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Topic 5. Solarwinds Profiler. Learning Objectives. Describe the value of Storage Profiler to a lead or customer Describe the top customer problems and Profiler benefits ( marketecture ) Describe the pricing model of Storage Profiler
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Topic 5 Solarwinds Profiler
Learning Objectives • Describe the value of Storage Profiler to a lead or customer • Describe the top customer problems and Profiler benefits (marketecture) • Describe the pricing model of Storage Profiler • Describe the benefit of Backup Profiler to a prospect or customer • Describe the value of Virtual and Server Profiler to a prospect or customer • Describe the top customer problems and Profiler benefits (marketecture) • Describe the pricing model of Storage Profiler
Products • Storage Profiler • Based on how many disk drives are being managed • No matter the array type, disk size, or network type • Virtual and Server Profiler • Monitors servers, whether virtual and physical • No fee for the ESX host • Application profiler features surfaced here • Monitors backup media servers • Backup Profiler • Monitors major backup manager products • The media servers are managed by Virtual and Server Profiler
Profiler Storage & Virtualization Mgmt. • Increase IT efficiency by driving down storage management costs and increasing management of virtualized environments. • Virtual and Server Profiler • Maps applications & logical connections to the physical infrastructure • Real-time performance monitoring • Policy based alerts • Supports server consolidation • Storage Profiler • Affordable SRM software • DAS, NAS, and SAN • Storage Capacity planning • Storage performance reports
Storage Profiler • The market need: • “IT departments that have formal storage reporting, monitoring and capacity planning processes will be able to reduce storage costs by 20% to 30%, compared with IT departments that do not have these processes.” – Gartner (G00174339) • Use cases • Server consolidation/virtualization • Heterogeneous storage environment • No more spreadsheets to track growth • Benefits • Capacity utilization and forecasting • Supports storage tiers to optimize costs
Storage Profiler Features • End to End mapping of applications and logical connections to physical infrastructure across the multi-vendor stack. • Storage capacity planning to track performance over time to identify hot spots, peak hours, and potential outages. • Visibility across DAS/NAS/SAN. • Real-time, agentless storage monitoring. • 100’s of multi-vendor storage reports. • Analyze file types to better control storage costs.
Virtual and Server Profiler • Overview • End-to-End Visibility & Control Over Your Virtual & Physical Infrastructure • Use cases • Stop VM sprawl • Host and VM utilization at a glance • Storage consumption by server • Benefits • File analysis of vmdk’s and others • Advanced capacity analysis engine • Identify virtualization candidates
Virtual and Server Profiler Features • End to End mapping of applications and logical connections to physical infrastructure across the multi-vendor stack. • SAN to VM Mapping to see where your guest is, down to the disk (spindle). • Understand storage consumption of physical servers • Run Orion for application performance information • VMware capacity planning to identify Top 10 busiest guests as well as the busiest hosts. • Ensure that you are allocating storage fast enough, but not too fast. • Data classification to identify and remove non-critical or duplicate data.
Backup Profiler • Overview • Consolidated, web-based view of all backups • Use case • Ensure that backups are reliable • Benefits • Receive alerts to backup problems • Extensive appliance support • Validate performance against SLA
Backup Profiler Features • Supports cost reduction and storage tiering. • Performs continuous backup monitoring to identify misconfigurations, inefficiencies, & anomalies before they contribute to backup failure • Facilitates backup capacity planning by delivering a real-time & historical view of the backup environment • Automates the backup compliance process & enables you to provide auditors with a clear picture of backup status, backup locations, & assurance that data is recoverable • Simplifies SLA definition, performance monitoring, & scorecard generation
Examples • Storage Profiler • 125 disk drives maps to PL150 license. • 15,200 disk drives maps to PLX (unlimited) license • Agents are free of charge • Virtual and Server Profiler • 8 servers maps to VL10 license • 220 virtual servers map to VLX (unlimited) plus a poller agent for up to 200 additional servers