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Storage Performance Assessment Services
The above services are delivered through Performance Consulting Services (PCS) and
Performance as a Software (PaaS) based on the SaaS model.
Deliverables:
Standard
Our storage performance consultants review client's current storage environment, and assess performance benchmarks and capacity utilizations to deliver an oral and written report. The review process generally uncovers areas of assistance that fall into ITPMG's expertise, and is the basis of discussion for expert consulting.
Our Consultants will deliver a detailed PDF report highlighting all Storage Array Components including the following:
Deliverables:
Standard
Our storage performance consultants review client's current storage environment, and assess performance benchmarks and capacity utilizations to deliver an oral and written report. The review process generally uncovers areas of assistance that fall into ITPMG's expertise, and is the basis of discussion for expert consulting.
Our Consultants will deliver a detailed PDF report highlighting all Storage Array Components including the following:
• Enterprise Dashboard views
•..- Enterprise Performance Dashboard
•..- Enterprise Capacity Dashboard
•..- Enterprise Performance Trends
•..- Enterprise Capacity Utilization Trends
•..- Enterprise FA FAN-OUT Dashboard
• Individual Array Dashboard Views
•..- Array Performance and Capacity Dashboards
•..- Potential Issues List
•..- Array Heat Charts
• FA Availability Index based on FA Utilization which includes
•..- FA IOPS, MBPS
•..- FA FAN-OUT
•..- FA Device Counts
•..- Enterprise Performance Dashboard
•..- Enterprise Capacity Dashboard
•..- Enterprise Performance Trends
•..- Enterprise Capacity Utilization Trends
•..- Enterprise FA FAN-OUT Dashboard
• Individual Array Dashboard Views
•..- Array Performance and Capacity Dashboards
•..- Potential Issues List
•..- Array Heat Charts
• FA Availability Index based on FA Utilization which includes
•..- FA IOPS, MBPS
•..- FA FAN-OUT
•..- FA Device Counts
Performance Services
Performance Management & Measurement Services
Benchmarking Services
ERP Optimization Services
ITIL Services
Risk Management
Skills and Compentency Management
Planning and Strategy Services
Business Planning and Analysis
Business Process Management
Contract and License Management Review and Analysis
Enterprise Network Infrastructure Strategy and Planning
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Strategy Services
IT Strategy and Plan Review
Storage Strategy and Plan Review
Security and Regulatory Compliance Strategy and Planning
Vendor and Technology Analysis
Performance Management & Measurement Services
Benchmarking Services
ERP Optimization Services
ITIL Services
Risk Management
Skills and Compentency Management
Planning and Strategy Services
Business Planning and Analysis
Business Process Management
Contract and License Management Review and Analysis
Enterprise Network Infrastructure Strategy and Planning
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Strategy Services
IT Strategy and Plan Review
Storage Strategy and Plan Review
Security and Regulatory Compliance Strategy and Planning
Vendor and Technology Analysis
ITPMG Services
Optional
In addition to the review and assessment, our team can work with stake-holders to define performance metrics, and conduct ongoing assessments to monitor the defined metrics.
Target Audience:
CIO, CTO, MD
IT executives and Senior Management who are responsible for IT infrastructure management areas of Storage Management and Data Centers across the enterprise. This assessment service will allow them to be assured that their strategies are sound, meet the organization's needs, and that their environment is robust and geared to meet future storage capacity and performance benchmarks.
In addition to the review and assessment, our team can work with stake-holders to define performance metrics, and conduct ongoing assessments to monitor the defined metrics.
Target Audience:
CIO, CTO, MD
IT executives and Senior Management who are responsible for IT infrastructure management areas of Storage Management and Data Centers across the enterprise. This assessment service will allow them to be assured that their strategies are sound, meet the organization's needs, and that their environment is robust and geared to meet future storage capacity and performance benchmarks.
Performance Management and Measurement Service Offerings:
Storage Performance Assessment Service
Storage management is a significant, and increasing, cost item in data centers across enterprises.
The need to continually improve, reduce costs and increase efficiency to remain competitive is the
foundation of running today's "green" infrastructure. As enterprises go through data center
consolidations, performance and capacity planning become paramount to keep the energy cost
down.
Our offering will give clients the results necessary to answer these questions and many more. It is through our solution that clients can now obtain baseline and comparative benchmarks of their organizations in order to fully understand how their investment impact the organization and where key changes need to be made in order to improve overall efficiencies and be more responsive to our customer base.
Description:
The Storage and Performance Assessment offering provides an assessment and analysis of storage arrays and provides metrics that will enable clients to:
Our offering will give clients the results necessary to answer these questions and many more. It is through our solution that clients can now obtain baseline and comparative benchmarks of their organizations in order to fully understand how their investment impact the organization and where key changes need to be made in order to improve overall efficiencies and be more responsive to our customer base.
