Product guide

EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your Datacenter 3
CONTENTS
Chapter 1 Introduction
The Challenges................................................................................ 5
Reporting ........................................................................................ 5
Monitoring....................................................................................... 5
Configuring and Controlling ............................................................. 5
The Solution.................................................................................... 6
Use Case Scenarios ......................................................................... 6
Who Should Use This Use Case Scenarios Book? ............................. 6
Chapter 2 Reporting on Your Datacenter
Identifying IT assets for accounting.................................................. 8
Tracking which assets belong to a department (CTO)...................... 19
Tracking which assets belong to a department (Operations Manager) .
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Allocating storage for a new application......................................... 26
Understanding how much storage is allocated to an application .... 27
Charging departments for storage use ........................................... 31
Configuring database space for a new application ......................... 36
Preventing application outages due to out-of-space conditions...... 42
Predicting storage needs more accurately...................................... 45
Pooling storage resources.............................................................. 46
Collecting utilization statistics for management ............................. 50
Identifying old and large files......................................................... 53
Identifying a host performance problem ........................................ 59
Identifying a storage array performance problem ........................... 64
Chapter 3 Monitoring Your Datacenter
Identifying and diagnosing loss of signal for a switch port ............. 78
Preventing a space shortage on a host logical volume.................... 88
Fixing a disk transfer rate alert ....................................................... 93
Automating the resolution to an Oracle tablespace space shortage 96
Chapter 4 Configuring and Controlling Your Datacenter
Validating and optimizing a SAN configuration............................. 101
Allocating storage to a host from a Symmetrix array ..................... 119