Cisco Fabric Manager

October 2009

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Legal NDA Disclaimer Many of the products and features described herein remain in varying stages of development and will be offered on a when-and-if-available basis. The contents and specifications in this document are subject to change at the sole discretion of Cisco, and Cisco will have no liability for delay in the delivery or failure to deliver any of the products or features set forth in this presentationPresentation_ID 2006 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

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Cisco Fabric Manager: Visibility and Control for the Unified Data Center The management tool for storage networking across all Cisco SAN and unified fabrics. Scalable performance through server federation for a multiplicity of large fabrics with many end-devices across different geographic data centers Visibility of adjacent Ethernet networks and end-devices Enables I/O convergence (FCoE)

Real-time monitoring of health status and network events Visibility into performance, utilization, topology, and configuration details for more efficient planning and provisioningPresentation_ID 2006 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

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Software Components

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Cisco Fabric Manager Server Centralized Management Services Server Federation

Continuous Health Monitoring Multiple Fabric Management Performance Monitoring

Prediction Analysis Roaming User Profiles Published Database Schema

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Fabric Manager Server License PackageFM Server License provides additional functionality with no further software installation required.Federation and Multiple Fabric Management

Historical Performance MonitoringThresholds based on Performance Monitoring Performance Prediction Summary and Drill Down Reports Continuous Health and Event Monitoring Roaming User Profiles Cisco Fabric Analyzer Integration

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Server Federation TopologyDC-1Fabric 3

DC-0

Fabric 1

Fabric 2

Fabric 4

WAN FM Server FM Server FM Server

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Central DB FM /DM Client/ Web Client)

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Fabric Manager Client Real Time Fabric Topology Views Fabric Wide Configuration Wizards Fibre Channel Troubleshooting Tools Health and Configuration Analysis Tools

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Federation GUI Client FM Control Panel lists all discovered fabrics in the federation Discovers and manages fabrics on any FM server in federation Each fabric is associated with its corresponding FM server Can open fabrics belonging to any FM Server in the federation

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Device Manager Standalone application communicates directly with the device over SNMP. Graphical representation of the switch chassis Configure Device Specific Functionality Real time Statistics

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Web Client Historical performance report views Threshold-based performance data collection Predictive analysis on collected performance data Inventory statistics Syslog Collector

Custom Reporting Schedule Report Generation

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Federated Discovery Provides aggregated information for all fabrics across different FM servers in a federation

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Federated Reporting Generates reports across fabrics discovered on different FM Servers in a federation

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Unified Discovery Discovery and topology map for all Cisco Data Center 3.0 devices (Cisco MDS 9000 Family, Cisco Nexus Family, and Cisco Catalyst Family) and interconnects (Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and FCoE) Users are able to discover DC3 switches and Ethernet ISLs by CDP

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MDS Neighborhood CDP for discovery of Ethernet neighbors and interconnects

Existing FC-GS, FSPF, and SCSI-3 for discovery of devices and interconnects on Fibre Channel networks

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AliasesDevice Alias Unique name across the entire physical fabric. User friendly name for a port WWN that can be used in all configuration commands like FCNS, Zone, FC Ping, FC Trace Route, and IVR.

FC Alias / Zone Alias Limited to a VSAN Part of the zoning configuration and limited to zone configuration.

Device Aliases are distributed to all switches in a fabric using the coordinated distribution mechanism using the Cisco Fabric Services (CFS). Recommend using Device Aliases.Presentation_ID 2006 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

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Enclosure Example Step 1Assign Device Aliases

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Enclosure Example Step 2Select Alias to Enclosure button on top of the End Devices table an enclosure is generated based on the Alias name using Java Regular Expressions. For more details about Java Regular Expressions, please refer at http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/regex/

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Enclosure Example Step 3 Enclosure name generated based on Alias

All disks for storage represented as single entity in topology map

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Run CLI commands from FM Execute Cisco SAN-OS/ NX-OS CLI commands on multiple switches. Screen output is captured from each switch and copied over to the FM Client desktop. Run CLI Commands dialog can be accessed from the Fabric Manager Tools menu.

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Software Install Wizard Multi-switch feature configuration across all managed devices in a selected domain Consistency maintained among multiple fabrics

Reduced time spent managing storage networks

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Host Provisioning WizardCommission/ Decommission hosts, and: Create a Device Alias for the Host Create a DPVM entry for the Host

Add Host and Storage to a zone and activate the zone Create a flow between Host and Storage for performance monitoring

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Intelligent Application Support I/O Accelerator (IOA) accelerates I/Os over MAN and WANs using proven Cisco SCSI acceleration technology. IOA can also be used to enable remote tape backup/restore operations without significant throughput degradation

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Intelligent Application Support contd Data Mobility Manager (DMM) provides transparent online data migration across heterogeneous storage arrays without the need for host agents.

