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vCenter Management Overview

Florian Benne

EMEA Product Marketing

[email protected]

Today’s Agenda

The Promise of Virtualization Management

The Customer Journey

• Basic Management

• Infrastructure Management

• Dev/Test

• Disaster Recovery

• Private Cloud

vCenter Benefits

The Goal

IT as

Service

Provider

Just like…..

Inexpensive, pay as you go, pay for what

you use

Ubiquitously available

Reliable

The Management Challenge Today

•

Server

•

Storage

•

Network

•

etc

Component-Level

Management

Service-Level

Management

IT manages

infrastructure components

IT is measured

on business outcomes

Reliable

email

service

Virtualization Fundamentally Changes the

Game

New Considerations…



New items and relationships not

present in physical environment



Dynamic and fast growing

environment

VMs

Snapshots

& Clones

Templates

…and New Opportunities!



Enables greater automation



Properties solve IT management

Virtualization Fundamentally Changes the

Game

New Constructs



The ability to make apps

self-describing, self-deploying

Allows management of multi-tier

applications as a single entity

Utilizes industry standard OVF to

provide instructions on how to

deploy

Simpler, application centric view of

management

Applications can now be written to

monitor and scale themselves

vApp

SLA Definitions

VMware Uniquely Enables Service-Level Management

The Only Complete Stack for the Private Cloud

VMware vSphere 4

The industry’s leading virtualization platform

vCenter Product Family

Unified control center for SLA-driven

management across dynamic infrastructure

VMware vCenter Product Family Delivers

• Drives operational efficiencies

and savings

• Reduces opex by 50%

• Leverages power of virtualization

• Delivers broadest and deepest

capabilities for service-level

management

• Enables IT to change and respond

quickly

• Works with all ESM tools for seamless

end-to-end datacenter management

Today’s Agenda

The Promise of Virtualization Management

The Customer Journey

• Basic Management

• Infrastructure Management

• Dev/Test

• Disaster Recovery

• Private Cloud

Customer Needs on the Path to 100% Virtualization

Manage

hypervisors, VMs and

dev/test environments

• P2V

• Inventory Mgt

• Planning

• Patching

Phase 1 - Explore

< 100 VMs

Manage large, dynamic,

shared infrastructure including

enterprise applications

• Performance Mgt

• Capacity Planning

• Configuration Mgt

• Operations Mgt

• Disaster Recovery

Phase 2 - Expand

100 – 1,000 VMs

Manage service levels with

policy-driven automation

across the private cloud

• Self Service IT

• Service Mgt

• Chargeback

Phase 3 - Standardize

VMware vCenter Management Platform

Unified control center

•Inventory management

•Alarms, alerts

•Templates/provisioning

•Includes:

• P2V Conversion

• Automated patch

management

• Real-time policy

framework

vCenter Server: A Key Infrastructure Component

Non-Virtualized

Physical-Only

Environments/

Non-x86/Non-VMware

End-to-End Integrated Management

Systems

Management

vCenter Extensibility

APIs and UI plug-in architecture to enable 3rd_{party integration} Self Service

Portal Service Catalog Billing/

Chargeback

Big 4 and Ecosystem Integrations with vCenter Server

Area

Performance

& Availability

Configuration

Provisioning

Capacity

Automation

Chargeback

…

Today’s Agenda

The Promise of Virtualization Management

The Customer Journey

• Basic Management

• Infrastructure Management

• Dev/Test

• Disaster Recovery

• Private Cloud

vCenter Financial Impact

vCenter Partner Ecosystem

Typical Challenges

Have dynamic changes

to virtual entities resulted

in configuration drift?

When will I run

out of capacity?

Do I have enough capacity to

support service levels?

Can I reclaim unused or

over-provisioned capacity?

Can I confidently virtualize

my business critical apps?

How do I track entities,

relationships and actions?

Are VMs configured in

compliance with operational

and security best practices?

Have unauthorized

changes been made?

How do I scale

vCenter for Infrastructure Management

vCenter Lifecycle Manager

Benefits

Standardization

Enforce consistent process to request, provision, deploy and decommission virtual machines

Control and Visibility

Optimize resource utilization for greater ROI

Automated Workflows

Eliminate repetitive VM lifecycle management tasks for greater productivity

Automate provisioning and

decommissioning workflows,

increase service levels and IT control.

Key Features

Easy-to-use web interface for centralized management, approval and tracking of VM requests

Auto-provision, deploy and decommission VMs based on pre-defined policies

Apply lifecycle management policies to existing VMs

VM Request

“In our major data centers, we’ve now

decommissioned more machines than we have

running. That represents a huge cost savings

in capacity. In our major data centers, if we had

not had a good way of governing when a

virtual machine was no longer being used, we

probably would now have more than 1,000

extra virtual machines running.”

