CLARiiON Host Integration and Management with SnapView Lab Guide

Lab Exercise 16: Unisphere Quality of Service

Management (NQM)

Purpose:

To create and manage CLARiiON QoS performance policy using NQM

Tasks:
Each student will perform the following activities:

Display CLARiiON performance information graphically
Configure the graphical interface for specific purposes
Save graphs and data for later use
Display performance data with Unisphere CLI


References:
CLARiiON Host Integration and Management Student Guide

CLARiiON Host Integration and Management with SnapView Lab Guide

Lab Exercise 16
Part 1: Creating a NQM Policy using Unisphere Management GUI




Step Action
1 Browse over the Monitoring menu and select Quality of Service Manager

From the Setting window, select Customize Charts
Click on the Archives tab

Make the Default Archive location c:\Lab_Archives and click the box for Same as
Archive (On your primary windows server)

Ensure the NQM Open Archive on Retrieve is checked and the Use Search Dialog radio
button is selected. Close the window

2 Double-click on Control Panel from the Configure window.

Select the I/O Classes tab >Select Create Class

Name the I/O class CHIIMSV QoS LUN

I/O type defaults ( Reads/Writes)

I/O Size Range Any

LUN Specific Selected

Select Base_RG_5 LUN_A51

3 Now click on the GOAL tab (next to the LUNs tab)

For Control Method select Cruise Control

For Metric select Throughput (IO/s)

For Value type 1200

For Tolerence select 10%, click Apply , click Cancel to exit the Goal Tab

The Control Panel window will appear, verify the settings in the NQM Control Panel

CLARiiON Host Integration and Management with SnapView Lab Guide
4 Click on the Policies tab >Create Policy

Name the policy CHiiMSV

From the Available window pane, highlight the Class you just created and move it to the
right side.

Take the defaults for Time Limit, Evaluation Window, and Action on Failure.

What other options are available for Action on Failure?

Click Apply, then Cancel to exit the Policies Tab.

Verify the settings are correct


5 Use Iometer to generate I/O to the LUN. ( Base_RG_5 LUN_A51 )

Start Iometer to generate a OLTP load on the drive

6 From the Policy tab, click RUN to start NQM

7 Click the Monitor Tab and examine the Throughput chart to view the IOPs in relation to
the threshold that was set. After a short period of time the status will change to Goal
Satisfied or Attaining Goal.



8 From the Dashboard view, Right-click on your array >QoS Manager

Does the OFF menu item appear? Is it greyed out ?

Select Retrieve Archive from the Archive Management window

Ensure your Primary Storage system is selected

Save the file to its default location ( Lab_Archives )

Click Retrieve, Click Done

The Archive will open, ensure you select the latest chart from the Logged Policy
Settings window at the bottom of the screen.

Examine the Throughput chart.

Like Analyzer you may choose to copy and save the file as a .jpg or a .csv file by right
clicking on the chart.
CLARiiON Host Integration and Management with SnapView Lab Guide



CLARiiON Host Integration and Management with SnapView Lab Guide