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Introducing:
vSphere with Operations Management
and vSphere Data Protection Advanced
Cesare G. Rossi
Senior Systems Engineer
© 2010 VMware Inc. All rights reserved
Introducing:
vSphere with Operations Management
and vSphere Data Protection Advanced
Cesare G. Rossi
Evangelist?
© 2010 VMware Inc. All rights reserved
Introducing:
vSphere with Operations Management
and vSphere Data Protection Advanced
Cesare G. Rossi
StoryTeller PPT-Phobic
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Outline
Market Characteristics
What is vSphere with Operations Management?
Operations Management
Why Now?
vSphere Data Protection Advanced
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Virtualization still tops for major IT spending priorities
Source: IDC State of the Market: IT Spending Review & 2013 Outlook, November 2012
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Evolution of Server Virtualization Continues
Source: IDC Market Analysis Perspective: Cloud Virtualization System Software, December 2012, Doc # 238638
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VMware vSphere® with
Operations Management™
What is It?
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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
DOUBLE the IT savings
from vSphere!
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The Next Evolution in Virtualization
vSphere vCenter Operations
World’s most reliable virtualization platform Powerful Automated Operations Management
• Server consolidation
• Capex benefits
• High availability
vSphere vCenter Server
Lower operating costs
Maintained SLA levels
Gain control and visibility
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vSphere with Operations Management:
What Features Does It Provide?
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vSphere with Operations Management lineup combines vSphere
with vCenter Operations Management Suite
Entitlements (VM / Core / vRAM) Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
• vCPU / VM 8-way 32-way 64-way
Features
• Health Monitoring and Performance Analytics
• Data Protection and vSphere Replication
• vMotion
• Storage vMotion
• Storage APIs for Array Integration, Multipathing
• Distributed Resource Scheduler and Distributed Power Management
• Distributed Switch
• Host Profiles and Auto Deploy
• Storage DRS and Profile-Driven Storage
• vShield Endpoint
All editions include: Thin Provisioning, Update Manager, Storage APIs for Data Protection, Image Profile, and SLES
New with vSOM
• High Availability and Fault Tolerance (1 vCPU)
• Capacity Management and Optimization
• Operations Dashboard and Root Cause Analysis
• I/O Controls (Network and Storage) and SR-IOV
vSphere Standard
vCenter Operations Management Suite
Standard
vSphere Enterprise
vCenter Operations Management Suite
Standard
vSphere Enterprise+
vCenter Operations Management Suite
Standard
vSphere with Operations Management
Standard Enterprise Enterprise+
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VMware vSphere® with
Operations Management™
Management Services
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Three Questions We Never Stop Asking
Why? What? How?
Why
Management is
different in the
virtual world?
What exactly
needs to be
managed?
How to do it?
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Do we need to change the way we manage?
“Virtual Machine is just Physical Machine virtualised.
Even VMware said the Guest OS is not aware it’s virtualised 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 main IT Mgmt system. This
is how we run our business and it works.”
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Performance Troubleshooting: a day in the life…
You got an email from the app team, saying the main Intranet application was slow.
• The email was 1 hour ago. The email stated that it was slow for 1 hour, and it was ok after that.
• So it was slow between 1-2 hours ago, but ok now.
• You did a check. Everything is indeed ok in the past 1 hour.
• The application spans 10 VMs in 2 different clusters, 4 datastores and 1 RDM
• You are not familiar with the applications. You do not know what apps runs on each VM as you have no access to
the Guest OS.
• Your environment: 1 VC, 4 clusters, 30 hosts, 300 VM, 20 datastores, 1 midrange array, 10 GE FCoE
Test your vSphere knowledge!
How do you solve/approach this with just vSphere?
What do you do?
A: Smile, as this will be a nice challenge for your TAM/BCS/MCS/RE
B: No sweat, you’re VCDX + CCIE + ITIL Master + Jedi: You’re born for this.
