VMware Virtualization and Cloud Management
Overview
Automating Operations Management
Why? What? How?
Why is Operations Management different in the
virtual world?
What exactly needs to be managed and what you should
focus on?
How to do we deliver with the
vCenter Operations
Suite?
By the end of the session, you should have a good understanding of how you can better manage your vSphere and vCloud environment.
Do we need to change the way we manage?
“Virtual Machine is just Physical Machine virtualized. Even VMware said the Guest OS is not aware it’s virtualized and it does not run differently.”
“It is still about monitoring CPU, RAM, Disk, Net. No different.”
“Our management process does not have to change.”
“All these VM must still feed into our Enterprise Management System. This is how we run our business and it works.”
If only life was that simple…. we would all be 100% virtualised and have 0% headache!
The Role of Operations Management
Monitor
Isolate Remediate
!
Problem Slow performance
Config issue Rollback change
Plan
Optimize Automate
Maintenance Utilization / forecast
Reclaim capacity Orchestrate changes
Ensure and Restore Service Levels
Optimize for Efficiency and Cost
Traditional
Tools?
Example: Problems with Traditional Monitoring Tools
What does this really mean?
Why is it happening?
What should you do?
vSphere vCenter Server
Server, Storage, Network Monitoring
OS, DB, App Monitoring
Cloud requires a new approach to management.
Traditional monitoring tools alone can’t handle it.
“AN INCREASED RATE OF CHANGE…REQUIRE IT OPERATIONS MANAGERS TO CONSIDER
AUGMENTING OLD-STYLE EVENT CORRELATION…”
WITH A NEW KIND OF IT
OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT TOOL
Gartner – March 30, 2012
Example: Problems with Static Thresholds and Alerts
Low thresholds cause alert storms High thresholds miss alerts
?
OVER THE LAST 5 YEARS, THE # OF ALERTS GENERATED BY EVENT/PERFORMANCE SYSTEMS
HAS INCREASED, ON AVERAGE…
BY 300% AMONG GLOBAL 2000 ENTERPRISES
Gartner – March 30, 2012
Firedrill
Solving the Monitoring Problem with Analytics
Efficiency Risk Health Calculate
supermetrics from thousands of data
points
vCenter Server and external data sources
Solving the Alerts Problem with Dynamic Thresholds
Learns your dynamic ranges of “Normal” without templates
Learns patterns of behavior and identifies Abnormalities
Dynamic thresholds eliminate “false alerts”
vSphere Health Models further optimize analytics engine
BLUE LINE Metric’s Current
Value
GRAY BAR Upper and Lower band of Dynamic Threshold -
“Normal”
RED BAR Breached Dynamic Threshold – “Abnormal”
Early Warning
“IT OPERATIONS TEAMS THAT…EFFECTIVELY ADOPT EMERGING IT ANALYTICS TECHNOLOGIES
CAN ACHIEVE…”
AT LEAST A 10% REDUCTION IN SERVICE OUTAGE MINUTES
Gartner – March 30, 2012
VMware’s Approach and Differentiation
vSphere vCenter Server
Server, Storage, Network Monitoring
OS, DB, App Monitoring
vCenter Operations Management Suite
Patented Analytics
Self-Learning Dynamic Thresholds
Smart Alerts
1
Integrated Approach
Performance Data Capacity Consumption Configuration Changes
2
Designed for Cloud
Health Model Open and extensible Evolutionary Approach
3
Introducing vCenter Operations Management Suite 5.6
Key Capabilities
• New Operations Management Dashboard
• Completely integrated capacity management capabilities
• Application-dependency mapping with vCenter Infrastructure
Navigator
• In-guest change events correlated with performance and health
• Cost-based Capacity Optimization with vCenter Chargeback Manager
Visibility into Immediate and Potential Future Problems
• Immediate problems
• What is happening right now?
• What do I need to pay attention to?
Operations Short and Long Term Capacity
• Forward Looking
• Are there areas that I should be concerned about from a capacity
perspective?
