Brocade SAN User Manual

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29 January 2014

Brocade SAN Analytics
Management Pack

for VMware vCenter Operations
Management Suite

User’s Guide

Version 1.0

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Contents

About This Document

Chapter 1 Installation

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Brocade Network Advisor feature limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Software requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Configuring vCenter properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Creating the adapter instance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Defining the collection interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Brocade Network Advisor server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Chapter 2 Resources

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Resources overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Health Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Fabric resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Switch resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Switch metrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

FC Port resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Port metrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Chapter 3 SAN Event Handling

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

SAN events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

MAPS alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

Fabric and switch alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Event handling configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Configuring vCenter Operations Manager for event handling. . 12

Configuring Brocade Network Advisor event handling . . . . . . .13

Configuring devices for event handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Verifying alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

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Chapter 4 SAN Dashboards

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Brocade troubleshooting dashboard overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Brocade - SAN Troubleshooting dashboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

Brocade - VM Troubleshooting dashboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Brocade - SAN Utilization dashboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Brocade - Health Overview dashboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

Building a Brocade dashboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Adding resource kinds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Editing the widget name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Launch in context support for Brocade Network Advisor . . . . . . . . .22

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About This Document

In this chapter

•How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v

•Supported software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v

•What’s new in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi

•Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi

•Additional information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii

•Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii

How this document is organized

This document is organized to help you find the information that you want as quickly and easily as
possible. This document supports the Brocade SAN Analytics Management Pack for VMware
vCenter Operations Management Suite.

The document contains the following components:

• Chapter 1, “Installation,” provides installation requirements and instructions.

• Chapter 2, “Resources,” provides information about the resources available for the Brocade

SAN Management adapter.

• Chapter 3, “SAN Event Handling,” provides information about the events that display and

configuring event handling.

• Chapter 4, “SAN Dashboards,” provides using and create dashboards.

Supported software

The Brocade SAN Analytics Management Pack for VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite
is supported with the following software versions:

• Brocade Network Advisor

• vCenter Server 5.5

• vCenter Operations Manager 5.8

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What’s new in this document

NOTE

ATTENTION

This is a new document.

Document conventions

This section describes text formatting conventions and important notice formats used in this
document.

Text formatting

The narrative-text formatting conventions that are used are as follows:

bold text Identifies command names

Identifies the names of user-manipulated GUI elements
Identifies keywords and operands
Identifies text to enter at the GUI or CLI

italic text Provides emphasis

Identifies variables
Identifies paths and Internet addresses
Identifies document titles

code text Identifies CLI output

Identifies command syntax examples

For readability, command names in the narrative portions of this guide are presented in mixed
lettercase: for example, switchShow. In actual examples, command lettercase is all lowercase.

Notes, cautions, and warnings

The following notices and statements are used in this manual. They are listed below in order of
increasing severity of potential hazards.

A note provides a tip, guidance, or advice, emphasizes important information, or provides a
reference to related information.

An Attention statement indicates potential damage to hardware or data.

Key terms

For definitions specific to Brocade and Fibre Channel, see the Brocade Glossary.

For definitions of SAN-specific terms, visit the Storage Networking Industry Association online
dictionary at:

http://www.snia.org/education/dictionary

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This document may contain references to the trademarks of the following corporations. These
trademarks are the properties of their respective companies and corporations.

These references are made for informational purposes only.

Corporation Referenced trademarks and products

VMware, Inc. VMware

Additional information

This section lists additional Brocade and industry-specific documentation that you might find
helpful.

Brocade resources

To get up-to-the-minute information, go to http://my.brocade.com to register at no cost for a user ID
and password.

White papers, online demonstrations, and data sheets are available through the Brocade website
at:

http://www.brocade.com/products-solutions/products/index.page

For additional Brocade documentation, visit the Brocade website:

http://www.brocade.com

Release notes are available on the MyBrocade website and are also bundled with the Fabric OS
firmware.

Other industry resources

For additional resource information, visit the Technical Committee T11 website. This website
provides interface standards for high-performance and mass storage applications for Fibre
Channel, storage management, and other applications:

http://www.t11.org

For information about the Fibre Channel industry, visit the Fibre Channel Industry Association
website:

http://www.fibrechannel.org

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Chapter

NOTE

Installation

In this chapter

Overview

You can use the Brocade SAN Analytics Management Pack for VMware vCenter Operations
Management Suite to collect SAN data (such as fabrics, switches, ports, and metrics) from a single
Brocade Network Advisor server (data source). Once collected, the system analyzes the data by
learning the behavior of the data, checking the data, and correlating the data. The system then
stores the data in a repository. Based on this output, the system sends alerts to other applications
(such as, SMARTS, e-mail, and SNMP traps.

1

•Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

•Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

•Brocade Network Advisor server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

The Brocade SAN Analytics Management Pack for VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite
requires Professional Plus, Enterprise, or Headless editions. It is not supported with Brocade
Network Advisor Professional edition.

Brocade Network Advisor feature limitations

Tab le 1 details the feature limitations based on the version of Brocade Network Advisor that you

use for the data source.

TABLE 1 Brocade Network Advisor feature limitations

Brocade Network
Advisor version

12.1.3 or
earlier

12.1.4 or later Yes Yes Yes No

12.2 or later Yes Yes Yes Yes

MAPS Events Port metrics Switch metrics AG port metrics

support

No Yes, but limited support. For more

information, refer to
page 9.

“Port metrics” on

No No

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