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vCenter Operations Manager and
the Quest for the Missing Metrics
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Agenda
Introduction
What will you learn?
Why analytics matter
About vCenter Operations Manager
Custom UI and Default vSphere Dashboards
Metrics and Super Metrics
Widgets and Custom Dashboards
Integration
Customer reference
Questions?
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Introduction
Duco Jaspars – vConsult
Independent Virtualization Consultant
Twitter: @vConsult
http://blog.vConsult.nl
Eric Sloof – NTPRO.NL
Freelance VMware Certified Instructor
Twitter: @esloof
http://www.ntpro.nl
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What will you learn?
Which vCenter Operations Manager version do I need to be able to
customize?
What customization options do I have?
How will this help me to improve the visibility in to my
environment?
How do others use customization in their environment?
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Why analytics matter
Gain comprehensive visibility into the health, risk and efficiency
of your infrastructure and applications.
Proactively manage the health of vSphere, virtual machines and
applications.
Spot potential performance bottlenecks early on and remediate
before end users notice.
Right-size and reclaim overprovisioned capacity to increase
consolidation ratios.
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About vCenter Operations Manager
vCenter Operations Manager collects performance data from each
object at every level of your virtual environment.
It stores and analyzes the data, and uses that analysis to provide
real-time information about problems, or potential problems,
anywhere in your virtual environment.
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About vCenter Operations Manager
vCenter Operations Manager is available in four editions:
•Foundation •Standard •Advanced •Enterprise
To customize vCenter Operations Manager, you need to have the
Advanced or Enterprise version.
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Custom UI and Default vSphere Dashboards in Custom UI
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Custom UI
• Accessible via:
https://<vcops server>/vcops-
custom
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Default vSphere Dashboards
The vSphere group in the Custom UI Dashboards menu contains several default dashboards for managing virtual objects in a vSphere environment.
Troubleshooting
VM Utilization and Performance
Host and Cluster Utilization
Datastore Performance and Space
Heatmaps and Alerts
Host Memory
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Default vSphere Dashboards
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Metrics and Super Metrics
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Metrics and Super Metrics
A metric is an entity that describes the performance of a resource.
A super metric is a formula that contains a combination of one or
more metrics for one or more resources.
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Super Metrics Example
Memory ballooning is a VM metric, is there any ballooning
happening in my Cluster?
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Super Metrics Example
Create a Super Metric to show the total amount of ballooning for all
VM’s in a
vSphere Cluster.
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Super Metrics Example
Create a Super Metric Package
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Super Metrics Example
Attach the Super Metrics Package to a resource kind (both clusters
in this case)
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Super Metrics Example
Show the Super
Metric Output
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Dashboard based on Super Metric
A simple dashboard that shows ballooning per vSphere Cluster
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Widgets and Custom Dashboards
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Custom Dashboards
The panes on a dashboard are called widgets.
A widget is a collection of related information about attributes, resources, applications, or the overall processes in your environment.
Each dashboard contains one or more widgets.
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GEO Dashboard Widget
With the The GEO Dashboard Widget, you can group resources by GEO location.
First create Tag Value and pinpoint a location:
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GEO Dashboard Widget
Assign a Resource to a GEO Location Tag Value
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GEO Dashboard Widget
The GEO widget shows a map with all the assigned resources. You can add the GEO widget to any dashboard.
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GEO Dashboard Widget
When resources are grouped according to their physical location, you can see the health of all of the resources in a particular place.
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Metric Weather Map Widget
The Metric Weather Map widget provides a graphical display of the
changing values of a single metric for multiple resources over time.
The color of an icon changes to show changes in the value of the
metric over time.
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Metric Weather Map Widget
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Integration
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Adapters
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Third party adapters
Third party adapters can be downloaded from: ftp.integrien.com
Or nowadays from http://solutionexchange.vmware.com
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Commercial third party adapters
EMC Storage Analytics:
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Third party adapters
Stratusphere UX provides properly related KPIs for over 40 critical
desktop metrics.
These metrics can be fed by the Stratusphere UX Adapter into
vCenter Operations.
Demo
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Generic Adapters
Generic adapters are designed to connect to standard data sources. They typically require field customization to accommodate site-specific environments.
Port Adapter
SNMP Adapter
Text File Adapter
HTTP Post Adapter
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Port Adapter
The port adapter monitors the availability state and response time of ports on hosts.
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SNMP Adapter
The SNMP collects metrics from devices that support SNMP.
These devices typically include routers, switches, servers, workstations, and printers.
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Text File Adapter
The Text File adapter collects performance data from delimited text files in real time.
You can create multiple instances of the Text File adapter.
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HTTP Post Adapter
The HTTP Post Adapter exposes a subset of the functions of the vCOps OpenAPI through an HTTP interface, send a POST request to the HTTP URL at: https://vCops-Server/HttpPostAdapter
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Integrating local weather data
Tomas Baublys has created a script to Integrate local weather data in vCops using the HTTP Post Adapter. You can find the complete script at:
http://wiegehtdasmitdemcloud.de/
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Integrating local weather data
The script receives weather data from openweathermap.org and sends a POST request to the vCops HttpPostAdapter.
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Integrating local weather data
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Integration of Log Insight
Log Insight delivers automated log management through log aggregation, analytics and search.
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Integration of Log Insight
Log Insight can be configured to send alerts to vCops about vCenter Server objects.
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Integration of Log Insight
In the vSphere UI, vCops displays links to launch Log Insight in-context from the alerts details page and from the objects details page.
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Customer reference
Dashboards used by a Dutch Government IT organization
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Availability is calculated using the following Super Metric:
((This Resource: summary|number_running_hosts/This
Resource: summary|total_number_hosts)*100)
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Several ways to show Datastore latency, to figure out which
version is preferred by the end users.
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• Dashboard to search for resources and select metrics.
• Shows rolling view graph for quick overview.
• Shows normal graphs to pinpoint issues, zoom in and out, and export
graphs.
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Resources
Training courses:
vCops Fundamentals
vCops Analyze and Predict
vCops Advanced Usage and Dashboard Design
VMware vSphere with Operations Management: Fast Track
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Resources
Free Instructional Videos:
10 instructional videos http://vmwarelearning.com/vcenter/
Websites:
http://Jume.nl
http://blogs.vmware.com/management
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Questions?
Duco Jaspars – vConsult
Independent Virtualization Consultant
Twitter: @vConsult
http://blog.vConsult.nl
Eric Sloof – NTPRO.NL
Freelance VMware Certified Instructor
Twitter: @esloof
http://www.ntpro.nl
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