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Installation

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FM Server Install (1 of 3)FMS (Licensed) License is not required to have a standalone FM Server instance. Cisco Fabric Manager Server License enables additional functionality. Fabric Manager Standalone Customers with Cisco FMS License can open multiple fabrics.

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FM Server Install (2 of 3) Device Alias unique name across all VSANS in a fabric FC Alias Unique name across a VSAN

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1 Earlier releases called for Use Device Aliases in place of FC Aliases, with default checkmark, new install rewords the same option to Use FC Aliases as Fabric default, and the option is unchecked by default. Recommendation: Go with default option (Devices Aliases recommended)

2 FM 3.1 install, default admin password was set to password. With new install, no defaultadmin password is defined, administrator configures password as part of install.Presentation_ID 2006 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

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FM Server Install (3 of 3) Oracle 10g option offered starting with FM 3.1. Oracle 10g is not packaged with FM, and has to be installed prior to installing the FM Server. Starting with 3.2(1) release, HSQLDB has been replaced with PostgreSQL as default option. No significant performance difference between Oracle 10g and PostgreSQL.

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FM Client Install FM Client can be installed from the web client or using the URLhttp://server-ip-address/download.doClick on Download to install FM Client

By default, only FMS Users with network-admin credentials are allowed to download the FM Client. To allow FMS Users with network-operator role to download the client, enable the propertyweb.allowDownload4All=true

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User Login & Fabric Discovery Starting with FM 3.1Step 1 : FM User login authentication is a separate step from fabric discovery Step 2 : If FM server has open fabrics, the open fabric window is presented for user to select a fabric. If no open fabrics, then new fabric discovery window is presented.

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FMS Multi Fabric Management Ability to manage multiple fabrics simultaneouslyFabrics need to be discovered by the same FM Server instance Each Fabric topology displayed in its own tab, as shown below

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Federation - Discovery Dialog User selects available server from drop-down menu to discover fabrics

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Federation FM Server Load Balancing Users selects fabrics to move to a different server in federation

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Monitoring, Health Analysis, and Event Management

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FM Server Trap Registration MDS Can forward events up to 10 Destinations. At the time of fabric discovery, FM Server registers with each MDS in the Fabric as a recipient of SNMP events. Device Manager can also be a recipient of SNMP events. SNMP Events can be forwarded to a NOC, and destinations can be configured via GUI or CLI.Device Manager

FM Client

Cisco Fabric Manager Server

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FM Client No TrapsStatus message No Traps would appear under two conditions: FM Server failed to register with the switch as the list of 10 destinations is full. FM Server failed to query its IP address, this can be addressed by providing an IP address in the web client under Admin / Configure / Preferences / trap.registeraddre ss, This a rare occurrence.

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SNMP ProxyIn Firewall situations, enable SNMP Proxy so that all SNMP calls to the MDS from Device Manager and Fabric Manager are tunneled via the FM Server. When SNMP Proxy is enabled, Software Upgrade option on FM Clients working from behind the firewall will not work, as that functionality depends on FM client establishing a direct connection with the switch, and cli output parsing.Device Manager

Firewall

FM Client SNMP Calls to MDS FM Client FM Server : Java RMI

FM Client

Cisco Fabric Manager Server also acts as SNMP Proxy

SNMP

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SNMP Events MDS has over 125+ MIBs that generate a large number of events. SNMP Events are grouped by functionality that can be enabled or disabledTrap GroupEntity FRU FCC FC Domain Name Server Fabric Configuration Services (FCS) FDMI FSPF License RSCN SNMP Authentication VRRP Zone

DefaultNo No No No No No No Yes No No Yes No

RecommendedYes No Yes Yes No No Yes Yes No No Yes Yes

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MDS Callhome MDS Callhome is independent of OSM Callhome. Fixed set of predefined alerts and trigger events on the switch.

Multiple message format options- Short Text, Plain Text, XML Up to 50 e-mail destination addresses for each destination profile. Multiple message categories including system, environment, switching module hardware,supervisor module, hardware, inventory, syslog, RMON, and test.41

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Health Analysis Multi PathFind devices with no redundancy or Inactive paths.

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Health Analysis - Connectivity Storage to Host Host to Storage

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Health Analysis Zone Discrepancy Not in VSAN Not in Fabric Single Member Zone Full Zone Distribution Off Default Permit On Only Initiators in Zone

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Health Analysis Switch HealthIn-depth switch health analysis verifies the status of all critical switches, modules, ports, and Fibre Channel services. Over 40 conditions are checked.

