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Foglight for Storage Management Shared 4.6 - Installation Guide

Getting Started Configuring Agents to Monitor Storage Devices
Brocade SAN Switches Cisco SAN Switches Dell Compellent Arrays Dell EqualLogic PS Series Array Groups EMC CLARiiON CX Series Arrays (CLI) EMC CLARiiON, VNX, or VMAX Storage Arrays (SMI-S) EMC Isilon EMC VPLEX Hitachi Data Systems AMS, USP, and VSP HP EVA Storage Arrays HP 3PAR Arrays NetApp Filers Collection Target Support Matrix Configuration Procedures
Managing Agents

Storage Collector Agent

Storage Collector Agents collect raw data from storage devices. You need to configure a Storage Collector Agent for each storage device you want to monitor.

Network Ports Used

Foglight for Storage Management uses several standard TCP/IP ports for its collections. These ports must be opened and traffic allowed between the storage devices and the Agent Manager hosts. The following table provides network port requirements by storage device.

 
Table 1. Network Port Requirements
Storage Device
Ports Used
Description
Brocade

5988 (non-SSL)

5989 (SSL)

SMI-S query to the management host

Cisco

22

SSH connection

Dell Compellent

3033

API to the host running Compellent Enterprise Manager

Dell EqualLogic

161

SNMP query to the EqualLogic Group Manager

EMC CLARiiON (CLI) on Unix

22

CLI-Navisphere connection to the management host using SSH

EMC CLARiiON (CLI) Windows

135

445

all ports above 1000

CLI-Navisphere connection to the management host using WMI (RPC)

EMC CLARiiON, VNX, VMAX (SMI-S)

5988 (non-SSL)

5989 (SSL)

SMI-S query to the host running the SMI-S Provider.

EMC Isilon

22

SSH connection using CLI

Hitachi Data Systems

5988 (non-SSL)

5989 (SSL)

Tuning Manager uses:

135

445

all ports above 1000

SMI-S query to the host running the Hitachi Command Suite or embedded SMI-S provider on VSP arrays.

When running the Tuning Manager, the connection to the management host uses WMI (RPC).

HP EVA

5988 (non-SSL)

5989 (SSL)

SMI-S query to the host running Command View

NetApp

80

443

DataOnTap API query to each filer

3PAR

5988 (non-SSL)

5989 (SSL)

SMI-S query to an embedded SMI-S provider on the array.

Sizing Your Monitored Environment

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IMPORTANT: You should not consider a production implementation without first conducting a proper scoping and sizing exercise. To arrange for a sizing analysis, contact your Quest Software Sales representative.

The number of physical disks (among all monitored storage arrays and filers) in the monitored environment is a rough guide to the size of the Foglight for Storage Management collection environment.

 
Table 2. Physical disks and system requirements
Number of VMs
System Requirements

Fewer than 2000 disks

See Small Environment System Requirements

More than 2000 disks

See Large Environment System Requirements

Ensuring System Requirements are Met

Due to the potential for a very large number of objects being collected, analyzed, and maintained by the application, there are several aspects of the underlying server that must be taken into account. The sizing of the supporting server or virtual machine (VM), depends upon the size and complexity of the underlying environment.

Sufficient processing power and CPU memory must be present to support effective collection and server data handling and analytics. Collected data is staged in memory prior to passing to the collector database.

The following sections describe the requirements for small and large collection environments, as well as for the Agent Manager.

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Small Environment System Requirements
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Large Environment System Requirements
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Requirements for Agent Managers
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