C: SMS your wive, “Honey, I’m staying overnight at the datacenter “
D: Take a blood pressure medicine so it won’t shoot up.
E: Buy the app team very nice dinner, and tell them to keep quiet.
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Performance Troubleshooting, a day in the life: the answer!
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Managing Performance & Capacity in vSphere
A vCenter farm with 500 VM and 25 ESX will have >10000 metrics.
• There is a need for “super” metrics.
vCenter sets “static” threshold
• E.g. Warning if RAM usage is >90% for > 5 minutes. vCenter will continue
repeating the warning even if it is a normal behaviour.
• Intelligence required to analyse each metrics and their expected “normal”
behaviour.
Tools should complement vSphere
• vCenter & esxtop still have a place and continues to evolve
• No need to duplicate features and data.
• Deep understanding of vSphere
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A new super metric…“I Have a Dream”
Raw counter needs to be
interpreted/analysed
• e.g. what does Ready Time of 1500 in
Real Time chart mean?
• e.g. Disk throughput of 738 Mb/s is good
or bad?
Single counter is not enough
• e.g. Low CPU usage does not mean VM
is getting the CPU, if there is Limit and
contention.
• e.g. to see disk performance, we need to
see multiple counters at multiple layers
(VM, kernel, physical)
Different counters have different
scales
• GHz, %, MB, kbps, ops/sec, ms
• This makes analysis more complex
“standardises” the scale into
0 - 100.
>100 means Demand is
unmet.
Counters analysed, not just
aggregated.
Universal. Apply to CPU,
RAM, Disk, Net
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Dynamic threshold & alerts: just another dream…
Static threshold can be misleading
• During peak, it is common for VM to reach high utilization.
• Static threshold will generate alerts when they should not.
• During non-peak, it is abnormal for VM to reach high utilisation.
• Static threshold will not generate alerts when they should have.
• But each VM differs… VMware Admin has no visibility on when each will peak.
Plots both upper range and lower range
• A drop in CPU utilisation might not be a good idea.
• Do you set static threshold when CPU or RAM utilization drops below 5%?
Notice the range varies
in size
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Managing Performance in vSphere: the big picture
Is it healthy?
• Every VM & ESX
performing well?
CPU, RAM,
Network, Disk?
• Are they behaving
expectedly?
• Any fault on any
component?
Is it enough?
• Enough CPU, RAM,
Network, Disk?
• Time remaining?
• Capacity
remaining?
• Where are the
“Stressed points”
in time?
Is it optimised?
• Which VMs need
adjustment?
• What are my key
ratios?
• How much can I
claim back from
“fat” VMs?
• Am I burning
money & tree
unnecessarily?
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Management Services
vCenter Operations Management Suite vCenter Server
• vCenter Server collects real time
performance data from vSphere
hosts
• vCenter Server stores the data
in vCenter database and also
keeps a historical roll up of data
vCenter Operations
• Collects the metrics from
vCenter and provides a holistic
view and deep insights into the
health, risk and efficiency of IT
infrastructure
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VMware vCenter Operations Standard Overview
Quickly identify VMware performance and
capacity problems
Easy to use for VMware Administrators
• Deeply integrated as a vCenter pane
• Intuitive screens guide users to issue needing attention
• Automatically collects data from vCenter
vCenter Operations Standard Business Benefits
• Increased performance for end user of business
applications and services
• Reduced infrastructure costs through increased VM to
ESX density
• Reduced VM administration costs and optimized
VMware admin productivity
VM density matters
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Comprehensive visibility: vCenter Operations Manager Standard
Dashboard Overview
Comprehensive monitoring for
cloud operations with health,
risk and efficiency scores
Single pane of glass for
performance and capacity
management
Benefits
End-to-end visibility into cloud
infrastructure health
Optimize for efficiency and cost
Immediate
Problems
Future
Problems
Opportunities
to Optimize
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Detect: Find the Bottlenecks DETECT
REMEDIATE ISOLATE !
