button righthand of the bar the current operations can be canceled manually 1 5 Topology view The topology view displays selected objects of the managed BVQ environment in a treemap USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI SCANNER STATUS BAR 23 BVG user s guide v15 Abbildung 23 Topology view with treemap Reload Tabelle 19 Topology view controls Reload Loads current data for the topology view and performance indicators from the BVA DB Reset zoom Resets the treemap magnification Aspekt Auswahl The aspects of the topology view allow to refocus the display according to certain priorities Farb Auswahl Via the color schemes the objects areas in the treemap are colored based on selectable criteria Topology With the topology navigator several BVG object types are connected to one Navigator path which determines their hierarchical representation within the treemap Topology Via the search function objects can be found and specifically selected in the search function treemap Treemap The treemap is a resource oriented hierarchical representation of selected objects as a rectangular area USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 24 BVQ user s
63. time compliance colors the objects of a treemap based on an assessment of the configurable design response time from the object type SVC MDisk group For each MDisk group a threshold for the response time can be set the so called design response time The measured average response time is based on the performance indicator response time RW available in the known intervals This color scheme compares the response time threshold of MDisk groups with the currently measured response time of correlated objects and stains them as follows USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 59 BVQ user s guide v15 Tabelle 36 Color scheme IO density heat meaning of the colors Color Status Meaning E Red Exceeded Current average response time is above the threshold Yellow Vulnerable Current average response time is 80 above the threshold ii Green Normal Current average response time is less than 80 of the threshold White Filtered RT due to insufficient IO lt 10 IO s filtered by the scheduler Faded Undefined Not enough values are known for the calculation DRT RT or lOr undef HE Object Not Object type is not affected type Applicable Status aggregation e Higher grouping storage consuming object types such as VDisk VDisk group data class aggregate the status based on the object type VDisk copy e Higher grouping storage providing object types such as MDISK group storage class aggr
64. treemap a new disk array can directly be created for the controller and subseguently the MDisks can be allocated to the new array by editting the controller File Edit Favorites i 7 ye ie A Cluster Disk array x Aspect Topology BYQ Cluster eur Search Qualifying hosts The hosts are gathered via the BVQ scanning procedure The specification of the room is required for the gualification Furthermore the comment field can be applied for contact already mentioned above The gualification is started via the task menu with edit gt hosts and selecting the host that has to be gualified USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 167 BVG user s guide v15 BYQ ID SVC ID 4 Cluster svc1 0000020061600648 Name nsel Properties Node portmask 1111 Links to related objects IO group s io grp D swc1 0 svel io grp 1 svcl 1 svel io grp 2 svei 2 svel io grp 3 svcl 3 svel op Edits Delete nseini_root 459 50 GiB in svc1 nsein2 root 458 50 GiB in svc1 nseini_data01 468 300 GiB in svc1 nsein2_data01 461 200 GIB in svc1 nseini_data02 469 300 GIB in svc1 Q Add cep Edit O Delete Room Lab A1 25 in site Wiesbaden 1 v conte Qualifiying SVC nodes The nodes are also gathered via the BVQ scanning procedure The specification of the room is required for the qualification The qualification is star
65. write data handled in fast write cache mode Data per mode FT CTWFTs CTWs of write data handled in flush trough cache mode Data per mode WT CTWWTs CTWs of write data handled in write trough mode USER S GUIDE BVG GUI PERFORMANCE view 88 BVG user s guide v15 Metric Unit Description Axis Data per mode CTWFWSHs CTWs of write data handled in write trough mode due FWWT to lack of memory Global mirror Writes GWO ops s GWO Global mirror overlapping write rate w_ops s Writes GWOT ops s GWOT Global mirror total fixed or unfixed overlapping write rate w_ops s Writes GWS ops s GWS Global mirror writes issued to the secondary site rate w_ops s Writes GWL ms op GWL GWS Global mirror writes issued to the secondary site latency ms w_op 1 6 9 2 MDisk performance metrics Metrics of the object type SVC MDisk which can be represented in the perfomance view as load Cufve Abbildung 69 Screenshot dialog MDisk perf options J X MD 915 37 svccluster Visible 1 Interval Moving Average Operations Or Cl pa Data rate Response time Peak resp time dick EE Transfer size USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI PERFORMANCE VIEW 89 BVQ user s guide v15 Tabelle 55 Overview performance metrics MDisk IO rate OR Ow OR W O R Data rate OR Ow O
66. 0000000000027 VMWareESX0001 010 0 19 3664 0000020060803D6E 60050768018200F5B800000000000073 RGR Test 0 10 0 2 3 8 More information e IBM DB2 Driver for ODBC and CLI overview USER S GUIDE BVQ REPORTING ODBC ACCESS TO THE BVQ REPORTING SCHEME 233 BVG user s guide v15 e Report DB scheme 2 4 BVQ database view scheme for report scheme level 1 0 0 0 The information has been compiled with the following statements Load all views in BVG REPORT select name from sysibm systables where CREATOR BVQ_REPORT AND type V Load of the view structure here VDISK Select name ColType Length from Sysibm syscolumns where tbname VDISK_PERFORMANCE AND TBCREATOR BVQ REPORT Load the view structure here VDISK already in confluence wiki style Select CONCAT CONCAT CONCAT CONCAT CONCAT CONCAT name ColType Length from Sysibm syscolumns where tbname VDISK AND TBCREATOR BVQ REPORT APP GROUP HIST 1 YEAR COST CENTER ID INTEGER 4 CREATED TIMESTMP 10 DELETED SMALLINT 2 ID INTEGER 4 MARKER_DATE TIMESTMP 10 NAME VARCHAR 64 NOTES VARCHAR 2048 APP_HIST_1_YEAR APP_GRP_ID INTEGER 4 CREATED TIMESTMP 10 DELETED SMALLINT 2 ID INTEGER 4 MARKER_DATE TIMESTMP 10 NAME VARCHAR 64 USER S GUIDE BVQ REPORTING BVQ DATABASE VIEW SCHEME FOR REPORT SCHEME LEVEL 1 0 0 0 234 BVQ user s guide v15
67. 000020061600648 apfs col 01 6005076801858014400000000000036E 50 GiB io grp D svei 0 svel svcin2 5 in io_grp_D 372 139 Isvc 0000020061600648 VMFSO4 Prod 600507680185801 AA000000000000357 1 TiB io grp 0 svei 0 svc1 sveint 6 inio grp D 373 141 svc1 0000020061600648 VMF502 test 160050768018580144000000000000362 1 TiB io grp D svei 0 svc1 svein2 5 inio grp 0 374 142 svc1 0000020061600648 PSE RSP4 60050768018580144000000000000364 12 GIB io grp 0 svel 0 sve1 sveini 6 inio grp 0 375 143 sel 0000020061600648 VMFSBYQRAW1 Prod 6005076801858014A00000000000036C de 500 GiB io op D svel 0 f svet svein2 5 in io grp 0 Add Delete Gt Reload S Export JE Print Selection to clipboard i The creation of a vdisk is controlled by the svc The removal of a vdisk is controlled by the svc The tables view provides a tabular overview of all the objects of one type Selected attributes are displayed in table columns The list can be sorted or filtered by attributes columns In addition a targeted search is possible Table views do not exist for all objects but usually only for objects with object editors For an overview please see chapter object types Call of the tables view from the main menu Table views can be opened in the sub menu object lists in the main menu Object lists are also available via the menu item show in list in context menus of BVQ
68. 011 3 05 46 PM Dec 14 2011 3 06 06 PM Dec 14 20113 4 ll Performance persist Dec 14 2011 3 06 19 PM Dec 14 2011 3 05 46 PM Dec 14 2011 3 06 19 PM Dec 14 20113 Each of BVQ managed storage system SVC V7000 is observed by a scanner BVQ divides the scan process into four sub processes Tabelle 10 Scan sub processes 1 Topology scan Reads configuration information from the system memory and writes it to an XML file into a local gueue POENGER Reads configuration information from the queue and writes them to the database 3 Performance Copies performance statistic files from the storage system and writes them scan to a local gueue 4 Performance Reads performance statistics files from the gueue and writes them to the USER S GUIDE BVA GUI MAINMENU 14 BVQ user s guide v15 Tabelle 11 Scanner status columns of the tables Process Name of the sub process Status Displays the states OK A Warning D Error Completed Displays when the last cycle was completed File timestamp Displays the timestamp of the last processed topology or performance statistics file Last successfull Displays the timestamp of the last successful cycle completion Last successfull file Displays the timestamp of the last successfully processed topology or timestamp performance statistics file Last failed completion Displays the timestamp of the last failed cycle Last failed file Displ
69. 1 svel io grp 2 svei 2 svel io grp 3 svcl 3 svel op Edits Delete nseini_root 459 50 GiB in svc1 nsein2 root 458 50 GiB in svc1 nseini_data01 468 300 GiB in svc1 nsein2_data01 461 200 GIB in svc1 nseini_data02 469 300 GIB in svc1 Q Add cep Edit O Delete Room Lab A1 25 in site Wiesbaden 1 v conte Qualifizierung SVC Nodes Die Nodes werden auch Uber den BVQ Scanvorgang erfasst Fur die Qualifizierung ist die Angabe des Rooms erforderlich Starten Sie die Qualifizierung in der Men leiste mit Edit gt Nodes und w hlen sie den zu qualifizierenden Node aus USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 185 BVQ user s guide v15 BYQ ID 1 SVCID 22 Cluster svc1 0000020061600648 Name svcin2 Properties HW Model CF8 SerNum FSHAWKA FrontPanel ID 150157 Links to related objekts SVC IO Group io grp D svei 0 svc1 Room Produktiv A121 26 in site Wiesbaden 1 25 vw pi Newest Add ag Edit OK Cancel 1 12 1 6 Qualifizierung BVQ Accounting Paket Das Accounting Paket ist Bestandteil der Premium Edition und ist optional f r die Performance Edition erh ltlich F hren Sie die in diesem Abschnitt beschriebenen Qualifizierungsschritte aus wenn Sie im Besitz der Premium Edition oder der Performance Edition mit dem Accounting Paket sind F r das Accounting Paket werden Unternehmensinformationen
70. 1 17 IOPS GiB USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI OBJECT TYPES 151 BVQ user s guide v15 1 10 19 3 BVG controller Represents a storage subsystem cluster crossing group of 5 A BVQ controller is a grouping object type which combines one or more SVC controllers Typical usage Aggregation of one or more SVC controllers to a disk storage subsystem This is useful if e The SVC detects a storage subsystem not as one entity but in several subunits port cards controller nodes with differing WWNN e Asubsystem is connected to more than one SVC cluster Groupes e SVC controller e BVQ disk array e SVC MDisk Is grouped by configurable object relations e BVG room Configurable attributes Name Name of the storage subsystem Class Classification of the storage subsystem Cache size Size of the cache MTM Machine type and model system description SerNum Serial number Comment Comment field 1 10 19 4 SVC controller Represents sub units port cards controller nodes with different WWNN of a USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI OBJECT TYPES 152 BVG user s guide v15 A SVC controller is an image of the SVC object controller which represents sub units port cards controller nodes with differing WWNN of a storage subsystem Typical usage e Is combined ina BVQ controller to a disk storage subsystem Groupes e No other BVQ objects Is grouped by configurable object relations e BVG controller
71. 1 2 Premium reports The premium reports are components of the BVQ premium edition The following reports are additionally provided in BVQ premium Edition e Accounting Report Accounting_Costcenter Application VDiskGroup Report Overview about accounting units application groups applications v disk groups and their utilisation of storage e Capacity Report Capacitiy StorageClass Report Evaluation of the connected disksystems and their storage performance classes 2 1 3 Customer orientated reports Optionally customer orientated reports can be created for all editions In cases of further queries please contact your BVQ consultant A BVQ entry edition does not contain reports USER S GUIDE BVQ REPORTING REPORTS OVERVIEW 221 BVG user s guide v15 2 2 Creating reports By using the menu item File gt start reporting the selection window is opened File Object Lists Favorites ls New tab Ctrl T IMT Cluster CLI scripts Ctri E Ctrl Afterwards click on the browse button and enter the path of the reports BYQ Reporting Select report OF x DB settings DB URL jdbe db2 localhost 50000 byq2 DB UID bva DB Schema level 1 0 0 1 Report File Select the appropriate report and click the open button Suchen in B byq standard LA B CI E E STD 02 CAP REALCAP LICCAP VIRTU DL1 FMT rptdesign E sTD 03 CAP CAP CNT STGPR DU FMT rptdesign
72. 1 SVC VDisk SVC V7000 volume virtual disk Groups e SVC VDisk copy e SVC VDisk to host map Is grouped by configurable object attributes e BVG VDisk group Configurable attributes No attributes 1 10 18 2 SVC Host Server which is connected to a SVC 7000 cluster and can be assigned to the Groupes e SVC VDisk to Host map e SVC Host Port Is grouped by configurable object relations USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI OBJECT TYPES 148 BVG user s guide v15 e BVQroom Configurable attributes 1 10 18 3 SVC VDisk copy SVC VDisk copy corresponds to SVC object type VDisk copy Groupes e Extents Is grouped by configurable object relations e SVC VDisk Configurable attributes e No object cannot be edited The VDisk copy object is always a subobject of the VDisk If a VDisk mirror exits then the two mirrors are grouped in VDisk If there is no VDisk mirror then there is a 1 1 relation between VDisk and the associated VDisk copy object BVQ VDisk VDisk copy o 1 10 19 Storage providers Objects that provide storage capacity provider side Tabelle 75 Overview storage providers Disk type found in disk arrays of storage subsystems Array RAID of one disk type in a storage subsystem Represents a storage subsystem cluster crossing group of SVC controllers Represents sub units port cards controller nodes with different WWNN of a storage subsystem
73. 107 Data rate Brev 150 56 meis aw 07 09 meis aw 60 65 m is Detailinformationenzu Cost Center ber rechte Maustaste Performance view USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 175 BVG user s guide v15 BYQ gt Cost center gt Application group Application gt Erres Le E Aspects Sei kg 2 Data rate RW Ober color Object type Cost Center Verwendet 68 65MB s App gruppe VMWare 37 47MB s Applikation ESX 33 16MB s Topology Vdisks Esxlun07 260 17 KB s Service level 9 amp Compliance Aggregated VDisk Performance A Short term 4h Mid term 24h Long term 7d 10 M 2 733 1015 Braun 2 791 tos Boun 2 647 1015 Data rate i D new 133 56 MB s E R w 57 49 majs I Rew 60 65 mays Qualifying mobility zones You now start Beginnen Sie nun die Mobility Zones einzurichten Mobility Zones legen fest auf welchen Storage Pools die VDisks einer VDisk Gruppe platziert werden sollten Somit k nnen Regeln f r Ablageorte von VDisks festgelegt werden die dann beispielsweise auf Ihre Einhaltung hin berpr ft werden k nnen VDisk X sollte nur auf den MDisk groups Y amp Z abgelegt werden Erstellen und MDisk Gruppen zuweisen Starten Sie die Qualifizierung in der Men leiste mit Edit gt Mobility zones und klicken Sie auf Add a Mobility Zones den VDisk Gruppen zuweisen
74. 15 Color SVC node port is connected with IN Blue SVC host port Grey SVG unkonwn port The color appears darkened when the connection s status is reported as inactive by the SVC see also CLI command iscontroller Abbildung 55 Coloring example for object type Please see also color scheme SVC controller port SVC node port SVC host port Color scheme VM virtual machine The special coloring of the object type VM virtual machine paints objects in the treemap depending on their power status Color depending on power status Tabelle 42 Meaning of coloring object type 670 0 4 Power status 9 Pale lilac Power on Il Faded lilac Power off or suspended USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 66 BVG user s guide v15 Abbildung 56 Coloring example object type Color scheme SVC controller port SVC node port SVC host port The special coloring of the object types SVC controller port SVC node port and SVC host port paints the treemap s objects depending on the port s status Color per SVC port type and status Tabelle 43 Meaning of the object Color SVC port type status WW Green SVC controller port IM Turquoise SVC node port and SVC unkonwn port IN Bue SVC host port 1 Yellow Status inactive Il Red Status offline Grey Status degraded The states offline degraded and inactive are derived from the output of the SVC CLI commands isco
75. 15 e Transfers between SVC MDisk groups which are not in the same SVC cluster V 7000 e Relocations of objects from a source object to the same target object Warning inflicted drag amp drop operations Following drag amp drop shifts may lead to problematic results and are indicated by a warning symbol A instead of the mouse pointer e Not enough free extents in the target SVC MDisk group Ambiguous drag amp drop operations When several objects are affected in a drag 8 drop operation which usually should not be on the same target object an additional dialog appears where the selection can be further limited Example A drag 8 drop operation includes both SVC VDisk copies of a SVC VDisk that would be shifted to the same SVC MDisk group Abbildung 26 Drag 8 drop ambiguous operations At least 1 YDisk has multiple YDisk copies Select the copies to migrate to MDisk group FST4 SAS MR 0 svc1 WDiskName VDiskID CopyID CopyRole Eent dee Extent count Source MDg E Sapa El BEEN Prim IFST2 SAS HE el FST2 545 HE E 1 5 1 3 Treemap navigation The treemap navigation allows to zoom in and move the image section of the treemap Zoom increase the treemap With the mouse wheel To enlarge the tree map move the mouse wheel Forward Scaling up Backward Scaling down The area under the mouse cursor is the center of the zoom Objects beneath the cursor are usually invisible USER S GUIDE B
76. 2 BVA site Datacenter site containing one or more Typical usage e Reports for example available or allocated capacity per site e DR compliance testing for example the question Are LVM mirrored volumes actually distributed on two sites e Support for placement decisions for example according to the VDisk group relation antilocated site In general a site should be a completely self contained functional unit which in case of a disaster can assume the most important IT services For this reason sites should be functionally independent of each other Groupes e BVG room Is grouped by configurable object relations e No other BVQ objects Configurable attributes Name Site s name Comment Comment field 1 10 16 BVQ VMware virtualization Storage relevant object types of a VMware virtualization environment VM vCenter server VMware vCenter server VMware data center VMware host cluster VMware host USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI OBJECT TYPES 146 BVG user s guide v15 VMware SCSI volume VM datastore VMware datastore VM datastore cluster VMware datastore cluster VM virtual disk VMware virtual disk VM virtual machine VMware virtual machine For further details about these object types please see VMware documentation 1 10 17 SAN connections and ports Ports and connections of SAN devices which are visible in SVC V7000 GUIOT Port of a SVC c
77. 41 is an ideal B2B number for the switch ports to which SVC ports are connected 1 6 9 6 Node to node performance metrics Metrics of the performance object type node to node are derived from the object type SVC node In the statistics group NODE TO NODE performance metrics between two nodes are gathered This statistic is crucial for assessing the connection to remote clusters via Metro Global Mirror There are two ways to connect nodes 1 Intra IOgroup traffic cache coherence and intra cluster Remote Mirror rather rare case 2 Intercluster traffic for Remote Mirror Metro or Global Mirror Therefore it is useful to group the metrics of connected nodes according to their IOgroup or their cluster partnership 1 IOgroup partner node node to node metrics of the IOgroup partner node USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI PERFORMANCE VIEW 101 BVQ user s guide v15 2 Remote cluster nodes SUM node to node metrics of all nodes taken from one of four possible remote cluster Performance chart type node to node NODE TO NODE statistics form a new performance chart type node to node For each combination of two intercommunicating nodes node pairs there is one object instance Example with two two node clusters there are 4 4 1 12 possible node pairs in the object list of the panel option Abbildung 73 Screenshot o tions dialog node to node perf options X 9 00 Aggregated X w svcnodel gt svcnode2 X g svcnodel gt sv
78. 5 Loading and drawing of the graph Automatically or manually reloading and drawing of the the load curves in the diagram area of the performance view Abbildung 62 Performance view functions for loading and drawing of the load curves Functions Auto adjust Options Triggers manually a new loading drawing Auto manual Sets manually or automatically new loading drawing Normally the loading and drawing of individual load curves is sufficiently fast Therefore this is done automatically after each change of the time period If this is too slow or if multiple entries are required to select the time period this automatic can be canceled by using the auto manual 1 6 6 Scaling of the value axes Manual triggering of the value axes automatic scaling in the graph area of the performance view USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI PERFORMANCE VIEW 75 BVQ user s guide v15 The scaling of the value axes is deliberately kept constant when the selected time period is changed to prevent unwanted discontinuities of the load curves by choosing different time sections The button auto adjust starts an optimal re scaling of the value axes Abbildung 63 Performance view auto scaling of the value axes auto adjust Functions Auto Sets the maximum value of all values axis y axis to the maximum value of the adjust displayed load curve 1 6 7 Options dialog for objects and metrics The dialog optio
79. 56 BVG IO RATE INTEGER 4 USER S GUIDE BVQ REPORTING BVG DATABASE VIEW SCHEME FOR REPORT SCHEME LEVEL 1 0 0 0 236 BVQ user s guide v15 BVQ_RPM SMALLINT 2 HOST_CAPACITY BVQ_HOST_ID INTEGER 4 SVC ALLOCATED CAPACITY BIGINT 8 SVC CLUSTER ID CHAR 16 SVC CLUSTER NAME VARCHAR 64 SVC FREE CAPACITY BIGINT 8 SVC HOST ID INTEGER 4 SVC HOST NAME VARCHAR 64 SVC REAL CAPACITY BIGINT 8 SVC USED CAPACITY BIGINT 8 SVC VIRTUAL CAPACITY BIGINT 8 HOST PORT BVG HOST ID INTEGER 4 SVC_CLUSTER_ID CHAR 16 SVC_CLUSTER_NAME VARCHAR 64 SVC_HOST_ID INTEGER 4 SVC WWPN VARCHAR 128 MDISK BVG DISK ARRAY ID INTEGER 4 BVG MDISK ID INTEGER 4 SVC CLUSTER ID CHAR 16 SVC CONTROLLER ID INTEGER 4 SVC MDISK GRP ID INTEGER 4 SVC MDISK ID INTEGER 4 SVC_MDISK_NAME VARCHAR 64 SVC_MODE VARCHAR 10 MDISK_CAPACITY BVG ARRAY ID INTEGER 4 BVG MDISK ID INTEGER 4 SVC ALLOGATABLE CAPACITY BIGINT 8 SVC ALLOCATED CAPACITY BIGINT 8 SVC CLUSTER ID CHAR 16 SVC CONTROLLER ID INTEGER 4 SVC EXTENT COUNT INTEGER 4 SVC_EXTENT_SIZE INTEGER 4 SVC FREE EXTENTS INTEGER 4 SVC MDISK ID INTEGER 4 SVC MDISK NAME VARCHAR 64 SVC_MODE VARCHAR 10 USER S GUIDE BVG REPORTING BVG DATABASE VIEW SCHEME FOR REPORT SCHEME LEVEL 1 0 0 0 237 BVQ user s guide v15
80. 66 IO s Subelement count 0 Capacity 549 8 GiB Long term 7d 11 8 11 10 28 PM R W 66 IOls Read 18 R W 2 2 MiB s Response time Overall 0 6 ms Score 0 2 Pts Cache hit ratio Read 80 1 5 2 Topology Object path Topology navigator With the topology navigator several BVQ object types are connected to one path which determines their hierarchical representation within the treemap Abbildung 31 Topology navigator BYQ Cluster MDisk grou One or more BVQ object types are combined in a path as junction points Each type of object can only occur once in the path The path is read from left to right and always begins with the root node BVQ and ends not visible with the last node nothing The possible relationships between object types are predefined in BVQ combinations without reasonable meaning are filtered out and are not selectable 1 5 2 1 Navigation By clicking a node in the path a new drop down menu is opened which allows to insert further nodes after or replace the selected node in the path USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 35 BVQ user s guide v15 Abbildung 32 Topology navigator menu for path intersection Detail A selection of BVQ sets the root node to the beginning of the path The selection of nothing terminates the path These two special nodes are used to cut a path in front behind or directly at an selected node It is not necessary to select them on the
81. ACCESS TO THE BVG REPORTING SCHEME 231 BVG user s guide v15 Ga Do Ms Mappei Start Einf gen Seitenlayout Formeln Daten berpr fen Ansicht Ey Aus Access JEA a 23 Verbindungen Al BA gp Aus dem Web EI IS Sf Eigenschaften Aus anderen Vorhandene Alle il Sortieren T Aus Text Quellen Verbindungen aktualisieren gt Verkn pfungen bearbeiten Externe Daten abrufen Verbindungen Sc 1 2 3 Um nur bestimmte Zeilen in Ihre Abfrage einzuschlie en k nnen Sie die Daten filtern 4 Klicken Sie auf Weiter wenn de Daten nicht sortiert werden sollen 5 Zu filternde Spalte Nur Zeilen einschlie en in denen 6 7 SYC_CLUSTER_ID v v ID 8 CREATED C Und Oder 9 DELETED el E A NAME 10 GOV RATIO C Und Oder 11 GOV RATIO TYPE SVC 10 GRP ID v v 12 SVC PREF NODE ID Jule a Met CACHE TYPE E DE 13 Zn a na 20 AA 14 15 lt Zur ck Abbrechen 16 5 Query wizard finish gt return data to Microsoft Excel goe a Start Einf gen Seitenlayout Formeln Daten berpr fen Ansicht gy Aus Access SED 4 23 Verbindungen E Be e 2 C Aus dem Web AT Eigenschaften r Aus anderen Vorhandene Alle 2 Sortieren us Text Quellen Verbindungen aktualisieren gt Verkn pfungen bearbeiten Externe Daten abrufen Verbindungen So Al ve fe A B C D E F G 1 2 Query Assistent Fertig stellen 3 Wie soll fortgefahren werden 4 5 e Daten an Micro
82. BVO Documentation BVO user s guide Author BVG Team Date 11 29 2013 BVQ user s guide v15 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 User s guide BVQ GUI sag 325044 cases hae aaa AE 5 1 1 How t start he OU amka esc ene eee tee 6 1 1 1 PE JE ER een 6 12 EI TE 7 12 1 Menu File NN ee esse 7 122 Menu object SIS an E E EEEE EEEE E E 9 12 3 Menu favorites anne a en a 10 ES WE te EE 10 1 3 Favorites and Faber eege EE 19 183 1 te e ee il ee u 19 UE 21 1 4 Scanner AUS E 23 1 5 Topology VIEW nn ee 23 E ue vn E 25 1 5 2 Topology Object path Topology navigator ee 35 153 Topology aspects enn 40 154 T06p8l89y Coldrschemes anne een 47 1 5 5 Topology search function nee ner 68 1 6 Performance VIEW nennen 70 1 6 1 LE 18 gt Sei ae ea ee a TN EEE 71 1 82 Walkthrough E 72 1 6 3 Call of performance IE la een nee 72 164 Selection OF the time period ia 74 1 6 5 Loading and drawing of the graph nennen 75 1 6 6 Scaling of the value ats nee ae d me 75 1 6 7 Options dialog for objects and merce 76 VES UTV 80 1 6 9 Performance metrics seere 82 1 7 Tables VIEW suse 104 1 7 1 SU ido ee ee E ee 105 1 72 Soning ING aS i is edie id eae eli Erra 106 OE EEE 107 1 2 4 Other ue lt A MART 108 1 8 Object detall VEN RPBEBPRORDERDPRABREEDEBERFERDERIBETEBEBERFERPERSEE EBRBEEERLERSEUCESFERBELERESDELERPEEBEEEEFEPEEEEEER 108 1 8 1 Calling the object detail view aaa a eEEE ENEE 109 18 2 Overview object detail view u nee en 109 USER S GUIDE BVQ
