NetBackup IT Analytics Certified Configuration Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup IT Analytics (11.3)
  1. Introduction
    1.  
      NetBackup IT Analytics Overview
    2.  
      Purpose of this document
    3.  
      Software and hardware disclaimer
  2. Portal and database servers
    1.  
      Portal supported operating systems
    2.  
      Recommended portal configurations
    3.  
      Oracle Database and Memory Requirements
    4. Supported browsers and display resolution
      1.  
        Linux portal server: Exported and emailed reports
    5.  
      Supported third-party and open source products
  3. Data Collector server configurations
    1.  
      Data Collector supported operating systems
    2. Data Collector server memory and CPU guidelines
      1.  
        Customize the Linux file handle setting for large collections
      2.  
        Factors impacting Data Collector performance and memory requirements
    3.  
      Data Collector prerequisites
    4.  
      Firewall configuration: Default ports
  4. Capacity Manager configurations
    1.  
      Supported systems and access requirements
    2.  
      IBM Arrays: Modify profile
    3.  
      Creating a NetApp user with API privileges
    4.  
      Creating a NetApp cluster-mode user with API privileges
    5. Array/LUN performance Data Collection
      1.  
        Port performance metrics
    6. EMC Isilon array performance metrics
      1.  
        EMC Isilon Array Performance
      2.  
        EMC Isilon Disk Performance
      3.  
        EMC Isilon Node Performance
      4.  
        EMC Isilon OneFS Performance
      5.  
        EMC Isilon Protocol Performance
    7. NetApp Cluster-Mode performance metrics
      1.  
        NetApp Cluster-Mode Aggregate Performance
      2.  
        NetApp Cluster-Mode CIFS Performance
      3.  
        NetApp Cluster-Mode Disk Performance
      4.  
        NetApp Cluster-Mode Fiber Channel Protocol Logical Interface Performance
      5.  
        NetApp Cluster-Mode LUN Performance
      6.  
        NetApp Cluster-Mode NFS Performance
      7.  
        NetApp Cluster-Mode Processor Node Performance
      8.  
        NetApp Cluster-Mode Processor Performance
      9.  
        NetApp Cluster-Mode RAID Performance
      10.  
        NetApp Cluster-Mode SMB (Server Message Block) Performance
      11.  
        NetApp Cluster-Mode System Performance
      12.  
        NetApp Cluster-Mode Target Port Performance
      13.  
        NetApp Cluster-Mode Volume Performance
    8. EMC Symmetrix enhanced performance metrics
      1.  
        Create enhanced EMC Symmetrix Performance report templates
      2.  
        EMC Symmetrix Array Performance
      3.  
        EMC Symmetrix Backend Director Performance
      4.  
        EMC Symmetrix Frontend Director Performance
      5.  
        EMC Symmetrix Front-end Port Performance
      6.  
        EMC Symmetrix Storage Group Performance
      7.  
        EMC Symmetrix Database Performance
      8.  
        EMC Symmetrix Disk Group Performance
      9.  
        EMC Symmetrix Disk Performance
      10.  
        EMC Symmetrix Device Groups Performance
      11.  
        EMC Symmetrix Disk by Technology Performance
      12.  
        EMC Symmetrix Storage Tier Performance
      13.  
        EMC Symmetrix Thin Tier Performance
      14.  
        EMC Symmetrix Thin Pool Performance
      15.  
        EMC Symmetrix Enhanced Performance metrics
    9.  
      Hitachi Vantara array performance metrics
    10.  
      Host resources prerequisites and configurations
    11. Host access privileges, sudo commands, ports, and WMI proxy requirements
      1.  
        Access requirements by OS
    12.  
      WMI proxy requirements for Windows host Data Collection
    13.  
      Host resources supported configurations
    14.  
      Pure Storage Flash Array performance metrics
    15.  
      Supported host bus adapters (HBAs)
    16.  
      Compute Resources supported configurations
  5. Cloud configurations
    1.  
      Supported systems and access requirements
  6. Virtualization Manager configurations
    1.  
      Supported versions
    2. Virtualization Manager Data Collector requirements for VMware
      1.  
        Creating a VMware Read-Only user
    3.  
      Virtualization Manager Data Collector requirements for Microsoft Hyper-V
  7. File Analytics configurations
    1. Data Collector probes by storage type
      1.  
        CIFS shares
      2.  
        Host inventory probe
      3.  
        File Analytics probe
  8. Fabric Manager configurations
    1. Switch vendors
      1.  
        Download Cisco Data Center Network Manager
  9. Backup Manager configurations
    1.  
      Backup solutions and versions
    2.  
      Centralized NetBackup Data Collection requirements
    3. Veritas NetBackup 8.1 (and later) requirements for centralized collection
      1.  
        Required Software
  10. ServiceNow configurations
    1.  
      ServiceNow configurations
  11. Internal TCP port requirements
    1.  
      Internal TCP port requirements
    2.  
      Internal portal server ports
    3.  
      Internal data collector ports

Array/LUN performance Data Collection

The following array families are supported for block storage LUN performance and port performance data collection.

See Array/LUN performance notes.

Table: Array Family

Array Family

Rd/Wrte IO/sec

Total IO/sec

Rd/WrteMB / sec

Rd/Wrte Cache Hits/sec

Rd/Wrte Respond(ms)

Total Respond(ms)

Dell Compellent

X

X

X

X

--

--

EMC VNX

X

Calc.

X

X

X

Calc.

EMC Symmetrix

X

X

X

X

--

--

EMC XtremIO

Calc.

Calc.

Calc.

--

X

X

HDS Tuning Manager

X

Calc.

X

X

X

X

HP 3PAR

X

X

X

X

X

X

IBM SVC

X

X

X

--

--

--

IBM XIV

X

X

X

X

X

X

NetApp ONTAP 7-Mode (Block only)

X

Calc.

X

--

--

Avg Latency

Pure Storage FlashArray

X

Calc.

X

--

X

Calc.

Array/LUN performance notes

The following notes apply to array families are supported for block storage LUN performance and port performance data collection.

Table: Array families supporting block storage LUN performance and port performance data collection.

Array Family

Notes

EMC VNX

The minimum FLARE OS version required to capture response times is 04.30.000.5.524 A11. Note that VNX (Block) will have completely different FLARE releases and all support the collection of the counter fields needed for capturing response time, starting with FLARE version 05.31.000.5.006 A01. Enable statistics logging on the VNX system.

EMC XtremIO

For EMC XtremIO, the values obtained are averages over the time interval. The Read/Write/Total IOs and the Read/Write MBs are multiplied by the time interval and persisted.

HDS Tuning Manager

For Hitachi arrays: To collect performance data from Hitachi Tuning Manager, the Data Collector must be installed on the same server as Tuning Manager. And, a single Data Collector policy must be used to collect both the capacity data from the Device Manager server and the performance data from the Tuning Manager server.

NetApp ONTAP 7-Mode (Block only)

For NetApp ONTAP 7-Mode (Block only): Total response time is the average latency (ms) for all LUN read and write operations. Performance data is collected for both iSCSI LUNs and FC LUNs.