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EMC® Disk Arrays KM for PATROL

EMC Disk Arrays KM for PATROL enables administrators to monitor their EMC disk arrays directly from their BMC PATROL Console avoiding the need to use a separate monitoring solution. The solution collects and brings critical performance data and useful metrics into your BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management environment. As part of the Sentry Software Storage Monitoring solution, EMC Disk Arrays KM for PATROL covers performance counters while Hardware Sentry KM collects hardware-related information.

How it Works

EMC Disk Arrays KM for PATROL works in conjunction with Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL. Hardware Sentry KM discovers and monitors all the hardware aspects of the EMC disk array: disks, RAIDs, controllers, temperature sensors, fans, power supplies, Ethernet cards, fiber ports, etc.

EMC Disk Arrays KM for PATROL discovers and monitors all the software aspects of the array: overall capacity, spare disks, data traffic, cache statistics, etc.

The solution leverages the EMC SMI-S Provider that needs to be installed on a Windows or Linux system.

Key Features

  • Disk Array: overall capacity, available space, overall traffic, available spare disks…
  • Controllers: CPU utilization, data traffic, cache statistics, response time…
  • Physical Disks: data traffic, disk time utilization, response time…
  • Storage Pools: size and capacity, consumed and subscribed capacity, oversubscription problems detection (thin provisioning) …
  • Volumes: data traffic, disk time utilization, response time, mapping, consumed capacity…

Key Benefits

  • Collects storage performance and metrics to keep total control of your SAN environment
  • Identify performance bottlenecks (physical disks, controllers, fiber links, etc.)
  • Manages and helps rationalize disk space consumption
  • Detects oversubscription situations (thin provisioning)
  • Pinpoints unused disk capacity
  • Analyzes overall traffic and in-depth I/Os, etc.

Supported Storage Devices

Symmetrix arrays CLARiiON arrays ECM VNX arrays
  • Symmetrix DMX Series (DMX-4, DMX-3, DMX-2)
  • Symmetrix V-Max Series
  • CX4 Series
  • CX3 Series
  • CX Series
  • EMC VNX series

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Licensing

To monitor an EMC disk array, you need to acquire a license "Sentry Software Monitoring and Analytics for BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management – Storage Monitoring" from BMC Software. The "Storage Monitoring" license gives you the right to use both "Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL" and "EMC Disk Arrays KM for PATROL®" to monitor one EMC disk array.