CPU Demand is the bottleneck
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Remediate: Intelligent Tools to Resolve Problems DETECT
REMEDIATE ISOLATE !
Check related Events to find if any changes to the VM
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Analyze: Monitor and Plan Capacity Utilization ANALYZE
OPTIMIZE FORECAST
Let’s look at capacity shortfalls
Very low on capacity
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Forecast: “What-If” Analysis
Current capacity
cross-over point
Actual VMs
deployed
VM count
capacity
Capacity state
today
New capacity
shortfall if I add
10 new VMs
ANALYZE
OPTIMIZE FORECAST
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Optimize: View Opportunities to Optimize ANALYZE
OPTIMIZE FORECAST
Let’s look at powered off, idle and oversized
VMs
Reclaimable capacity
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The “Real World Story”
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vSphere counters: deep understanding required
Buy more RAM?
Here is a common example…..
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vSphere counters: deep understanding required
Yes, buy
more RAM
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vSphere counters: deep understanding required
What? It’s been high constantly for the last 24 hours! Better buy more RAM now.
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The vCenter Operations Point-of-View
vCenter Ops shows
a very different data.
Memory is only 32%.
Plenty of headroom.
No need to buy RAM
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VMware vSphere®
with Operations Management™
Why Now?
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What Challenges Does vSphere with Operations Management
Address?
80% of VMware admin time spent isolating
performance problems
• “1st generation” green-yellow-red static threshold
reporting insufficient and too complex to use
• Point solutions only address a subset of issues
Admins encounter overprovisioning of
capacity and underutilization of hardware
• Need to drive higher consolidation rates
• Ensure required capacity for business growth and
other changes in real-time
VMware admins have conflicting goals
• Maximize ROI by increasing VM density
• Ensure that virtual component performance
supports required application performance
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Why Now?
Customer incentive off price on
vSphere with Operations
Management kits and upgrades
through September 15, 2013
15%
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What’s New in
vSphere Data Protection?
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Data Protection for Virtual Environments Presents Several Challenges
Challenges
• Increased storage costs
• Increased network-
bandwidth costs
• Difficulty to meet backup
window requirements
• Prolonged recovery
times
• Increased operational
expenses
• Lower administrator
productivity
Drivers
• Exponential data growth
• Infrastructure resource
contention from
increasing consolidation
ratios
• Complex traditional
backup and recovery
approaches
Customers need a
backup solution
conceived and
designed for virtual
environments that
addresses these
business challenges
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vSphere Data Protection: the Ideal Backup and Recovery
Solution for VMware vSphere
Now available in two editions
• vSphere Data Protection - at no additional
cost with vSphere 5.1
• vSphere Data Protection Advanced - NEW!
Agent-less image-level backup and recovery
Fully integrated with vCenter Server and the
vSphere Web Client
Application-aware agent-based backups for
MS SQL Server and Exchange (Only VDP
Advanced)
Ideal for small and midsize vSphere
environments
VMware vSphere
Data deduplicated
VDP
From
Powered by
Key Capabilities Architecture
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VDP VDP Advanced
Scalability
Max deduplicated storage per appliance 2TB 8TB
Max appliances per vCenter instance 10 10
Features
Agent-less backup
Variable-length deduplication
CBT for backup and restore
vSphere Web Client management
Self-service backup and recovery
Full VM and File-level recovery
Integrity check and rollback mechanism
Dynamic provisioning 2TB8TB
MSFT Exchange Server agents
MSFT SQL Server agents
Migration from VDP
VMware Introduces vSphere Data Protection Advanced for Midsize
vSphere Environments
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Next Steps
Promotion on vSphere with Operations Management
• 15% discount on upgrades and new Acceleration Kits
Buy before September 15th 2013
Download and install a trial of vCenter Operations Management
Suite Standard (if you already have vSphere deployed)
Test vSphere Data Protection in your environment
Learn more about other products at http://vmwarelearning.com
Contact your preferred VMware partner for more information
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