Splunk® App for NetApp Data ONTAP

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Splunk® App for NetApp Data ONTAP Comprehensive Operational Visibility into NetApp Data ONTAP Storage Systems

NetApp Data ONTAP Storage Monitoring Challenges Storage access and performance plays a critical role in application performance and end user experience. Monitoring NetApp Data ONTAP 7-Mode and Cluster-Mode storage environments in today’s data centers creates significant operational challenges. Monitoring storage elements is not enough to understand what’s happening in your infrastructure. You need to understand your storage system in context with corresponding application performance, server response times, virtualization overhead and more. To get this information from NetApp Data ONTAP filers and other elements, storage administrators must typically deploy various monitoring systems and often write custom scripts to gather events, performance and configuration metrics, Further, it is very difficult to correlate NetApp storage issues with applications, virtual and infrastructure elements, which increases problem investigation/resolution times and operational costs.

Enter Splunk Splunk® Enterprise™ is a scalable and versatile platform for searching, monitoring and analyzing machine data such as logs, events, performance data and configuration metrics. It offers a flexible approach to monitoring your storage systems and all other infrastructure and application components in your technology stack. Use Splunk software to: • Centrally monitor and analyze performance metrics and events in real time across your physical and virtual infrastructure including, applications, operating systems, network elements and storage systems such as NetApp Data ONTAP • Correlate and connect events across all your technology tiers with the powerful search language of Splunk Enterprise • Achieve high availability of your services by proactively detecting performance degradation

Splunk App for NetApp Data ONTAP The Splunk App for NetApp Data ONTAP provides real time and historical dashboards that give you insight into configuration, performance and log events across all NetApp Data ONTAP filers in your enterprise. It provides visibility into the health of your NetApp filers by tracking key metrics such as latency, operations per second (IOPS) and transfer rates. Visualize configuration and performance of filers in both Cluster-Mode and 7-Mode, without deploying multiple storage monitoring instances. Drill down quickly to specific sub-systems including clusters, aggregates, volumes, disks and LUNs. Customize reports from our report pack to proactively plan your storage capacity utilization. Identify common NetApp or VMware related performance problems with correlated insights. Splunk Enterprise enables end-to-end visibility and correlation of machine data from your NetApp Data ONTAP with data across other technology tiers such as operating systems, applications, compute or networks.

Why Use the Splunk App for NetApp Data ONTAP? Reduced Problem Investigation and Resolution Times • Centrally visualize the operational health of your NetApp Data ONTAP storage across both Cluster-Mode and 7-Mode • Get insight into your most important NetApp Data ONTAP performance metrics for easy identification of anomalies and outliers across all your storage systems and configured subsystems including, disks, aggregates, volumes, clusters and LUNs • Combine and correlate this data with all your other IT–related machine data in Splunk to resolve problems faster

Central Proactive Monitoring of NetApp Data ONTAP Systems • Get real-time notification of important NetApp Data ONTAP events for easy identification of anomalies across all your storage systems for both Cluster-Mode and 7-Mode

• Determine root cause of outages or performance problems • Retain transient data from every element for trending, historical analysis, security and compliance • Flexibly address reporting or operational analytic requirements such as capacity planning, usage analyses and asset reporting in your large scale storage environment • Scale to handle big data problems faced by the largest datacenters, with its unique MapReduce-based, schemaless technology Get insight into filer performance and view top 10 busiest filers across Cluster-Mode and 7-Mode.

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• Reduce your time to value by easily scaling your Splunk environment to quickly include and monitor new NetApp Data ONTAP filers

Flexible Operational Analytics • Improve your storage monitoring efficiency and proactively plan storage capacity allocations by customizing 30 out of the box sample reports for your NetApp environment • Accelerate troubleshooting with built-in correlation between NetApp and VMware environments using the Splunk App for NetApp Data ONTAP and Splunk App for VMware • Correlate data from all NetApp filers with data from operating systems, applications, network, virtual and physical infrastructure for your enterprise-wide visibility

Features Performance Summaries and Events Gain visibility into key performance indicators with reports that include the most important storage metrics and events such as: • Volumes with anomalous latency increases • Average latency, IOPS, data transfer rates, write and read block rates by volume

Understand your volume capacity trends for proactive storage utilization planning.

NetApp and VMware Correlation Use Splunk App for NetApp Data ONTAP and Splunk App for VMware to isolate how a specific issue is affecting both your VM performance and attached data stores. The Splunk App for NetApp Data ONTAP provides a view of all NFS volumes used by a VMware environment. Use the built-in integration in the Splunk App for VMware to drill down into specific NetApp filers for integrated insights into storage performance, latencies, IOPS, logs and more.

• Average latency, CPU usage and total IOPS by filer

In addition, Splunk Enterprise enables you to correlate your storage with data from all other technology tiers to gain a complete view of KPIs across your enterprise. Utilize the powerful Splunk search language, visualizations and correlations to find causal links across technologies. Get an accurate picture of resource usage and performance across multiple tiers of your IT stack.

• Identification of unhealthy clusters, cluster latency, CPU usage and IOPS

Common Information Model Compatibility

• Top 10 busiest filers across both Cluster-Mode and 7-Mode by CPU usage, total operations, read and write rates

• Disk latency, data transfer rates by disk and failed disk events • Aggregate transfer rates and summaries of aggregate error events

CIM compatibility of this app ensures quick time-to-value since you can correlate data from different technologies and conduct side-by-side analysis of events from storage and virtual environments and their impact on application performance.

• LUN latency and IOPS

Product Requirements

• Qtree operations per second (OPS)

The Splunk App for NetApp Data ONTAP supports Splunk Enterprise 5.0.4 or higher. It supports NetApp Data ONTAP version 8.x or above and NetApp ONTAP 7-Mode in compatibility mode. Due to significant scalability and other enhancements, there is no migration path offered from Splunk App for NetApp ONTAP version 1.0.

Resource Utilization Analytics Optimize your storage costs, quickly identify increased resource consumption, establish baselines and proactively plan your resource utilization in both NetApp ONTAP Cluster-Mode and 7-Mode storage through important resource utilization metrics including: • Aggregates with increased capacity utilization • Volumes with increased capacity utilization • Volume capacity delta table (for storage capacity trending analysis) • Free capacity per filer

Free Download Download Splunk for free. You’ll get a Splunk Enterprise 6 license for 60 days and you can index up to 500 megabytes of data per day. After 60 days, or anytime before then, you can convert to a perpetual Free license or purchase an Enterprise license by contacting [email protected].

• Disk utilization percentage

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