Intelligent Workload Management for Cloud and Virtualized Infrastructures

What Workload to Run Where & When…

Assure Application Performance

…To Maximize Virtualization & Cloud ROI

Efficient utilization of

the virtualized infrastructure

Delivering on This Requires the Ability to Determine:

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What Workload to Run Where & When…

Assure Application Performance

Efficient utilization of

the virtualized infrastructure

- Decrease $$ if your organization can’t deliver QOS- Applications drive business, downtime is costly- Decrease in productivity if applications are slow

- $$ of adding Servers & Storage- Increased Power & cooling, licensing,

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- Today’s methods of Fire fighting and trouble shooting problems lead to high expenses for companies.

- Reactive manual intensive operation

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Limitless Options…

• But which actions to take?• What are the system

dependencies?• What is the effect?• Where are the constraints?

It’s An Increasingly Complex Puzzle

Multiple Entities

• vApps• Virtual Machines• Compute Resources• Datastores• Networks

Dozens of Controls

• Start / Stop• Clone• Motion• I/O Configurations• vCPU/vRAM Reservations

Traditional management tools don’t provide the solution• Creating thresholds and raising alerts are single-metric-oriented

• Problem resolution is a data-intensive, manual process• Workload and application metrics are not considered

• Meaningful automation is virtually impossible• Performance and efficiency problems, that could be prevented, are not…

VM and Application Sizing: Determining the number of instances, resource allocations, and appropriate

prioritization to meet business demands

Capacity Planning:Determining how much capacity to

configure currently, as the environment grows, and during hardware refresh cycles

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Virtualization Provides Fluidity & Resource Allocation Options

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Initial and Ongoing Placement Decisions: Determining where workloads should run – or be relocated to –

across the available compute, storage and network resources

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To be effective, these decisions must be made holistically

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Today’s Tools Are Reactive

• Today’s data center management solutions are all about reacting to problems after they occur!

• Far more effective is preventing problems from occurring in the first place

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Preventive Reactive

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Preventive Reactive

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Intelligent Workload Management

IT Automation & Control

Abstraction, Analysis & Automated Actions

Delivering IT Automation & Control with VMTurbo Operations Manager

• Service & application assurance

• Operational & labor efficiency

• Improved resource utilization

• Simplified virtualization management

Economic Scheduling

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Service Level Priorities

Performance Metrics

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Configuration Constraints

Real TimeOperations

Intelligent Planning

VM Configurations

Application Sizing

Storage Resourcing

Server Refresh Planning

VM Placement

VM Relocation

Application Resourcing

Key Benefits

Server Packing

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Intelligent Workload Management is About Maintaining the Optimal Operating Zone

QoS Guarantee

Requires constant tuning & optimization

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Optimal Operating Zone

Assure Application Performance

Efficient utilization of

the virtualized infrastructure

In a Dynamic Environment with• Workload fluctuations• Shared resources• Interdependencies • Configuration changes• New applications,

users and hardware

Economic Scheduling Engine

Market-based Approach:• Abstraction layer that represents IT infrastructure as a

marketplace of buyers and sellers

Combined with Analysis:• Mathematical approach that uses the abstraction layer to

drive intelligent decision-making for resource allocation• Continuously adjusting to changes in workload demand &

available infrastructure capacity• Enabling automation & problem prevention

How Is VMTurbo Different?

Result: Executable Actions Which Prevent Problems and Drive A Healthy & Efficient Infrastructure