83. BVQ Detail The rest should be closed or remain Resulting in only few menu items visible simultaneously the navigation is simplified a 36 Topology navigator Object type categories x 1 5 2 3 Keyboard control The path navigator is fully controllable by keyboard USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 38 BVQ user s guide v15 Button Function Alt 1 Enables the path navigator gt Branches into the submenu Back to top menu MIR Menu selection marker up down Return Activates menu item Category opens closes Object type is selected ESC Leaves the menu 1 5 2 4 Topology navigator und favorites Topology hierarchies are stored and then opened by using favorites Some predefined favorites are provided with the BVQ installation see Favorites and tabs 15 25 Practice hint ad hoc analyses Many analyses are made ad hoc Most of the times only very flat hierarchies are used This results in a quick and clear result In these cases the settings of the topology navigators are usually not done with favorites but made by hand Two examples e Example1 overview of all the connected servers and their current performance parameters The object path is set to hosts the aspect to capacity gt total the server with the highest capacity requirements is also on top in the treemap To see the VDisks on the server the object VDisks is added to the host in the topology navigator
84. DISKCOPY ID INTEGER 4 SVC ALLOCATED CAPACITY BIGINT 8 SVC CLUSTER ID CHAR 16 SVC FREE CAPACITY BIGINT 8 SVC MDISK GRP ID INTEGER 4 SVC REAL CAPACITY BIGINT 8 SVC USED CAPACITY BIGINT 8 SVC VDISKCOPY ID SMALLINT 2 SVC_VDISK_ID INTEGER 4 SVC_VDISK_NAME VARCHAR 64 SVC_VDISK_UID CHAR 32 SVC_VDISK_VIRTUAL_CAPACITY BIGINT 8 VDISKCOPY_CAPACITY_HIST_1_YEAR BVQ_VDISKCOPY_ID INTEGER 4 MARKER_DATE TIMESTMP 10 SVC ALLOCATED CAPACITY BIGINT 8 USER S GUIDE BVG REPORTING BVG DATABASE VIEW SCHEME FOR REPORT SCHEME LEVEL 1 0 0 0 242 BVQ user s guide v15 SVC_CLUSTER_ID CHAR 16 SVC_FREE_CAPACITY BIGINT 8 SVC_MDISK_GRP_ID INTEGER 4 SVC_REAL_CAPACITY BIGINT 8 SVC_USED_CAPACITY BIGINT 8 SVC_VDISKCOPY_ID SMALLINT 2 SVC_VDISK_ID INTEGER 4 SVC_VDISK_NAME VARCHAR 64 SVC_VDISK_UID CHAR 32 SVC_VDISK_VIRTUAL_CAPACITY BIGINT 8 VDISKCOPY_FINANCTAL BVQ_VDISKCOPY_ID INTEGER 4 SVC_CLUSTER_ID CHAR 16 SVC_COST DECIMAL 31 SVC_VDISKCOPY_ID SMALLINT 2 SVC_VDISK_ID INTEGER 4 SVC_VDISK_NAME VARCHAR 64 SVC_VDISK_UID CHAR 32 VDISKCOPY_HIST_1_YEAR AUTOEXPAND SMALLINT 2 COPY_ID SMALLINT 2 CREATED TIMESTMP 10 DELETED SMALLINT 2 GRAINSIZE SMALLINT 2 ID INTEGER 4 MARKER_DATE TIMESTMP 10 REAL_CAPACITY BIGINT 8 SVC_CLUSTER_ID CHAR 16 SVC_MDISK_GRP_ID INTEGER 4 SVC_VDISKCOPY_ROLE_ID INTEGER 4 SVC_VDISK_ID IN
85. Disk groups with the same disk or RAID type The following image shows an example of a typical application with mirrored VDisks In such a configuration of the mobility zone placement rules BVG verifies their compliance and can warn the user in case of violations Abbildung 86 BVQ mobility zone application example two mirrored DB table VDisks shall be located in different sites gt Mirrored VDisks USER S GUIDE BVA GUI OBJECTTYPES 138 BVQ user s guide v15 Relations Abbildung 87 BVQ mobility zone configuration example Groups e BVG VDisk group e SVC MDisk group Is grouped by configurable object relations e SVC MDisk group Attributes Name Name of mobility zone Comment Comment field Related object types Compared to the BVG VDisk group relation which is also a placement rule the BVG mobility zone specifies the rule more conrete and establishes a direct relationship to properties place room storage type of the potential target pool Their configuration requires less effort because the same BVQ mobility zone is potentially appropriate for many groups VDisk Using the GUI s mass edit feature is extremely helpful for configuration USER S GUIDE BVA GUI OBJECT TYPES 139 BVQ user s guide v15 For rough allocation of VDisk groups to specific properties of a target pool the BVQ mobility zone is the better choice Once the placement has to be more detailed because
86. Disk linkage E lg Step 2 Room and site amp 2 1 Define rooms and sites amp 2 2 Link controllers to rooms amp 2 3 Check site to controller linkage Wechseln Sie anschlieBend in den Treemap Pfad BVQ gt Cluster gt Controller gt MDisk gt Disk array und wechseln Sie zur Object Color BVQ qualified MDisks die noch keinem Array zugeordnet sind werden daraufhin durch die Farbe Rot untermalt USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 183 BVG user s guide v15 Sie k nnen direkt in der Treemap durch editieren des Controllers ein neues Disk Array f r den Controller erstellen und anschlie en die MDisks dem neuem Array zuweisen File Edit Favorites i 7 o iko A Cluster Disk array x EG E Aspect Topology Object color BYG qualified BYQ qualified BYQ gt Cluster Controller P Soc Disk arr Search Qualifizierung Hosts Die Hosts werden ber den BVQ Scanvorgang erfasst F r die Qualifizierung ist die Angabe des Rooms erforderlich Zudem kann das Comment Feld Kommentarfeld f r Kontakt 0 A verwendet werden Starten Sie die Qualifizierung in der Men leiste mit Edit gt Hosts und w hlen sie den zu qualifizierenden Host aus USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 184 BVG user s guide v15 BYQ ID SVC ID 4 Cluster svc1 0000020061600648 Name nsel Properties Node portmask 1111 Links to related objects IO group s io grp D swc1 0 svel io grp 1 svcl
87. G user s guide v15 4 Then with a right click the ungualified object can be editted gualified pair Cost center gt Zerken gg ie Aopkaton P re auch al Show V isk Performance Graphs fe Reset zoom Use the step by step procedure in favorites qualify and edit objects for inspecting the qualification progress or to carry out the qualification in single treemaps The sequence of the qualification might if necessary slightly deviate from what is told in the User Manual Guide It is important that valid combinations of the BVQ exist USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 161 BVQ user s guide v15 9 Favorites L Predefined favorites Overview topology Analyse capacity Analyse performance J Analyse load amp capacity distribution Analyse service level Analyse compliance Analyse SAN fabric Zoning DI DG G o GIG gt Step by step Align overestimated capacity ei B Step 1 Disk subsystem amp 1 1 Define disk arrays for controllers amp 1 2 Link MDisks to disk arrays 2 1 3 Check controller to MDisk linkage l Step 2 Room and site 2 1 Define rooms and sites gt 2 2 Link controllers to rooms 2 3 Check site to controller linkage gt 2 4 Link nodes to rooms 2 5 Check site to node linkage gt 2 6 Link hosts to rooms 2 7 Check site to host linkage Step 3 Business objects Step 4 Storage classes E Step 5 SLA and data classes Ste
88. GINT 8 TOTAL_MDISK_CAPACITY BIGINT 8 USED COMPRESSION CAPACITY DOUBLE 8 USED FLASH DOUBLE 8 USED REMOTE DOUBLE 8 USED VIRTUALIZATION DOUBLE 8 SVC CLUSTER HIST 2 YEARS ALLOCATED CAPACITY BIGINT 8 CODE LEVEL VARCHAR 63 CONSOLE IP VARCHAR 21 CREATED TIMESTMP 10 DELETED SMALLINT 2 ID CHAR 16 IP ADDRESS VARCHAR 15 LICENSE COMPRESSION CAPACITY DOUBLE 8 LICENSE FLASH DOUBLE 8 LICENSE REMOTE DOUBLE 8 LICENSE VIRTUALIZATION DOUBLE 8 MARKER DATE TIMESTMP 10 NAME VARCHAR 64 REAL CLUSTER ID CHAR 16 SECOND IP ADDRESS VARCHAR 15 SERVICE IP ADDRESS VARCHAR 15 STATS FREGUENCY INTEGER 4 STATS_STATUS VARCHAR 3 TIMEZONE VARCHAR 40 TOTAL FREE SPACE BIGINT 8 TOTAL MDISKGRP CAPACITY BIGINT 8 TOTAL MDISK CAPACITY BIGINT 8 USED COMPRESSION CAPACITY DOUBLE 8 USED FLASH DOUBLE 8 USED REMOTE DOUBLE 8 USED VIRTUALIZATION DOUBLE 8 SVC EXTENTS HIST 1 YEAR COPY ID SMALLINT 2 CREATED TIMESTMP 10 DELETED SMALLINT 2 EXTENT COUNT INTEGER 4 MARKER DATE TIMESTMP 10 SVC CLUSTER ID CHAR 16 USER S GUIDE BVQ REPORTING BVQ DATABASE VIEW SCHEME FOR REPORT SCHEME LEVEL 1 0 0 0 239 BVQ user s guide v15 SVC_MDISK_ID INTEGER 4 SVC_VDISK_ID INTEGER 4 SVC_VDISK_UID CHAR 32 SVC MDISK GROUP HIST 1 YEAR CAPACITY BIGINT 8 CREATED TIMESTMP 10 DELETED SMALLINT 2 EASY TIER VARCHAR 4 EASY TIER STA
89. GUI HOW TO START THE GUI 1 09 00 P w _ ee sch mb o o o e io AUN ch h k zech sch zech sch sech sech sch o0000000098 O OSI OO HI ROINR 10 10 10 11 10 12 10 13 10 14 10 15 10 16 10 17 10 18 10 19 10 20 10 21 _ d ok ok oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo a D D D D 11 1 12 12 4 122 12 3 N sch mb NNNDN wh BVQ user s guide v15 CATO CONICS ee nee eek 109 Information Kelte 115 Key figures of the BVQ storage environment eonnnrrrrnnnnnnnannnnnnnnnnannnnna 115 LA AGE GIPS anna 116 Stor g COSIS ANO PMGBS anne 124 FET een 124 Performance IM IGALAIS a anne 125 ODject E 128 Overview object RE EE 129 S ERE hn EE EE 130 Storage PO Se 130 SVC virtualization EE 131 SVC advanced COPY services nun 131 Storage CONSUMETS eee 131 SAN connections and ports eee ovi angaari 132 BYG organizational UNITS reed 133 BVQ placement TUT ae een ee ae ae 133 BVG service level management Au 133 Glen EE LTE 133 BVQ organizational units E 134 BVQ placement ES an AETI Ae 137 BVG service level management 142 OE SER EE a la 145 BYG VMware virtualization nn 146 SAN connections and lo paistavad alana een 147 Seles es Ee 148 Storage 6 eisen 149 SVC advanced Copy SArvices unse 154 SVC VNA PA een ee ee 154 Object edil rs 2 a 155 lee e 158 ISE CASES ee ee cece 160 Qualification of the performance edition and the single extension
90. LAs Values A Add e ves Delete Comment Qualifizierung DC to SC placement ratings Erstellen Sie nun eine g ltige Matrix aus Daten und Speicherklassen Siehe Beispiel Datenklasse Starten Sie die Qualifizierung in der Men leiste mit Edit gt DC to SC placement ratings und klicken Sie auf Add e W hlen Sie eine Datenklasse aus e W hlen Sie eine Speicherklasse aus e Verknupfen Sie diese anschlie end ber das Placement rating mit einer g ltigen Klassifizierung Optimal Suboptimal Unacceptable USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 199 BVQ user s guide v15 BYQ ID Placement rating 9 Optimal Links to related objects Data class A 25 vi vi Newest Q Add Storage class Gold SC 25 v vi Newest OJ Add A Achten sie darauf dass f r alle m glichen Kombinationen ein DC to SC rating vorliegt Dadurch k nnen im BVQ falsch platzierte Daten schnell erfasst und korrigiert werden Qualifizierung SLA e SLA s werden immer an VDisk Gruppen gebunden e Sie legen den Zeitraum fest auf welcher Datenklasse gespeichert wird und was dieser Service kostet e Die Einhaltung der SLA s kann ber Object colors Overall Compliance gepr ft werden e Secondary copy data class beschreibt auf welcher auf welchem Speicher die VDisk copies abzulegen sind Starten Sie die Qualifizierung in der Men leiste mit Edit gt SLA s und klicken Sie auf Add e Geben
91. MiB s Prestage USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI PERFORMANCE VIEW 87 Metric Unit Axis BVQ user s guide v15 Description Latency R ms op SLAV CTRM average response time per read cache miss demand stage operation ms op Latency W ms op DLAV CTD average response time per write cache destage operation ms op Latency ms op SLAV DLAV PLAV CTRM CTD CTP average response time per R amp W amp P total cache operation ms op Latency R amp P ms op SLAV PLAV CTRM CTP average response time per total read cache operation ms op Latency ms op PLAV average response time per read ahead cache prestage operation Prestage ms op Transfer size KiB op CTRMs CTRM average transfer size per read cache miss demand R stage operation KiB op Transfer size KiB op CTDs CTD average transfer size per write cache destage operation W KiB op Transfer size KiB op CTWMs CTDs CTPs CTWM CTD CTP average transfer size per R amp W amp P total cache operation KiB op Transfer size KiB op CTWMs CTPs CTWM CTP average transfer size per total read R amp P cache operation KiB op Transfer size KiB op CTPs CTP average transfer size per read ahead cache prestage Prestage operation KiB op Cache modes for writes Data per mode Cache CTWs WB of write data entering the cache layer Data per mode FW CTWFWs CTWs of
92. N Destage operation rate ops s R Prestage min ms op PLMN Prestage read ahead latency minimum ms op R Prestage avg ms op PLAV Prestage read ahead latency average ms op DH Prestage max ms op PLMX Prestage read ahead latency maximum ms op R Prestage rate ops s PLCN Prestage read ahead operation rate ops s R Stage min ms op SLMN Stage read miss latency minimum ms op R Stage avg ms op SLAV Stage read miss latency average ms op R Stage max ms op SLMX Stage read miss latency maximum ms op R Stage count ops s SLCN Stage read miss operation rate ops s Data transfer min ms op DTMN Data transfer latency minimum ms op Data transfer avg ms op DTAV Data transfer latency average ms op Data transfer max ms op DTMX Data transfer latency maximum ms op Data transfer rate ops s DTCN Data transfer operation rate ops s Track lock min ms op TLMN Track lock latency minimum ms op Track lock avg ms op TLAV Track lock latency average ms op Track lock max ms op TLMX Track lock latency maximum ms op Track lock rate ops s TLCN Track lock operation rate ops s Track access min ms op TAMN Begin track access latency minimum ms op Track access avg ms op TAAV Begin track access latency average ms op Track access max ms op TAMX Begin track access latency maximum ms op USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI PERFORMANCE VIEW 94 BVG user s guide v15 Metric Unit Descrip
93. Nutzen sie auch hier die Step by Step gt Compliance rules Funktion um schnell einen berblick ber die Compliance zu erhalten Qualifizierung VDiskGroupRelation VDisk Group Relations erm glichen es sicherzustellen dass alle VDisks aus einer VDisk Group speziellen Platzierungsregeln gen gen z B zwei ber LVM gespiegelte Bereiche d rfen nicht am gleichen Ort gespeichert werden Die VDisk Gruppen werden dazu untereinander auf ihre Platzierung gepr ft Starten Sie die Qualifizierung in der Men leiste mit Edit gt VDisk group relations und klicken Sie auf Add W hlen Sie die Placement behavior und den Objekt Typ aus Die Objekttypen umfassen dabei MDiskgroups MDisks Arrays Controllers Nodes IOGroups Cluster Rooms und Sites e Antilocated d rfen nicht auf dem gleichen Objekt wie die jeweils andere Disk Gruppe liegen e Collocated m ssen auf dem gleichen Objekt wie die jeweils andere Disk Gruppe liegen USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 195 BVQ user s guide v15 BYQ ID Properties Placement behavior Antilocated Placement object type MDisk Group Links to related objects VDisk group 1 P Personalabteilung Gehaltsabrechnung SAP Prod SAP Backup 26 VDisk group 2 5 Personalabteilung Gehaltsabrechnung SAP Prod SAP Backup 26 E 1 12 1 7 Qualifizierung BVQ SLM Paket Das Service Level Management Paket ist Bestandteil der Premium Edition und optional f r di
94. Overview e Download e Installation e Configuration o 1 Register DB2 ODBC driver in Windows o 2 Register data source in the Windows ODBC datasource administrator e Procedure on 64 bit systems e Usage in MS Excel 2007 e More information USER S GUIDE BVG REPORTING ODBC ACCESS TO THE BVG REPORTING SCHEME 223 BVQ user s guide v15 2 3 2 Overview For example to be able to access DB2 via MS Excel or OpenOffice an ODBC driver for DB2 must be installed On the BVQ DB server it is automatically installed and registered in the Microsoft ODBC Download installation and configuration steps 2 1 and 2 2 are not applicable in this case With DB2 9 7 FP4 the ODBC driver does not work completely with Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7 64 bit Please upgrade to DB2 9 7 FP6 configuration problems with Odbcad Please also refer to the documentation of the BVG report DB scheme The DB views are documented there which can be used to access the DB This is named at IBM IBM DB2 Driver for ODBC and CLI CLI stands for call level interface A C C API that has nothing to do with the DB2 command line interface db2cmd Article about this in the DB2 Infocenter 2 3 3 Download The IBM DB2 driver for ODBC can be download without charge from the Internet IBM Internet link e 32bit o SVA Wiki V9 7FP6 e 64bit o SVA Wiki V9 7FP6 2 3 4 Installation Unfotunately no installation program does exist for the IBM DB2 Driver for ODBC and CL I It h
95. Q GUI OBJECT TYPES 132 BVG user s guide v15 1108 BVQ organizational units Business units business processes and departments Volume group groups SVC VDisk of the same application and quality level Application e g Oracle Windows File Service Oracle DB Service SAP DB Service grouping BVQ VDisk groups Application group groups applications e g for the representation of specialized procedures business processes etc Cost center combines application groups e g cost carriers customers and departments of acompany 1 10 9 BVQ placement rules Placement guidelines for volumes Group of storage pools to which a sub set of assigned volumes can be placed Specifies a rule for the placement of two VDisk groups having the same usage context 1 10 10 BVQ service level management Storage and data classes SLAs Storage class group of storage pools with the same quality classification Service level agreement associates a BVQ VDisk group with a BVQ data class and details on prices GiB and run time Data class arranges volume groups with equal quality requirements Requirements for placement combinations of data and storage class 1 10 11 BVQ VMware virtualization Storage relevant object types of a VMware virtualization environment USER S GUIDE BVA GUI OBJECT TYPES 133 BVG user s guide v15 VM vCenter server VMware vCenter s
96. R W O R Latency OR Ow R amp W Worst latency OR Ow R amp W Transfer size OR Ow O R amp W Tabelle 56 Description performance metrics MDisk Metric Unit Axis Description IO rate R ops s RO Read operation rate ops s IO rate W ops s WO Write operation rate ops s IO rate R W ops s RO WO Total operation rate ops s IO rate R RO RO W 1000 Reads of total operations IO rate prestage ops s CTRHP Read operation rate on prestaged data ops s Data rate R MiB s RB 512 Read data rate MiB s Data rate W MiB s WB 512 Write data rate MiB s Data rate R W MiB s RB WB 512 Total data rate MiB s Data rate R RB RB WB Read data of total data Data rate MiB s CTRHPs 512B Read data rate on prestaged data MiB s prestage Latency R ms op RL RO Average response time per read operation ms op Latency W ms op WL WO Average response time per write operation ms op Latency R amp W ms op RL WL RO WO Average response time per operation ms op Worst latency R ms op RLW Response time of the worst read operation ms op USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI PERFORMANCE VIEW 90 Metric Unit Axis BVQ user s guide v15 Description Worst latency W ms op WLW Response time of the worst write operation ms op Worst latency ms op MAX RLW WLW Response time of the worst op
97. RO WO Average response time excluding queue time per RE amp WE operation ms op Latency RQ ms op RQ RO Average response time including inbound queue time per read operation ms op Latency WQ ms op WQ WO Average response time including outbound queue time per write operation ms op Latency ms op RQ WQ RO WO Average response time including queue time per RARWA operation ms op The metric BBCZ is important for the SAN s buffer to buffer credit tuning Recommendation the value should not exceed 10 within an interval The ideal B2B credit number on the switch ports connected to SVC ports is 41 USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI PERFORMANCE VIEW 103 BVQ user s guide v15 1 7 Tables view The tables view shows attributes of BVQ relevant objects in tabular form Abbildung 74 Tables view overview Filter Empty Inv O Add me qualified Remove BYQID SYCID Cluster UID Preferred nc 131 svc1 0000020061600648 501 1 cl svcin2 5 PO 366 132 sve1 0000020061600648 gpfs_he2 Ee a 6005076801858014A00000000000014F IP sveln2 5 in io grp 0 369 136 cl 0000020061600648 PSE RSP3 Size 6005076801858014400000000000035C 10 GiB io op D svel 0 svc1 sveln2 5 in io op D 370 137 svc 0000020061600648 RRD1_B1 10 group v 600507680185801AA00000000000035F 30 GB io grp 0 svei 0 svc1 sveln2 5 inio grp D 371 138 svei 0
98. Scanner status FM 3 Memory usage AN A S O Load time analysis About Tabelle 5 Main menu functions Allows the import of a BVQ license key file Displays the current licensing and its compliance in a status window USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI MAIN MENU 10 BVQ user s guide v15 The scanner status window shows the current state of BVQ scan processes The memory usage window shows the current memory usage of the GUI The window load time analysis shows the load times of each BVQ objects when starting the GUI The about window displays product related data such as version number contact information legal information etc 1 2 4 1 Management of license keys Description of BVQ license keys management BVQ license key files The license key management functions are accessed via the menu in the main menu Abbildung 10 Main menu managing license keys Deva File Edit Favorites amp Update BYQ license Display BVQ license mi Scanner status Update BVQ license Import update new license key file Display BVA license View current license key Overview of licensed feature packs inthe license table USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI MAIN MENU 11 BVG user s guide v15 Abbildung 11 License table status window Discovered Clusters Cluster ID Cluster Name Module svc3 Scan top License start Jan 1 2008
99. SerNum 13189M1 Links to related objects Disk arrays Values D54700 2A1 39 in controller D54700 2 with 9 disks RAID Level RS D54700 2A2 40 in controller D54700 2 with 9 disks RAID Level RS D54700 2A3 41 in controller D54700 2 with 9 disks RAID Level RS D54700 2A4 42 in controller D54700 2 with 9 disks RAID Level RS D54700 2A5 43 in controller D54700 2 with 9 disks RAID Level RS DEAN DAL LAAN Se enka DEATOO rab A dee NAID sa sel DE Room B 06 215 2 in site Herriots Frankfurt v 1 A Newest QD Addie cop Edits Comment vw Delete ok Il caa Qualifying disk arrays In the disk arrays the performance attributes of the hardware MDisks which lie underneath are gathered The gathered data of the disk arrays can later be used to generate reports e g table of all raid 5 arrays O At the Storwize V7000 disk arrays are automatically created for each MDisk No user action is necessary If multiple MDisks have to be summarized into one disk array the remaining disk array can be discarded and new ones can be created USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 165 BVG user s guide v15 You enter disk array name raid level disk type number of disks without hotspares and the controller The estimated I O density is calculated by the specifications of the raid level and disk type max est I O rate In the case of deviation this value can be overwritten RAID Level RS v Disk type Gj Enterpr
100. Show VDisk performance graph s ES Show MDisk performance graph s 4 Zoom to selection ul Reset zoom Ctrl 0 Hereby a large number of objects with common context can be selected easily Tabelle 22 Treemap properties for object selection USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 33 BVQ user s guide v15 Single select Selects an object with left or right mouse click Multi select Selects multiple objects by mouse click and holding down CTRL button Subelement Selection of displayed subobjects of the selected object with context menu select select subelements Search field Results of a search query in the search field are displayed directly in the select treemap Selection color Selected objects are marked orange Selection is Selection is preserved even when path aspect coloration and favorites are retained switched 1 5 1 5 Treemap tooltips Treemap tooltips contain essential aspect specific object information Move the mouse pointer to the desired object and hold on Shortly afterwards a tooltip appears with aspect specific information For example in the performance aspect the tooltip shows the performance indicators of the selected integration period Or in the capacity aspect information about free and used capacity are displayed USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 34 BVG user s guide v15 Abbildung 30 Treemap tooltip of a VDisk in the aspect VD VMFS04 Prod VD IOR
101. Storage class group of storage pools with the same quality classification BVQ SLA Service level agreement when a BVG VDisk group is linked with a BVQ data class containing details about prices GiB and duration BVQ data class Data class groups volume groups with the same quality requirements BVQ DC to SC Reguirements for placement combinations of data and storage class placement rating Editable object types 1 12 Use cases Practical applications in BVG are shown in this chapter 1 12 1 Qualification of the performance edition and the single extension packages In this chapter the qualification of the performance edition and the single extension packages is described In the premium edition several qualification steps which are described here have to be carried out Both extension packages are part of these steps O The qualification of the MDisk to Array is only possible in the entry edition Please see for that http wiki sva de Qualifizierung QualifizierungDiskArrays Therefore entry edition is not mentioned in this chapter 1 12 1 1 Indication of unqualified objects To obtain an overview about the current qualification status the GUI treemaps can be used 1 Placing object colors on BVQ qualified 2 All treemap objects which are not qualified yet are colored red 3 Select the desired object e g an object combination in the treemap navigator USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 160 BV
102. T 119 BVQ user s guide v15 Compression compression_efficiency compression saved capacity Compression gain saved saved capacity by capacity compression Space eff space efficiency Copy virtual capacity Reduction gain saved uncompressed used capacity saved capacity by capacity Thin Provisioning Total capacity capacity efficiency copy virtual capacity Total saved efficiency allocated capacity capacity which is available for other usage in the pool Bar chart U M Ratio of Cs V compressed U capacity to compression gain Cs regarding the virtual capacity All percentages are based on the sum of the virtual capacity of all VDisk copies copy virtual capacity 100 Note the difference between this simply calculated virtual capacity and the total virtual capacity e The simply calculated virtual capacity is the size of the volume which is visible from a server s point of view e The total virtual capacity is calculated from the sum of all virtual copies capacities of a volume and represents the comparison value for the identification of saved capacity Simple example A volume with a virtual capacity of 100GiB has 2 copies e Without Thin Provisioning or compression 200GiB of memory would have to be occupied e f the compression is activated for both copies and both achieve a compression rate of 50 so 2 50 100GiB can be saved compared to the over the full assignme
103. TEGER 4 SVC_VDISK_UID CHAR 32 WARNING SMALLINT 2 VDISK_CAPACITY BVQ_VDISK_ID INTEGER 4 SVC_ALLOCATED_CAPACITY BIGINT 8 SVC_CLUSTER_ID CHAR 16 SVC_FREE_CAPACITY BIGINT 8 SVC_REAL_CAPACITY BIGINT 8 SVC_USED_CAPACITY BIGINT 8 USER S GUIDE BVG REPORTING BVG DATABASE VIEW SCHEME FOR REPORT SCHEME LEVEL 1 0 0 0 243 BVQ user s guide v15 SVC_VDISK_ID INTEGER 4 SVC_VDISK_NAME VARCHAR 64 SVC_VDISK_UID CHAR 32 SVC VIRTUAL CAPACITY BIGINT 8 VDISK FINANCIAL SVC CLUSTER ID CHAR 16 SVC COST DECIMAL 31 SVC_VDISK_ID INTEGER 4 SVC_VDISK_NAME VARCHAR 64 SVC_VDISK_UID CHAR 32 VDISK GROUP HIST 1 YEAR APPLICATION ID INTEGER 4 CREATED TIMESTMP 10 DELETED SMALLINT 2 ID INTEGER 4 MARKER_DATE TIMESTMP 10 NAME VARCHAR 64 NOTES VARCHAR 2048 VDISK HIST 1 YEAR CAPACITY BIGINT 8 CREATED TIMESTMP 10 DELETED SMALLINT 2 GOV RATIO INTEGER 4 GOV_RATIO_TYPE VARCHAR 2 ID INTEGER 4 MARKER_DATE TIMESTMP 10 NAME VARCHAR 64 SVC_CLUSTER_ID CHAR 16 SVC 10 GRP ID INTEGER 4 SVC PREF NODE ID INTEGER 4 SVC_VDISK_UID CHAR 32 VDISK_GRP_ID INTEGER 4 VDISK_PERFORMANCE BVG ID INTEGER 4 SVC CLUSTER ID CHAR 16 SVC VDISK ID INTEGER 4 SVC VDISK NAME CHAR 32 SVC VDISK UID CHAR 32 T3 INDO1 DOUBLE 8 USER S GUIDE BVQ REPORTING BVQ DATABASE VIEW SCHEME FOR REPORT SCHEME LEVEL 1 0 0 0 244