David Hewett

Senior IT Manager

Qualcomm

Lifecycle Manager with BMC Software

Request ApprovalChange

Change Approval Update CMDB Update CMDB Verify / Notify Verify / Notify Close Change Task Close Change Task Service Desk Service Desk

vCenter AppSpeed Overview

Benefits

Real-time view of end-user application performance, monitoring against SLAs

Dramatically reduces trouble shooting time and finger pointing

100% non-intrusive

Integrated into vCenter Server and vSphere Client Reduces barriers to virtualizing business-critical applications

Manage performance of virtualized

multi-tier applications

Key Features

Dynamically discovers and maps virtual and physical infrastructure elements

Breaks down application latency into component parts (infrastructure, network, and application)

Application

“Data collected by AppSpeed will save hours in

monitoring, troubleshooting and identifying

root-cause of potential issues with application

performance.”

Ken Horn

Servers and Groupware Technologies

Johnson & Wales University

VMware vCenter CapacityIQ Overview

Benefits

Deliver the right capacity at the right time Make informed planning, purchasing, and provisioning decisions

Enable capacity to be utilized most efficiently and cost-effectively

Analyze, forecast, and plan virtualized

datacenter or desktop capacity

Key Features

Perform “What-If” impact analysis to model effect of capacity changes

Identify and reclaim unused capacity

Forecast timing of capacity shortfalls and needs

vCenter ConfigControl Overview



Discover, track, model, search, analyze

(impact and drift), report



Standards based, extensible,

comprehensive, continuous, multi-source

capture of CIs



Applications, inside guests, virtual

entities, associated hw, custom tags



Rollup impact reporting by business unit,

Tracking of configuration items that

are part of a virtual infrastructure



Automated discovery of accurate config,

dependency and historical data



Application/IT visibility via rich modeling

capabilities, dynamic search and reports

Ensure Visibility and Control of

Dynamic Virtual Environments

Today’s Agenda

The Promise of Virtualization Management

The Customer Journey

• Basic Management

• Infrastructure Management

• Dev/Test

• Disaster Recovery

• Private Cloud

vCenter Financial Impact

vCenter Partner Ecosystem

Typical Dev/Test Infrastructure is an IT Headache

Server sprawl – under desks, in closets

Aging, cast-off hardware

Dirty systems – inability to maintain “clean state”

Users and IT bogged down in provisioning requests

vCenter for Dev/Test

Automated set up,

tear down and

management of

complex dev/test

environments

vCenter Lab Manager Overview

Benefits

Higher Service Levels

Reduce dependency on IT, enable greater productivity and faster time to market

Lower Infrastructure Costs

Policy-based access control of shared resources

Automated Management

Eliminate repetitive provisioning and ad-hoc management tasks for IT

Simplify management of the

internal cloud for dev/test

Key Features

Self-service portal for non-IT users to provision VM configurations in seconds, while ensuring IT control

Image Library to reduce storage footprint, improve asset sharing and team collaboration

“VMware Lab Manager obsoletes many

manual processes and lets us be more

pro-active and innovative.

I can't think of any other product, process

or project that has had a greater impact in

our daily activities.

Everything just runs

with little interference. Lab Manager will be

key to the future success of software

development in Avaya.”

Jay M. Leone

Lab Manager

Avaya

Today’s Agenda

The Promise of Virtualization Management

The Customer Journey

• Basic Management

• Infrastructure Management

• Dev/Test

• Disaster Recovery

• Private Cloud

vCenter Financial Impact

vCenter Partner Ecosystem

Requirements for Disaster Recovery Solutions

Minimize

Downtime

93% of companies that

lost their data center for

ten days or more due to

a disaster filed for

bankruptcy within one

year of the disaster.

--National Archives and Records Administration

Control

Cost

Minimize

Risk

73% of executives

expressed concern with

the costs associated

with maintaining a

secondary data centre

--Beacon Technology Partners

92% of users surveyed

acknowledged that their

companies would face

serious consequences

if they had to implement

their disaster recovery

plans.

--Dynamic Markets Ltd.

Effective disaster recovery is a business imperative,

but is very difficult to achieve

Challenges of Traditional Disaster Recovery

Complex recovery

processes and

infrastructure

Dependent on

perfect training,

documentation,

and execution

Failure to meet

recovery requirements

>

Recovery takes days

to weeks

>

Recovery tests often

fail

Significant IT time

and resources

consumed

Failure to meet

recovery requirements

>

Recovery takes days

to weeks

>

Recovery tests often

fail

Significant IT time

and resources

consumed

?

?

?

?

?

?

?

?

vCenter for Disaster Recovery

Policy-driven

workflows for

automated site

recovery

Simplifies and automates

disaster recovery workflows:

Setup, testing, failover

Turns manual recovery runbooks

into automated recovery plans

Provides central management of

recovery plans from the vSphere

Client

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Overview

Works with vSphere to make

disaster recovery

rapid, reliable,

Site Recovery Manager leverages vSphere to deliver advanced disaster

recovery management and automation

Site Recovery Manager at Work

“If your organization is already taking advantage of

virtualization, then adding Site Recovery Manager to handle

disaster recovery is a no-brainer.”

