Automated VM Creation, Monitoring and Cost Transparency in a Virtual Environment

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Quest Virtualization vFoglight – A Fresh Perspective

Paul MartinMgr, Systems Consulting | Quest [email protected]

Quest helps companies simplify and reduce the cost of managing IT

Simplicity at Work

Quest SoftwareSimplicity at Work

The Transforming Data CenterPhysical, Virtual and Cloud

Data Center

Public Cloud Private Cloud

Virtual Infrastructure Physical Infrastructure

Employee Self-Service, Dev/Test/Prod

Databases, Applications

Desktops, Applications, Databases

Sales Force Automation, App Stores

Quest Simplifies Virtualization Management

Moving to a Virtual Infrastructure

Making Virtualization a Production Standard

Establishing a Virtualization First Strategy

Gaining and Maintaining Visibility and Control

Quest Virtualization and Cloud Management

Improve operational efficiency and reduce costs across the entire virtual environment—from server to cloud to desktop.

Quest’s Integrated Solution PortfolioServer Virtualization Management

Server Virtualization ManagementImprove Operational Efficiency and Reduce Costs

Data ProtectionImage-Based Backup & DR

MonitoringEnsure Performance & Optimize Infrastructure Capacity

AdministrationImprove IT Productivity and Reduce Costs

• Market leader in Data Protection and Monitoring

• More than 20,000 customers worldwide• Heterogeneous platform support

vRanger Pro• Agent-less Backup &

Recovery• Direct-to-target Architecture

vReplicator• Replication optimization

engine• White space detection,

results in smaller replications

vConverter• Synchronized cutover (P2V

& V2V while in use)• Advanced conversion profile

& template definitions

vFoglight – vFoglight Storage• Performance monitoring –

alerts to detect, diagnose, & resolve problems

• Capacity planning – scenario-based models, forecast, & trend reports

• Chargeback – produce reports to track and associate costs

• Service management Models, dashboards, & reports to connect SLAs to infrastructure

vControl• Self-service VM request

portal• VM approval & fulfillment

system

vOptimizer Pro• Automated VM storage

reclamation• 64K partition alignment

vEcoShell• Generate Visio diagrams of

entire virtual infrastructure• Learn, create, & deploy

helpful PowerShell scripts


vFoglight – Different Perspectives

Perspectives

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VMware

In Context Administration

How can I perform in-context administration from vFoglight?

Event Analytics

Back to Perspectives

Hyper-V


Automation

How can I easily automate common tasks/workflow?

Detect, Diagnose, Resolve

How do I know if I have performance problems in my virtualized infrastructure?

I need to be alerted of any problems affecting performance

How can I fix this problem fast?


Active Directory


How can I manage deeper into my virtualized domain controllers?

Exchange


How can I manage deeper into my virtualized Exchange app?

Service Management

How can I see a view of my entire service?

I need to create a service dashboard unique to my

environment


Service Management (5 mins)

Perspective Dashboards – Capacity Planning

How can I easily determine capacity limits?

Perspective Dashboards – Capacity Planning

I need to model loads and predict capacity

Scenario-based modeling helps to understand the impact of change

Trend Visualization

Visualize capacity trends• History• Show upper and lower

bands (min/max)• Alarms based on trends and

forecasts• Customizable for any metric


ChargebackHow can I easily identify

costs for resources used?

How can I report/bill for these costs?

• VMs are pre-configured with a fixed cost

• High predictability to a VMs cost throughout its lifecycle

• Allows the end user to specify a set of CPU and memory counts as well as share allocations

• Charge for those VMs that need more beyond the base configuration

• Metered costs possible atop this model

ChargebackTiered Flat Rate (TFR)

ChargebackMeasured Resource Utilization (MRU)

• Calculations are performed by determining:

• Each VMs actual utilization• Applies the appropriate cost/unit

calculation for each resource based on the weighting configuration.

• Partial Cost Recovery• IT absorbs costs for a portion of the

infrastructure that are going unused• Full Cost Recovery

• IT is not a cost center, rather it charges the full costs to customers or the business

Visit us at Booth #858• New Product Releases and Feature Sets to see!

• Protect with vRanger Pro and vConverter• Get deeper into vFoglight• Troubleshoot with vFoglight Storage• Rightsize with vOptimizer • Automate administration with vEcoShell

• Any general Q & A – we’ll take those at #858 too!

Thank You

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