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A deep comparison of 2 SRM players in 10 bullets. EMC SRM suite versus Sentinel Navigator.
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SRM Evalua*on A deep comparison of 2 products generally associated when customers are looking for Capacity repor*ng, Datacenter Management, Storage op*miza*on and Cost avoidance. Objec*ve is to beFer understand the major differences between the 2 products in 10 bullets.
Sen*nel Navigator
The Storage Resource Management GUI that consume data from
Sen*nel SDS Access SaaS plaOorm by WebService.
VS SRM Suite
The Storage Resource Management soRware based on a tradi*onal
Agent/Server architecture
Typical architecture In order to be the most objec*ve as possible we are going to compare all SRM aspects of the 2 solu*ons based on the same customer plaOorm/requirements : • Mul*-‐datacenter topology • >40 heterogeneous storage arrays (SAN/NAS/CAS) • >500 dual aFached SAN hosts • At least 1 virtualiza*on engine (SVC/V7000/vPLEX/VSP) • >30 FC switchs (Brocade/Cisco) with Virtual Fabric/vSAN • >3 VMware vCenter
– >500 VMware virtual machines/vCenter • >5 Daily tasks that requires to know how much free space is remaining • a BOSS always reques*ng reports to forecast
Sen*nel Navigator VS
SRM Suite
10 things you should consider to make the right choice 1# How quickly can it provide reports ?
SANSen*nel : 1 hour EMC : 18 months
2# Do you need to do centralized repor;ng across
mul;ple sites ? SANSen*nel : Single elas*c cloud repository EMC : 1 plaOorm per site
3# Can you deploy server-‐side agents & collectors ?
SANSen*nel : Unified agentless object correla*on EMC : server-‐side agents required
4# Have you got an heterogeneous infrastructure ?
SANSen*nel : 80% of vendors supported EMC : supports it’s own arrays and most of others
5# Are you looking to replace all your “home made”
scripts ? SANSen*nel : 100% “OpenData” (MySQL / Web service) EMC : Proprietary repository format
6# Do you want the tool to analyze and interpret your data ? SANSen*nel : More than 200 pre-‐defined reports EMC : Small quick start, full customiza*on required
7# Are you looking to align your Business with IT ?
SANSen*nel : DCIM compliant auto-‐discovery EMC : Manual “Applica*on” tagging
8# Is the SRM soRware part of a suite of products ?
SANSen*nel : single SaaS applica*on EMC : 3 products suite (Watch4Net, ProSphere, SCA)
9# What is your allowed budget ?
SANSen*nel : All inclusive annual fee / array,switch,vcenter EMC : Mul*-‐license, Mul*-‐maintenance per TB
10# How oRen are updates of the product being released ?
SANSen*nel : On customer request, otherwise 2 months EMC : Every 6 months
SRM soRware evalua*on
1# How quickly can it provide reports ?
Subscribe Report
Purchase Meet
requirements
Install Configure Deploy agents Customize Report
Sen*nel Navigator
SRM Suite
(*)Average *me to get the first global report including : -‐ Chargeback report by applica*on -‐ Capacity planning by Datacenter, Environnements -‐ Thin-‐provisioning & Deduplica*on efficiency -‐ Global server inventory including capacity -‐ Wasted capacity -‐ Top consumers (servers & NAS shares)
2# Do you need to do centralized repor;ng across mul;ple sites ?
4xVM-‐App base
Addi*onal Collectors VM
New
York
4xVM-‐App base
Addi*onal Collectors VM
Lond
on
4xVM-‐App base
Addi*onal Collectors VM
Hong-‐Kon
g
4xVM-‐App base
Addi*onal Collectors VM
Los A
ngeles
Sen*nel collector Sen*nel collector Sen*nel collector Sen*nel collector
Sen*nel Navigator
SRM Suite Complex to deploy >80 vm to manage Mul*ple repositories x4 *mes setup/config x4 *mes licences cost 4 versions to manage
No requirements No VM (in the cloud) x4 collector binaries
No licenses Single repository
Single elas*c Cloud repository
Public : Amazon,Azure Private : OnPremise
3# Can you deploy server-‐side agents & collectors?
Storage arays (NAS,BLOCK)
Servers
SAN switchs
Sen*nel Navigator SRM Suite
Exis;ng customer machine or VM
Sen*nel collector binary (no install)
SSH
NO server-‐side agents
exis1ng flow
Dedicated collectors
1 collector(*) every 3 arrays
Firewall to open
1 collector(*) every 7 switchs
Firewall to open
Virtual Machines Exis;ng customer machine or VM
Sen*nel collector binary (no install)
vCenter
exis1ng flow
API
1 collector(*) every 40 host
Firewall to open
Agents
ESX
1 collector(*) every 26 ESX Firewall
to open
4# Have you got an heterogeneous storage infrastructure ?