104. TUS VARCHAR 8 EXTENT SIZE INTEGER 4 ID INTEGER 4 MARKER DATE TIMESTMP 10 NAME VARCHAR 64 ONLINE STATUS VARCHAR 16 SVC CLUSTER ID CHAR 16 UNALLOCATED CAPACITY BIGINT 8 WARNING SMALLINT 2 SVC VDISKCOPY HIST 1 YEAR AUTOEXPAND SMALLINT 2 COPY ID SMALLINT 2 CREATED TIMESTMP 10 DELETED SMALLINT 2 EASY TIER VARCHAR 3 EASY TIER STATUS VARCHAR 8 FREE CAPACITY BIGINT 8 GRAINSIZE SMALLINT 2 MARKER DATE TIMESTMP 10 ONLINE STATUS VARCHAR 10 REAL CAPACITY BIGINT 8 SVC CLUSTER ID CHAR 16 SVC MDISK GRP ID INTEGER 4 SVC_VDISKCOPY_ROLE_ID INTEGER 4 SVC_VDISK_ID INTEGER 4 SVC_VDISK_UID CHAR 32 SYNC SMALLINT 2 TYPE VARCHAR 10 UNCOMPRESSED_USED_CAPACITY BIGINT 8 USED_CAPACITY BIGINT 8 WARNING SMALLINT 2 SVC VDISK HIST 1 YEAR USER S GUIDE BVG REPORTING BVG DATABASE VIEW SCHEME FOR REPORT SCHEME LEVEL 1 0 0 0 240 BVQ user s guide v15 CACHE_TYPE VARCHAR 10 CAPACITY BIGINT 8 CREATED TIMESTMP 10 DELETED SMALLINT 2 FORMATTED SMALLINT 2 GOV_RATIO INTEGER 4 GOV_RATIO_TYPE VARCHAR 2 ID INTEGER 4 MARKER_DATE TIMESTMP 10 NAME VARCHAR 64 ONLINE STATUS VARCHAR 10 SVC_CLUSTER_ID CHAR 16 SVC 10 GRP ID INTEGER 4 SVC PREF NODE ID INTEGER 4 SYNC_RATE SMALLINT 2 UID CHAR 32 TIMEBAR 1 YEAR MARKER DATE TIMESTMP 10 TIMEBAR 2 YEARS MARKER DATE TIMESTMP 10 TOPOLOGY CLUSTER SITE ROOM NODE BVQ NODE ID INTEGER 4 BVQ ROOM ID INTEGER 4
105. UI OBJECT TYPES 131 BVQ user s guide v15 SVC V7000 volume virtual disk SLADE gud Allocation mapping LUN of SVC VDisk to SVC host map Server which is connected to a SVC 7000 cluster and can be assigned to the SVC VDisks For more details about this object type please see IBM SVC software installation and configuration guide 1 10 7 SAN connections and ports Ports and connections of SAN devices which are visible in SVC V7000 AE E S Port of a SVC controller SVC node port Port of a SVC node SVC host port Port of a SVC host SAMM Port of a SAN device with unknown type Seine Connection between a node port and another of the above SVC port types For more details about this object type please see IBM SVC software installation and configuration guide Special color scheme SAN object types are always displayed in a special color scheme Please see color scheme SVC controller port SVC node port SVC host port and color scheme port connect Source of these attributes Object type SVC controller port Iscontroller port details SVC node port Isnode port details SVC host port Ishost port details SVC unknown port Isfabric filtered by type unkonwn SVC port connect Isfabric For more details about the SVC CLI commands please see IBM SVC command line interface user s guide USER S GUIDE BV
106. USE CASES 172 BVG user s guide v15 BYQ ID Name SAP Backup Links to related objects Application Personalabteilung Gehaltsabrechnung SAP Prod 25 se Mobility zone Pi Not assigned v cap Edit Mobility zone 5 Not assigned v bi Newest ET VDisks Values Q dder cepEditw Delte ma Add gs Et 1 Delete i pm add cap Edt Delte Comment Ce VDisk The gualification is started via the task menu with edit gt VDisks and selecting a VDisk which can be connected with a previously created and suitable VDisk Group Utilize the name filter to locate VDisks faster USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 173 BVG user s guide v15 Filter Cluster luste svc1 0000020061600648 gpfs_co2 GE svc1 0000020061600648 16005076801858014400000000000014E 133 132 svei 0000D200616006A8 gpfshe2 133 132 sve1 000D0200616006A8 gpfshe2 ks 600507680185801AA00000000000014F 65 sec 00000200616006A8 gpfs hsmi Sp RS 60050768018580144000000000000183 169 svei 0000020061600648 Geo 0000020061600648 t 6005076801858014A0000000000001E1 svc1 0000020061600648 gpfs_sysi 6005076801858014400000000000014C svc1 0000020061600648 gpfs syst 1 600507680185801440000000000001E0 svc1 0000020061600648 japfs sys2 6005076801858014400000000000014D svc1 0000020061600648 gpfsint rh boot 600507680185801440000000000002B8
107. VQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 29 BVG user s guide v15 Reset zoom Abbildung 27 Treemap reset zoom sva File Object Lists Favorites Allows to return quickly to the minimum zoom level Flash zoom Double clicking with the scroll wheel middle mouse button maximizes the object area currently located under the cursor This allows to zoom quickly into an object level For zooming out a single click on a part of the underlying grouping object area or the known function reset zoom can be used Zoom to selection Abbildung 28 Treemap zoom to selection VD VMFS BVODB 01 VD IOR 460 IO s Edit gt Add Delete f show in list Show details BW Open SVC CUI Je Show VDisk performance graph s PA Show MDisk performance graphis Je Show Node performance graph s A Show Node Port performance graph s ra ut Reset zoom Zoom to selection can be called by using the context menu of selected treemap objects Thus all currently selected treemap objects are enlarged to the available window area Zoom control via keyboard The treemap zooming can also be operated with the following shortcuts Tabelle 21 Shortcuts for the treemap navigation USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 30 BVQ user s guide v15 Shortcut Function Ctrl Enlarging treemap Ctrl Decreasing treemap Ctrl 0 Minimizing treemap reset zoom Moving of the zoomed in treemap Middl
108. VQ placement rules BVQ mobility zone Group of storage pools to which a sub set of assigned volumes can be placed BVQ VDisk group relation Specifies a rule for the placement of two VDisk groups having the same usage context BVQ service level management BVA storage class Storage class group of storage pools with the same guality classification placement rating BVQ SLA Service level agreement associates a BVQ VDisk group with a BVQ data class and details on prices GiB and run time BVQ data class Data class arranges volume groups with equal quality requirements BVQ DC to SC Requirements for placement combinations of data and storage class USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI OBJECT EDITORS 157 BVQ user s guide v15 1 113 Object editors Via the edit function objects with further information can be enriched and linked among each other What purpose do object editors serve Some SVC object types can be extended with business or application attributes or be allocated to groupings For these actions there are dialogs for editing the BVQ GUI In this way e g volumes in organization units of a company or storage classes in BVQ can be displayed How are the editors called 1 Via the menu object lists you arrive at the tabular views for all editable object types Via right click on the line of an object the context menu opens which leads to the suitable editor via edit 2
109. VQ site which is associated with no SVC VDisks the menu item show VDisk performance graph s remains inactive Drag 8 drop topology editing With the drag 8 drop function of the treemap relocating SVC VDisk copy objects between SVC MDisk groups is very easy Moving allowed objects in the treemap opens the dialog Cluster CLI Scripts which collects the available commands in the SVC and is also able to execute them USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 27 BVG user s guide v15 It is also possible to move multiple objects selected by holding down CTRL key with a single draft Abbildung 25 Drag amp drop operation in the treemap VD nseini_data02 VD nseln1 data03 VD VMFS01 prod VD IOR 62 IO s VD VMFS5 01 VD VD IOR 22 IO s VD_IOR 22 IO s VD_IOR 22 IO s VMFS01 test VD IOR 21 IO s VD nseini_data01 VD VMFS05 prod VD_IOR 22 IO s VD_IOR 20 IO s VD VMFS04 Prod VD_IOR 62 IO s Allowed drag amp drop operations Drag amp drop moves are allowed only for certain types of objects to specific target object types see table Illegal moves are indicated by the lock symbol 9 instead of the mouse pointer Object type Target object type SVC VDisk copy SVC MDisk group SVC VDisk SVC MDisk group BVQ VDisk group SVC MDisk group BVQ application SVC MDisk group Also illegal e Transfers between SVC MDisk groups with unequal extent size USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 28 BVG user s guide v
110. W hlen Sie einen passenden Namen z B Gold Silber Bronze W hlen Sie f r die visuelle Darstellung eine Farbe aus Tragen Sie den GiB Preis ein Die MDisk Gruppen m ssen im Anschluss ber Edit gt MDisk groups hinzugef gt werden Aktuell ist es in dem Auswahldialog Edit gt Storage class noch nicht m glich die MDisk Gruppen direkt auszuw hlen Das Data class to Storage class placement rating wird sp ter hinzugef gt da diese erst angelegt werden m ssen Wiederholen Sie die Schritte f r die anderen Speicherklassen BYQ ID 25 Name Gold SC Color Links to related objects MDisk groups Values 3 Add op Edit Delete DC to 5C placement ratings Comment Qualifizierung Data classes Starten Sie die Qualifizierung in der Men leiste mit Edit gt Data classes und klicken Sie auf Add W hlen Sie einen passenden Namen z B A A B W hlen Sie f r die visuelle Darstellung eine Farbe aus USER S GUIDE BVA GUI USE CASES 198 BVQ user s guide v15 e Tragen Sie den GiB Preis ein e Das Data class to Storage class placement rating und Active SLA s werden sp ter hinzugef gt da diese erst angelegt werden m ssen e Wiederholen Sie die Schritte f r die anderen Datenklassen BYQ ID Name A Color 808080 Links to related objects DC to SC placement ratings Values Add e var Delete Active S
111. ance defined by the object type BVQ VDisk group relation Object type specific color schemes Some object types have a specially adapted color scheme for a better representation of their specific properties 1 5 4 2 Color scheme group capacity efficiency With the object colorings of the scheme group capacity efficiency the compliance of Thin Provisioning space efficency and the compression thresholds can be tested in the treemap USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 48 BVQ user s guide v15 Abbildung 45 Topology color scheme submenu gi Topology a Object type Object type BVQ qualified Capacity efficiency gt Total capacity efficiency Service level gt Space efficiency Performance gt Compression efficiency Compliance The following color schemes belong to this group e Color scheme total capacity efficiency The object staining according to the scheme total capacity efficiency colors the objects based on actual saving of total capacity e Color scheme space efficiency The object coloring scheme space efficiency paints the objects of the treemap based on the data reduction by Thin Provisioning e BVQcolor scheme compression efficiency The color scheme compression efficiency colors objects according to the the data reduction efficiency achieved with compression 1 5 4 3 Color scheme group service level With the object colorings of the scheme group service level the
112. ance View a USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 211 BVQ user s guide v15 Qualifying Mobility Zone You now start to arrange the Mobility Zones Mobility Zones determine on which Storage Pools the VDisks of a VDisk Group should be placed Thus Regulations for files of VDisks are established which then for instance can be inspected on their compliance VDisk X should only be filed into the MDisk Groups Y 8 2 Create and allocating MDisk Groups You start the Qualification in the Task Menu Bar with Edit gt Mobility Zones and click on Add a Allocating Mobility Zones to the VDisk Groups You start the Qualification in Task Menu with Edit gt VDisk groups and select a suitable passende VDisk Group A Mobility Zone can hereby be applied for multiple VDisk Groups Specify the Mobility Zone for the Mobilty Zone P in which the primary copies of the VDisks should be located in the VDisk Group Specify the Mobility Zone for the Mobilty Zone S in which the secondary copies of the VDisks should be located in the VDisk Group Thus mirrored VDisks VDisk Mirror can be allocated to different Mobility Zones 1 12 2 Usage of the treemap for the optimization of storage costs Objective Disks with moderate performance requirements should be moved from an expensive high performance storage pool to a favorable pool All VDisks with large capacity in the expensive storage pool are marked by choosing the aspect capacity By
113. as to be installed manually 1 Copy the ZIP archive containing the driver to the target system 2 Unzip the TIP archive to a directory of your choice on the target machine z B APPDATA IBM db2c1i 3 Optionally delete the ZIP archive then USER S GUIDE BVG REPORTING ODBC ACCESS TO THE BVG REPORTING SCHEME 224 BVQ user s guide v15 2 3 5 Configuration 2 3 5 1 1 Register DB2 ODBC driver in Windows D Programme installable IBM DB2 Express 9 5 odbedriver bin gt db2oregl exe h db2oregl Install Uninstall the IBM Data Server Driver for ODBC Usage db2oregl i u s D Programme installable IBM DB2 Express 9 5 odbedriver bin gt db2oregl exe i D Programme installable IBM DB2 Express 9 5 odbedriver bin gt Unfortunately db2oreg1 doesn t give any appropriate feedback in case of a successful installation 2 3 5 2 2 Register data source in the Windows ODBC datasource administrator 1 Calling ODBCAD Please also see procedure on 64 bit systems a On 64 bit systems for 32 bit ODBC clients like e g Excel 2010 or Open Office 3 4 C Windows SysWOW64 odbcad32 b On 64 bit systems for 64 bit ODBC clients C Windows system32 odbcad32 c On 32 bit systems odbcad32 2 Verifying DB2 driver registration tab driver USER S GUIDE BVG REPORTING ODBC ACCESS TO THE BVG REPORTING SCHEME 225 BVG user s guide v15
114. ata rate MiB s RB WB 512 total data rate MiB s R W Data rate R RB RB WB read data of total data Data rate MiB s CTRHPs 512B read data rate on prestaged data MiB s Prestage Latency R ms op RL RO average response time per read operation ms op Latency W ms op WL WO average response time per write operation ms op Latency RAW ms op RL WL RO WO average response time per operation ms op Latency R RL RL WL average read response time of total response time Latency xfer ms op XL RO WO average transfer latency per operation ms op Worst latency ms op RLW response time of the worst read operation ms op R Worst latency ms op WLW response time of the worst write operation ms op W Worst latency ms op MAX RLW WLW response time of the worst operation ms op R amp W Transfer size KiB op RB RO average transfer size per read operation KiB op R Transfer size KiB op WB WO average transfer size per write operation KiB op W Transfer size KiB op RB WB RO WO average transfer size per operation KiB op R amp W Transfer size KiB op CTRHPs 512B CTRHP average transfer size per read operation on Prestage Cache prestaged data KiB op USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI PERFORMANCE VIEW 86 Metric Unit Axis BVQ user s guide v15 Description Cache hit R CTRHs CTRs cache hits on non prestaged data of read data
115. ated Q Q Q Q D o Q 0 2 Q e 0 AN AN Q e 2 Q E E a i EN Q dh Q A A Q E E B a Q E E Q E E A A Q R 0 Q a E Q Q gi Q Q Q Q A A 1 5 4 18 Color scheme data class compliance The object color scheme data class compliance colors the objects of the treemap according to the SLA conformity defined in the BVQ DC to SC placement rating USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 62 BVQ user s guide v15 The compliance state for the default data type class is determined for the object type VDisk copy All other object types which also display this condition type determine its state by aggregation In the treemap this compliance state is expressed by following stainings of the object areas Tabelle 38 Color scheme data class compliance meaning of the colors Color Symbol Condition Meaning s Green Compliant Requirements met VDisk copy placement rating gt 0 Gordy E Yelow A Incomplete Requirements definition not complete ll Red a Not compliant Requirements not met VDisk copy Placement rating lt 0 3 Faded Oo Undefined No object requirements defined UN Object e Not Object type is not affected type Applicable 1 5 4 19 Color scheme mobility zone compliance The object coloring according to the scheme mobility zone compliance colors the objects of the treemap on the compliance state with requirements defined in the object type BVQ mobility zone This color scheme indic
116. ates whether VDisks currently meet the user requirements with regard to the restrictions of their movement clearance e Examples e VDisks of the group DB2 logs RZ1 may only lie on MDISK groups which in turn lie on subsystems in RZ1 e VDisks of the group file system business critical may only lie on MDISK groups which in turn lie on enterprise subsystems In the treemap this compliance state is expressed by the following coloring of the object areas Tabelle 39 Color scheme data class compliance meaning of the colors Color Symbol Condition Meaning M Green e Compliant The objective is met the VDisk copies lie in the BVQ mobility zone defined by the VDisk group EE Yellow A Incomplete Definition of the default s is incomplete Hr oa Not The specification of the state compliant are not kept compliant Faded O Undefined No specifications are defined for the object USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 63 BVQ user s guide v15 Symbol Condition Meaning WE Object Not Object type is not affected type applicable 1 5 4 20 Color scheme VDg relation compliance The object coloring according to the scheme VDG relation compliance colors the objects of the treemap on the state of requirements compliance defined by the object type BVQ VDisk group relation This color scheme indicates whether SVC VDisk actually complies with the requirements depending on other SVC VDisks e Examples
117. ation groups Rooms Cost centers SLAs Data classes Values SVA Lab Wiesbaden 1 in site Wiesbaden Borsigstrasse 14 Storage classes i DC to SC placement ratings ca P Delta arie come VDisk group relations Qualifying disk types For the qualification of disk types the disk attributes have to be determined first e Class concerning lowrange ATA SATA PATA enterprise FC SAS SCSI or SSD storage 2 e Capacity which capacity do the disks have e Rotation Speed which configuration do the disks have e Max est I O rate Is the speed determined by rotation This value can also be adapted Start the gualificaton in the task menu with edit gt disk types and click on add USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 164 BVQ user s guide v15 al Qualifying disk controller For the qualification of the controller you select the correspondent class and room and register the cache Size The room Information must be entered in a way so that the object controller can be fully qualified The cache size MTM and serial number have to be gathered by the controller Determining controller cache size and classifying it as enterprise midrange or lowrange Start the qualification in the task menu with edit gt controllers and select the controller which has to be qualified BYQ ID 5 SVC ID 1 Properties Class Midrange e Cache size 2 GB v MTM 1814 704
118. ays the timestamp of the last failed topology or performance timestamp statistics file Function refresh By clicking the refresh button a re query of the database is initiated last scan and persist cycles can be recorded and evaluated in the scanner status dialog Summary of conditions A summary of the conditions can be found at the top of the status window and in the scanner status bar Always the most severe status is reported in the summary 1 2 4 3 Memory usage The memory usage window shows the current memory usage of the GUI Abbildung 13 Window memory usage Committed heap memory ed Max heap memory Committed 73 MiB Allocatable 421 MiB Max 494 MiB BYQ GUI Heap space can be adjusted in the install wizard USER S GUIDE BVG GUI MAIN MENU 15 BVG user s guide v15 Tabelle 12 Inofrmation about GUI memory usage Used Amount of allocated memory Free Amount of free memory in relation to committed Committed Size of the reserved memory for the GUI Allocatable Size of the remaining available memory in relation to Max Size of the maximum available memory for the GUI process Switch to trigger a Java runtime garbage collection ES The maximum amount of memory depends on the value of Max Heap Size which can be configured in the GUI installation 1 2 4 4 Load time analysis The window load time analysis shows the load times of each BVQ objects when star
119. be Reader 9 Internet Explorer 2 Or double click the link on your desktop launch BVQ GUI Abbildung 3 GUI Starting via desktop icon Fi Launch BYQ GUI 144 Cluster selection If more than one system SVC cluster Storwize is administered with BVQ the cluster choice dialogue appears after the start of the BVG GUI The charging time and the memory consumption of the GUI can be reduced by selecting less clusters Abbildung 4 Cluster selection dialogue Bro Select clusters OP Please select the clusters to be loaded for this BYQ session Select All None Invert Load Name ID swt 0000020080200 Si svc3 0000020063FFF amp svel 0000020061600 w svc2 0000020063E07 Be aware of potentially incomplete aggregations when only a part of the clusters are loaded start BYQ JI op USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI HOW TO START THE GUI 6 BVG user s guide v15 1 2 Main menu In the main menu of the BVQ GUI functions are found which are working across different views gt vo File Object Lists Favorites Tabelle 1 Main menu function groups General functions Call of the table views Call and add favorites Miscellaneous information about the BVG system version licence storage usage 1 2 1 Menu File Main Menu File provides access to various functions Abbildung 5 Main menu File File Object Lists Favorites We New tab Ctrl T E Cl
120. ben tigt und dabei stellen sich die Fragen Welche Applikationen werden im Unternehmensumfeld eingesetzt oder Wie lassen sich diese Applikationen abrechnungstechnisch sinnvoll erfassen Im BVQ ist es daher n tig die entsprechenden Informationen zusammenzutragen und anschlie end sinnvoll zu verkn pfen e Was sind meine Kostenstellen z B Kostenstelle Personalabteilung Kunde xy oder Software Entwicklung gt Diese Informationen werden in der Regel in die Gruppe Costcenter eingetragen e Welche Applikationsgruppen laufen unter den einzelnen Kostenstellen z B Gehaltsabrechnung Zeiterfassung gt Diese Informationen werden in der Regel in die Gruppe Application Group eingetragen e Welche Applikationen laufen in den Applikationsgruppen z B SAP Prod SAP Test Notes Citrix oder die Entwicklungssoftware gt Diese Informationen werden in der Regel in die Gruppe Application eingetragen e Sind die Applikationen auf verschieden Systemen verteilt z B Tablespaces Backup gt Diese Informationen werden in der Regel in die Gruppe VDisk Group eingetragen USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 186 BVG user s guide v15 Cost Application VDisk Center Group Application Group Tablespaces HE SAP HR Backup Prod MR Archive LE SAP HR Tablespace Test MR Tablespace Zeiterfassung SAPHR Be MR Die VDisk Gruppen stellen somit die Basis des Accounting Pakets dar Mit den VDisk Gruppen werden sp ter die SLA
121. ble of licensed but not yet recognized SVC V7000 clusters Tabelle 8 License table explanation of columns Columns Cluster ID Corresponds to the SVC V7000 cluster alias ID s id alias from svcinfo lscluster Cluster Name Name of the cluster USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI MAIN MENU 12 BVQ user s guide v15 Module Name of the function module License start License valid from License end License valid until Grace period end License renewal period ending on Licensed cluster pool capacity Total licensed capacity of all clusters in the pool in TiB Current cluster pool capacity Currently used capacity in TiB Capacity difference Unused licensed capacity Other clusters in pool List of other licensed BVQ clusters License status Status of the module Tabelle 9 License table license statuses for each module Status Description BVQ reaction Active and in use license compliant Normal operation Within the extension period Status window is displayed Violation license and renewal period expired Module inactive Violation licensed capacity exceeded Status window is displayed License file contains no entry for this module Module inactive Faulty entry in the license file for this module Module inactive Not active and not licensed Module inactive amp Red status messages urge
122. bteilung Gehaltsabrechnung SAP Prod SAP Backup Gei voiskaroup Personalabteilung Geheltsabrechnung SAP Prod SAP Backup 26 v ED Newest O add VDisk copies PSE2_VIO1D 3 in cluster svc1 PSE2_YIOZD 14 in cluster svc1 PSE _YIO3D 15 in cluster svc1 PSE _YIO4D 27 in cluster svc1 9 Delete b QyAiddrsie Leg Et Values SAPD2 Bi 30XF 1 GiB U 47 GIB R 48 GiB in FST2_SAS_HE svc1 og Edit add Delete ac net USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 191 BVG user s guide v15 Nach Abschluss dieser Qualifizierungsschritte k nnen die ersten Auswertungen im BVQ erfolgen z B die Kapazit tssicht Performancesicht auf eine Kostenstelle Kapazit tssicht PO pr Cost center gt Application group gt BEE Cost Center Verwendet 32 59TiB App gruppe VMWare 16 04 TiB Applikation ESX3 11 43TiB VDisks f r Fileserver E Aggregated VDisk Performance Short term ah Midterm 24h Long term 7d 10 rate ew 2 733 10js Rew 2 791 1075 Bra 2 647 107 Data rate IR r 150 56 meis aw 07 09 meis Rew 60 65 m is Detailinformationen zu Cost Center ber rechte Maustaste Performancesicht USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 192 BVG user s guide v15 e Aspects Eet Jong gt Data rate RW Object color Object type EVO Cost center gt Appkcation group gt A
123. by using interval extension leads to a reduction of the curve nodes well suited for a very wide period of time with many points e The smoothing by using moving average keeps the number of curve nodes suitable to highlight a course better by trend Metrics The metrics of the performance view are computed from one or more measured metrics performance statistics of an underlying basic object type USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI PERFORMANCE VIEW 79 BVQ user s guide v15 To each measurement metric belongs a time series of measurements collected and delivered by the storage system SVC V7000 Directly below the smoothing procedure panels the selection area for metrics can be found Any combination of metrics can be selected by using check boxes Each metric has its distinct color which is shown in the line below the box A contiguous group of metrics has the same basic color but with different levels of brightness Depending on the object type the performance metrics are further divided into chapters To each box a tooltip can be displayed which contains more information about each metric It also specifies the formula strongly simplified of the underlying measurement metrics In the chapter performance metrics a detailed description about metrics can be found Other points Legend Toggles the legend below the graph Help Help for complex metrics currently only VDisk cache The legend is displayed i
124. ch konvertieren r v Sa Verkn pfung aufheben d Verbundene Zeilen Verbundene Spalten Eigenschaften Tools Externe Tabellendaten Optionen f r Tabellenformat Al vO f B c D E F G ID v svc c usTer 1D SUU UID RI NAME FEA ESET KETT 2 3668 00000200616006A8 600507680185801AA000000000000272 ISORSP1 D1 010 D 3 209 0000020060803D6E 60050768018200F5B800000000000031 VDisk p520 01 010 0 4 3667 0000020060803D6E 60050768018200F5B80000000000007A testrg 010 0 5 3729 000002008020006A 6005076802008001A80000000000004B svc3_quorumO 010 0 6 3666 0000020060803D6E 60050768018200F5B800000000000075 tpdk_is_fc 010 0 7 3665 0000020060803D6E 60050768018200F5B800000000000079 VMWareTestSchul 010 0 8 3724 00000200616006A8 600507680185801AA000000000000287 REGIOCOM Speed 0 10 0 9 3717 000002008020006A 6005076802008001A800000000000046 RSC125 010 0 10 260 0000020063E07DEC 60050768018F81F78000000000000200 sunl 2 010 0 11 2414 0000020060C1FF52 60050768018307FD480000000000000D NIMKA 02M5N 010 0 12 3706 000002008020006A 6005076802008001A800000000000042 overprovis 010 0 13 223 0000020060403EA6 60050768018100FA9800000000000009 vd Ip4 boot 010 0 14 222 0000020060403EA6 60050768018100FA9800000000000008 vd Ip3 boot 010 0 15 293 0000020060403EA6 60050768018100FA9800000000000023 vd Ip5 boot 010 0 16 2403 00000200616006A8 600507680185801AA0000000000001CC XSES SQL T0003 010 0 17 3705 000002008020006A 6005076802008001A800000000000040 LUN1 sva 01 0 10 0 18 218 0000020060803D6E 60050768018200F5B80
