Course Outline
Module 1: Visualizing your Data Infrastructure
- What is Insight
- How to use Insight
- Assets dashboard and UI toolbar
- Resources, dashboards and widgets
- Infrastructure navigation
- Resource pages
- Adding, removing and modifying timelines
- Custom dashboards
- Creating custom queries
- Adding filters
- Creating dashboards
- Widget library
- Custom dashboard
- Annotations
- Creation
- Applying
- Rules
Module 2: Data Path Management and Policies
- Insight Java UI primary pane
- Navigating the primary pane
- Grouping
- Search options
- Microview toolbar
- Data path policies configuration
- Menu
- Storage tab
- Policies
- SAN path violations page
- Microview panes
- Topology pane
- FC ports panes
Module 3: Performance Policy Creation, monitoring and troubleshooting
- Network performance monitoring
- Data flow
- Zero-buffer-credit state
- Performance policies
- Violations dashboard
- Policy dialog box
- Setup
- Port policy options
- Alert thresholds
- Policy pages
- Slow drain devices detection
- Finding violations of port performance
- Expert views: metrics
- Port and node metric comparisons
- Diagnosis of slow drain device
Module 4: Virtual Resource Management and Tools for Root Cause Analysis
- Virtual resource pages
- Queries
- Building a dashboard with VM data
- Global searches
- Application resource pages
- Performance and correlated resources
- Correlated resources investigations
- Greedy resource
- Tracing correlations
- VM comparison
Module 5: Application Infrastructure Monitoring and the Anomaly Detection Engine
- Application resources creations
- Data resources
- Insight applications
- Anomaly scores
- Finding anomalies
- Anomaly widgets
- Analytical tools
- Examining an anomaly
Module 6: Ethernet Monitoring and Troubleshooting
- Traditional OnCommand Insight view
- New Insight I/O workload contributors chart
- NFS workload monitoring
- Ethernet monitoring
- EMU restrictions
- Internal volume page
- NFSv3 contributors chart
- NFS client activity chart
Module 7: Integrating New Resources and Alert Setup
- Data sources and resources
- Vendor options
- Amazon S3 data sources
- Polling intervals
- Physical hosts
- Port hosts
- Host discovery and resolution
- Policy alerts and setup
- Assure events notification
Labs:
- Create a dashboard showing top 10 internal volumes for the last 24 hours
- Create an environment annotation list with the values of prod and dev, and bulk apply the annotations to objects using a query
- Create a query to filter virtual machines named ‘SE’, use the query to create an annotation rule
- Create an annotation rule based on a query to tag slow running development virtual machines with a note annotation with a value of ‘SLOW’
- Create a dashboard to reflect various aspects of the environment
- Analyze a single point of failure
- Analyze a missing redundancy violation for a virtual machine
- Analyze a path outage between a host and storage
- Analyze a switch hop count violation
- Use the Java client to set violation thresholds
- Use the web UI to configure warning violation notification
- Analyze the performance of the BSM system application and show the degradation is due to a slow drain device
- Examine in more detail the performance of the BSM system application and determine associated storage port BB credit zero errors in the same fabric
- Analyze the performance of the exchange application and show the degradation is due to a resource contention
- Analyze a latency violation for Italian_Air_VM and determine root cause
- Create an application annotation and apply it to a virtual machine
- Analyze an anomaly for an application
- Create a query to identify all applications with an anomaly score >50
- Create a dashboard to display applications with high anomaly scores
- Demonstrate the function of the anomaly engine as it reduces anomaly scores based on learned performance behavior
- Analyze the ERP system application based on a high anomaly score
- Create a performance policy to monitor virtual machine swap rates
- Explore application performance
- Explore virtual machine performance
- Explore hypervisor host performance
- Explore datastore performance
- Explore internal volume performance