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Health Analysis Configuration Analysis Compares the configurations of the switch to a policy file. Define what functions to check and what type of checks to perform. Looks for mismatched values, and missing or extra values. Over 200 checks performed.

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Performance Collection

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DM Summary Tab Real Time Performance Metrics Charting Option Quick Switch Health Filter by VSAN

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DM Logging Realtime Performance Data Realtime stats greatly help with debugging Log file saved under logs directory as switch_name_summarylog.txt Logging happens only while the summary tab window is open

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FM - Real Time ISL Stats

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Historic Performance - Flows (1 of 4) Flows provide important information about SAN traffic patterns (top talkers) FM Performance Collection collects flow statistics based on source destination combination. Source and Destination can be on different switches. First generation line cards support about 1000 flows per module, second generation line cards support 2000 flows per module. As flow collection is based on source and destination FCIDs, recommend persistent FCIDs enabled.

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Historic Performance - Flows (2 of 4) Flow configuration is based on active zone database Flows are configured in hardware

Flow statistics -> Frame Count & Bytes are incremented in real time Flows cannot be reset need to delete and add againCLI output of flows configured on an MDS

Source FCID

Destination FCID

VSAN

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Historic Performance - Flows (3 of 4) Flow Performance Collection is a two step process, and need to be configured from the FM Client. Flow configuration setup has to be repeated for each VSAN.

The option Type refers to the collection process. Recommend that flows are collected both ways. FMS server is smart to consolidate the data at the time of reporting. Checking the Clear old flows on modified switches option purges all old data related to the fcid. Please select this option with careful consideration. Once selected, no way to restore lost the data. The option Create flows on all cards, gives flexibility for physical port to be moved to another module on the same switch.

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Historic Performance - Flows (4 of 4) Second step of the Flow wizard lists all flows for the VSAN Manually remove flows of not interest Finish configures the selected flows on the corresponding MDS switches and FM Server. FM Server need to be restarted for it to pick the new flow configurations.

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Performance Data Collection FM Server collects flow information once every 5 minutes. This interval cannot be changed. Performance data collected every 5 minutes is saved in flat files with an rrd extension under the ...pm\db directory.

Every hour a background process consolidates the data to the database. To limit the size of database, performance data collected is retained for a finite period time. The length of data retention can be configured to customers needs. Longer retention periods of data will require larger disk space. Default configurations are5 minute interval samples for 48 hours 30 minutes samples for 14 days 120 minute samples for 2 months One day samples for 300 days

Using default retention periods, each flow takes 115KB of disk space. By default ISL interfaces statistics are also collected once every 5 minutes. The time interval can be modified to as low as once every 30 seconds.Presentation_ID 2006 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

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Database Sizing To limit the size of database, performance data collected is retained for a finite period time. FM Server collects flow information once every 5 minutes. This interval cannot be changed. ISL statistics can be configured to collect in 30 second intervals. Default, once every 5 minutes. Configure data retention periods based on need. Longer retention periods of data will require larger disk space. Default configurations are5 minute interval samples for 48 hours 30 minutes samples for 14 days 120 minute samples for 2 months One day samples for 300 days

Performance data collected every 5 minutes is saved in flat files with an rrd extension under the ...pm\db directory.

Every hour a background process consolidates the data to the database. Using default retention periods, each flow takes 115KB of disk space.Presentation_ID 2006 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

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FMS Performance Monitoring - Summary SAN Summary Link Utilization Summary Drill Down

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Performance Monitoring - Flows Top Talkers Clicking on the flow generates chart

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Performance Prediction Based on past data, and acceptable threshold utilization percentage, predict future traffic growths

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FMS - Threshold Configure threshold monitoring based on absolute values OR based on past performance (week / month / year )

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Custom Reporting Customized report configuration

On Demand / Scheduled Report Generation

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FMS Server Fabric Monitoring Events, Syslog messages being forwarded to FM Server? Performance Collection Problems?

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FMS MIB OID MonitoringFM Server provides an ability to poll on any MIB OID once every 5 minutes.In Web Client, Under Admin / Configure / Others, select Add, and provide the OID to be polled for. Can be configured for all switches in a fabric, or select switches.

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FM Server Properties File located MDS 9000. Default windows locationC:\Program Files\Cisco Systems\MDS 9000\server.properties

Changes require Fabric Manger Server restart Make backup copy prior to making any changes Changes can be made from Web Client.

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Questions?

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