125. city FREE capacity Space efficient VDisk copy free capacity WASTED capacity Differece between ALLOCATED REAL capacity loss by only partially occupied extents Virtual capacity Disk size which is presented to the host and thus represents the maximum size of the storage consuming unit Real capacity Capacity which is initially allocated to the memory consuming unit at creation If the VDisk parameter autoexpand is set to yes an extension is performed automatically when reaching USED REAL capacity This continues until REAL capacity VIRTUAL capacity Used capacity Part of the REAL capacity which was automatically assigned by host writes The USED capacity always continues to grow in defined steps grain size until the REAL capacity is reached The USED capacity can never be greater than the REAL capacity Free capacity Capacity specification which is calculated from the difference between REAL capacity and USED capacity The value indicates the free space within the REAL capacity until its limit is reached and an extension of the REAL capacity is performed if auto expand yes Capacity rules per storage consumer type Fully allocated VDisk FAV VIRTUAL capacity REAL capacity USED capacity FREE capacity always 0 Space efficient VDisk SEV VIRTUAL capacity gt REAL capacity gt USED capacity FREE capacity REAL capacity USED capacity Fully allocated VDisk with VDisk mirror FAV VDM
126. cnode3 w svcnodel gt svcnode4 Visible 1 All 4 None Invert 3 Selected 0 Interval Moving Average 5 min none v IO rate rw gR gw Data rate O R O w Latency external Latency queued Tabelle 63 Overview performance metrics node to node IO rate OR Ow R W O R O W Data rate OR Ow O R W O R O W Latency exten ORE OWE RE amp WE Latency queued RQ WO RQ amp WQ Tabelle 64 Description performance metrics node to node USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI PERFORMANCE VIEW 102 BVQ user s guide v15 Metric Unit Description Axis IO rate R ops s RO Read operation rate ops s IO rate W ops s WO Write operation rate ops s IO rate R W ops s RO WO Total operation rate ops s IO rate R RO RO WO Reads of total operations IO rate W WO RO WO Writes of total operations Data rate R MiB s RB Read data rate MiB s Data rate W MiB s WB Write data rate MiB s Data rate R W MiB s RB WB Total data rate MiB s Data rate R RB RB WB Read data of total data Data rate W WB RB WB Write data of total data Latency RE ms op RE RO Average response time excluding inbound queue time per read operation ms op Latency WE ms op WE WO Average response time excluding outbound queue time per write operation ms op Latency ms op RE WE
127. compliance of service level rules configured by BVQ can be checked in the treemap Abbildung 46 Topology color scheme submenu Fruer Object type BVQ qualified Capacity efficiency gt Service level gt Data storage class Performance gt Placement rating Compliance gt The following color schemes belong to this group e Color scheme data and storage class The object staining according to the scheme data and storage class colors the objects in the treemap according to the custom colors of the BVQ storage class or BVQ data class e Color scheme DC2SC placement rating The object staining according to the scheme DC2SC placement rating colors the objects of a treemap based on the placement review of the associated BVQ DC to SC placement ratings 1 5 4 4 Color scheme performance With the object colorings of the scheme group performance the compliance ot the BVQ configured load threshold values can be checked in the treemap USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 49 BVQ user s guide v15 Abbildung 47 Topology color scheme sub menu rege Zens Object type BVQ qualified Capacity efficiency gt Service level gt Performance gt 10 density heat gt Realtime 5 min Compliance gt Response time compliance gt Short term 4 hour Mid term 1 day Long term 7 day The following color schemes belong to this group e Color scheme IO density heat
128. copy virtual capacity Reduction benefit saved uncompressed used capacity saved capacity by capacity Thin Provisioning Compression compression efficiency compression saved capacity Compression gain saved saved capacity by capacity compression Total capacity capacity efficiency copy virtual capacity Actually saved efficiency allocated capacity overall capacity Bar chart U III Ratio of Cs V compressed U capacity to compression gain Cs based on the virtual capacity All percentage values are based on the sum of the virtual capacity of all VDisk copies copy virtual capacity 100 Note the difference between this simply calculated virtual capacity and the total virtual capacity e The simply calculated virtual capacity is the size of the volume which is visible from a server s point of view e The total virtual capacity is calculated from the sum of the virtual capacity of all volume s copies and represents the comparison value for the identification of saved capacity A simple example a volume with a virtual capacity of 100GiB has 2 copies USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 216 BVQ user s guide v15 e Without Thin Provisioning or compression 200GiB memory would have to be allocated e If the compression is active for both copies and the compression rate has a vlue of 50 2 50 100GiB can be saved compared to a full occupancy 200GiB 1 12 3 2 New color schemes for the treemap Differe
129. d capabilities objects are described in the IBM product documentation BVQ Management objects which are defined by BVQ and are associated with SVC objects objects Main categories e Object editors Object editors Not all objects are configurable in the BVG GUI These SVC objects don t have any by BVQ modifiable attributes So no object editors and no table views are existent Selected attributes of the other objects can be customized by the object editors of the BVQ GUI or displayed in the tables view 1 10 2 BVG sites Describes the locations of hardware like nodes servers and storage subsystems Datacenter room within a site which contains servers storage subsystems and nodes Datacenter site containing one or more datacenter operating rooms 1 10 3 Storage providers Objects that provide storage capacity provider side Tabelle 74 Overview storage providers Disk type found in disk arrays of storage subsystems Array RAID of one disk type in a storage subsystem Represents a storage subsystem cluster crossing group of SVC controllers Represents sub units port cards controller nodes with different WWNN of a storage subsystem Corresponds to a logical disk of a storage subsystem LUNs which is assigned to a SVC V7000 Storage pool composed of SVC MDisk logical disks For more details on the object type See IBM SVC software installation and co
130. dBase Driver dbf Excel Dateien Microsoft Excel Driver xIs IBMSWG Microsoft Access Driver mdb Microsoft Access Datenbank Microsoft Access Driver mdb ODBC MySQL DB Local BVA MySQL ODBC 3 51 Driver SellingChain Microsoft Access Driver mdb Visio Database Samples Microsoft Access Driver MDB ra u al In einer ODBC Benutzerdatenquelle werden Informationen dar ber gespeichert wie eine Verbindung zu einem Datenprovider hergestellt wird Benutzerdatenquellen sind nur f r den Benutzer sichtbar und k nnen nur auf dem aktuellen Computer verwendet werden OK Abbrechen bernehmen Hilfe Connection test CLI ODBC settings BVQ connect CLI ODBC Settings BYQ Data Source Advanced Settings Data source name BVA Description BVQ DB on bvgdb1 Connectto data source to retrieve configuration information User ID bvq Password me V Save password Connect Abbrechen Gbemenmen Hilfe DBZ Message USER S GUIDE BVQ REPORTING ODBC ACCESS TO THE BVQ REPORTING SCHEME 229 BVG user s guide v15 2 3 6 Procedure on 64 bit systems On 64 bit systems a 32 bit ODBC is installed Excel OpenOffice etc are 32 bit applications odbcad32 must be called with C WINDOWS SysWOW64 odbcad32 exe then the 32 bit and not the 64 bit version of odbcad32 is truly called 64 bit ODBC has only to be installed if a 64 bit application is used 2 3 7 Usage in MS Excel 2007 1 Excel gt data
131. e Performance Edition erh ltlich BVQ SLA e Ein SLA in BVQ enth lt Preis GiB Zeitraum und Data Placement Regeln Beispiel Vom 01 01 2011 bis 31 12 2011 werden die SLA beschriebenen VDisks und ihre Kopien auf der Datenklasse A gespeichert F r diesen Service werden xx GiB berechnet BVQ Datenklasse amp BVQ Speicherklasse BVQ f rdert die Platzierung von klassifizierten Datenbereichen in einer passenden und m glichst g nstigen Speicherklasse Datenklassen Data classes Kundenorientiert mit Speicherpreis GiB Speicherklassen Storage classes Anbieterorientiert mit Speicherkosten GiB BVQ Speicherklasse Die BVQ Speicherklasse stellt die Klassifizierung vorhandener Speicher Kapazit ten dar Mit ihr sind die Kosten BVQ Kosten in GiB verbunden die beim Betreiber anfallen Die folgende Tabelle stellt eine m gliche Speicherklassenaufteilung dar Anzahl und die Benennung der Speicherklassen sind nicht fest vorgeschrieben Speicherklasse Beschreibung Kosten der Speicherklasse fiktiv To 0 schnellste Speicherklasse 75 Silber mittlere Speicherklasse 40 Bronze langsamste Speicherklasse 15 USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 196 BVG Datenklasse BVQ user s guide v15 Die BVQ Datenklasse stellt die geforderte Klassifizierung von Datenbereichen Volumes dar An sie ist der Preis BVQ Abrechnungspreis in GiB gekn pft den der Anbieter vom Endkunden verlangt Die folgende
132. e folder favorite Move folder favorite to Open in a new tab Rename of the folder ot favorite Create a new folder Deletion of the folder of favorite Relocation into another folder Opens afavorite in a new tab The favorites are categorized with the following icons Tabelle 17 Favorites Significance of icons Predefined topology favorite which requires more BVQ qualification to deliver useful prompts Predefined topology favorite which needs no further qualification Custom topology favorite Custom performance favorite USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI FAVORITES AND TABS 22 1 4 Scanner status bar BVQ user s guide v15 The GUI status bar provides information about the different operating conditions and background activities Abbildung 22 Gui status bar Scanner Cloud Memory Tabelle 18 Status bar elements Last reload from DB 4m 25 ago l Reloading datar gt Scanner Indicates whether all scanners have All OK Some Some provided current data delayed corrupt More information can be found in paragraph scanner status Cloud Displays the state of the GUI internal data Completely Are networking and aggregations calculated calculated Memory Shows if the GUI can work with sufficient Sufficient 80 100 memory used used Last reload Indicates if the data of the BVQ cloud was loaded
133. e mouse Detailed Hold and move mouse cursor holds the treemap button moving Alt left mouse Large scale Hold and move mouse cursor holds the two scrollbars button moving Magnifying glass Moving any With the first zoom level zooming via mouse wheel the icon way magnifying glass icon is displayed Hold and move minimap is displayed Example minimap of the scroll area USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 31 BVG user s guide v15 File Object Lists Favorites i we el io A Cluster MDisk group VDisk X BVQ Cluster MDisk g Search La 1 5 1 4 Treemap object selection Selection of objects in the Treemap In the treemap each object can be chosen selected with a mouse click To select more than one object of same type you have to select these objects by holding down the CTRL button It is not possible to select multiple objects of different types at the same time USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 32 BVG user s guide v15 Abbildung 29 Treemap multiselect with Objects can also be selected with the hit list topology search function or via the context menu item select subelements of an object Treemap select subelements The context menu of the treemap contains the point of select subelements This selects all displayed subelements of the next higher level Delete Show in list O Show details a Open SVC CLI E Show MDisk grp cache perf graph s E
134. e system s clipboard clipboard Close Closes the about dialog 1 3 Favorites and tabs Some views of the GUI are displayed in so called tabs Favorites save the settings of these views and facilitate the repeated call Tabs and favorites are tied closely The view in the currently opened tab can be saved as a favorite or it can get a new content by selecting a favorite More tabs can be created without content or be opened directly with the saved view of a favorite Abbildung 16 Management elements for favorites and tabs Fie Object Lists Favorites Ke vs Va Addto favorites Ctrl D Vw Open favorites Ctrl I ETEA ap Favorites EI B _ Overview topology Overview VMware topology 7 Analyse capacity Analyse performance Analyse load amp capacity distribution _ Analyse service level Analyse compliance Analyse SAN fabric Zoning Analyse copy services Step by step Align overestimated capacity Step by step Qualify and edit objects e 4 User Favorites 1 41 The control functions The following GUI features are available for the control of tabs and favorites wv Open favorites Opens the favorites selection v Add to favorites Saves the view in the current tab as a user favorite Wa Add tab Creates a new tab with an empty topology view These functions can be reached with USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI FAVORITES AND TABS 19
135. earch function starts again from the beginning after reaching the last entry Backward Search from bottom to top instead from top to bottom A text search with wildcards is not supported here 1 7 4 Other functions By using the object s context menu right click on a row or the button row under the table the following functions can be called Tabelle 69 Tables view context menu es functions Add Adds new objects in the with the object editor Edit Edits the attributes of the selected object in its object editor Delete Deletes the selected object Show details Calls the object detail view of the selected object Reload Reload the table from the GUI BVQ memory Export Exports the table into a CSV file e g to import into MS Excel Print Table printing Selection to clipboard Copies the selected items to the clipboard Show performance graphs Calls the performance view Below the button line additional information is displayed if necessary For example if the object is already referenced by other objects and therefore no deletion is possible 1 8 Object detail view The detail view represents detailed information about a single object in the form of a report This chapter is organized as follows e Calling the object detail view USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI OBJECT DETAIL VIEW 108 BVG user s guide v15 e Overview object detail view e Categories e Information groups 1 8
136. ect can be editted qualified subseguently with a right click EI Use the Step by Step that is stored in Favorites Qualify and edit objects Procedure for inspecting the Qualification Progress or to directly carry out the qualification in single Treemaps The seguence of the gualification might if necessary slightly deviate from what is told in the User Manual Guide It is important that valid combinations of the BVQ exist a Qualifying Performance Edition In the first step of the qualification the topology objects are qualified These comply with the complete qualification range in the Performance Edition and are part of the qualification range of the Premium Edition For the first step at the qualification the following information is needed e Sites with Rooms From all Hosts and Storage systems that have to be qualified the Site and Room Information must be available Where are the Storage Systems SVC Knots and Hosts located Location and Room e Storage System Information Evaluation Lowrange Midrange Highend Cachesize MTM Information specific technical description and Serial Number e Disk Type Which disk types are applied SATA SAS SSD 10kRPM 15kRPM max IO s e Disk Array Information Reading out all existing Disk Arrays of the Storage Systems Raid Level Disk Type amount of disks Controller MDisks e Determining Controller Cache Size and classifying it as Enterprise Midrange or Lowrange e Server
137. ed BVQ mobility zone placement rule color scheme mobility zone compliance Vdisk group relation compliant contains the evaluation of the associated BVQ VDisk group relation placement rule color scheme VDg relation compliance Overall compliant contains the overall aggregation evaluation of the above named compliance conditions color scheme overall compliance In the title the currently determined placement rating and overall compliant are already shown so the category normally has not be opened USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI OBJECT DETAIL VIEW 113 BVG user s guide v15 Abbildung 83 Object detail view category service level amp compliance of a VDisk O Service level 9 amp Compliance 9 A Service level Cost center SVA GPFS 169 Application group GPFS Production Application Group 169 Application GPFS Production Application 193 VDisk group GPFS HE Production 362 Current SLA ID 98 Current SLA period Jul 22 2011 to Dec 31 2099 SLA count 1 VDc defined data class Prim Platin Data Sec VDc current storage class Prim Platin Sec Vic placement rating Prim OG Sec Placement rating Q Compliance YDc defined data class Prim Platin Data Sec VDc current storage class Prim Platin 00 Sec VDc data class compliant Prim Sec Data class compliant VDc mobility zone Prim may be midrange 25 Sec may be midrange 25 De mobility zone compliant Prim sc M
138. egate the status based on the object type MDISK In these cases the worst status determines the aggregation result HowTo usage of response time compliance coloring strategy 1 Setting the MDisk group attribute style response time useful values 1 to 30ms 2 Selecting the following predefined favorite Analyse performance gt Response time compliance Cluster MDg VDisk 3 Result highlighting of VDisks which exceed a set response time in the treemap Abbildung 54 Color scheme design response time screenshot of a compliance map kel 12 20 Perf gt IO s RW gt 1d L 3 Perf gt RTcomp gt 1d Ost MDisk group i Disk d Search IS USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 60 BVQ user s guide v15 1 5 4 17 Color scheme overall compliance The object staining according to the scheme overall compliance colorizes the objects of the treemap according to the combined status of all compliance conditions The compliance state overall compliant is calculated for every object type containing at least one of the data classes mobility zone or VDG relations compliance states Compliance conditions are combined and evaluated in this fashion In the treemap the compliance state is expressed by an adjusted color of the object area Tabelle 37 Color schema overall compliance meaning of the colors Color Symbol Condition Meaning M Green O Compliant Cu
139. eine Benutzeraktion notwendig M chte man jedoch mehrere MDisks unter einem Disk Array zusammenfassten so kann man die bestehenden Disk Array verwerfen und neue anlegen Tragen Sie Disk Array Name Raid Level Disktyp Anzahl der Disks ohne Hotspares und den Controller ein Die Estimated I O density I O Dichte wird aus den Angaben des Raid Level und Disktyp max est I O Rate berechnet Dieser Wert kann bei Abweichungen berschrieben werden USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 182 BVG user s guide v15 RS v 1 Enterprise 146 GB 15 000 rpm v FST2 SAS HE 3 ID 18 UID 6008065000 1bb928000008834d1b1ec100000000000 Q Add cap Edit Delete Ca ne Nutzen Sie zur besseren Visualisierung von Controller Disk Array und MDisk den unter Favoriten gespeicherten Treemap Pfad Favorites gt Predefined favorites gt Step by Step Qualify and edit objects gt Define disk array for controllers File Edit Favorites i vo lie A Cluster MDisk x BYQP Cluster z Controller amp Disk ory vos Ca Favorites E La Predefined favorites Overview topology E Analyse capacity 7 Analyse performance Analyse load amp capacity distribution Analyse service level 9 Analyse compliance Analyse SAN fabric Zoning Step by step Align overestimated capacity Loi Step by step Qualify and edit objects OQH8H8 888888 PILZE o disk arrays 1 3 Check controller to M
140. ency meaning of the colors Color Efficiency Value Meaning range B Rea Poor 0 24 Poor compression rate or low data reduction by Thin USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 52 BVQ user s guide v15 Provisioning Yellow Average 25 49 Average compression rate or low data reduction by Thin Provisioning BEE Green Good 50 79 Average compression rate or low data reduction by Thin Provisioning BEE Blue Excellent 80 Excellent compression rate or highest data reduction by 100 Thin Provisioning Faded Not Affected object type but object doesn t have the right Applicable data reduction type for the selected color WE Object Not Object type is not affected type Applicable Abbildung 49 Color scheme total capacity efficiency treemap 8 show details screenshot BVQ Cluster MDiskgroup VDisk VD VMFS02 preprod 1 06 TiB VDisk VMFS02 preprod 1 06 TiB O Attributes V Accountables A Capacities Allocated capacity 1 06 TiB 100 0 Wasted capacity 16 68 MiB 0 0 Virtual capacity 1TiB 100 0 Real capacity 1 06 TiB 106 0 Used capacity 1 02 TiB 102 0 Free capacity VDisk VDisk copy prim VDisk copy sec Uncompressed used capacity 1 38 TiB 100 0 Compression saved capacity 369 83 GiB 26 2 Used capacity 1 02 TiB 738 VDisk copy eee Copy virtual capacity 2TiB 100 0 Compression saved capacity
141. end of a selection range A single click on the last or first desired object type is sufficient to completely specify the path Detail menu Extends the path to the right Other nodes are added behind the selected one Nodes following the selected one are discarded Abbildung 33 Topology navigator Detail menu pap Detail gt Nothing lt Group Storage provider Nothing Disk type gt BVO Disk array gt V Storage provider Controller SVC gt Disk type gt Controller gt Disk array gt MDisk gt Controller SVC gt MDisk group gt Controller gt Storage consumer MDisk gt VDisk copy gt MDisk group gt LUN Extent Host gt gt Virtualization gt Organisational Storage consumer P Service level VDisk copy gt P Placement pol LUN P VMWare Host gt P SAN b Localities gt Organisational Service level P Placement pol gt VMWare Group m nt Extends the path to the left New nodes are added in front of the selected one Nodes prior to the selected one are discarded USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 36 BVG user s guide v15 Abbildung 34 Topology navigator group menu BYQ GN Storage provider Nothing Disk type BYQ Disk array Storage provider Controller SVC Disk type gt Controller Disk array gt MDisk Controller SVC gt MDisk group Controller gt gt Virtualization MDisk gt Y Storage consumer MDisk group gt lt Host Extent g
142. entralized chronology gt This information is generally registered in the application group e Which applications operate in the application groups E g SAP Prod SAP Test notes Citrix or the development software gt This Information is generally registered in the group application e Are the applications distributed among different systems E g tablespaces backup gt This Information is generally registered in the group VDisk group USER S GUIDE BVA GUI USE CASES 169 BVG user s guide v15 Cost Application VDisk Center Group Application Group Tablespaces HE SAP HR Backup Prod MR Archive LE SAP HR Tablespace Test MR Tablespace Zeiterfassung SAPHR De MR The VDisk groups in this picture show the basis of the accounting package With the VDisk groups the SLA s data classes mobility zones VDisks and the VDisk group relations are connected Gehalts abrechnung Personal abteilung VDiskGrp Relation Mobility Zone Application Application Group USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 170 BVG user s guide v15 Qualifying cost center application group applications VDisk group VDisk The qualification is for instance meaningfully arranged It starts with the cost center and continues with the application groups applications and finally carries out the qualification of the VDisk groups Thereby a new object can be connected to an already existing object Object c
143. er 15 diskcount 18 disktype 1 iodensity 8 45 name Array 2 raidlevel R5 mkdiskarray controller 15 diskcount 18 disktype 1 iodensity 8 45 name Array83 raidlevel R5 mkdiskarray controller 15 diskcount 18 disktype 1 iodensity 8 45 name Array84 raidlevel R5 1 12 1 13 Qualification Qualification Jumping to the Ending of the der Metadata e Anhange 28 e Hinzugef gt von Norman Eichelbaum zuletzt bearbeitet von Stephanus Abraham Le Roux am 24 Jul 2013 Anderung anzeigen To the Beginning of the Metadataln this chapter the qualification of the Performance Edition and the single Extension Packages is described In the Premium Edition several qualification steps that are described here have to be carried out because both Extension Packages are part of these steps in the Entry Edition the qualification of the MDisk to Array is solely possible See for that http wiki sva de Qualifizierung QualifizierungDiskArrays For that matter no further attention is given to the Entry Edition in this chapter Indication of unqualified Objects One obtains an overview about the current qualification status through the Treemaps of the GUI 1 Placing Object Colors on BVA qualified 2 All Treemap Objects that are not yet qualified are now colored with red USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 206 BVQ user s guide v15 3 Select the desired object i e an object combination in the Treemap Navigator 4 The unqualified obj
144. eration ms op R amp W Transfer size R KiB op RB RO Average transfer size per read operation KiB op Transfer size W KiB op WB WO Average transfer size per write operation KiB op Transfer size KiB op RB WB RO WO Average transfer size per operation KiB op R amp W Transfer size KiB op CTRHPs 512B CTRHP Average transfer size per read operation on prestage prestaged data KiB op 1 6 9 3 Node performance metrics Metrics of the object type node which can be displayed as load curves in the perfomance view USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI PERFORMANCE VIEW 91 Abbildung 70 Screenshot dialog node perf options X Ai svenodel svccluster Visible 1 Interval Moving Average E a CPU busy M Cache fullness R W O min W O min O avg O max O avg O max Cache CDCBs per list 0 Demote ready 0 Modified Global copy Cache latencies R Prestage 0 min R Stage O min W Destage min Data transfer min Tracklock min Track access min Legend O avg O max O avg O max O avg O max Om Bw B Mas bon E R Tabelle 57 Overview performance metrics node BVQ user s guide v15 CPU busy 0 Cache fullness R W O min 0 avg max W 0 min 0 avg max Cache CDCBs per list Demote ready Modified Global copy Cache latencies USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI PERFORMANCE VIEW 92 BVQ user s guide v15
145. erver VMware data center VMware host cluster VMware host VMware SCSI volume VM datastore VMware datastore VM datastore cluster VMware datastore cluster VM virtual disk VMware virtual disk VM virtual machine VMware virtual machine For further details about these object types please see VMware documentation 1 10 12 BVQ organizational units Business units business processes and departments Volume group groups SVC VDisk of the same application and quality level Application e g Oracle Windows File Service Oracle DB Service SAP DB Service grouping BVQ VDisk groups Application group groups applications e g for the representation of specialized procedures business processes etc Cost center combines application groups e g cost carriers customers and departments of acompany 1 10 12 1 BVQ VDisk group Volume group groups of the same The BVG VDisk group is a grouping object type which combines one or more SVC VDisks Per BVG VDisk group one or more period non overlapping BVQ SLAs can be assigned with the connection to the BVG data class e g initially for a trial period then for the production phase USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI OBJECT TYPES 134 BVQ user s guide v15 BVQ placement rules e The freedom of movement of the associated SVC VDisks in SVC VDisk migration processes can be restricted by the assignment to a BVG mobility zone