Description:
The Storage and Performance Assessment offering provides an assessment and analysis of storage arrays and provides metrics that will enable clients to:
• Understand the performance of storage assets and its impact to applications by assessing,
•.correcting and streamlining IO throughput for better SLA & end-user experience
• Allocate storage resources based on integrated performance and capacity views for best
•.optimization to leverage all storage resources in a balanced mode
• Trend for future capacity and performance projections across storage arrays
• Accelerate troubleshooting of host level application issues with detailed visibility into
•.back-end storage devices
•.correcting and streamlining IO throughput for better SLA & end-user experience
• Allocate storage resources based on integrated performance and capacity views for best
•.optimization to leverage all storage resources in a balanced mode
• Trend for future capacity and performance projections across storage arrays
• Accelerate troubleshooting of host level application issues with detailed visibility into
•.back-end storage devices
• Performance assessment across storage tiers (one-time baseline, two quarter analysis
•.(Comparative performance) or a yearly analysis (12 month tracking & trending))
• Application performance profiling for Tier-ing recommendations (RAID Level)
• Bandwidth analysis for SRDF/A, Mirrorview, SANCopy etc
• SAN Consolidation Analysis
• Performance based Data Migration Planning
•.(Comparative performance) or a yearly analysis (12 month tracking & trending))
• Application performance profiling for Tier-ing recommendations (RAID Level)
• Bandwidth analysis for SRDF/A, Mirrorview, SANCopy etc
• SAN Consolidation Analysis
• Performance based Data Migration Planning
Our consultants have developed expertise in providing performance analysis and capacity planning
for the systems and storage area networks (SANs). The team leverages Perfonics™ tool developed
by Interscape Technologies to execute high speed value-added performance assessments of
enterprise assessment tools and projects in an efficient and time bound manner. Our consultants
work with performance data gathered from storage and systems assessment tools such as Work
Load Analyzer, EMC Grabs, IO Stat, SAR, Perfmon, etc to provide an end-to-end performance view.
Our service offerings include:
Our service offerings include:
• Symmetrix / Clariion Configuration Report
• High Level Capacity Utilizations
• Detailed Performance Charts of all components
• Symmetrix / Clariion Performance Profile Dashboards
• Enterprise EMC Array IO Performance Load Dashboards
• Enterprise EMC Array Component Issue Dashboards
• Enterprise Symmetrix FA Fan-Out Report
• Enterprise EMC Array Device Group Performance Profiles
• High Level Capacity Utilizations
• Detailed Performance Charts of all components
• Symmetrix / Clariion Performance Profile Dashboards
• Enterprise EMC Array IO Performance Load Dashboards
• Enterprise EMC Array Component Issue Dashboards
• Enterprise Symmetrix FA Fan-Out Report
• Enterprise EMC Array Device Group Performance Profiles
Components of Storage Performance Assessment Service Offerings:
Performance Consulting Services (PCS):
Performance Consulting Services (PCS):
• Performance Analysis of Enterprise Storage systems
•..- EMC Symmetrix, Clariion, Centera
• OS Performance Analysis for Enterprise Installation Base
•..- Solaris, Linux, AIX, Windows
• Application Tiering Analysis
•..- Performance Profiling for Tiering Recommendations (Reclaim usable storage)
•..- Best fit RAID level analysis (Ex. RAID 1 Vs RAID 5, RAID 5 Vs RAID 6)
• Bandwidth Analysis
•..- DR Replication for arrays and Data Centers
•..- Example: EMC SRDF/S, SRDF/A, SANCopy, Mirrorview etc.
• SAN Consolidation Planning
•..- Array level consolidation for denser footprints
•..- Example: Multiple DMX 2 to a single DMX 4
• Data Migration Planning
•..- Detailed migration plans for source to target planning
• Custom Assessments & Modeling
•..- Example: Performance Troubleshooting, VMware consolidation, SAN Switch
•. . consolidation etc.
•..- EMC Symmetrix, Clariion, Centera
• OS Performance Analysis for Enterprise Installation Base
•..- Solaris, Linux, AIX, Windows
• Application Tiering Analysis
•..- Performance Profiling for Tiering Recommendations (Reclaim usable storage)
•..- Best fit RAID level analysis (Ex. RAID 1 Vs RAID 5, RAID 5 Vs RAID 6)
• Bandwidth Analysis
•..- DR Replication for arrays and Data Centers
•..- Example: EMC SRDF/S, SRDF/A, SANCopy, Mirrorview etc.
• SAN Consolidation Planning
•..- Array level consolidation for denser footprints
•..- Example: Multiple DMX 2 to a single DMX 4
• Data Migration Planning
•..- Detailed migration plans for source to target planning
• Custom Assessments & Modeling
•..- Example: Performance Troubleshooting, VMware consolidation, SAN Switch
•. . consolidation etc.
Performance as a Software (PaaS):