VMware Management using System Center

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Brian Pavnick Sr. Solutions Architect

Private Cloud Coexistence

Coexistence Technologies

VMVM

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VMware vSphere

VM VM

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Microsoft Hyper-V

Microsoft System Center

Operations Manager

Virtual Machine Manager

Orchestrator

MP for Hyper-V

IP for Hyper-V

IP for VMware

Monitor

Administer

Automate

Monitor

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Automate

nworks MP for VMware

Native IntegrationFor

Hyper-V and VMware

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System Center VHDs FOB

System Center VHDs

• VMs• DC• OPSMGR• ORCHESTRATOR• VMM

• Domain: Contoso• User: contoso\administrator• Password: Pass@word1

=Getting Started

• System Center TechNet Splash pages • Veeam Videos, Resource Kits, and

Documentation

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Private Cloud Jump Start

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(M)Icrosoft (V)irtualization (A)cademy

http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com

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(M)Icrosoft (V)irtualization (A)cademy

Veeam’s nworks Management Pack

Protect your investments in Microsoft System Center

Manage physical and virtual from one console

Avoid the expense of another monitoring framework

Company GameStop Corp., a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company headquartered in Grapevine, Texas, USA, is the world’s largest multi-channel video game retailer.

Industry Retail

Operational Profile

6,600 company-operated stores17 countries45,000 Employees

Champion Albert UyIT Engineering – APM Manager

Their Virtualization layer, that runs on VMware, supports Microsoft SQL, Exchange, and web servers, as well as a portion of e-commerce

Their Challenge

When….. IT team became frustrated with the amount of time required to troubleshoot issues in the virtual environment

We didn’t have the ‘eye wide open’ we needed in our virtual environment

Veeam was the only solution to identify all of the issues we created in our test environment

The Veeam Solution

Mean Time To Resolution for VMware problems has substantially decreased.

Veeam gives us the detailed information we need to be proactive in resolving issues…

... for all VMwarecomponents

Close integration with OpsMgr functionality…..

• Alert on state health and events

• View Dashboards

• Integration with Distributed Applications and Service Level Tracking

• Integration with existing notification subscriptions, framework connectors.

• In-context Diagnostic and Recovery Tasks for enhanced automation

• Detailed Reporting Analysis

Operator

VMware

Admin

Complete Integration

Over 490 pre-tuned monitors and rules….

…. and 175 metrics for performance and capacity analytics….

…. for VMware Clusters, Hosts, Datastores, and VMs.

VMware

Admin

Compute

Monitoring over 30 capacity and performance Metrics

Including….• CPU Ready Time• Memory Ballooning• Memory Swap RateFeaturing….• Memory Pressure

Network

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Monitoring over 25 capacity and performance Metrics

Including….• Disk Latency and IOP/s• Network Packet Loss• Datastore UtilizationFeaturing….• Disk Pressure

HardwareAgentless Hardware Monitoring

Utilizing native CIM/SMASH Hardware Repository

Health State and Performance Metrics such as; amp/s, fanspeed/s, temperature, etc.

Complete Integration

Limitless Scalability

Microsoft System CenterOperations Manager 2007

Operations Manager 2012

nworksManagement Pack

VMware vSphere 5, 4, and VI3

AgentlessScalable

Centrally managedFault-tolerant

Ops Manager Agent

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Management PackVMware

vSphere 5, 4 and VI3

AgentlessScalable

Centrally managedFault-tolerant

Microsoft System CenterOperations Manager 2007Operations Manager 2012

High Availability and Fault Tolerance

Proven TechnologyAgentless• Leverages the vSphere API • Eliminates agent “tunnel vision”

Mature• Version 5.7• Extensive production use — 750 + customers, large-scale

deployments

Certified

• VMware: VI3, vSphere 4.0, 4.1, 5.0• Microsoft: SCOM 2007 SP1, R2, 2012• Available on: Management Pack Catalog, Pinpoint site

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Veeam Backup and Replication

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Veeam Backup and Replication

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2-in-1 Backup and Replication for Hyper-V!

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Change Block Tracking (CBT) for Hyper-V!

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Built-in Compression and Deduplication for Hyper-V!