146. ets the start time to the beginning of the selected day Start time Date Allows the entry of the start time Duration Duration Selecting the width duration of the displayed interval Duration lt gt Effective direction of the set duration End time Now Now sets the end time to the current time Endtime Date Allows the entry of the end time USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI PERFORMANCE VIEW 74 BVQ user s guide v15 In the fields date a double click on the Hour digits denoting the hour select the hours of time A subsequent click e g on increases the time by one hour This also works with the digits denoting month day year and minutes The displayed time period is always determined by the following three controls Start time Duration End time If one of the three is changed the other two will be adjusted automatically This allows to move the time period with a single click on the timeline 1 6 4 1 Effective direction of the selected duration The current effective direction is indicated by an arrow button to the right or left of the selected duration By clicking on the arrow the effective direction can be reversed at any time As arule it now points from the end time to start time An increase or decrease keeps the right end point no need to click on new The effective direction always points away from the last changed field start end to the other 1 6
147. f a company or storage classes in BVG can be displayed Examples Volumes can be mapped in organizational units of a company or store classes can be displayed in BVG USER S GUIDE BVA GUI OBJECT EDITORS 155 BVQ user s guide v15 How are the editors called 1 Via the menu object lists the tables views can be reached fot all editabe object types Via right click on the row of an object the context menu is opened and leads via edit to the appropriate editor 2 Via the context menu of a treemap object 3 Via the context features in the list of related objects in the object editors 4 Via the context menu of the option dialog in the performance view Can several objects be edited at the same time If multiple objects are selected in tables view or in the treemap at the same time hold key CTRL when selecting and the option edit is used afterwards the attributes or links of all objects can be changed in one draft What editors are available An overview of all BVQ object types and their order can be found in object types Object editors are only available for the following object types with BVQ relevant attributes Tabelle 76 Editable object types BVA locations BVQ room Datacenter room within a site which contains servers storage subsystems and nodes BVA site Datacenter site containing one or more datacenter operating rooms Memory utilities BVQ disk type Disk type found in disk array
148. factor in the treemap of the topology view in the aspect performance 2 Inthe tooltip of the treemap objects of the topology view in the aspect performance 3 Inthe object detail view in the main chapter performance 1 9 4 2 Integration periods Performance indicators are calculated automatically for 4 different periods in the immediate past and recorded into the database The calculation is performed regularly by a background pro cess The performance indicators are available in 4 different variants Indicator Description Period Calculation Description type cycle Real time i i Recent values of the actual past for direct response to the current situation at hand e g performance bottleneck load top Short term 4h 1h Prompt values of the recent past for an effective operational response to a longer enduring situation Medium 24h 6h Medium term values to match typical load term cycles e g last 24h Long term 7d 24h Long term calmed values to match typical load cycles e g over the last 7 days Long term The GUI always loads and displays the last calculated current indicators 1 9 4 3 Performance indicator metrics The following indicators are calculated based on the measured values of the relevant SVC objects VDisk MDISK Node Their definitions are identical to the respective metrics of the performance view For object types without direct measurement values performance indica
149. g according to the scheme DC2SC placement rating colors the objects of a treemap based on the placement review of the associated BVQ DC to SC placement ratings Color scheme IO density heat The object coloring according to the scheme IO density heat paints the objects of the treemap based on an assessment by comparing the configurable estimated IO density of the object type BVQ disk array Color scheme response time compliance The object coloring according to the scheme response time compliance colors the objects of a treemap based on an assessment of the configurable design response time from the object type SVC MDisk group Color scheme overall compliance The object staining according to the scheme overall compliance colorizes the objects of the treemap according to the combined status of all compliance conditions Color scheme data class compliance The object color scheme data class compliance colors the objects of the treemap according to the SLA conformity defined in the BVQ DC to SC placement rating Color scheme mobility zone compliance The object coloring according to the scheme mobility zone compliance colors the objects of the treemap on the compliance state with requirements defined in the object type BVQ mobility zone Color scheme VDg relation compliance The object coloring according to the scheme VDG relation compliance colors the objects of the treemap on the state of requirements compli
150. g according to the scheme mobility zone compliance colors the objects of the treemap on the compliance state with requirements defined in the object type BVQ mobility zone USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 50 BVQ user s guide v15 e Color scheme VDg relation compliance The object coloring according to the scheme VDG relation compliance colors the objects of the treemap on the state of requirements compliance defined by the object type BVQ VDisk group relation 1 5 4 6 Object type specific color schemes Some object types have a specially adapted color scheme for a better representation of their specific properties See object type specific color schemes 1 5 4 7 Color scheme object type The object coloring according to the scheme object type colors the objects in the treemap depending on the BVG integrated standard color of the respective object types BVQ standard colors for each object type category Tabelle 26 BVQ standard colors for object types Color Object type category WW Green Storage provider MM Turquoise SVC virtualization IN Blue Storage consumer Lilac BVQ VMware virtualization Some object types have a specially adapted color scheme for a better representation of their specific properties Please see object type specific color schemes 1 5 4 8 Color scheme BVA gualified The object staining according to the scheme BVQ qualified colors the treemap objects depending on the sta
151. ggregation calculations in the cloud of BVQ Aggregation time per object Displays the time of the aggregation calculations per object in the cloud of BVQ 1 2 4 5 About dialog The about window displays product related data such as version number contact information legal information etc USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI MAIN MENU 17 BVG user s guide v15 Abbildung 15 About window od Serial number BYQ00010101 Version 2 6 1 Build number 19 DB schema version 2 6 0 3 JRE version Java HotSpot TM Client YM 1 7 0 05 Oracle Corporation 05 Windows XP Service Pack 3 32 Bit Copyright 2006 to 2012 SVA GmbH Wiesbaden Germany All rights reserved amp Trademarks BY09 and BVO Business Volume Qualicision are trademarks of SVA GmbH Patents All patents reserved Tabelle 14 Information of the about dialogs Serial number Customer s BVQ serial number Version Installed version of the BVQ GUI Build number Internal build number of BVG GUI for support purposes DB scheme Installed BVG DB scheme version of the database version JRE version Installied Java Runtime Environment version BVG 2 6 gt Java 1 7 is reguired OS Operating system version on which the BVQ GUI is installed Tabelle 15 Window about dialog e functions USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI MAIN MENU 18 BVQ user s guide v15 Copy version information to BVQ GUI version information is copied to th
152. group SVC cluster partnership Copy partnership linking of two SVC clusters For more details about the object type please see IBM SVC software installation and configuration guide 1 10 21 SVC virtualization Units of SVC V7000 virtualization layer M KE Storage area which connects the SVC MDisks with SVC VDisk copies within a SVC MDisk group SVC nodes or V7000 controller nodes USER S GUIDE BVA GUI OBJECT TYPES 154 BVQ user s guide v15 Group of two SVC V7000 V3700 nodes which together provide the IO of a SVC VDisk s subset MAE Groups all SVC objects belonging to one cluster More than one SVC cluster can be managed by BVQ For more details on the object type please see IBM SVC software installation and configuration guide 1 10 21 1 SVC node SVC nodes or V7000 controller nodes Groupes e Indirect via the relation preferred node of a SVC VDisk Is grouped by configurable object relations e BVG room e SVC IO group Configurable attributes e A SVC node can be allocated to a BVQ room 1 11 Object editors Via the edit objects function objects can be enriched with other information and linked with each other What are object editors Some SVC object types can be extended with business or application attributes Some can be allocated to groupings For these actions BVQ GUl dialogs for editing are used In this way e g volumes in organization units o
153. hanumerically sorted order A special stroke type is assigned to each object which is repeated every 5 objects The following functions are available in this list Tabelle 48 Object list functions and notes Remove Removes objects from the context aggregation object is created automatically USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI PERFORMANCE VIEW 77 BVQ user s guide v15 Fade in Fade Fading in and out in the graph area out Line type Line type of the object in the chart Tooltip A short pause of the cursor opens the tooltip with short term performance indicators Multi select By pressing the Shift or Ctrl key multiple objects can be selected Selection bold Selected objects are shown in bold for better visibility in the graph Context menu e Show details calls the object detail view of the selected object uneven e Export exports curve values of the object in CSV format e g for import into MS Excel e Edit calls to the appropriate object editor for this object type Aggregated load curve If more than one object is included in the list the aggregation object 00 aggregated is displayed additionallly at the top Abbildung 66 MDisk performance options selection of an aggregated load curve X amp MD 715 0 svccluster X amp MD 715 1 svccluster w MD 715 2 svccluster X w MD 715 3 svccluster wenn AG None j imer 6 Selected 0 Interval Moving Average 5 min
154. hreshold of the MDISK groups with the currently measured IO density of correlated objects and stains them as follows Tabelle 35 Color scheme IO density heat meaning of the colors Color Status Meaning ll Rea Hot Current IO density is above the threshold Yellow Warm Current IO density is above 80 of the threshold BEE Green Normal Current IO density is below 80 of the threshold II Sue Cold Current IO density is below 20 of the threshold OR IOrate lt 0 5 IO s White Filtered Capacity lt 1GiB AND 0 510 s lt IOrate lt 10IO s Faded Undefined No thresholds are defined for the object OR IOrate undef E Object Not Object type is not affected type Applicable Status aggregation e Higher grouping storage consuming object types like VDisk VDisk group Data class aggregate the status based on the object type VDisk copy For the primary copy only the read 8 write IOs are counting and for the further copies merely the write lOs e Higher grouping storage providing object types like MDisk group storage class aggregate the status based on the object type MDisk Here the hottest status determines the aggregation result IO density inthe object detail view In the object detail view under performance the chapter IO density can be found Abbildung 52 Object detail view extract performance gt IO density IO density heat Estimated 0 4 IOps GiB Estimated 0 4 IOps GiB Estimated
155. ified objects Einen berblick ber den aktuellen Qualifizierungsstand erh lt man durch die Treemaps der GUI 1 Object Colors auf BVQ qualified stellen 2 alle Treemap Objekte die noch nicht qualifiziert sind werden jetzt rot eingef rbt 3 Im Treemap Navigator das gew nschte Objekt bzw eine Objektkombination ausw hlen 4 Das unqualifizierte Objekt kann mit einem Rechtsklick anschlie end editiert qualifiziert werden E L get rege WS IVA Cost center gt Zeck group Application gt EE a erh ke rey Nutzen Sie das unter Favoriten gespeicherte Step by step Qualify and edit objects Verfahren um den Qualifizierungsfortschritt zu berpr fen oder direkt in den einzelnen Treemaps die USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 177 BVQ user s guide v15 Qualifizierung durchzuf hren Die Reihenfolge der Qualifizierung kann ggf von der im Benutzerhandbuch abweichen Wichtig ist dass am Ende g ltige Kombinationen der BVQ Objekte bestehen Ca Favorites Predefined favorites Overview topology Analyse capacity Analyse performance Analyse load amp capacity distribution Analyse service level Analyse compliance Analyse SAN fabric Zoning gt Step by step Align overestimated capacity O0AGAESR Let te Qualify and ec jects E lg Step 1 Disk subsyste amp 14 Define disk arrays for controllers amp 1 2 Link MDisks to disk arrays 2 1 3 Check controller to MDisk li
156. ilocated room und colocated controller Is grouped by configurable object relations e BVG VDisk group Any number of VDisk group relations can be assigned to a VDisk group Attributes Placement Selection of the condition antilocated or colocated behavior Placement object Selection of the unit object type for which a condition is valid e g anti type located site colocated controller ve Es EET When linking to a VDisk group it has to be specified VDc whether it is a primary or a secondary group of the VDisk copies from the SVC Storwize VDisk mirroring function P Subgroup of the primary VDisk copies S Subgroup of the secondary VDisk copies Related object types Compared to the BVQ mobility zone which is also a placement rule the BVG VDisk group relation determines the rule more abstract and establishes no direct relation to properties place room memory type of the potential target pools USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI OBJECT TYPES 141 BVQ user s guide v15 Their configuration requires more effort since for each VDisk group exactly one fitting partner has to be found and there are potentially many more VDisk groups than BVG mobility zones A configuration with the mass edit feature of the GUI is not very helpful If only the raw allocation of VDisk groups to specific properties of target pools is considered the BVQ mobility zone is the better choice Once the place
157. imal mr EE mappings se uppor Arrays 8 Logical Drives Capacky Total Capacity 8 446 390 GB amp Arrays 6 erage sues 45 5 Ia Operations in Progres FR 1746C4A_13KOBAR FST2_DS3500 Storage Subsystem Profile RI Hardware Components amp Controllers 2 a Drives P pue E Drive chamess j Enclosures D mappings Eat oa Enclosures 3 OBAR FST2_DS3500 Thu Jul 21 06 55 31 CEST 2011 DU Drives 62 Interface Types Ss m Number of arrays 6 OU Hot Spare Drives 2 In use 0 Standby 2 Nane Status Optimal Capacity 1 226 031 GB RAID level 5 Media type Hard Disk Drive Drive Type SAS Enclosure loss protection No Security Capable No Secure No USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 163 BVG user s guide v15 Qualifying site amp room 1 Start the qualification in the task menu with edit gt site and click on add 2 Enter aname for the site Repeat this procedure with every site 3 Carry out the same steps for the site room edit gt room and allocate to each room the appropriate site Clue the comment field can be utilized for additional Information like e g personal contacts File Edit Favorites i VDisk groups VDisks VDisk copies MDisk groups MDisks Nodes Hosts Controllers Disk arrays BYQID 1 Disk types Name Wiesbaden Borsigstrasse 14 Applications Links to related objects Applic
158. iner ODBC Benutzerdatenquelle werden Informationen dar ber gespeichert wie eine Verbindung zu einem Datenprovider hergestellt wird Benutzerdatenquellen sind nur fur den Benutzer sichtbar und konnen nur auf dem aktuellen Computer verwendet werden Abbrechen Ubermehmen 3 Create new data source IBM DATA SERVER DRIVER for ODBC finish USER S GUIDE BVG REPORTING ODBC ACCESS TO THE BVG REPORTING SCHEME 226 BVG user s guide v15 Neue Datenquelle erstellen W hlen Sie einen Treiber aus f r den Sie eine Datenquelle erstellen m chten Name ES Driver da Microsoft para arquivos texto txt csv Driver do Microsoft Access mdb Driver do Microsoft dBase dbf Driver do Microsoft Excel dei Driver do Microsoft Paradox db Driver para o Microsoft Visual FoxPro IBM DB2 ODBC DRIVER IBM DB2 ODBC DRIVER DB2COPY1 m Access Driver mdb lt ll Zur ch Fertig stellen Abbrechen 4 ODBC IBM DB2 Driver add data source name BVQ database alias OK ODBC IBM DB2 Driver Add Selectthe DB2 database alias you wantto register for ODBC or select Add to create a new alias You may change the data source name and description or acceptthe default Data source name BYQ Database alias v Add Description BVA DB on bvgdbt Di Cancel 5 db2cli configure access parameters a Either via GUI CLI ODBC settings BVQ enter user ID and password save password V OK
159. interval Display functions Start time Duration End time Functions Cast S EMo 00 00 Tue 12 13 11 20 26 llupar Glows Wed 12 14 11 20 26 Draw auto Auto adjust Options VDisk perf Options VDisk 1 250 bn X a 00 Aggregated 1 200 105 X g nseini_ax_root svc1 1 150 100 3 nseini data01 svc1 1 100 95 Diagrammbereich x nseini_data02 svc1 ee 1 050 Ed X g nseini_data03 svc1 iv 1 000 o visible 1 Aa None Invert 13 Selected 0 s0 900 z Properties 850 A Interval Moving Average Copy w 800 0 E Simin sel 10 min 75019 gs Save as Sos Print 700 og Operations OR w pw Gre een Zoom In gt mm 55 E Data rate IR w O R W OR E eo Zoom Out gt ed JA 3 a 50 Response time OR Ow overall xfer g 5501 a Auto Range gt E Er v amp soo x 4 Peak resp time IR w 0 overall 450 20 Transfer size OR Ow D overall 400 3 mr Eg 350 30 Cache Cache hit JR w JR W 1 Prestage 25 250 E Above cache DR BR gw O R w D Prestage 200 5 Below cache DR DR Ow R W D Prestage 150 s Below cache RT OR Ow D Prestage 100 eg 5 Mode spec write ops C FT 1 WT Fw U FWWT z Cache size JR w rw 21 00 22 00 23 00 00 00 01 00 02 00 03 00 04 00 05 00 06 00 07 00
160. ion contains object specific information in three subdivisions Tabelle 70 Object detail view categorie attributes subdivisions ID Information needed to identify the respective component within the SVC and BVQ SVC SVC specific information attributes BVA BVQ specific additional information attributes If the object detail view is used the section attributes is already opened in the aspect topology USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI OBJECT DETAILVIEW 110 BVQ user s guide v15 Abbildung 80 Object detail view category attributes of a VDisk ID BYQ ID 3410 S C ID 148 Cluster svc1 0000020061600648 UID 600507680185801 44000000000000370 SYC Online state online Copy count 1 MDisk group Prim SWY1_SAS_MR 1 Sec undef undef Copy type Prim Striped Sec undef Copy sync Prim yes Sec undef Sync rate 100 64 MiB s 10 governing OIO s Cache type readwrite Cache IO group io grp D svci Access IO groups io grp D svei Preferred node svcini Formatted no BYQ VDisk group VMware Datavols 1634 Application VMware Data Service 842 Application group VMware 410 Cost center SVA 3 BYQ qualified Last change Aug 16 2012 5 54 44 PM 1 8 3 2 Accountables This section summarizes billing factors in two subdivisions Tabelle 71 Object detail view categoriy accountables subdivisions ES Storage capacities Key performance indicators for the management of st
161. ise 14668 15 0000 N Disk count 10 Disks Estimated 1 O density om 10ps GiB Links to related objects Controller FST2 D53500 1 in cluster svcl v MDisks Values FST2 SAS HE 3 ID 18 UID 60080e50001bb9280000088 a4d1b1ec100000000000 Q Add s Edit gt Delete Utilize the treemap path stored in favorites for more efficient visualization of controllers disk array and mDisk Favorites gt predefined favorites gt step by step qualify and edit objects gt define disk array for controllers File Edit Favorites oi Vol Cluster MDisk x BYQP Cluster Controller amp Disk ony vos E Le Predefined favorites C Overview topology E Analyse capacity E Analyse performance Analyse load amp capacity distribution E Analyse service level E Analyse compliance Analyse SAN Fabric Zoning Step by step Align overestimated capacity B Step by step Qualify and edit objects O88 FFH888 DG controller to MDisk linkage E lg Step 2 Room and site amp 2 1 Define rooms and sites amp 2 2 Link controllers to rooms amp 2 3 Check site to controller linkage USER S GUIDE BVA GUI USE CASES 166 BVG user s guide v15 Switch to the treemap Path subsequently BVQ gt cluster gt controller gt MDisk gt disk array and switch to object color BVQ qualified MDisks which are not allocated yet to any array are displayed in red In the
162. isplayed inverse proportionally to the selected size factor inverted The selection of an aspect affects several functional units of the display e Treemap o Metric by which the surface area of the objects is aligned proportionality factor PF o Labeling of the object area o Content of the object tooltips e Object detail view o Selection of the chapters in the object detail view only absolute values are shown in the treemap Actually displayed sub objects in a surrounding object area are irrelevant no subelement sizing ANot all objects have a unigue hierarchical mapping to each other Example performance of a MDisk group is calculated by using MDisks and not VDisks Total VDisk IO within the MDg is rarely equal to the MGg IO 1 5 3 1 Aspect topology The aspect topology is focused on the representation of the objects hierarchical order USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 40 BVG user s guide v15 All objects with the same path level are displayed in the treemap by equally sized squares The presentation focuses on the questions e How are objects arranged in the path hierarchy e How many objects belong to a group e What is the topological relation of the objects Particularly important here is the following parameter SeC Subelement Displays the number of child objects of a grouping object in the current count treemap The sub element count is displayed in the caption area and in the objects t
163. k gt MDisk gt MDisk gt Ka storage MDisk group group group MDisk MDisk MDisk MDisk class group group group group group BVQ gt gt VDisk gt VDisk gt VDisk gt gt gt Ka SLA VDisk VDisk VDisk VDisk VDisk BVQ gt gt MDisk gt MDisk gt MDisk gt gt gt gt mobility MDisk group group group VDisk MDisk MDisk MDisk zone group group group group BVQ gt gt VDisk gt VDisk gt VDisk gt gt gt gt VDisk VDisk VDisk VDisk VDisk VDisk group relation BVA gt gt Controller gt gt Controller room Control Controller VDisk Control Control Control ler ler ler ler BVA site gt gt Controller gt gt Controller Control Controller VDisk Control Control Control ler ler ler ler USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI KEY FIGURES OF THE BVQ STORAGE ENVIRONMENT 123 BVQ user s guide v15 1 9 2 Storage costs and prices Financial indicators to support the charging and billing such as storage costs and prices 1 9 2 1 Visualization in the GUI Costs and prices are displayed in the GUI in three places 1 As proportionality factor in the treemap of the topology view in the aspect cost amp price 2 Inthe tooltip in treemap objects of the topology view in the aspect cost amp price 3 Inthe object detail view in the main chapter accountables 1 9 2 2 BVQ financial metrics The allocation of costs and prices is equal for all items in BVG e The c
164. l qualifiziert werden kann Die Cache Size MTM und Seriennummer sind aus dem Controller zu entnehmen Controller Cache Size ermitteln und als Enterprise Midrange oder Lowrange klassifizieren Starten Sie die Qualifizierung in der Men leiste mit Edit gt Controllers und w hlen sie den zu qualifizierenden Controller aus USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 181 BVQ user s guide v15 BVQ ID 5 SVC ID 1 Cluster svecluster 0000020063E06CSE Name D54700 2 MTM 1814 70A SerNum 13189M1 Links to related objects Disk arrays Values D54700 2A1 39 in controller D54700 2 with 9 disks RAID Level RS D54700 2A2 40 in controller D54700 2 with 9 disks RAID Level RS D54700 2A3 41 in controller D54700 2 with 9 disks RAID Level RS D54700 2A4 42 in controller D54700 2 with 9 disks RAID Level RS D54700 2A5 43 in controller D54700 2 with 9 disks RAID Level RS DEATON DAL LA free DEA TOOD ib O dee NAID Lassi NE G Edit Delete Room B 06 215 2 in site Herriots Frankfurt v 8 Newest Q Add cap Edit u Co Je v Qualifizierung Disk Arrays In Disk Arrays werden die Performance Eigenschaften der darunter liegenden Hardware MDisks erfasst Die erfassten Daten der Disk Arrays k nnen sp ter bei der Generierung von Reports genutzt werden z B Tabelle aller Raid 5 Arrays Bei der Storwize V7000 werden Disk Arrays automatisch f r jede einzelne MDisk angelegt Es ist k
165. ment has to be detailed further due to dependencies of VDisk groups to each other the BVG VDisk group relation should be used as a supplement 1 10 14 BVQ service level management Storage and data classes SLAs Storage class group of storage pools with the same quality classification Service level agreement associates a BVQ VDisk group with aBVQ data class and details on prices GiB and run time Data class arranges volume groups with equal quality requirements Requirements for placement combinations of data and storage class 1 10 14 1 BVA storage class Storage class group of with the same quality classification Represents the actual classification of a group of storage pools and defines their operator cost factor The attributes of the storage pool s hardware disk type RAID Mode quality and performance of the disk subsystem typically represent the belonging to a storage class The storage class is closely related to the BVQ data class which in contrast represents the desired guality class of the managed virtual storage volumes volumes group The color attribute is the basis for the staining of affected objects in the treemap in the color scheme data storage class Groups e SVC MDisk group e BVQ DC to SC placement rating Is grouped by configurable object relations e No other BVQ objects Configurable attributes name Name of the storage class USER S GUIDE
166. metrics of the performance view are computed from one or more measured metrics performance statistics of an underlying basic object type To each measurement metric belongs a time series of measurements collected and delivered by the storage system SVC V7000 The selection of metrics to represent a load curve in the chart area of the performance view is carried out in the options dialog for objects and metrics The metrics are calculated by using a mathematical function f whitch has 1 n measurement metrics as variables Metric f measuremend metric measurement metric For the description of the underlying basic measured metrics of the object types please see the IBM documentation Measured metrics are captured by SVC and BVQ for the following object types e SVC VDisk e SVC MDisk e SVC node USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI PERFORMANCE VIEW 82 BVQ user s guide v15 In addition the following abstract performance object types are derived from the object type SVC node e MDisk group cache partition e Node port e Node to node The following table contains a list of all available performance object types Tabelle 52 Overview performance object types Performance Description Object type VDisk Metrics of the object type VDisk which can be displayed as charts in the perfomance view MDisk Metrics of the object type SVC MDisk which can be represented in the perfomance view as load curve
