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EMC - iSilon - INSIGHTIQ Overview

EMC Isilon allows you to easily manage petabytes of storage. With InsightIQ, you can go a step beyond,
with advanced monitoring and reporting tools to identify performance bottlenecks in your workflows and
minimize the amount of high-performance storage required in your environment. InsightIQ provides you
with advanced, near-realtime and historical, analytics toOPTIMIZE applications, correlate workflow and
network events, as well as deep views to the data being stored on the cluster. To optimize capacity usage,
InsightIQ provides reports with a clear breakdown of capacity usage, quotas usages over time and
deduplication effectiveness

1. This section shows the Aggregate view of data from all clusters
Capacity is shown

Clusters currently being monitored

Combined health of all clusters

Current active statistics for all clusters


2. These are recent trend charts for the last 12 hours, sometimes known as sparklines

Scroll
down
on
the
dashboard
and
highlight
the
following:
1. Similar statistics are displayed for each cluster as is displayed at an aggregate level above.
2. Performance details for this specific cluster can be jumped to by clicking this link.
3. File system details for this specific cluster can be jumped to by clicking this link.
4. Estimated usable capacity will display on clusters OneFS 7.2 that have run an FSA job. Clicking the
Capacity
Reporting link will provide details of the origin of the Usable Capacity number.
5.
Clicking
the
+
icon
will
expand
the
details
for
that
cluster.
6. The order can be changed by clicking and dragging the handle on the right.

Showing
Performance
Select
the
performance
report
and
1.
Select
the
PERFORMANCE
REPORTING
2.
Select
Cluster
Performance
from
the
"Select
a
report:"
3. Select cribsbiox from the "Apply to cluster:" menu

Reports
cluster
Tab.
menu.

Select
the
date
range
and
view
the
report
1. In order to give the best demonstration in this vLab, it is best to select the date range of 10/21/2014 10/28/
2014.
2. Click the View Report button.

Show
the
simplicity
of
the
chart
view
Highlight
the
following:
1. Any of the report views created here can be scheduled, automatically generating a PDF and emailing it.
2. The report can be customized allowing administrators to choose exactly which charts to include in the
report.
3. The zoom level can be changed here as well as moving forward and backward in time.
4. Custom filters can be made here allowing administrators to quickly view the data they are interested in.
5.
Any
of
the
charts
can
be
collapsed
here.
6. Breakouts are a very powerful way to show some of the details of what is going on in the chart.
7. Any chart can be downloaded as a CSV by clicking this link. Administrators can also SSH to the
InsightIQ server and dump large sections of performance data to CSV file. This can be automated with
cron
also.
8. The charts are all interactive and allow data detail to be shown by simply hovering over that part of the
chart. Administrators can also click and drag to move the timeline, double-click to zoom in and doubleclick while holding the shift key to zoom out

Find the heaviest client


Click the Client link in the "Breakout by" section.

This makes it very clear that 10.7.189.141 is using most of the throughput during this time
window.

Filter on the client by clicking on the IP address.

Note: if in production, the system will reverse look up address to display DNS names here

Understanding
Capacity
1.
Click
the
FILE
2.
Click
the
3.
Select
dog-puddles
from
4. Click the View Report button.

with
SYSTEM
Capacity
the
"Apply

REPORTING
Reporting
to
cluster:"

InsightIQ
tab.
link.
menu.

There is a lot of data here, but it does help administrators understand what is currently consumed for
storage
and
how
the estimated value of more capacity is calculated. This is very useful, as the adaptive nature of OneFS is
so
different
from other storage systems, it can bring a lot of clarity to administrators. This page is laid out and
calculated
like
a
simple subtraction equation to make it easy to follow. Note: all number are in base 2.
1. "Total Capacity", this is the total raw capacity of the entire cluster, not including overhead.

2. "Unallocated Capacity", in the context of Isilon OneFS, there should only be a number here
with there is a newnode type add that is not yet 3 more nodes. So there is capacity on that new node, but
data cannot be put onit until there are at least 3 of that node time.

3. "Allocated Capacity", this is the capacity available for data to be stored on. This is usually the
same and TotalCapacity.

4. "Reserved for Virtual Hot Spares", this is reservation of space at a cluster level for drive failures
to insure thereis enough capacity for a drive rebuilt to complete as OneFS does not have stand-by hot
spares and uses allthe drives, all the time

5. "Writeable Capacity", this is the capacity in which data can be written.

6. "User Data includingPROTECTION ", this is all the physical space consumed by the data
currently stored on the
cluster, including thePROTECTION overhead to store it safely.
7. "Snapshots Usage", this is the space consumed by all the snapshots on the cluster.

8. "Remaining Capacity", this is the left over raw capacity that can still have data written to.

9. "Estimated AdditionalPROTECTION Overhead", this number is based on the latest File


System Analytics job thatwas run. This tells InsightIQ how much data physically vs logically is being
consumed, which is used to givean estimate for future data that will be added. This assumes that the data
to be added will be similar to thedata currently stored. Not this number is very low because there are
many thin provisioned files on thecluster. That means they are logically very large, but physically very
small. This make the number small.However, if the data to be added is similar to what is storaged, this
should not be an issue.

10. This is drop-down that will list all the File System Analytics (FSA) jobs and gives the option to
choose anestimation based on a report other than that latest.

11. "Estimated XXX of Usable Capacity", this is estimation of how much more logical (what the
end user would understand) data can be added to the cluster.

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