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Infrastructure Visibility, Monitoring, and Management for Windows Server 2016
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Visibility, Monitoring, and Management for Windows Server 2016

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DataON MUST™ (Management Utility Software Tool) provides a high level of infrastructure visibility, monitoring, and management for Windows Server-based hyper-converged systems, networking and storage. Built to support Microsoft’s suite of software-defined storage technologies, including Storage Spaces Direct, Storage Replica and Storage Quality-of-Service (QoS), MUST simplifies data center management and helps enterprise customers transition from traditional SANs to a Windows Server-based hyper-converged infrastructure.

MUST can be used through its standalone console or can be used within Windows Admin Center, allowing customers to use both Windows Admin Center and MUST through a single pane of glass.

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Multiple Tiers of Storage Visibility and Monitoring

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Software-Defined Data Center & Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Tier
Provides system-level information on performance, capacity, hardware inventory and faults/alerts. The dashboard-level view displays operations, analytics, infrastructure health management, storage systems metrics and event logging insights.
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Hyper-Converged Cluster/Node Tier
Provides pool, volume and device-level performance, health and operational analytics for your HCI cluster. This enables you to proactively perform systems maintenance and better understand requirements for workload migrations.
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Systems and Storage Services Audit Log Tier
Provides detailed logging-level visibility for events, so you can perform root cause analysis and export source data for analytics.
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SAN-like Call Home Service Support
Leverages the Health Services faults in Windows Server 2016 to automatically email alerts to key contacts. You can also leverage third party SNMP monitoring traps to alert you when you need disk or hardware replacements.

Windows Admin Center

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Window Admin Center is an evolution of Windows Server management tools that complements but does not replace, System Center and Operations Management Suite. It gives you full control over all aspects of your server infrastructure from a locally deployed, browser-based management experience. MUST enhance the Windows Admin Center experience with expanded functionality:

  • Historic Data Reporting – Provides real-time and monthly dashboards of your system performance data including IOPS, latency, throughput on your cluster, storage pool, volume, and nodes.
  • Disk Mapping – MUST displays the device types and components in each of the nodes, providing a clear disk map of your entire node. It shows the number of disks, disk type, location and slot of each drive, and disk health status.
  • System Alerts – Leverages Windows Health Service faults to identify hardware failures, configuration issues, and resource saturation. It also provides a multi-level assessment of specific locations, fault descriptions, and recovery actions. You can also leverage third-party SNMP monitoring traps to alert you when you need disk or hardware replacements.
  • SAN-like Call Home Service – Prompted by system alerts, administrators can have automated email alerts sent to key contacts.

Take a Tour

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Dashboard View

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Overview
Displays the type of OS, number of server nodes, type
of devices and number of virtual disks. Also displays
the storage pool CPU and memory utilization, and
volume capacity. Provides system performance data
such as IOPS, latency, and throughput.
Alerts
Displays three types of alerts: critical, warning,
and information. Based on your settings, you
will receive information on your enclosure,
capacity, cluster, storage QoS, and virtual disks.
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Cluster View

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Pools
Summarizes the drive media within each
storage pool, including usable volume,
resilience, and capacity. It also displays an
inventory of your SSD and hard drives.
Volumes
Displays every volume in your cluster, showing
the storage space utilization, IOPS, throughput,
read/write percentage, and average I/O.
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Nodes
Displays the device types and components in each of
the nodes, including CPU, memory and capacity
utilization. Most importantly it provides a clear disk
map of your entire node. This is a unique feature of
MUST that shows the number of disks, disk type,
location and slot of each drive, and disk health status.
User Setting
Setup MUST for your active directory,
domain, SMTP server, and even leverage
the SNMP feature for third-party access. You can automictically notify systems
administrators of hardware failure,
configuration issues, or resource saturation
through MUST’s SAN-like call home service.
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Jan-Tore PedersenBenjamin ClementsEric Crew
“I would recommend DataON S2D servers just to be able to get MUST to monitor your Storage Spaces Direct servers. The monitoring alone is worth a try.”
Jan-Tore Pedersen
Senior DevOps Manager, Infront
“MUST has been very valuable. The inclusion of MUST with their S2D appliances is what completes the solution with Storage Spaces Direct as a viable SAN replacement.”
Benjamin Clements
President, Strategic Online Systems, Inc.
“On our older systems, it is hard to see where the bottlenecks are. With MUST, I can easily find those bottlenecks from a single pane of glass.”
Eric Crew
Network & Systems Administrator, KCLS