5.2 Monitoring Storage Services in the Cloud
Storage services in private and public cloud environments are often a mix of traditional protocols such as NFS, iSCSI, FC, FCoE and the latest software defined storage (SDS) solutions. A hybrid monitoring and management solution is required to span these technologies to unify operations touch points and reduce the number of tools required to manage an environment.
A high degree of visibility is required to maintain performance, capacity, and availability and to meet SLAs in service provider environments. vRealize Operations Manager addresses the following use cases to provide maximum visibility of storage services:
• Monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities through a complete view of the entire storage topology and data path, from virtual machine to storage volume
• Capture and analysis of throughput and latency data on HBAs and mount objects, and throughput on switch ports
• Capture of IOPS and queue depth data at on HBAs and switch ports
• Correlation of performance and capacity issues between related objects
• Identification and remediation of capacity issues before they have a business impact