NetApp OCI - Analytics and Reporting Workshop

Notes from this YouTube video:

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Workshop Expectations

Review of OCI Capabilities
- Custom Queries and Dashboards
- Anomaly Detection Engine Review
- Annotation Discussion
- Data Warehouse and Reporting Capabilities
- Successful Outcomes
--- What are we trying to accomplish? What is our goal? How do we gain return on the investment? (Professional Services is about successful outcomes.)

Business Drivers
- What are my top pain points?
- How much Capacity do I have and when will I run out?
- What are the current and future costs of my environment (storage and compute)?
- How much wasted storage or compute capacity do I have?
- How well is my environment performing? Do we meet our SLA’s?
- How much head room do I have?
--- Need to be able to failover.
- What is the impact to my environment when migrating storage or compute resources?
- Is my storage and compute infrastructure optimized?
- Successful Outcomes?

IT Analytics
- Analytical Use Cases
- Tiering and Service Levels
- Identify how data is analysed today
- Determine the business drivers for analytics
- Use OCI WebUI Client to identify Greedy and Degraded resources using the OCI Correlation Engine
- Use the Report Catalog to stimulate discussion (Catalog reports can be mixed, matched or modified to fit your requirements)
- Focus on Operational WebUI Dashboards or Operational Reports from the DWH

- Use a white-board to capture preliminary requirements, preferred layouts, KPIs, SLAs, service level thresholds, etc or any other points of interest then transfer to a Word doc or Spreadsheet.
- Create mock-ups and photograph results.
- Capture requirements using the Custom Report Definitions document.
- Discuss next steps and outcomes.
--- What are we going to do to implement everything in our workshop? What can NetApp do to help you? What are you going to do as well, on your end, to plan out successful outcomes? It’s a relationship so we want to make sure we’re both working towards those successful outcomes.

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