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Thin provisioning
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Enterprise Reporter now provides visibility into thin provisioning.
Thin provisioning is a virtualization
technology that allows physical storage capacity to be allocated only when needed
from a pool of free storage. Thin provisioning extracts the full value of thin
provisioned arrays. Thin storage environments allocate physical storage upon
writes in a fixed size.
Enterprise Reporter supports the following thin provisioning storage systems:
Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V EMC Symmetrix DMX-3 and DMX-4 EMC Symmetrix V-MAX
IBM XIV In Query Studio, the Host Storage Allocation reports provide the following thin provisioning
metrics:
Consumed Physical Capacity
Consumed Capacity Total Cost
Consumed Capacity Allocated to Host Directly
Consumed Adjusted Allocated Capacity
The Host Storage Allocation, Tiered Storage Analysis, and Chargeback Analysis
packages provide a Thin Status attribute.
Enterprise Reporter also provides the following thin provisioning LUN attribute filters:
For more information on thin provisioning, see CommandCentral Enterprise Reporter User's Guide.
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Server virtualization support
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Enterprise Reporter supports server virtualization reporting for VMware hosts
and Solaris zones. In Query Studio, the Host Consumption reports provide the following virtualization server metrics:
The Host Consumption reports also provide the following filters:
Only VMware Hosts
Only Solaris Hosts
For more information on server virtualization reporting, see CommandCentral Enterprise Reporter User's Guide.
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Storage categorization reporting
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Enterprise Reporter now provides ad hoc storage categorization reports for tracking
different types of storage. In Query Studio, the Host Consumption reports provide the following storage categorization metrics:
For more information on storage categorization reporting, see CommandCentral Enterprise Reporter User's Guide.
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ZFS
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Enterprise Reporter provides limited support for Solaris ZFS file systems. Enterprise Reporter discovers ZFS file systems, but it does not discover child file systems to avoid the double counting of ZFS capacities. |
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Business view managment
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The Enterprise Reporter Console has a new Business Views tab. On the Business Views tab, you can:
Add and remove business views Edit a business view's structure Add and remove business view instances Assign and unassign storage objects For more information on business views, see CommandCentral Enterprise Reporter Administrator’s Guide.
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New rollup support for arrays
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Enterprise Reporter now provides support for rolling up the following:
IBM XIV arrays
FalconStor arrays |
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Metamodel changes
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Enterprise Reporter now provides RAC-aware attributes for database objects (so that Enterprise Reporter does not double count database capacities at the enterprise level). The Database Analysis package now includes the following new attributes for database objects:
Is Clustered flag. This flag is set to True only if an Oracle database is part of RAC. Is RAC Aware flag. This flag is set to True for a single database that is part of a RAC configuration. This flag is set to False for all other databases that are part of the same RAC configuration. The Database Analysis package now includes the following new database attribute filters for database objects:
Only Clustered Databases. This filter excludes all of the databases that are not part of a clustered environment. Exclude Clustered Databases. This filter excludes all of the databases that are part of a clustered environment. Exclude Duplicate Clustered Databases. This filter excludes duplicate clustered databases. Apply this filter to include only one database from a RAC setup. Enterprise Reporter now provides CSF-aware attributes for file system objects (so that Enterprise Reporter does not double count file system capacities at the enterprise level). The File System Analysis package and the Chargeback Analysis package now include the following new attributes for file system objects:
The File System Analysis package and the Chargeback Analysis package now include the following new filter file system objects (under File System Attribute Filters):
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Changes to sample reports
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Improvements were made to these sample reports:
The Inventory Summary Report (Sample Reports > Inventory > Inventory Summary) now shows the database count based on the number of unique database instances.
The Database Utilization Summary Report (Sample Reports > Utilization > Host > Database utilization Summary) now only shows the capacities for clustered database instances once. The Databases with Least Available Storage Report (Sample Reports > Operational > Databases with Least Available Storage) has a new Is Database Clustered column.
The File System Utilization Summary Report (Sample Reports > Utilization > Host > File System Utilization Summary) now only shows the capacities for clustered file systems once. The File System/Volume Consumption Report (Sample Reports > Utilization > Host > File System/Volume Consumption Report) now only shows clustered filesystems once.
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