Sen*nel Navigator SRM Suite
5# Are you looking to replace all your “home made” scripts ?
4xVM-‐App base
Addi*onal Collectors VM
Los A
ngeles
Sen*nel collector
Sen*nel Navigator
SRM Suite Proprietary data format Proprietary API (SDK) Time required to adapt Do not replace your
exis*ng scripts
OpenData Cloud technology Web service
Language independent OpenData model
Morning checks Provisioning Reserva*on Monitoring Custom development Thrid party integra*on (KPI)
Na*ve SQL ResOul Web service
Home made collect Develop and support
You s*ll need to maintain your home made scripts Home made collect Develop and support
ViPR SDK Proprietary format You have to spent *me
to develop your interface & programs. (*me is money)
6# Do you want the tool to analyze and interpret your data ?
Sen*nel Navigator
SRM Suite
ALL IS INCLUDED BY DEFAULT More than 200 pre-‐defined reports : -‐ Wasted capacity -‐ Reclaimable capacity -‐ Thin & Dedup efficiency -‐ Chargeback by business/app -‐ Time to full (remaining days) -‐ Topology (array/switchs) -‐ History and trends -‐ Excel, Pdf, Csv, Tsv, Png -‐ and more on demand Collabora;ve customiza;on : Included in the annual fee 1 -‐ Reports are coming from customers 2 – We customize for you
ReportPacks SHOULD BE PURCHASED SEPARATELY : -‐ ReportPack for Oracle ($$$) -‐ ReportPack for Vmware ($$$) -‐ ReportPack for ProSphere-‐SCA ($$$) -‐ ReportPack for NetApp ($$$) -‐ and more… ($$$) No report without ReportPack FULL CUSTOMIZATION REQUIRED You should spent ;me to design your reports : -‐ What I need to report ? -‐ What I need to correlate ? -‐ How to represent my data ?
7# Are you looking to align your Business with IT ?
Sen*nel Navigator SRM Suite
DCIM compliance -‐ Datacenter -‐ Room -‐ Scope -‐ unlimited custom fields Automa;c discovery by naming conven;on: -‐ Powerful REGEX tagging system -‐ Report genera*on by Asset, Datacenter, Room, Scope, Applica*on, Business and any other custom field -‐ Compa*ble with most of the CMDB -‐ Manual tagging override -‐ CSV import
Tagging can be done manually No applica;on discovery Unknown DCIM compliance level at this ;me
8# Is the SRM soRware part of a suite of products ?
SRM Suite
Sen*nel Navigator
Whatch4Net is an entreprise repor*ng and analysis tool that provides real-‐*me historical and projected visibility into the performance of applica*ons, servers, network and storage.
Storage Configura*on Advisor tracks changes to the storage environment and validates those changes against best prac*ces and the EMC Support Matrix (ESM).
ProSphere offers host to storage end-‐to-‐end visualiza*on and analysis for EMC storage environments.
Sen*nel Navigator offers end-‐to-‐end visualiza*on and anslysis for mul*-‐vendors datacenter infrastructure. Configura*on changes tracking and best prac*ces. All inclusive, without installa*on, and in the CLOUD.
9# What is your budget ? Typical business case : 1 year, list prices
4 x EMC VMAX 10 x EMC VNX-‐Block 10 x EMC VNX-‐File 5 x EMC Centera 1 x vPlex
30 x SAN switchs (2k ports)
Sen*nel Navigator SRM Suite
1000 x VM 2 x vCenter
600 x Servers
Agents
40 x ESX
10 x NetApp FAS 6x 2 x HP StorServ 7x 1 x HDS VSP 1 x IBM v7000
TOTAL (All inclusive) Approx. 16 K€ / Month Tier 1 : 375€/object/month
4xVmax 5xCentera 10xNetApp FAS 6x 2xvCenter 1xvPlex 1xHDS VSP 8,6 K€ / Month
Tier2 : 266€/object/month
10xVNX-‐Block 2xHP StorServ 7x 1xIBM v7000 3,5 K€ / Month
Tier 3 : 208€/object/month
10xVNX-‐File 2 K€ / Month
Switchs : 63€/object/month
30xSwitchs 1,9 K€ / Month
1,5 PB usable capacity
10# How oRen are updates of the product being released ?
Sen*nel Navigator SRM Suite
GA Release
New reports
Bug fix
New features
New object support
Customer request
The CLOUD model allow the permanent update process to give the most recent version
Online without efforts.
GA Release
New reports
Bug fix
New features
New object support
Customer request
Escala*on process required for feature requests