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