Jerry Wilkin

Senior Systems Administrator, Dayton Superior Corporation

Today’s Agenda

The Promise of Virtualization Management

The Customer Journey

• Basic Management

• Infrastructure Management

• Dev/Test

• Disaster Recovery

• Private Cloud

vCenter Financial Impact

vCenter Partner Ecosystem

vCenter for the Private Cloud

• Service catalog

• Self-service

• Chargeback

VMware’s Vision for Self-Service

VI Admin approval required for all actions

Zone 2 Hybrid for Pre-Production Resources Access Control LDAP Group Self-Service Policy

Leases > 30 days require approval

Access Control

LDAP Group

Self-Service Policy

Full self-service with

chargeback Resources Templates Zone 3 Internal Cloud for dev/test/demo Templates Templates VM Users

app owners, test/dev,

trainers, etc. VI Admin

 Segments

infrastructure into zones with people, resources and self-service provisioning policies that match use cases  Achieves maximum efficiency, predictability and control VM Users  Access to VMs and monitoring data (performance,

chargeback) via unified interface

 _{Self-service provisioning}

and sandboxing

vCenter Chargeback Overview

Benefits

Improve Resource Utilization: By associating costs to

VM’s many of the “free” VM’s will go away, freeing up resources for higher priorities

Optimization of Budgets: Business units can

understand how much they are paying for resources and how much goes to unused, allowing them to optimize resource consumption & costs

Account, monitor, and report on costs

associated with virtual resources

Key Features

Fixed, allocation, and utilization based costing Charge different amounts for tiers of infrastructure Schedule reports & email results

Today’s Agenda

vCenter Management Vision

The Customer Journey

• Basic Management

• Development & Testing

• Infrastructure Management

• Disaster Recovery

• Private Cloud

Accelerating the Path to 100% Virtualization

Lifecycle Manager

Drive VM consistency at the front end of the scale out initiative - ensure that VMs are provisioned, placed and decommissioned in compliance with IT policies

AppSpeed

Plan for deploying tier 1 apps - evaluate which apps and databases are good candidates. Assured migration of business-critical applications from physical to virtual

Chargeback

Put cost structure in place prior to virtualization growth; get ahead of the curve with better understanding of usage and cost.

CapacityIQ (coming soon)

Model the impact of introducing new applications for better planning and preparedness Ensure sufficient ongoing capacity to meet application SLAs

ConfigControl (coming soon)

Ensure configurations of dynamic virtual entities remain compliant Reduce downstream management effort by standardizing configurations

Top 3 Reasons Why VMware is the Right IT

Investment in a Tough Economic Environment

Minimize Lost Revenue Due to

Downtime

3

Reduce Datacenter Operating Cost

(e.g. Power & Cooling)

2

Reduce Physical Infrastructure Cost

Business Loss Due to Datacenter Outage** Sys Admin per 100 Apps*

* Source: IDC and VMware TAM program

Infrastructure Cost per App Reduction in Datacenter Capital Expense 2.0-3.0 $14,235 $5,694 0.3 – 1.0 Reduction in Datacenter Operating Expense $30 MM $4 MM Reduction in Risk

Chargeback Hierarchy

Flexible model for determining

cost accounting structure

Cost Centers, Organizations, Business Units, VM types, etc.

Single chargeback hierarchy

spans multiple vCenters for

enterprise-wide management

Hierarchy model provides the

basis for determining costing

structures and delivery

reports

Drag-n-drop

Costing

Models

Start simple and move to a

advanced chargeback model

over time

Compare between models by

configuring different reporting

options

Ensure the chargeback

model can align with

organizational requirements

Flexible costing options mix

& match between models

Fixed Costing

Fixed cost for a VM instance

Allocation Based Costing

Variable costs per VM based

on allocated resources

Utilization Based Costing

Variable costs per VM based on

utilized resources

vCenter Lab Manager

Overview

What’s New in Lab Manager 4.0?

Unification of Lab Manager & Stage

Manager Functionality

One solution for Dev/Test, Pre-Production, Support, Demo & Training

Multiple Workspaces within an Organization provide resource and access containers

Move VMs between workspaces and apply new access policies without changing configuration settings

Support for vSphere 4 & ESXi

Leverage the most advanced virtualization platform

Next-Generation Network Fencing

Isolated network configurations now can span multiple hosts

Useful for deploying large VM configuration clones Requires vNetwork Distributed Switch (DVS)

Engineering App Team QA Integration Staging IT Ops Prod Sales Training Support SE Demo Resources Access Control LDAP Group Image Library

vCenter AppSpeed Use Scenarios

Allows IT to guarantee application service level

Migrate applications from physical to virtual

Discover and

Map

Monitor

performance

Analyze Root

Causes

Remediate

Problems

Develop pre-virtualization

end-user application baseline

Measure post virtualization

performance

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