Heterogeneous management tool for storage area networks
AdventNet ManageEngine® OpStor uses SNMP / CLI / vendor-specific
APIs to discover the RAIDs in your network. Complete set of asset,
capacity, performance, and configuration information of the RAID
and its components are discovered and represented in the OpStor
client.
Opstor provides out-of box reports spanning inventory, performance,
and availability as given below
RAIDs Supported
IBM ESS
HP MSA
HP EVA
EMC CLARiiON
Hitachi
NetApp
StorageTek
IBM FastT / DS4000
SUN StorEdge
Infortrend
Features supported
Physical Assets
Logical Assets
Monitors
Report Details
Controller
Controller Fabric Ports
Disk Drives
Interconnect Details
LUNs
Volumes
Raid Groups
Virtual Disk Groups
Partitions
Volume Groups
Controller status
Controller port status
Disk Drive status
Volume status
Disk Group status
LUN status
Raid Capacity summary
Availability Trends
Top N Availability
Array statistics
LUN statistics
Disk Drive statistics
VDisk statistics
Top N Performance
Location summary
Asset Management
Up-to-date device summary
Administrators can key in details such as device location,
vendor details, and technical support info.
Comprehensive physical and logical asset details in RAIDs
Device level problem report filing and maintenance
Fault Management
OpStor periodically polls the devices to check the health,
availabiity, and utilization of storage RAIDs. Early indications
are provided on hardware/software problems and alarms are
generated on drive failures, sensor faults such as Fan Failure,
Battery Failure, Power supply failure. SNMP traps from the
arrays are also captured and appropriate alarm is generated.
Captures Storage Array & Component Status Change Notifications
Management functions such as assign owner, annotate, clear,
and delete
Reports alarms to administrators through email or SMS
messages based on customizable rules
Escalates unattended alarms to higher ups based on pre-defined
rules
Availability Trends
Availability reports on RAID controllers and its ports show the availability trends, downtime history, MTTR, MTBF, etc
You can generate the reports for various time periods such as today, yesterday, last N days, last week, this month, last month, and between two selected days
Performance Reports
Performance statistics are computed at periodic intervals
and reports generated to provide trend analysis for the storage
array components like
Storage Array Capacity
Storage Array
Controller / Storage Processor
Virtual Disks
Raid Groups
Disk Groups
Disk Drives
Controller Port Statistics
The parameters collected include the following ,
Traffic - Read / Write / Total
Utilization - Read / Write / Total
Bandwidth - Read / Write / Total
Throughput - Read / Write / Total
Latency - Read / Write
Queue Depth
Storage array capacity - Total / Configured / Used / Free
You can visually see the utilization of components like LUN
volumes and take preventive measures as they reach their peak
capacities
Visualization
Topological map shows arrays and their connections to switches
and host servers.
Link details table shows link name, source, and destination.
Color-coded icons depict switch and interconnection status.
In today's fast-growing Internet age, storage administration has become a very crucial role for every Storage Administrator.
OpStor brings together in a single console, fault management, performance management & inventory management of multi-vendor storage devices. Map views of the different devices and their interconnectivity give an overall view of the Storage environment to the Storage Administrator who can drill-down from these to view device specific performance and availability reports. Apart from assisting in the everyday tasks of assigning new storage and making sure continuous availability of data, OpStor also provides a sound notification system with device-specific alarms. Alarms can be configured with multiple thresholds to set different alarm severities & notifications sent by Email or SMS to be acted upon before costly downtime occurs.
Try out the evaluation copy of OpStor in your real-time environment and see the product work for you!
The number and types of storage devices keep increasing as the organization and its number of workforce increases. It is said that in a year the storage administrator will roughly add 52% more storage and refresh 38% of the current infrastructure (source: SNIA S10-200). Before you know it, the organization will have myriad vendor devices and keeping everything centralized, organized and running in perfect order will prove to be a gargantuan task.
OpStor is a storage management tool that supports management of multi-vendor SAN Switches, RAID, Tape Libraries, Host Servers and HBAs. Apart from the instantaneous reports on performance and availability of each device on the storage network, important statistics such as Mean Time Between Failures over a monthly/weekly/daily time period keep the Storage Manager aware of his team's effectiveness in achieving minimum downtime.
The Events and Alarm notifications in OpStor allow for easy strategizing & assigning of Storage faults. Each alarm is acknowledged by an administrator who can then see to the problem, add notes for future reference and then change severity of the alarm once corrective action is taken. Unattended alarms for each device type can be escalated to email addresses. Daily and weekly critical alarm reports are scheduled and emailed for offline record and analysis. Problem tickets for each device can also be provided through the OpStor Web Interface so as to have appropriate action be taken to resolve faults.
ManageEngine OpStor provides a simple management solution for the complex, heterogeneous world of Storage Networks. Call toll-free at 1-888-720-9500 for more information or click here to request a technician-assisted demo of OpStor.