167. mum ms op R Prstage avg ms op PLAV Prestage read ahead latency average ms op DH Prestage max ms op PLMX Prestage read ahead latency maximum ms op R Prestage rate ops s PLCN Prestage read ahead operation rate ops s R Stage min ms op SLMN Stage read miss latency minimum ms op R Stage avg ms op SLAV Stage read miss latency average ms op R Stage max ms op SLMX Stage read miss latency maximum ms op R Stage rate ops s SLCN Stage read miss rate ops s Track lock min ms op TLMN Track lock latency minimum ms op Track lock avg ms op TLAV Track lock latency average ms op Track lock max ms op TLMX Track lock latency maximum ms op Track lock rate ops s TLCN Track lock rate ops s Track access min ms op TAMN Begin track access latency minimum ms op Track access avg ms op TAAV Begin track access latency average ms op Track access max ms op TAMX Begin track access latency maximum ms op Track access rate ops s TACN Track access rate ops s 1 6 9 5 Node port performance metrics Metrics of the performance object type node port derived from the object type SVC node USER S GUIDE BVG GUI PERFORMANCE VIEW 97 Abbildung 72 Screenshot J X 00 Aggregated g svenodel p 1 svecluster X g svcnodel p 2 svccluster X svcnodel p 3 svecluster X g svcnodel p 4 svccluster options dialog node port perf options Visible 1
168. n the graph area and can take a lot of space there when many objects and metrics are selected Therefore it is disabled by default 1 6 8 Chart area In the chart area of the performance view the load curves of selected objects and performance metrics are displayed 1 6 8 1 Representation of the load curves The objects and metrics to be displayed are selected in the options dialog of the performance view Each object has a different line type each metric a different color Multiple metrics with different unit of measurement on different axes can be displayed in the same chart A grey area displays possible missing values holes in the chosen time period The displayed time section and the reloading behaviour is selected with the panels above the chart area Below the time axis a legend can be faded in via the options dialog 1 6 8 2 Zooming ofthe curves inthe graph area Selection of an area on the graph increases it Zoom in by drawing a selection rectangle from top left to bottom right over a chart area itis enlarged USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI PERFORMANCE view 80 BVQ user s guide v15 Zoom out by drawing a selection rectangle from bottom right to top left corner over an area of load curves the diagram is restored to normal scaling Please see also scaling of the value axes 1 6 8 3 Pop up menu ofthe chart area The popup menu is opened by right clicking in the graph area and allows the selection of the foll
169. n the state BVO gualified gualified Remove Removes the filter The following wildcard characters can be used in the filter text Tabelle 66 Tables view wildcards filter 1 7 2 Sorting the table Tabelle 67 Tables view columns functions Sorting By default the data records are sorted according to dates and times This sortation can be inverted by clicking on the column header ej EN The column order can be adjusted by drag and drop on the column s header Hide and show individual columns USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TABLES VIEW 106 BVG user s guide v15 in out columns all column content viewable Horizontal scroll Enables disables the horizontal scrolls When disabled all columns are packed into the window by reducing the columns width Pack all columns The column width is optimized for all columns Pack selected column The column width is optimized for the selected column 173 Search The filter function described above can be augmented with the search window The search window can be opened by using the key combination Ctrl F Abbildung 77 Tables view dialog Find epps Case sensitive C Wrap Search Backward End Close Controls Tabelle 68 Tables view controls of the search dialog USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TABLES VIEW 107 BVQ user s guide v15 ESS Activates the case sensitivity for the search Wrap S
170. n und als Enterprise Midrange oder Lowrange klassifizieren Server Hosts Standort und Kontakt SVC Nodes Standort O Tipp Auffinden technischer Informationen Hardware Components Beispiel DS3500 o DS Storage Manager ffnen o Profile aufrufen o Informationen aus Sektionen herauslesen Controller Cache MTM Seriennummern Raidinformationen 1746C4A_13KOBAR FST2_DS3500 Optimal amp Controllers DD Enclosures om QU Drives Media Types Interface Types BG Hot Spare Drives 2 In use 0 Standby 2 Ko BR Number of arrays 6 Nane D Status Optimal Capacity 1 226 031 GB RAID level 5 Media type Hard Disk Drive Drive Type SAS Enclosure loss protection No Security Capable No Secure No Qualifizierung Site amp Room 1 Starten Sie die Qualifizierung in der Men leiste mit Edit gt Site und klicken Sie auf Add 2 Geben Sie einen Namen f r die Site ein Wiederholen Sie diesen Vorgang f r jede Site 3 F hren Sie dieselben Schritte f r den Room aus Edit gt Room und weisen sie jedem Room die daf r vorgesehene Site zu USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 179 BVG user s guide v15 Hinweis Das Comment Feld kann f r zus tzliche Informationen genutzt werden wie z B Kontaktpersonen File Edit Favorites 3 VDisk groups VDisk copies MDisk groups MDisks Nodes Hosts Controllers Disk ar
171. n which level is made with the help of the topology navigator e Tin pie chart The areas within a group are sorted by proportional representation according to size top left the large right down the smallest In doing so they fill the entire available space in the surrounding area and are thereby similar to the famous pie charts The size of the treemap here has the same function as the area of a circle cut out in the pie chart analogy treemap gt tin pie chart The treemap controls are explained in the chapter topology view USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 25 BVG user s guide v15 1 5 1 1 Example of a treemap Abbildung 24 Treemap view rTrrrrerer er La ag ag ad aa ad rrrrrr rr a a aa a aa In the picture the cluster represents the largest encircling grouping unit All areas within the cluster MDisk group VDisk etc fill the total area of the cluster rectangle and reflect the topology of the selected objects of the SVC 15 1 2 Treemap interaction Interactive features of the treemap like a context menu drag amp drop e Context menu of the objects in the treemap e Drag amp drop topology editing o Allowed drag 8 drop operations o Warning inflicted drag 8 drop operations o Ambiguous drag 8 drop operations Context menu of the objects in the treemap The context menu contains items for the selected object It is opened by clicking on a particular object with the right mouse button Tabelle 20 Functio
172. nfiguration guide USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI OBJECT TYPES 130 BVQ user s guide v15 1 10 4 SVC virtualization Units of SVC V7000 virtualization layer Site UN Storage area which connects the SVC MDisks with SVC VDisk copies within a SVC MDisk group SVC nodes or V7000 controller nodes SVC IO Group of two SVC V7000 V3700 nodes which together provide the IO of a SVC group VDisk s subset M Groups all SVC objects belonging to one cluster More than one SVC cluster can be managed by BVQ For more details on the object type please see IBM SVC software installation and configuration guide 1 10 5 SVC advanced copy services Advanced copy functions of the SVC such as flash copy and remote copy SVC flash copy mapping Flash copy mapping between source and target SVC VDisk SVC flash copy consistency Consistency group of flash copy mappings group SVC remote copy relationship Remote copy relation between master und auxiliary SVC VDisk SVC remote copy consistency Consistency group of remote copy relations group SVC cluster partnership Copy partnership linking of two SVC clusters For more details about the object type please see IBM SVC software installation and configuration guide 1 10 6 Storage consumers Objects space is allocated to consumer side svc voiskcopy SVC VDisk copy corresponds to SVC object type VDisk copy USER S GUIDE BVQ G
173. nkage L Step 2 Room and site 2 2 1 Define rooms and sites 2 2 Link controllers to rooms 2 3 Check site to controller linkage 2 4 Link nodes to rooms 2 5 Check site to node linkage 2 6 Link hosts to rooms 2 2 7 Check site to host linkage Step 3 Business objects Step 4 Storage classes Step 5 SLA and data classes L Step 6 Compliance rules lg User Favorites BYQ KKK EK 1 12 15 Qualifizierung Performance Edition Im ersten Schritt der Qualifizierung werden die Topologie Objekte qualifiziert Diese entsprechen dem kompletten Qualifizierungsumfang in der Performance Edition und sind Teil des Qualifizierungsumfangs der Premium Edition F r den ersten Schritt bei der Qualifizierung werden die folgenden Informationen ben tigt e Sites mit Rooms Von allen Hosts und Speichersystemen die qualifiziert werden sollen m ssen die Site und Room Informationen vorliegen Wo stehen die Speichersysteme SVC Knoten und Hosts Ort und Raum e Speichersysteminformationen Einsch tzung Lowrange Midrange Highend Cachesize MTM Informationen korrekte technische Bezeichnung und Seriennummer e Disk Type Welche Disktypen werden verwendet SATA SAS SSD 10KRPM 15kRPM max IO s USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 178 BVQ user s guide v15 Disk Array Informationen Alle bestehenden Disk Arrays der Speichersysteme auslesen Raidlevel Disktyp Anzahl Disks Controller MDisks Controller Cache Size ermittel
174. none o a F D Kal e Operations D z D D 2 Data rate a 3 Response time D kel 3 ni Peak resp time EE Transfer size kellele D D 2 USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI PERFORMANCE VIEW 78 BVQ user s guide v15 Inthe graph area the aggregation object represents the sum or average value curves for all other objects in the list It has the same features as the other objects in the list e Application chart the overall course of a MDISK group s or controller s IO rate Visibility The following four switches affect the visibility of multiple objects simultaneously Tabelle 49 Visualization functions for visibility of objects Visible n Number of currently visible objects All n Makes all n a objects visible None Makes all objects invisible Invert n Reverses the current visibility of all objects Then n objects are visible JAT Makes all currently selected n objects visible Application Quickly change between aggregation curve and all object curves via switches invert Smoothing procedures To smooth the displayed curves 2 methods are available Tabelle 50 Smoothing procedures Interval Interval extension uses a arithmetic mean to combine multiple data points UNNE NG ELGEN Smoothing method for the left sided moving average Both methods can be usefully combined e The smoothing
175. ns in the performance view allows you to select the objects and their metrics to be displayed as a load curve in the chart area 1 6 7 1 Calling the options dialog To configure the displayed objects and their metrics the button options of the options dialog can be used Abbildung 64 Performance view button to call the options dialog Functions Draw 1 6 7 2 Main areas of the options dialog The options dialog has the following main areas USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI PERFORMANCE VIEW 76 BVQ user s guide v15 Abbildung 65 Performance view dialog 00 Aggregated w MD 7150 svccluster Object list PAX w MD 715 1 svecluster X w MD 715 2 svccluster Visibility po visiblea AUG None Invert 4 Selected 0 Grading bk besten Moving Average 5 min x none v Data rate Metrics f Response time Peak resp time Transfer size Tabelle 47 Main areas of the options dialog Contains selected objects from this performance view and optionally the aggregation object Affects the visibility of multiple objects in the chart s object list Enables a smoothing of the load curves with interval widening and moving average Selection of object type specific metrics to display them in the chart Turning on off the legend below the chart if necessary calling of help pages Object list The object list maintains all loaded objects of the performance view in alp
176. ns of the treemap s context menu USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 26 BVQ user s guide v15 Select subelements n Selects all n objects displayed of the next higher level 8 Edit Modifies attributes of the object invokes object editors Add Adding new objects with the object editors Delete Deletes object Show in list Calls the tables view of the selected objects in the treemap They are shown as selected here too Show details Calls the object detail view of the selected object also possible by double click Open SVC CLI Opens an SSH PuTTY session to the SVC cluster See hyperlink auf putty Show VDisk performance Calls performance view for linked SVC VDisks graph s Show MDisk performance Calls performance view for linked SVC MDisks graph s Show MDisk grp cache perf Calls performance view for linked SVC MDisk group cache graph s Information a Show node performance Calls performance view for linked SVC node graph s Show node Port performance Calls performance view for linked node ports graph s ka Show node to node Calls performance view for linked SVC node to node performance graph s communication A Zoom to selection Centers and zooms the treemap on all selected objects ra Via Reset zoom Ctrl 0 Resets the treemap magnification Shaded menu items cannot be opened because a precondition is not met Example At a B
177. nt 200GiB Information group type specific For some objects subtypes it makes sense to emit additional calculated metrics Especially for pool creating storage providers like SVC MDisk group BVQ storage class SVC cluster BVQ mobility zone FAV REAL capacity Sum of the fully allocated VDisk copy REAL capacity SEV REAL capacity Sum of the space efficient VDisk copy REAL capacity SEV USED capacity Sum of the space efficient VDisk copy USED capacity COMP REAL capacity Sum of the compressed VDisk copy REAL capacity USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI KEY FIGURES OF THE BVQ STORAGE ENVIRONMENT 120 BVQ user s guide v15 COMP USED capacity Sum ofthe compressed VDisk copy USED capacity For virtualization object types SVC 10 group und SVC node gele M beier Sum of the ALLOCATED capacity which is managed by the other SVC capacity nodes or SVC IO groups of the same cluster 1 9 1 4 Aggregation of storage capacities For object types without direct measurements capacities are calculated by aggregating Please see aggregation of storage capacities 1 9 1 5 Aggregation of storage capacities For object types without direct measurements capacities are calculated by aggregating A direct calculation of storage capacities is only possible for the following object type metric combinations 0 OTA A A OCA D A PEA gt pe D D D 0 0 N A N A N A N A
178. nt topology color schemes can be applied to the representation in the treemap Similarly to the metrics in the new paragraph total capacity efficiency new color schemes were added to visualize objects regarding their capacity efficiency The following color schemes are available al Object type Object type BVQ gualified Capacity efficiency gt Total capacity efficiency M Service level gt Spaceefficiency Performance gt Compression efficiency Compliance Color scheme Based on metric Total capacity efficiency capacity efficiency Space efficiency space efficiency Compression efficiency compression efficiency Tabelle 78 Color scheme capacity efficiency meaning of the colors Color Efficiency Value Meaning range ll Red Bad 0 24 Poor compression rate or low data reduction by Thin Provisioning Average 25 49 Average compression rate or mean data reduction by Thin Yellow Provisioning M Greeb Good 50 79 Good compression rate or higher data reduction by Thin Provisioning BE Blue Excellent 80 Excellent compression rate or highest data reduction by 100 Thin Provisioning Faded Not Affected object type but object does not possess the Applicable correct data reduction type for the selected color USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 217 BVG user s guide v15 Not Object type is not affected Object type Applicable
179. nterpreted zoomed printed exported 1 6 3 Call of performance view Performance view is usually called from the object context menu of the treemap objects If multiple objects are selected they are displayed in a shared performance view It is recommend not to select too many objects at once otherwise the loading and drawing speed slows down and the GUI s memory consumption increases Abbildung 60 Call of performance view A 1 Cluster MDisk group YDisk 2 Cluster MDisk group YDisk x eval our voiz IR vos Cluster svc1 SeC 4 he Select subelements 4 ZD Perf gt 1O rate R w Q Zoom to selection L bs Reset zoom Ctrl 0 Show details 29 Show in treemap GE Open cluster CLI Edit cluster CLI script EA Show YDisk performance graph s 2 Show MDisk performance graph s 2 Show MDisk grp cache perf graphis PA Show node performance graph s PA Show node port performance graphis PA Show node cpu performance graphis Show node to node performance graphis USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI PERFORMANCE VIEW 72 BVG user s guide v15 1 6 3 1 Basic objects und grouping objects From the storage system load values for the following four basic object types are transferred to BVQ VDisk volume MDisk node node port Almost all BVQ objects arrange linked objects of one or multiple basic types For these objects a useful performance view can also be de
180. ntly require a user reaction In case of license violations the license table is automatically opened in the foreground e Shortly after the start of the GUI e At regular intervals approximately every 12 hours An overview about the licensable feature packs are available in the annex and BVQ license matrix USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI MAIN MENU 13 BVG user s guide v15 1 2 4 2 Scanner status The scanner status window shows the current state of BVQ scan processes Abbildung 12 Scanner status window J svo of x File Edit Favorites i We vol x Pf Topology persist C E Gress vall a Status Success Wed Dec 14 15 05 04 CET 2011 Wed Dec 14 15 04 38 CET 2011 Summary Custer svc2 Success Cluster swvi Wed Dec 14 15 05 04 CET 2011 Wed Dec 14 15 04 38 CET 2011 Guster svc2 T Process Status Completed File timestamp Last su 1 8 Topology scan Dec 14 2011 3 04 09 PM Dec 14 2011 3 04 09 PM 2011 2 g Topology persist Dec 14 2011 3 04 23 PM Dec 14 2011 3 04 09 PM 2011 3 Performance scan Dec 14 2011 3 05 39 PM Dec 14 2011 3 05 15 PM 2011 4 ll Performance persist Dec 14 2011 3 05 53 PM Dec 14 2011 3 05 15 PM 2011 Last suc 20113 File timestamp Dec 14 2011 3 04 38 PM Completed Dec 14 2011 3 04 38 PM v 3 Gy Performance scan Dec 14 2011 3 06 06 PM bee 14 2
181. ntroller isnode ishost and isfabric USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 67 BVQ user s guide v15 Abbildung 57 TT example for the object type ED mad i See also color scheme port connect 1 5 5 Topology search function Via the search function objects can be found and specifically selected in the treemap The search field of the topology view is also accessible via the following shortcut Ctrl f Opens the treemap s search field In the search Field you can e g enter fractions of the name of displayed objects but also all other object attributes are scanned The entry is confirmed through Enter or the clicking of the Loupe Symbol 1 5 5 1 Hit list search dialog If there are multiple hits the search dialog box opens It contains all hits objects and the appropriate attribute USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 68 BVG user s guide v15 Abbildung 58 Search field result list Selection zoom and highlighting of correlated objects in the treemap The objects on the hit list are automatically marked as selected in the treemap The treemap in addition is enlarged zoom to display all found objects as large as possible A selection of objects in the hit list leads to additional highlighting flashing of these objects in the treemap to find their positions more easily By using the usual multi select keys Ctrl Shift or Ctrl A more than one object can be selected
182. nu bar gt 4 File Object Lists Favorites Tab toolbar CEOE te ca L A Topology La Object type Search Le Abbildung Area for Topology view Performance view Status bar Scanner Cloud Memory Last reload from DB 1m 515 ago FY The GUI provides you with an overview of the topology performance costs and compliance of your storage infrastructure After launching the GUI connects with the BVQ database default IP port 50000 and loads the most recent state of the selected SVC cluster s The GUI consists of the following main modules e Common controls o Main menu o Favorites and tabs o Scanner status bar e Views o Topology view Treemaps o Performance view System load charts o Tables view Objects in a tabular format o Object detail view Attributes of an individual object in a tabular format e Object editors Configuration of object attributes and relations USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI HOW TO START THE GUI 5 BVQ user s guide v15 L How to start the GUI BVQ can be started in two different ways via the Windows start menu or the desktop icon 1 Start via the Windows start menu start programs SVA BVQ BVQ GUI launch BVQ GUI Abbildung 2 GUI Starting via Windows start menu PSTerminalServices d PuTTY A Startup gt A Subsystem for UND based Applications gt gt D bvo g H Launch BYQ GUI d bvq reporting README I VMware Ado
183. oblity zone compliant VDc YDg relation count Prim 1 Sec 1 YDc YDg relation compliant Prim sc VDg relation compliant Overall compliant 1 8 3 5 Performance This area is a tabular representation of the object s performance indicators Key figures for IO load calculated mainly by averaging a series of measurements with different integration periods It is already displayed when the object detail view is opened in the aspect performance USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI OBJECT DETAIL VIEW 114 BVQ user s guide v15 Abbildung 84 Object detail view category performance O YDisk performance Data rate Response time Cache hit ratio Short term 4h Mid term 24h Long term 7d 9 6 11 3 59 PM 9 6 11 3 59 PM 9 6 11 3 59 PM IO rate R W 4 IOis R W Peak 6 IOfs Peak Read 51 Read M mm 46 94 Kejs JP Rew Overall N A ms Overall Peak N A ms Peak Score N A Pts Score Read 85 Read R 1 45110s Bf Rew 238 10s 2 503 ois 83 Read 83 30 04 MiB s E R W 4 84 MiB s 1 ms Overall 1 ms 1 1 ms 13 5Pts i Score 2 2 Pts 4 MW read 6 1 8 4 Information groups If several information lines of a table are related to each other it is indicated by the same color in the first narrow column Where possible the following meanings of the colors were maintained Tabelle 73 Object detail view colors of the information groups Light grey No
184. of VDisk groups dependencies to each other the BVQ VDisk group relation should be used additionally 1 10 13 2 BVQ VDisk group relation Specifies a rule for the placement of two having the same usage context Application example Abbildung 88 BVQ VDisk group relation application example three VDisk groups in a complex context SVO VDisi lati Colocated Controller Antilocated Antilocated MDg A VDisk group relation serves e the user to define a placeing rule of two BVQ VDisk groups which are in an application context in the storage infrastructure For example 2 copies of a VDisk mirror 2 copies of a host LVM mirror log index and table data volumes of a database e apossible algorithm for the selection of suitable MDISK groups storage systems storage classes in an automated VDisk migration e tne BVQ compliance check to verify if the current VDisk placement corresponds to the specifications which are displayed in the color scheme VDG relation compliance in the category service level amp compliance of the object detail view and in the treemap USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI OBJECT TYPES 140 BVQ user s guide v15 Relations Abbildung 89 BVQ VDisk group relation object type relations overview Groupes e A pair of two BVG VDisk groups Several rules can be assigned to the same pair if they don t exclude each other For example colocated room und antilocated controller but not ant
185. ols to which a sub set of assigned volumes can be placed Specifies a rule for the placement of two VDisk groups having the same usage context 1 10 13 1 BVQ mobility zone Group of to which a sub set of assigned can be placed Application SVC MDisk groups and BVG VDisk groups are assigned to a mobility zone Primarily to limit the placement s decision for VDisks on selected MDisk groups respectively to allow the examination if the current configuration complies with this placement rule SVC MDisk groups can be assigned to multiple mobility zones This way they can be summarized according to different criteria BVQ VDisk groups are automatically subgrouped into VDisk copy type P primary or S secondary in VDisk copy groups Each VDisk copy group may only be assigned to a single mobility zone A mobility zone serves e the user to determine strict placement specifications e apossible algorithm for the selection of suitable MDisk groups for a VDisk migration USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI OBJECT TYPES 137 BVG user s guide v15 e the compliance testing whether the current VDisk placement corresponds to the standards The result is displayed in the color scheme mobility zone compliance and in the object detail view category service level and compliance Application examples Mobility zones typically consist of e all MDisk groups of a controller e all MDisk groups of a room or location e all M
186. ontroller SVC node port Port of a SVC node SVC host port Port of a SVC host SAM Port of a SAN device with unknown type Seine Connection between a node port and another of the above SVC port types For more details about this object type please see IBM SVC software installation and configuration guide Special color scheme SAN object types are always displayed in a special color scheme Please see color scheme SVC controller port SVC node port SVC host port and color scheme port connect Source of these attributes Object type SVC controller port Iscontroller port details SVC node port Isnode port details SVC host port Ishost port details SVC unknown port Isfabric filtered by type unkonwn SVC port connect Isfabric USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI OBJECT TYPES 147 BVG user s guide v15 For more details about the SVC CLI commands please see IBM SVC command line interface user s guide 1 10 18 Storage consumers Objects space is allocated to consumer side SVC VDisk copy corresponds to SVC object type VDisk copy SVC V7000 volume virtual disk Sea gud Allocation mapping LUN of SVC VDisk to SVC host map Server which is connected to a SVC 7000 cluster and can be assigned to the SVC VDisks For more details about this object type please see IBM SVC software installation and configuration guide 1 10 18
187. ontroller gt MDisk gt Disk array and switch to Object Color BVQ qualified MDisks that are not yet allocated to any Array are then accompanied with the color Red You can directly in the Treemap create a new Disk Array for the Controllerand subsequently allocate the MDisks to the new Array by editting the Controller E Qualifying Hosts The Hosts are gathered via the BVQ scanning procedure For the Qualification the specification of the Room is required Furthermore can the Comment Field be applied for Contact above mentioned You start the Qualification in the Task Menu with Edit gt Hosts and select the Host that has to be qualified E Qualifizierung SVC Nodes The Nodes are also gathered via the BVQ scanning procedure For the Qualification the specification of the Room is required You start the Qualification in the Task Menu with Edit gt Nodes and select Node that has to be qualified USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 209 BVQ user s guide v15 Qualifying BVQ Accounting Package The Accounting Package is part of the Premium Edition and is optionally available for the Performance Edition You carry out the qualification steps that are described in this collumn if have the Premium Edition or the Performance Edition with the Accounting Package For the Accounting Package company information is needed and thereby the following questions are asked Which Applications are implemented in the company en
