Post on 14-Aug-2015
VMware Cloud ProductsSurvey of different VMware products
vRealize Operations in-depth analysis
Pedro Mendes da SilvaComputer Scientist
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VMware vCloud Suite components● VMware terminology can be confusing
○ this presentation tries to clarify some names and analyse vRealize Operations in-depth
● the vCloud suite includes almost all VMware products○ Hypervisor: vSphere (ESXi + vCenter)
■ ESXi: Single-machine Hypervisor■ vCenter: Handles multiple ESXi’s
● Handles vMotion, High Availalability, Load Balancing○ vCenter Site Recovery Manager
■ Policy-based disaster recovery and testing for all virtualized applications
VMware vCloud Suite components
● vRealize○ Includes 3 different components for managing a data
center■ vRealize Operations
● Unified IT Management■ vRealize Automation■ vRealize Business
● Log Insight○ this is a smaller and cheaper product to help
managing a data center
vRealize Operations (vROps)
● “Intelligent IT Operations”○ “identify and solve emerging issues with predictive
analytics and smart alerts”○ multi-cloud compatibility
■ across ● vSphere ● Hyper-V● Amazon● physical hardware
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vRealize Operations (vROps)
● Unified IT Management○ centralized management
■ application and infrastructure health can be monitored in a single place
■ Application-Aware Infrastructure Management○ across applications, storage and network devices
■ applications can include multiple VMs■ there are conectors for 3rd party products
● Microsoft, SAP, …● there is an SDK for developing these
vRealize Operations (vROps)● “Application-Aware Infrastructure
Management”○ insight into application-to-infrastructure
dependencies○ map your running compute, storage and network
resources○ detect variances from the norm○ quickly identify root causes○ view health, risk, and efficiency status at the group
or component level
vROps - Home Dashboard
vROps - Alerts
vROps: Predictive Analytics, Dynamic Thresholds, and Smart Alerts
● Self-learning algorithms and predictive analytics○ correlate monitoring data○ intelligent alerts on underlying performance issues○ clear recommendations for corrective action○ dynamic thresholds adapt to your environment○
vROps: advanced features● Views: Health and Workload, Workload
Details and Heat Maps● Capacity Trending, Analysis and Right-
Sizing● Advanced Capacity Modeling with Capacity
Planning and Project Management○ “what-if” scenarios○ capacity planning○ projects
Log Insight: relation with vROps● vROps is much more powerful
○ using data mining to correlate events and suggest actions
● Log Insight just ○ stores logs (in a structured format)○ performs queries/aggregations over logs○ show dashboards over queries○ exports content packs/development tool
● vROps can drill-down to Log Insight to check detailed event data