HP StoreFront Analytics for VMware Software Licenses - Manual (Page 38)

4 Using the HP StoreFront Analytics Pack for VMware
vCOPS™ 1.1
Analyzing performance issues
To gain deeper visibility of the critical storage resources from within vCenter Operations Manager,
specific storage platform adapters are required. The HP StoreFront Analytics Pack for VMware
vCOPS™ 1.1 is a software adapter that extends vCenter Operations Manager functionality to
support HP 3PAR StoreServ arrays. VMware administrators using HP StoreFront Analytics Pack for
VMware vCOPS™ 1.1 can visualize and analyze data from their HP 3PAR StoreServ storage array
on standard and custom dashboards directly within vCenter Operations Manager without the need
to switch to another tool. The HP StoreFront Analytics Pack for VMware vCOPS™ 1.1 provides
customers using HP 3PAR StoreServ storage with custom dashboards to gain deep insights and
visibility into the health, risk and efficiency of the storage infrastructure’s performance and capacity
capabilities.
If you are observing performance issues within the storage system, you can use the HP Storage
Performance dashboard to view volumes with high utilization. Using that information, you can use
the HP Storage Troubleshooting dashboard to view the details of the volumes to see which virtual
machine on the volume has a high utilization and then determine what the virtual machine is doing
to cause the high utilization.
HP 3PAR StoreServ array information can be accessed from within VMware vCenter Operations
Manager in several ways based on the selected object in the user interface.
The following HP dashboards help the user view detailed storage information on the selected
object(s) in different ways:
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HP Storage Monitoring Dashboard - Provides summary and detailed information about the HP
storage system in the VMware vSphere environment, including HP storage system health,
capacity information, 50 Least Healthy HP 3PAR Resources and HP storage system alerts.
•
HP Storage Troubleshooting Dashboard - Provides summary and detailed information about
virtual machines and how they map to HP storage volumes, pools, disks and ports. The
dashboard includes graphs for key performance metrics such as IOPS and bandwidth, which
are displayed in relation to the selected object of the VM to Storage Mapping widget.
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HP Storage Performance Dashboard - Provides tools to view how well the storage system
resources are being utilized and to help balance performance trends before they become
issues. The dashboard displays graphs for top 5 Utilization Indexes of volumes with high
utilization which are displayed in relation to the selected object of the VM to Storage Mapping
widget. Selecting a row in one of the widgets and clicking the Resource Detail icon ( ) will
display more detail about the resource.
The included HP dashboards are provided as an easy way to quickly start viewing common storage
metrics that are key to monitoring and analyzing infrastructure health. You can also utilize vCenter
Operations Manager widgets to configure your own specialized views based on HP 3PAR StoreServ
metrics.
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