InfoScale™ Operations Manager 9.0 User's Guide
- Section I. Getting started
- Introducing Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager
- Using the Management Server console
- About selecting the objects
- About searching for objects
- Examples for using Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager
- Example: Cluster Server troubleshooting using Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager
- Example: Ensuring the correct level of protection for volumes controlled by Storage Foundation
- Example: Improving the availability and the disaster recovery readiness of a service group through fire drills
- Examples: Identifying and reducing storage waste using Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager
- Section II. Managing Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager
- Managing user access
- Creating an Organization
- Modifying the name of an Organization
- Setting up fault monitoring
- Creating rules in a perspective
- Editing rules in a perspective
- Deleting rules in a perspective
- Enabling rules in a perspective
- Disabling rules in a perspective
- Suppressing faults in a perspective
- Using reports
- Running a report
- Subscribing for a report
- Sending a report through email
- Managing user access
- Section III. Managing hosts
- Overview
- Working with the uncategorized hosts
- Managing File Replicator (VFR) operations
- Managing disk groups and disks
- Creating disk groups
- Importing disk groups
- Adding disks to disk groups
- Resizing disks in disk groups
- Renaming disks in disk groups
- Splitting disk groups
- Moving disk groups
- Joining disk groups
- Initializing disks
- Replacing disks
- Recovering disks
- Bringing disks online
- Setting disk usage
- Evacuating disks
- Running or scheduling Trim
- Managing volumes
- Creating Storage Foundation volumes
- Encrypting existing volumes
- Deleting volumes
- Moving volumes
- Renaming volumes
- Adding mirrors to volumes
- Removing the mirrors of volumes
- Creating instant volume snapshots
- Creating space optimized snapshots for volumes
- Creating mirror break-off snapshots for volumes
- Dissociating snapshots
- Reattaching snapshots
- Resizing volumes
- Restoring data from the snapshots of volumes
- Refreshing the snapshot of volumes
- Configuring a schedule for volume snapshot refresh
- Adding snapshot volumes to a refresh schedule
- Removing the schedule for volume snapshot refresh
- Setting volume usage
- Enabling FastResync on volumes
- Managing file systems
- Creating file systems
- Defragmenting file systems
- Unmounting non clustered file systems from hosts
- Mounting non clustered file systems on hosts
- Unmounting clustered file systems
- Mounting clustered file systems on hosts
- Remounting file systems
- Checking file systems
- Creating file system snapshots
- Remounting file system snapshot
- Mounting file system snapshot
- Unmounting file system snapshot
- Removing file system snapshot
- Monitoring capacity of file systems
- Managing SmartIO
- About managing SmartIO
- Creating a cache
- Modifying a cache
- Creating an I/O trace log
- Analyzing an I/O trace log
- Managing application IO thresholds
- Managing replications
- Configuring Storage Foundation replications
- Pausing the replication to a Secondary
- Resuming the replication of a Secondary
- Starting replication to a Secondary
- Stopping the replication to a Secondary
- Switching a Primary
- Taking over from an original Primary
- Associating a volume
- Removing a Secondary
- Monitoring replications
- Optimizing storage utilization
- Section IV. Managing high availability and disaster recovery configurations
- Overview
- Managing clusters
- Managing service groups
- Creating service groups
- Linking service groups in a cluster
- Bringing service groups online
- Taking service groups offline
- Switching service groups
- Managing systems
- Managing resources
- Invoking a resource action
- Managing global cluster configurations
- Running fire drills
- Running the disaster recovery fire drill
- Editing a fire drill schedule
- Using recovery plans
- Managing application configuration
- Multi Site Management
- Appendix A. List of high availability operations
- Section V. Monitoring Storage Foundation HA licenses in the data center
- Managing licenses
- About Arctera licensing and pricing
- Assigning a price tier to a host manually
- Creating a license deployment policy
- Modifying a license deployment policy
- Viewing deployment information
- Managing licenses
- Monitoring performance
- About Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager performance graphs
- Managing Business Applications
- About the makeBE script
- Managing extended attributes
- Managing policy checks
- About using custom signatures for policy checks
- Managing Dynamic Multipathing paths
- Disabling the DMP paths on the initiators of a host
- Re-enabling the DMP paths
- Managing CVM clusters
- Managing Flexible Storage Sharing
- Monitoring the virtualization environment
- About discovering the VMware Infrastructure using Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager
- About the multi-pathing discovery in the VMware environment
- About discovering Solaris zones
- About discovering logical domains in Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager
- About discovering LPARs and VIOs in Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager
- About Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization discovery
- Using Web services API
- Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager command line interface
- Appendix B. Command file reference
- Appendix C. Application setup requirements
- Application setup requirements for Oracle database discovery
- Application setup requirements for Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) discovery
- Application setup requirements for IBM DB2 discovery
- Application setup requirements for Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) discovery
- Application setup requirements for Microsoft SQL Server discovery
About the Symantec Performance Value Unit
From the Storage Foundation and high availability 6.0 release, Arctera uses the Symantec Performance Value Unit (SPVU) pricing method for Storage Foundation and high availability products. The total number of SPVUs required for a specific product is calculated by multiplying the number of cores used by the product with the SPVU value per core.
The SPVU per core is calculated based on the following:
The operating system on the host
The make and the model of the processor
The number of cores per processor
Note:
Version 7.2 is the minimum version of the Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager managed host to be installed on the host to calculate the SPVU.
To calculate the SPVU for the products that run on IBM LPAR and kernel-based virtual machines, you need to install Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager managed host version 7.2 or later.
Based on these criteria, a host is assigned a specific SPVU value per core. The number of cores used by the physical and the virtual hosts is different. On the products that are deployed on a physical host, the SPVU is calculated for the actual cores used by the products. The number of cores used by all the products is the same on a physical host. For example, you have a physical host that has eight used cores, and you have installed Storage Foundation and Cluster Server on this host. To calculate the SPVU for this host, all the eight used cores are considered for both the products. Essentially, on a physical host, the number of used cores is the same for all the products that run on the same operating system.
For the virtualization servers, the SPVUs for the products are calculated differently for various types of virtualization servers. Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager can calculate the SPVUs required for the products that are installed on VMware, Solaris LDOM, the Solaris Zones virtualization servers, kernel-based virtual machines, and IBM LPAR.
The SPVU for Application HA is calculated only when it is deployed on Linux and Windows virtualization platforms.