188. ooltip Abbildung 37 Subelement count Allocated capacity 4 14 TiB Unallocated capacity 2 73 TiB 1 5 3 2 Aspect capacity The aspect capacity is targeted to management of storage capacities USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY view Al BVQ user s guide v15 Abbildung 38 Topology aspect capacity A BvQ x G E i Topology aif Object type Topology Capacity gt Total Performance gt Total utilisation Cost Unallocated Price Virtual Real Used Free Uncompressed used The aspect capacity paints the object sizes of the treemap in relation to each objects storage capacities metric It is a collective term for the following sub aspects Tabelle 24 Aspect capacity sub aspects Aspect Area size is proportional to Total TOTAL capacity Total utilisation Total storage capacity combined with unused capacity Unallocated UNALLOCATED capacity Virtual Volume VIRTUAL capacity With Thin Provisioning the capacity visible to the host Real Volume REAL capacity With Thin Provisioning the capacity that is currently used by the pool Used Volume USED capacity Free Volume FREE capacity Uncompressed used Volume UNCOMPRESSED USED capacity Application example total utilisation In this aspect the displayed storage provider objects areas are divided into two areas e Top blank free capacity e Bottom used capacity where the storage consumer
189. opy Copy virtual capacity FAV real capacity SEV real capacity SEV used capacity COMP real capacity COMP used capacity Financials Cost ratio Cost 10 25 TiB 2 62 TiB 25 6 7 63 TiB 74 4 774 16 MiB 0 0 100 0 52 0 49 7 100 0 5 04 TiB 2 62 TiB 2 51 TiB 119 83 GiB 2 79 TiB 286 98 GiB 2 51 TiB 286 98 GiB 2 26 TiB 2 42 TiB 5 04 TiB 1 06 TiB 1 2 TiB 11 TiB 370 81 GiB 354 95 GiB 0 25 GiB 2 625 00 Topology BVO Paragraph compression The paragraph compression contains the following metrics Metric Calculation Description Uncompressed used capacity Theoretical size of the uncompressed used capacity uncompressed used capacity USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 215 BVQ user s guide v15 Compression compression_saved_capacity Compression gain saved saved capacity uncompressed_used_capacity used_capacity capacity by compression Used capacity used capacity Compressed capacity Bar chart U Cs Um Ratio of compressed U capacity to compression gain Cs All percentage values are bases on the uncompressed size Uncompressed used capacity 100 Paragraph total capacity efficiency Metric Calculation Description Copy virtual copy_virtual_capacity SUM vdiskcopy virtual_capacity Sum of the virtual capacity capacity of all VDisk copies Space eff space_efficiency
190. orage capacities such as assigned free or virtual capacity of an object AES Storage costs and prices Financial indicators to support the charging and billing such as storage costs and prices It is also already shown in the aspekt capacity and the aspect cost 8 price when the object detail view is opened USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI OBJECT DETAIL VIEW 111 Abbildung 81 Object detail view category accountables of a MDisk group Accountables Capacities Total capacity Allocated capacity Unallocated capacity Wasted capacity Biese Unallocated Virtual capacity Real capacity Used capacity Free capacity VDisk Compression saved capacity Used capacity VDisk copy Copy virtual capacity Compression saved capacity Space eff saved capacity Total capacity efficiency VDisk copy Uncompressed used capacity 6 87 TiB 100 0 3 78 TB 55 0 3 09 TB 45 0 316 3 MB 0 0 E 9 43 TiB 100 0 3 78 TiB 40 1 3 57 TiB 37 9 207 97 GIB 2 2 5 39 TiB 100 0 1 81 TiB 33 6 3 57 TiB 66 4 9 43 TiB 100 0 1 81 TiB 19 2 4 05 TiB 42 9 5 65 TiB 59 9 R nn Copy virtual capacity 9 43 TiB FAY real capacity 502 GiB SEY real capacity 1 11 TiB SEV used capacity 1 03 TiB COMP real capacity 2 18 TiB COMP used capacity 2 06 TiB Financials Cost ratio 0 40 GiB Cost 2 814 24 1 8 3 3 Topology BVG user s guide v15 This are represents object counters Numbe
191. ost centers The qualification is started via the task menu with edit gt cost centers and with a click on add to create different cost centers BYQ ID Name Personalabteilung Links to related objects Application groups values Add Edit gt Delete e Object application groups The gualification is started via the task menu with edit gt application groups and with a click on add to create the application groups Allocate the suitable cost center to each application group BYQ ID Name Gehaltsabrechnung Links to related objects Costcenter Personalabteilung 25 v Applications Values Q Add cap Edit Delete aS si Object application USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 171 BVG user s guide v15 The qualification is started via the task menu with edit gt applications and with a click on add to create the applications Allocate the suitable application group to each application BVQ ID Name SAP Prod Links to related objects Application group Personalabteilung Gehaltsabrechnung 25 vw Q Add og Edit VDisk groups Values Add gt Edit Delete SL Ewes Object VDisk groups The qualification is started via the task menu with edit gt VDisk groups and with a click on add to create the VDisk groups Allocate the suitable application to each VDisk group USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI
192. ost ratio of the SVC MDisk group is multiplied by the ALLOCATED capacity of an object e The price ratio from the currently valid BVQ SLA of a VDisk group is multiplied by an objects VIRTUAL capaclty Tabular overview for the assignment of BVA finances in memory provisioners and memory consumers object types Provisioner Consumer Financial metrics Factor SVC MDisk group Cost ratio TOTALcapacity ALLOCATED capacity BVQ SLA Price ratio N A VIRTUAL capacity 1 9 3 Object counter Number of objects linked with objects of another type Object counter answer typical questions such as e How many VDisks are in the cluster e How many spindles HDDs has my storage pool e How many hosts does the SVC cluster know 1 9 3 1 Display in the GUI Object counters are presented in the GUI in two places 1 Inthe tooltip of topology view s treemap objects as subelement count SeC 2 Inthe object detail view in the main chapter counter USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI KEY FIGURES OF THE BVQ STORAGE ENVIRONMENT 124 BVQ user s guide v15 1 9 4 Performance indicators Key figures for IO load calculated mainly by averaging a series of measurements with different integration periods Performance Indicators allow a load comparison of selected objects in the topology view 1 9 4 1 Visualization of performance indicators in the GUI Performance indicators are displayed in the GUI at three places 1 As proportionality
193. owing functions Tabelle 51 Performance view context menu functions of the chart area JE Opens chart properties dialog box to edit the chart settings Copy Copies the chart area with axes labeling Save as Saves chart area with axes labeling as a PNG image Print Prints the chart area with axes labeling Zoom in Zoom in function selection both axes domain axes or range axes Zoom out Zoom out function selection both axes domain axes or range axes PETE Scales to output size selection both axes domain axes or range axes 1 6 8 4 Tooltip on measuring points A short pause of the mouse pointer on a measuring point opens a tooltip which displays the currently measured values for all metrics of this object type USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI PERFORMANCE VIEW 81 BVQ user s guide v15 Abbildung 67 Performance view tooltip of the chart area 19 1 50 0 1 8 4 475 171 45 0 161 425 15 40 0 14 376 vsp_C1_m400A svcarz Aug 8 2012 1 58 23 PM 35 0 13 12 325 41 16 IO s Operations R W 30 0 1 1 Si pelea Ae ions Ri 7 74 10js 3 2105 R W 41 16 IO s S SE Ri 0 42 MiB s 0 55 MiB s R W 0 97 MiB s 091 er ime R 0 47 mec overall 1 87 ms lO 08 Set time R 61 06 ms IO overall 61 06 ms IO E 20 0 Transfer size R 55 43 kiB 16 78kiB overall 24 04 kiB E 17 5 ake 15 0 051 Gs 041 400 0 3 75 021 5 0 0 1 4 25 0 0 0 0 13 00 14 00 15 00 16 00 1 6 9 Performance metrics The
194. p 6 Compliance rules E Le User Favorites BYQ 1 12 1 2 Qualifying the performance edition In the first step of the gualification the topology objects are gualified They comply with the whole gualification range in the performance edition and are part of the gualification range of the premium edition For the first step at the gualification the following information is needed e Sites with rooms From all hosts and storage systems which have to be gualified the site and room information has to be available Where are the storage systems SVC nodes and hosts located location and room e Storage system information Evaluation lowrange midrange highend cachesize MTM information specific technical description and serial number e Disk type Which disk types are applied SATA SAS SSD 10kRPM 15kRPM max IO s USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 162 BVQ user s guide v15 e Disk array Information Reading out all existing disk arrays of the storage systems raid level disk type amount of disks controller MDisks e Determining controller Cache size and classifying it as enterprise midrange or lowrange e Server hosts Location and contact e SVC nodes Location Hint discovery of technical Information e Example DS3500 o Opening DS storage manager o Calling up profile o Reading out Information from sections controller cache MTM serial numbers raid information 1746C4A_13KOBAR FST2_DS3500 Q Opt
195. p color scheme group capacity efficiency the degree of data reduction by compression and space efficiency is represented 1 9 1 2 Metrics for storage capacities Capacity related metrics and their aggregation logic are distinguished in two groups of object types Storage provider Provide available capacity which is assigned to the storage consumers SEC ATT Seize capacities which are provided by the storage providers D irect metrics of the storage providers The following capacities metrics are available for storage providers TOTAL capacity Total capacity ALLOCATABLE capacity Assignable capacity ALLOCATED capacity Assigned or occupied capacity UNALLOCATED capacity Unassigned capacity USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI KEY FIGURES OF THE BVQ STORAGE ENVIRONMENT 116 BVQ user s guide v15 Difference TOTAL ALLOCATABLE Under certain circumstances the SVC V7000 can not provide the total capacity of an object E g ifthe MDISK size is divided by its extent size and doesnt result in an integer Direct metrics of the storage consumers The following capacities metrics are available for storage consumers ALLOCATED capacity Assignable capacity VIRTUAL capacity Virtual capacity REAL capacity Space efficient VDisk copy real capacity USED capacity Space efficient VDisk copy used capacity UNCOMPRESSED USED Space efficient VDisk copy uncompressd used capacity capa
196. pacity 10 GiB 100 0 Compression saved capacity 0 Byte 0 0 Space eff saved capacity 6 51 GiB 65 1 Total capacity efficiency 6 3 GiB 63 0 VDisk copy Ecv Wm 1 5 4 11 BVA color scheme compression efficiency The color scheme compression efficiency colors objects according to the the data reduction efficiency achieved with compression USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 54 BVG user s guide v15 Tabelle 31 Color scheme compression efficiency meaning of the colors Color Efficiency Value margin Meaning ll red Poor 0 24 Insufficient data reduction with compression m Yellow Average 25 49 Average data reduction with compression BEE Green Good 50 79 High data reduction with compression Blue Excellent 80 100 Very high data reduction with compression E Eclipsed No compression Object is not configured for compression g Object Type Not applicable Object type is not involved Abbildung 51 Color scheme compression efficiency treemap amp show details 1 5 4 12 ANVLaLEU Capacity Wasted capacity Virtual capacity Real capacity Used capacity Free capacity VDisk VDisk copy prim VDisk copy sec Uncompressed used capacity Compression saved capacity Used capacity VDisk copy Copy virtual capacity Compression saved capacity Space eff saved capacity Total capacity efficiency VDisk copy gt VDisk SAPD1 D2 70 67
197. pied space of a volume compared to its virtual capacity As a result three types of volumes are now available 1 Fully allocated volumes FAV 2 Thin provisioned Space efficient vollumes SEV 3 Real time compressed volumes RCV based on SEV A key indicator for the savings potential generated by the data reduction functions is the capacity efficiency It expresses the size of the saved capacity This indicator is already crucial for thin provisioned VDisk copies Their additional compression typically leads to a further increase of saved capacity The following BVA functions were extended for evaluating the capacity efficiency e The chapter accountables of the object detail view e Additional topology color schemes 1 12 3 1 Extension ofthe object detail view The object detail view contains two new paragraphs in the chapter accountables 1 Compression 2 Total capacity efficiency USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 214 Abbildung 92 Object detail view with evaluation of the compression O Attributes O Accountables BVQ user s guide v15 Capacities Total capacity Allocated capacity Unallocated capacity Wasted capacity Virtual capacity Real capacity Used capacity Free capacity VDisk Uncompressed used capacity Compression saved capacity Used capacity VDisk copy Copy virtual capacity Compression saved capacity Space eff saved capacity Total capacity efficiency VDisk c
198. plies with a logical disk of a storage subsystem LUN which is allocated to a SVC V7000 SVC MDisk group Storage pool consisting of SVC MDisks logical Disks SVC virtualization SVC node SVC accounts or V7000 controller node Storage utilizer SVC VDisk SVC V7000 volume virtual disk SVC VDisk copy SVC VDisk copy corresponds to SVC object type VDisk copy SVC host Server which is connected with a SVC V7000 cluster and can be allocated to the SVC VDisks BVQ organization units BVQ VDisk group Volume group arranges SVC VDisks with the same application guality level BVQ application Application e g Oracle Windows File Service Oracle DB Service SAP DB Service groups BVQ VDisk groups BVQ application group Application group arranges applications e g for the representation of specialized procedures and business processes BVQ cost center Cost unit groups application groups e g benefactors customers departments of a company BVQ placement regulations BVQ mobility zone Group of storage pools on which a subset of allocated volumes can be placed BVQ VDisk group relation Requirement of a regulation for the placement of two VDisk groups which are related in their application USER S GUIDE BVG GUI OBJECT EDITORS 159 BVQ user s guide v15 Name Description BVQ service level management BVQ storage class
199. pplication gt ea Cost Center Verwendet 68 65MB s App gruppe VMWare 37 47MB s Applikation ESX 33 16MB s Vdisks Esxlun07 260 17 KB s 0 Service level amp Compliance Aggregated VDisk Performance a short term 4h Midterm 24h Long term 74 10 rate 2 733 1015 R w 2 791 1075 Boun 2 647 1015 Datarate i I ee 133 56 mers JI a 97 19 mais Bra 60 65 mais Qualifizierung MobilityZone Beginnen Sie nun die Mobility Zones einzurichten Mobility Zones legen fest auf welchen Storage Pools die VDisks einer VDisk Gruppe platziert werden sollten Somit k nnen Regeln f r Ablageorte von VDisks festgelegt werden die dann beispielsweise auf Ihre Einhaltung hin berpr ft werden k nnen VDisk X sollte nur auf den MDisk groups Y amp Z abgelegt werden Erstellen und MDisk Gruppen zuweisen Starten Sie die Qualifizierung in der Men leiste mit Edit gt Mobility zones und klicken Sie auf Add USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 193 BVG user s guide v15 BVQ ID 25 Name may be midrange Links to related objects svel FST2 SAS HE 53 svc1 FST4 SAS MR 49 i svel FST4 SATA CO 52 svel SWV1 SAS MR 51 MDisk groups svel Quorum 50 VDisk groups Comment Mobility Zones den VDisk Gruppen zuweisen Starten Sie die Qualifizierung in der Men leiste mit Edit gt VDisk groups und w hlen sie eine
200. r of objects linked with objects of another type It is already opened when the object detail view is activated in the aspect topology Abbildung 82 Object detail view category topology of a MDisk group Topology Mobility zone count 1 Host Host count 30 SVC VDisk count 71 VDisk copy count 75 MDisk count 7 Subsystem Controller count 2 Array count 3 Disk count 36 A USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI OBJECT DETAIL VIEW 112 BVQ user s guide v15 1 8 3 4 Service level amp compliance This section summarizes the results of the object gualification rules evaluation in two subdivisions Tabelle 72 Object detail view category service level amp compliance subdivisions Service level Compliance Category heading Contains descriptions for the assignment of the object into a higher grouping BVQ organisational unit and if necessary the currently valid BVG SLA Placement rating Furthermore the results of the evaluation of the configured BVQ DC to SC placement rating for the current BVQ data class BVQ storage class combination The following color schemes are designed similarly color scheme data and storage class and color scheme DC2SC placement rating Data class compliant contains the results from the above named service level but reduced to two states 1 or A and 2 B E color scheme data class compliance Mobility zone compliant contains the evaluation of the associat
201. r s guide v15 Filter UID svc1 0000020061600648 apfs c02 60050768018580144000000000000153 swc1 0000020061600648 svc1 0000020061600648 svc1 0000020061600648 6005076801858014400000000000014E 600507680185801440000000000001 4F 60050768018580144000000000000183 apfs bei apfs he2 svc1 0000020061600648 svc1 0000020061600648 svc1 0000020061600648 apfs mi Ee 6005076801858014A000000000000150 gpfs_mr2 60050768018580144000000000000151 apfs sys 2 1 600507680185801440000000000001E1 svc1 0000020061600648 gpfs sys 6005076801858014400000000000014C svc1 0000020061600648 apfs sys1 1 600507680185801440000000000001E0 swc1 0000020061600648 svc1 0000020061600648 gpfs_sys2 6005076801858014400000000000014D apfsini rh boot 600507680185801440000000000002B8 Weisen sie ihr daraufhin die g ltige VDisk Gruppe zu F hren Sie die Qualifizierung f r die anderen VDisks ebenfalls durch BYQ ID S C ID Cluster Name UID Properties Size Gov ratio IO group Preferred node 30 29 svc1 0000020061600648 SAPD2 Bi 6005076801858014A000000000000165 50 kes 0 Iols Links to related objekts o grp 0 svei 0 svci svcini Z inio grp 0 svel svcl VDiskgroup Personalabtelung Geheltsabrechnung SAP Prod SAP Backup 28 v group Personalabteilung Gehaltsabrechnung SAP Prod SAP Backup Personala
202. ratio USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 45 BVG user s guide v15 A Depending on the BVQ edition not all cost aspects are available Abbildung 42 Topologie Aspekt Cost Kostenbetrachtung Aspect price The price aspect allows the examination of the prices which are calculated by the storage capacity for every user consumer customer Before price aspects can be used the SLAs have to be configured with the factor price ratio A Depending on the BVQ edition not all price aspects are available USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 46 BVG user s guide v15 Abb ildung 43 Topology aspect price price analysis 1 5 4 Topology color schemes Via the color schemes the objects areas in the ireemap are colored based on selectable criteria To enable a quick and meaningful examination different BVQ color schemes can be used coloring the objects according to certain criteria Partially these object colors can be designed freely The dynamic coloring of the treemap objects simplifies the conditon assessment of the objects like qualification service level and compliance OA typical example all not SLA compliant objects are shown in red while the objects which satisfy all SLA conditions are stained in green 1 5 4 1 Main menu The main menu for the color scheme looks like Abbildung 44 Topology color scheme main menu ione Objecttype BVQ qualified Capacity efficiency gt Service level gt Perfo
203. rays BYQID 1 Disk types Name Wiesbaden Borsigstrasse 14 Applications Links to related objects Application groups Rooms Values Cost centers SVA Lab Wiesbaden 1 in site Wiesbaden Borsigstrasse 14 SLAs Data classes Storage classes J DC to SC placement ratings ee ess meter per VDisk group relations Qualifizierung Disk Typen F r die Qualifizierung der Disk Typen m ssen im Vorfeld die Disk Eigenschaften erfasst werden e Class Handelt es sich um Lowrange ATA SATA PATA Enterprise FC SAS SCSI oder SSD Storage e Capacity ber welche Kapazit t verf gen die Disks e Rotation Speed Welche Umdrehungszahlen haben die Disks e Max est I O rate Wird aus Rotation Speed ermittelt Dieser Wert kann auch angepasst werden Starten Sie die Qualifizierung in der Men leiste mit Edit gt Disk types und klicken Sie auf Add USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 180 BVQ user s guide v15 BYQ ID Properties Class Enterprise FC SAS SCSI v Capacity 300 Rotation Speed 15 000 rpm v Max est I O rate 160 I0 s Links to related objects Disk arrays og Edit Delete E Qualifizierung Disk Controller F r die Qualifizierung des Controllers w hlen Sie die entsprechende Class und Room aus und tragen die Cache Size ein Die Room Informationen muss eingetragen werden damit das Objekt Controller vol
204. rites Favorites are saved views of the GUI They contain views aspects from different angles of vision Either topology or performance views Favorites are divided due to overview and usage In BVQ there are the following divisions Predefined favorites Predefined favorites delivered with BVQ User favorites Favorites which were saved by a user Dependig on the BVA license some of these favorites are not available USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI FAVORITES AND TABS 21 BVG user s guide v15 1 3 2 1 Favorites selection window Abbildung 21 Favorites Overview of stored favorite tabs AO BIg g Favorites E La Predefined favorites E La Overview topology 2 Controller MDisk group MDisk P Controller Disk array MDisk gt Controller Disk array Disk type amp Cost center Application VDisk Site Room C Overview VMware topology E Analyse capacity C Analyse performance E Analyse load amp capacity distribution C Analyse service level Analyse compliance C Analyse SAN fabric Zoning E Analyse copy services E3 Step by step Align overestimated capacity C Step by step Qualify and edit objects User Favorites DG A left click on a favorite opens them in the current tab The following functions can be obtained via the context menu of the folder and favorites Tabelle 16 Favorites Functions of the context menu Rename folder favorite Create new folder Delet
205. rived via the aggregation sum or average generation of the associated objects Therefore the following options exist to call the performance view for each object type Tabelle 45 Basic objects und grouping objects Object type VDisk MDisk Node Node port VDisk group VDisk VDisk copy MDisk group MDisk Cluster IO group Node Node port Port connect Host Host port Controller SVC Controller e Controller port Disk Array Disk type USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI PERFORMANCE VIEW 73 BVG user s guide v15 Object type VDisk MDisk Node Node port Application Application group Cost center SLA Data class Mobility zone Room Site 1 6 4 Selection of the time period Allocation of the visible time period the chart area of the performance view by choosing start time duration and end time Abbildung 61 Performance view selection of the time period Start time Duration End time Be EE S mo J00 00 wed 08 17 11 14 20 re 08 17 11 18 20 I Tabelle 46 Performance view functions of the time period s selection Categorie Element Functions description Start time CW Calendar week allows to jump forwards or backwards by the week Start time Mo Monday sets the start time to the Monday of the selected Start time 00 00 00 00 S
206. rmance gt Compliance gt The following color schemes can be selected e Color scheme object type The object coloring according to the scheme object type colors the objects in the treemap depending on the BVG integrated standard color of the respective object types USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 47 BVQ user s guide v15 Color scheme BVQ qualified The object staining according to the scheme BVQ qualified colors the treemap objects depending on the state of the BVQ gualification process Color scheme total capacity efficiency The object staining according to the scheme total capacity efficiency colors the objects based on actual saving of total capacity Color scheme space efficiency The object coloring scheme space efficiency paints the objects of the treemap based on the data reduction by Thin Provisioning BVQ color scheme compression efficiency The color scheme compression efficiency colors objects according to the the data reduction efficiency achieved with compression Color scheme compression rate The object coloring according to the scheme compression rate colors the objects based on the compression rate Color scheme data and storage class The object staining according to the scheme data and storage class colors the objects in the treemap according to the custom colors of the BVQ storage class or BVQ data class Color scheme DC2SC placement rating The object stainin
207. roller 1 Controllers z ae A A Disk arrays Disk types Applications Application groups Connect the SVC controllers to a new BVQ controller currently only possible via the treemap mar um EE ag 1 12 1 12 Faster creation of disk arrays by using BVA CLI The definition of disk arrays can get very complex if done using the GUI It is much faster done by using the BVQ CLI 1 GE a Se Ze Activate CLI activation and usage of BVQ CLI Preparation create an array with GUI to determine the correct IO density Read controllerID und disk type ID Specify the raid factor with R5 and not 5 in the command Put everything together in Notepad and paste it into tne command field maybe keeping it for documentation USER S GUIDE BVA GUI USE CASES 205 BVQ user s guide v15 gt help mkdiskarray usage mkdiskarray options controller lt contoller id id of the controller to associate this disk array with diskcount lt number of disks gt number of disks used in this disk array disktype lt disk type id gt id of the disk type to associate this disk array with iodensity lt estimated IO density in IOps GiB gt name lt disk array name gt name of the disk array raidlevel lt raidlevel gt R R1 R4 R5 R6 R10 RAID level of the disk array Combined editing and then copy and paste mkdiskarray controller 15 diskcount 18 disktype 1 iodensity 8 45 name Array81 raidlevel R5 mkdiskarray controll
208. rrent configuration of the object meets all existing presets PM Yellow Incomplete Specification of compliance targets currently only VDisk group relation is not complete Hiro a Not Current configuration of the object does not meet all compliant existing presets Faded Undefined No specifications are defined for the object WE Object Not Object type is not affected type applicable Aggregation ofc ompliance states It should be noted that the compliance state is determined only for a few objects directly For most objects especially higher grouping objects the default state is compliant only if all relevant child objects have the status compliant For example the target goal of an application s data class is only met if all application s VDisk groups meet their data class requirements Since all compliance requirements are optional the compliance status undefined of an object is interpreted as compliant in the status aggregation of the container object Exception the aggregated state is undefined when all states are undefined The state not applicable has no effect on the aggregation unless all states are not applicable then itis also the aggregation s result Table aggregation of compliance states USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 61 BVG user s guide v15 Condition Condition Condition object 1 object 2 aggreg