• Have I
deployed my VI in the
most efficient manner?
Analyze, Optimize and Forecast Capacity Consumption
Planning Summary dashboard provides trend
& forecast details
Correlate Change Events with Performance and Health
New software installed – related registry changes
Discover and Map Application Dependencies
View applications mapping in Infrastructure Navigator
Is there High Availability?
Monitor Resource Consumption and Optimize for Cost
Analyse cost savings from Capacity
Optimisation Monitor cost of
cloud resources
Automated
Operations
Automated Operations Management
for the Enterprise
Automating Operations Management across the Enterprise
Security Events
HW Performance
Availability
Admin actions
App Performance Usage Data Metrics
Web App
How do we leverage all of this data?
?
Visibility into Infrastructure and Applications
Application and Infrastructure
Topology
“Noise level”
of non-critical warnings and alerts Workload and
dynamic thresholds of select application
tiers
Health scores of select application
tiers Early warning of
building performance problem
Automated Event Correlation and Behavior Analysis
Root cause technology tier is the DB
Metric-level root cause symptoms - START HERE
Automated Operations Management
for VMware View
Typical Problems with VDI Infrastructure
Clients
Network
vSphere
Storage
View Clients
Network
vSphere
Storage Clients
Network
vSphere
Session
What Problems does vCenter Operations for View solve?
1. Accelerate View deployments
• Problem: Many moving parts, difficult to manage.
• Solution: Ensure health and performance of entire stack
• Value: Move from Pilot to Production with confidence
2. Ensure optimal end user experience
• Problem: Administrators overwhelmed by incidents
• Solution: Proactive smart alerts notify before users notice
• Value: Reduce trouble shooting times, fewer incidents
3. Optimize View resources
• Problem: Chronic storage or network bandwidth issues
• Solution: Self-learning analytics detect identify bottlenecks
• Value: Optimize resources, lower management costs
Example: An End-User Calls – Automated Troubleshooting
List/Search
Users Display a View end-user
with all supporting infrastructure components
Ranked Root-Causes from ALL supporting infrastructure
Raw metrics for selected object
Metrics exhibiting MOST
MEANINGFUL anomalies 1
4
dey@vmware
A-Ha !!!
Automated Operations Management for VMware View
VMware vCenter Operations Manager for View Delivers:
• Streamline View Deployments – Spot System Bottlenecks Early
• Reduce Ongoing Management Costs – Reduced MTTI
• Happy Users – Proactively Resolve Issues & Better Helpdesk Speed
Quantifying the Business Value and Impact
vCenter Operations Management Suite
Patented Analytics Integrated Approach Designed for Cloud
Comprehensive Visibility Health – Risk – Efficiency
Proactive Management Plan – Optimize – Forecast
Intelligent Automation Detect – Remediate – Enforce
Opex Savings
Improve Productivity by 50%
Quality of Service Uptime, Compliance, etc.
Capex Savings
Reclaim 30% of Resources
Plan Your Successful vCenter Operations Deployment
Download VC Ops Eval
VC Ops Dashboard for vSphere
VC Ops Suite for virtual
infrastructure:
Capacity, Config, App Dependency, Chargeback
Enterprise-wide Deployment
30-60 days Self-evaluation
1-3 months
Professional Services 14 days
Start Today!
www.vmware.com/go/try-vcenter-ops
Summary: Automate Operations Management with VC Ops
Ensure and Restore Service Levels
Optimize for Efficiency and Cost
vCenter Operations Management Suite
Patented Analytics Integrated Approach Designed for Cloud
From the Server … to the Desktop … to Your Cloud!
vSphere with Operations Management:
What is it?
vSphere with Operations Management
• World’s best virtualization platform
Plus:
• Operational insight into your virtual environment – for
monitoring and performance
• Optimized capacity management
Key Takeaways
• New VMware Solution the Combines vSphere and vCenter Operations Management Suite Standard
• Tag Line – The Next Evolution in Virtualization
Thank you!
