Emc IP Holding Company LLC

Emc Corporation

John M Moran

Anurag Sharma

Christopher Trudel

Eric R Vook

Michael Lee Burriss

Brian A Castelli

Sujayendra R Thammaiah

Ramesh Ramanathan

Ranjini Gogga

Kevin W Phillips

Sunil Bhaskarnaidu

Ka-Kit Wong

Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for automated storage system performance validation are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes obtaining user input pertaining to performance testing associated with one or more storage systems deployed in at least one user environment; generating, based at least in part on the obtained user input, a storage system performance test deployment environment comprising at least one controller and at least one data collection mechanism; executing, using the storage system performance test deployment environment, at least one performance test on at least a portion of the one or more storage systems deployed in the at least one user environment; and performing one or more automated actions based at least in part on results from the at least one executed performance test.

Automated storage system performance validation

Techniques comprise receiving results from one or more configuration checks performed on one or more elements of an information processing system, wherein the results are received from a set of one or more interfaces of the information processing system and comprise an indication of detection of a configuration issue with at least a portion of the one or more elements of the information processing system. The method generates one or more remediation actions based on at least a portion of the received results, and then causes initiation of the one or more remediation actions within the information processing system at least in part through the set of one or more interfaces of the information processing system from which the results are received to effectuate remediation of the configuration issue with the portion of the one or more elements of the information processing system.

Dynamic remediation actions in response to configuration checks in an information processing system

Pipeline-based techniques for system configuration management are provided. For example, a method comprises, in a pipeline-based system comprising a set of one or more pipelines, for a given one of the set of one or more pipelines, collecting a set of one or more configuration datasets respectively associated with a set of one or more elements of an information processing system, wherein each of the configuration datasets of the collected set of one or more configuration datasets is specific to the respective element of the information processing system from which it is collected; executing a set of one or more configuration checks on the set of one or more configuration datasets; receiving a set of one or more output results from the executed one or more configuration checks; and generating at least one report from the one or more output results.

Pipeline-based system for configuration checking and reporting associated with an information processing system

A system and method of performing backups of a system having persistent and non-persistent virtual desktop infrastructure components, database storage components, and file management components. The method first backs up the file management components, then a database server of the database storage components, and then the virtual desktop infrastructure components in an order of a virtual center server, connection server, and then a composer server. If the virtual desktop environment is non-persistent, the system backs up a master image that is used to create non-persistent desktops, and if the virtual desktop environment is persistent, the system backs up the master image that is used to create non-persistent desktops and virtual storage objects that maintain persistence of an identity of the virtual desktop environment.

Backup and recovery for end-user computing in virtual desktop environments

A method is used in using application aware templates for configuring data storage systems. An application aware template is received for configuring a data storage system. The application aware template includes a set of configuration preferences based on best practices for an application. The data storage system is configured based on the set of configuration preferences of the application aware template.

Using application aware templates

In accordance with a method and system described herein, in order to map the physical location and connections between all of the components of a network from the perspective of a particular host, i.e., discover the fabric of the network, and the hierarchical relationship between storage disk array components including chassis IDs, storage processors, and storage processor ports, queries are generated and sent to the different operating systems or software that are implemented on the components, i.e., hardware devices of the network. These queries ask the device what it sees. Starting with identifiable starting points and ending points in the fabric, the host selectively queries components within the fabric. Using the query data the host applies a series of comparison and process of eliminations steps, in order to complete a table of the components and connections that comprise the network fabric.

Method for mapping a network fabric

A method and system for pseudo-random testing a fault tolerant network for determining the network's response to failure includes generating an image of the network on a host. At least one path of the network is selected to be physically failed through the use of a random number generator such that the selection is done pseudo-randomly. The part is then failed and the network's response to the failure is detected and all attempts to repair the failure logged up to and including the first successful attempt to repair the failure. In the event of a failure to repair a path occurs, the test is stopped, a repair effected, and the test restarted at the point the failure to repair occurred.

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John M Moran