209. s of storage subsystems BVQ disk array Array RAID of one disk type in a storage subsystem BVQ controller Represents a storage subsystem cluster crossing group of SVC controllers SVC controller Represents sub units port cards controller nodes with different WWNN of a storage subsystem SVC MDisk Corresponds to a logical disk of a storage subsystem LUNs which is assigned to a SVC V7000 SVC MDisk group Storage pool composed of SVC MDisk logical disks SVC virtualization SVC node SVC nodes or V7000 controller nodes USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI OBJECT EDITORS 156 BVQ user s guide v15 Name Description Memory consumer SVC VDisk SVC V7000 volume virtual disk SVC VDisk copy SVC VDisk copy corresponds to SVC object type VDisk copy SVC host Server which is connected to a SVC 7000 cluster and can be assigned to the SVC VDisks BVQ organizational units BVQ VDisk group Volume group groups SVC VDisk of the same application and quality level BVQ application Application e g Oracle Windows File Service Oracle DB Service SAP DB Service grouping BVQ VDisk groups BVQ application group Application group groups applications e g for the representation of specialized procedures business processes etc BVQ cost center Cost center combines application groups e g cost carriers customers and departments of a company B
210. selection menu for the aspect performance looks like Abbildung 40 Topology aspect performance 28 perf 10 sRW gt 5m E Perf 10d heat 5m Topology Capacity gt Performance gt 10 rate R W Cost gt Realtime 5 min 10 R gt Short term 4 hour Data rate R W gt Midterm 1 day Response time IO R W gt Long term 7 day Price Response time score gt 10 density IO R W Cap gt A The selectable periods depend on the BVQ license Load values of the object types SVC VDisk SVC MDisk and SVC node are read from the BVQ DB in evaluation runs and condensed to performance indicators More information about the selectable periods and metrics can be found in the chapter performance indicators IO density The metric O density IO R W cap is different It also serves as basis for the color scheme IO density heat Principles for the calculation can be found there In contrast to the respective color scheme no filtering is applied in this aspect Thus objects with very small used capacity appear to be very large despite smallest IO typical for e g cluster Heartbeat volumes or newly created thin provisioned volumes The visualization of load indicators in the treemap of the topology view is complemented by the analysis of the historical load profile in the performance view An important part of BVQ is the support of the performance analysis Typical goals of such analyzes are
211. soft Office Excel zur ckgeben Abfrage speichern 6 Daten in Microsoft Query bearbeiten oder ansehen F 8 9 10 11 12 lt Zur ck Abbrechen Import data USER S GUIDE BVG REPORTING ODBC ACCESS TO THE BVG REPORTING SCHEME 232 BVG user s guide v15 Oa Ved 07 03 gt 7 Ca EE e A pe A Start Einf gen Seitenlayout Formeln Daten berpr fen Ansicht Ep Aus Access d EN Verbindungen Al ei E Z 9 Aus dem Web dl em Sf Eigenschaften CR Aus anderen Vorhandene Alle ul i Aus Text Quellen Verbindungen aktualisieren gt Verkn pfungen bearbeiten Externe Daten abrufen Verbindungen Daten importieren Wahlen Sie das Format aus in dem Sie diese Daten in der Arbeitsmappe anzeigen m chten Tabelle ig PivotTable Bericht ii PivotChart und PivotTable Bericht Ey Nur Verbindung erstellen Wo sollen die Daten eingef gt werden Bestehendes Arbeitsblatt Gel O Neues Arbeitsblatt Eigenschaften 14 Qa TAA odbc test wiki xlsx Microsoft Excel Tabellentools Start Einf gen Seitenlayout Formeln Daten berpr fen Ansicht Entwurf Tabellenname i3 Mit PivotTable zusammenfassen EE Ai a Eigenschaften VW berschrift F Erste Spalte Tabelle Abfrage von BVO Ee Duplikate entfernen Im Browser ffnen Ergebniszeile Letzte Spalte Zr E Exportieren Aktualisieren a T Tabellengr e ndern bei In Berei
212. t SAN gt Virtualization gt Localities V Storage consumer gt Organisational VDisk copy gt P Service level LUN gt Placement pol Host gt gt VMWare P SAN b Localities Exchange menu The object types that can be used in place of the selected node appear below the dividing line after detail group b Organisational P Service level P Placement pol gt VMWare USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 37 BVQ user s guide v15 Abbildung 35 Topology navigator Exchange menu BVQ Bl vis Detail gt lt Group Nothing BYQ V Storage provider Disk type Disk array Controller SVC Controller MDisk MDisk group EIER Extent b Virtualization Storage consumer VDisk copy gt LUN Host gt gt SAN gt Localities gt Organisational P Service level b Placement pol P VMWare 1 5 2 2 Object type categories Object types are divided into categories which can be opened and closed within the entire menu tree To prevent unnecessary opening closing operations the topology navigator saves the last drop status open closed of each category and applies it to new menus The topology navigator tries to self adapt to the user situation If a topology tab is initialized from the favorite menu all categories containing object types in the new path are opened Hint It is convenient to open all categories required by the current application at the first path selection with
213. ta class WE Object Ambiguously assigned objects e g VDisk copies of a Volume are stored in type different DCs or object types are not affected by this color scheme e g ports Object No configured storage or data class is available for this object type faded 1 5 4 14 Color scheme DC2SC placement rating The object staining according to the scheme DC2SC placement rating colors the objects of a treemap based on the placement review of the associated BVQ DC to SC placement ratings In the treemap is indicated whether the respective objects configured due to BVQ specifications are in a suitable storage space Possible colors of this color scheme are USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY VIEW 56 BVQ user s guide v15 Tabelle 34 Topology color scheme Color Symbol Condition Description M Green e Optimal Placement review is optimal PM Yellow A Acceptable Placement assessment is acceptable or too risky or too expensive Hr Unacceptable Placement review is unacceptable perhaps not SLA compliant Faded O Undefined Requirements for classification are not sufficiently configured or are not convenient to object WE Object Inapplicable Object type is not affected type 1 5 4 15 Color scheme IO density heat The object coloring according to the scheme IO density heat paints the objects of the treemap based on an assessment by comparing the configurable estimated IO density of the object type
214. ta rate Rec sent host MiB s HBR HBT host bytes received and transmitted MiB s Rec sent MiB s CBR CBT controller bytes received and transmitted MiB s controller Rec sent node MiB s LNBR RNBR LNBT RNBT local plus remote node bytes received and transmitted MiB s Rec sent MiB s HBR CBR LNBR RNBR HBT CBT LNBT RNBT overall overall bytes received and transmitted MiB s Received host MiB s HBR host bytes received MiB s USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI PERFORMANCE VIEW 99 Metric label BVQ user s guide v15 Description Received MiB s CBR controller bytes received MiB s controller Received node MiB s LNBR RNBR local plus remote node bytes received MiB s Received overall MiB s HBR CBR LNBR RNBR overall bytes received MiB s Sent host MiB s HBR host bytes sent MiB s Sent controller MiB s CBR controller bytes sent MiB s Sent node MiB s LNBR RNBR local plus remote node bytes sent MiB s Sent overall MiB s HBR CBR LNBR RNBR overall bytes sent MiB s Command rate Rec sent host IO s HER HET host events received and transmitted IO s Rec IO s CER CET controller events received and transmitted IO s sent controller Rec sent node IO s LNER RNER LNET RNET local plus remote node events received and transmitted 1O s Rec sent IO s HER CER LNER RNER HET CET LNET RNET overall overall events recei
215. te OR OW O R W O R Prestage Data rate OR Ow Q R W Q R Prestage Latency OR Ow Q R amp W Q R xfer USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI PERFORMANCE VIEW 84 BVQ user s guide v15 Worst latency OR Ow R amp W Transfer size OR Ow Q R amp W Prestage Cache Cache hit OR Ow R amp W amp P R amp P OPrestage Cache size OR Ow OR W O R Below cache IO rate OR Ow R W P OR P Prestage Data rate OR Ow R W P OR P Prestage Latency OR Ow R amp W amp P R amp P Prestage Transfer size OR Ow R amp W amp P O R amp P OPrestage Cache modes for writes Data per mode Cache FW OFT OWT 0 FWWT Global mirror Writes GWO O GWOT O GWS GWL Tabelle 54 Description performance metrics VDisk Unit Axis Metric Description Above cache IO rate R ops s RO read operation rate ops s IO rate W ops s WO write operation rate ops s IO rate R W ops s RO WO total operation rate ops s IO rate R IO rate ops s RO RO W1000 reads of total operations CTRHP read operation rate on prestaged data ops s USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI PERFORMANCE View 85 BVQ user s guide v15 Metric Unit Description Axis Prestage Data rate R MiB s RB 512 read data rate MiB s Data rate W MiB s WB 512 write data rate MiB s D
216. te of the BVQ qualification process The colors have the following significance Tabelle 27 Topology color scheme BEE Green Complete All necessary additional BVQ information is completely configured BE Red Incomplete Some details are still missing WE Object Inapplicable Type BVQ qualified state is not defined for this object type Rules for the state BVQ qualified USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TOPOLOGY view 51 BVQ user s guide v15 Tabelle 28 BVQ qualified rule set for each object type Object type Completely qualified when grouped into BVQ room BVQ site BVQ application group BVQ cost center BVQ application BVQ application group BVQ VDisk group BVQ application BVQ SLA SVC VDisk BVQ VDisk group SVC controller BVQ controller BVQ controller BVQ room SVC node BVQ room SVC host BVQ room BVQ disk array BVQ controller SVC MDisk BVQ disk array SVC MDisk group BVQ storage class BVQ storage class BVQ DC to SC placement rating for every BVQ data class BVQ data class BVQ DC to SC placement rating for every BVQ storage class BVQ SLA BVQ data class BVQ mobility zone SVC MDisk group BVQ VDisk group relation BVQ VDisk group 1 5 4 9 Color scheme total capacity efficiency The object staining according to the scheme total capacity efficiency colors the objects based on actual saving of total capacity Tabelle 29 Color scheme capacity effici
217. ted via the task menu with edit gt nodes and selecting the node which has to be qualified USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 168 BVQ user s guide v15 BYQ ID 1 SVC ID 22 Cluster svc1 0000020061600648 Name svcin2 Properties HW Model CF8 SerNum FSHAWKA FrontPanel ID 150157 Links to related objekts SVC IO Group io grp D sec 0 svc1 Room Produktiv 4121 26 in site Wiesbaden 1 25 vw pi Newest Add cp Edit OK Cancel 1 12 1 3 Qualifying BVQ accounting package The accounting package is part of the premium edition and is optionally available for the performance edition The gualification steps which are described in this collumn can be executed if the premium edition or the performance edition with the accounting package is used For the accounting package information about the company is needed and thereby the following guestions are asked Which applications are implemented in the company environment or How can these applications be sensibly gathered in an invoice technical way For this reason it is necessary in BVQ to summarise and expediently link the correspondent information subsequently e What are my cost units E g cost unit human resources department customer xy or software development gt This information is generally registered in the group cost center e Which application groups operate in single cost units E g salary accounting c
218. tes the content of the text field Close Closes cluster CLI scripts USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI MAINMENU 8 BVG user s guide v15 Calling the SVC CLI by using SSH client PuTTY The BVQ GUI calls the SVC CLI by using the SSH client PuTTY with the following command putty load clustername For the call s correct functioning the following conditions must be met e PuTTY has to be installed download available at http www chiark greenend org uk sgtatham putty download html e The command putty has to be included in the system search path PATH typical for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 x64 C PROGRA 2 PuTTY e In PuTTY appropriate sessions have to be configured with the same cluster name If the command cannot be called a message appears referencing the used system command e g putty load clustername not successfull 122 Menu object lists Mein menu object lists provides access to the tables view for all editable objects The object types in this menu are classified in the same categories as in the path navigator Abbildung 7 Main menu object lists JET File Object Lists Favorites pe Me Storage provider gt 1 Virtualization gt Or Storage consumer gt VDisk BYQID SCID Custer Localities gt YDisk copy 3 6 132 svcl 0000020061600648 Organisational gt 5i Siit E d 9 Host 37 113 svei 0000020061600648 Service level gt 391 169 svc1 00000200616006A8 gt
219. ting the GUI Abbildung 14 Window load time analysis e Table Ge DB Loadi DB Loading time Restructure tim Aggregat Aggregation time app 0 0 ms app group 0 0 ms controller 0 0 ms controller_merge 0 0 ms cost_center 0 0 ms data_class 0 0 ms dc_to_sc_placeme 0 0 ms 0 0 ms 0 0 ms 0 0 ms 0 0 ms mdisk_group 0 0 ms mobility_zone 0 0 ms mobility_zone_to_ 0 0 ms 0 0 ms 0 0 ms 0 0 ms 0 0 ms 0 0 ms 0 0 ms Tabelle 13 Load time analysis Meaning of the table columns Table Displays the corresponding BVQ table from which the BVQ object can be USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI MAINMENU 16 BVQ user s guide v15 derived Objects Displays the number of loaded objects from the respective table Overall creation time Displays the total duration for the creating process of the objects DB loading time Displays the total time of all objects of the appropriate type from the DB DB loading time per object Displays the average duration of loading a single object of the respective type Restructure time Displays the total arrangement s duration for all objects of the appropriate type into the BVQ cloud structure Restructure time per object Displays the average arrangement s duration of a single object into the BVQ cloud structure Aggregation time Displays the time of the a
220. tion Axis Track access rate ops s TACN Track access operation rate ops s 1 6 9 4 MDisk group cache partition performance metrics Metrics of the performance object type MDisk group cache partition derived from the object type SVC node Abbildung 71 Screenshot options dialog MDisk group cache partition performance options X 9 00 Aggregated X w DS472_9r5_1SK2 svccluster X w D5472 915 2SK2 svccluster X w DS482 5r10 SKI svccluster X w DS482 715 SK3 svecluster Visible 1 Interval Moving Average Cache partition fullness Write O min avg O max Cache messages In flight min Q avg O max U rate In flight guides min avg max rate Cache latency R Prestage D min Q avg max J rate R Stage O min Q avg n O rate W Destage min avg rna O rate Track lock O min Q avg mm O rate Track access min J avg O max O rate kegend Tabelle 59 Overview performance metrics MDisk group cache partition Cache fullness Write 0 min 0 avg max Cache messages In flight O min O avg max O rate USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI PERFORMANCE VIEW 95 BVQ user s guide v15 Cache fullness In flight guides O min O avg max O rate Cache latency R Prestage 0 min avg max O rate R Stage O min O avg max O rate W Destage 0 min 0 avg max O rate Track lock 0 min 0 avg O max O rate Track access 0 min avg O max
221. tion Starten Sie die Qualifizierung in der Men leiste mit Edit gt Applications und klicken sie auf Add um die Applikationen zu erstellen Weisen Sie jeder Applikation die passende Applikationsgruppe Zu BVQ ID Name SAP Prod Links to related objects Application group Personalabteilung Gehaltsabrechnung 25 v DI Newest Q Add cp Edit VDisk groups values J Add cp Edit Delete Objekt VDisk groups Starten Sie die Qualifizierung in der Men leiste mit Edit gt VDisk groups und klicken sie auf Add um die VDisk Gruppen zu erstellen Weisen Sie jeder VDisk Gruppe die passende Applikation Zu USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 189 BVG user s guide v15 BYQ ID Name SAP Backup Links to related objects Application Personalabteilung Gehaltsabrechnung SAP Prod 25 wv Mobility zone Pi Not assigned v Edit n Mobility zone 5 Notassigned v Edit VDisks Values QO Add 1 ee Ed gt Delete VDisk Group Relations Values DAdd n 1 oe Et Delete SLAs Values add cap Edit Delete Comment a ed VDisk Starten Sie die Qualifizierung in der Men leiste mit Edit gt VDisks und w hlen eine VDisks aus welche sich mit einer zuvor angelegten VDisk Gruppe passend verbinden l sst Nutzen Sie den Namensfilter um VDisks schnell zu finden USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 190 BVG use
222. to be entered into the input field which is compared to the selected object attribute The special attribute all is the default value which is the representative of all columns e Usually text based attributes are compared in the mode string part i e search results need to contain only one part of the string in the input field The upper lower case doesn t matter USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI TABLES VIEW 105 BVQ user s guide v15 In this mode the search result is updated after every newy key stroke making the desired rows quick and interactive to find e Number based attributes are compared in the mode exact Attributes must exactly match the entered numeric value In this mode the comparison is started after the entry s confirmation by return A table s view filter has the following controls Tabelle 65 Tables view filter dialog controls Attributes Limits the search to the selected attribute Text field Input field for the comparison value in the form of a string possibly with wildcard characters or numeric values Empty Allows to search for empty attributes This function is not supported for the attribute selection all Inv Inverts the result set of the currently selected filter So only those objects for which the filter expression does not apply are displayed Add Adds an additional filter which is AND linked to the already existing filters Hide Adds a filter which excludes objects i
223. tors are calculated by aggregation See aggregation of performance indicators Indicator name Shortcut Calculation VDisk MDisk Node Note USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI KEY FIGURES OF THE BVQ STORAGE ENVIRONMENT 125 BVQ user s guide v15 Indicator name Shortcut Calculation VDisk MDisk Node Note IO rate IOR IOs time Q 8 Peak IO rate IORP 90 percentil of the 5min IOR samples Data rate DR Bytes time ec LeCricmrcicms DRP 90 percentil of the 5min DR samples Hesponse me RT cumulated resp time e undefined for IOR 1O IO quantity lt 10 10 s Cele BE RTS RT 10 2 IOR B undefined for IOR score lt 10 IO s E EE RTP 90 percentil of the undefined for IOR time 5min RT samples lt 1010 s Read ratio R Read lOs IO quantity erregt RCH Cache read hits cache ratio reads CPU load CPU CPU ticks time B 1000 ticks per second in Response time score RTS is a dimensionless rating number which particularly highlights the originator of bottlenecks in the treemap 1 9 4 4 Aggregation of performance indicators For object types without direct measurement values performance indicators are calculated by aggregation A direct calculation of performance indicators PI only occurs for object types which have measurement readings These Pls are calculated based for the basic object types
224. ts Is grouped by Configurable object relations e BVQ storage class e BVQ data class USER S GUIDE BVA GUI OBJECT TYPES 144 BVG user s guide v15 Configurable attributes ERS NE Rating the placement for all combinations of data and storage classes Symbol Placement rating Ideal placement To risky or expensive placement Not SLA compliant placement Data class Arranges volume groups with the same quality requirements Storage class Group of storage pools with the same quality classification 1 10 15 BVQ sites Describes the locations of hardware like nodes servers and storage subsystems Datacenter room within a site which contains servers storage subsystems and nodes Datacenter site containing one or more datacenter operating rooms 1 10 15 1 BVQ room Datacenter room within a which contains Typical usage e Reports for example available or allocated capacity per room e Examination of DR compliance e g for the question are LVM mirrored volumes really spread over two rooms e Support for placement decisions e g after VDiskGroup relation antilocated room Groupes e SVC host e SVC node e BVG controller Is grouped by configurable object relationships e BVQ site Configurable attributes USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI OBJECT TYPES 145 BVG user s guide v15 Name Name of the room Comment Field for comments 1 10 15
225. uster CLI scripts Ctrl E EI Start reporting Ctrl R XX Close Ctrl Tabelle 2 Main menu file functions Opens a new tab with a blank topology view Opens the window Cluster CLI scripts Starts the BVQ Reporting GUI Closes the GUI USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI MAIN MENU 7 1 2 1 1 BVQ user s guide v15 Cluster CLI Scripts Cluster CLI scripts collects SVC commands which were generated by drag amp drop Abbildung 6 Cluster CLI scripts dialog Cluster svc1 Cluster svc2 Cluster svc3 Cluster swv1 Commands to be executed in CLI of cluster syc1 00000200616006A8 10 20 11 11 21 AM W Execute the Following commands to migrate 1 VDisk copy s to MDisk group AMS SATA CO 1 syctask migratevdisk mdiskgrp AMS SATA CO copy D threads 1 vdisk YMFS5 02 Copy to clipboard Clear The commands can be subsequently sighted edited and performed in the SVC CLI The script is not lost even after the dialog is closed Tabelle 3 Cluster CLI scripts functions of the dialog Cluster tabs A separate dialog is conducted for each cluster Hyperlink to Calls a SSH session for this cluster SVC CLI Text field Contains by drag amp drop generated SVC commands including a time value Here the commands can be edited later Copy to Copies the commands from the text field into the system clipboard to run them clipboard for example in a SSH session Clear Dele
226. ved and transmitted IO s Received host IO s HER host events received IO s Received IO s CER controller events received IO s controller Received node IO s LNER RNER local plus remote node events received IO s Received overall IO s HER CER LNER RNER overall events received 1O s Sent host IO s HER host events sent OS Sent controller IO s CER controller events sent IO s Sent node IO s LNER RNER local plus remote node events sent IO s Sent overall IO s HER CER LNER RNER overall events sent IO s USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI PERFORMANCE VIEW 100 BVQ user s guide v15 Metric label Description Debug statistics Link failiure 4 Count LF link failiure count interval Loss of sync Count LSY loss of synchronisation count interval Loss of signal Count LSI loss of signal count interval Sea proto err Count PSPE primitive sequence protocol error count interval Invalid transm Count ITW invalid transmission word count word interval Invalid CRC Count ICRC invalid CRC count interval Buffer credit wait BBCZ of interval time data to send was waiting for free switch buffer to buffer credits Critical when gt 10 B2B recommended min 41 credits The metric BBCZ is relatively important for the buffer to buffer credit tuning of the SAN Recommendation the metric should not be higher than 10 within an interval
227. vironment or How can these Applications be sensibly gathered in an invoice technical way In BVQ it is for that matter necessary to summarise and expediently link the correspondent information subsequently e What are my cost units E g Cost Unit Human Resources Department Customer xy or Software Development gt This Information is generally registered into the Group Costcenter e Which Application Groups function under single Cost Units E g Salary Accounting centralized Chronology gt This Information is generally regitered into the Group Application Group e Which Applications functions in the Application groups E g SAP Prod SAP Test Notes Citrix or the development software gt this Information is generally registered into the Group Application e Are the Applications divided onto different Systems E g Tablespaces Backup gt This Information is generally registered into the Group VDisk Group The VDisk Groups in this way display the Basis of the Accounting Package With the VDisk Groups the SLA s Data Classes Mobility Zones VDisks and the VDisk Group Relations are connected E Qualifying Cost Center Application Group Application VDisk Group VDisk The Qualification is for instance meaningfully arranged if one starts with the Cost Center and subsequently with the Application Groups Application and finally carry out the qualification of the VDisk Groups Thereby can the new object be connected
228. with an already existing object Objekt Cost Centers USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 210 BVQ user s guide v15 You start the Qualification in the Task Menu with Edit gt Cost Centers and click on Add in order to create different Cost Centers E Objekt Application groups You start the Qualification in the Task Menu with Edit gt Application Groups and click on Add in order to create the Application Groups Allocate the suitable Cost Center to each Application Group E Objekt Application You start the Qualification in the Task Menu with Edit gt Applications and click on Add in order to create the Applications Allocate the suitable Application Group to each Application d Objekt VDisk groups You start the Qualification in the Task Menu with Edit gt VDisk Groups and click on Add in order to create the VDisk Groups Allocate the suitable Application to each VDisk Group x VDisk You start the Qualification in the Task Menu with Edit gt VDisks and select a VDisk which can be fittingly connected with a previously created VDisk Group Utilize the Name Filter in order to locate VDisks swiftly E Then allocate the valid VDisk Group to it Carry out the Qualification for the other VDisks as well x After having these qualification steps the first evaluations in the BVQ can take place e g the capacity view Performance View on a Cost Center Capacity View E Perform
229. y qualified The Cache Size MTM and Serial Number are to be gathered from the Controller Determining Controller Cache Size and classifying it as Enterprise Midrange or Lowrange Start the Qualification in the Task Menu with Edit gt Controllers and select the Controller that has to be qualified E USER S GUIDE BVQ GUI USE CASES 208 BVQ user s guide v15 Qualifying Disk Arrays In Disk Arrays the Performance attributes of the Hardware MDisks that lies under it are gathered The gathered Data of the Disk Arrays can later be used at the generation of Reports e g Tabel of all Raid 5 Arrays O At the Storwize V7000 Disk Arrays are automatically created for each MDisk No User action is necessary If one wants to summarize multiple MDisks into one Disk Array one can discard the remaining Disk Array and create new ones You enter Disk Array Name Raid Level Disk type number of disks without Hotspares and the Controller The Estimated I O density I O Dichte is calculated out of the specifications of the Raid Level and Disk type max est I O Rate This Value can in the case of deviation be overwritten E Utilize the Treemap Path stored in Favorites for more efficient visualization of controllers Disk Array and MDisk Favorites gt Predefined favorites gt Step by Step Qualify and edit objects gt Define disk array for controllers E Switch to the Treemap Path subsequently BVQ gt Cluster gt C

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