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Floyd Strimling

VP Community

November 30, 2012

Apache CloudStack Collab Conference

Transforming IT Operations

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Agenda

• Introduction, What’s a Zenoss?

• Cloud’s Effect on IT Operations / Monitoring

• Monitoring Today

• Zenoss Basics

• Brief Demonstration

• Questions and Answers

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FLOYD STRIMLINGVICE PRESIDENT COMMUNITY

Email: floyd@zenoss.com

Twitter:@platenreport

Blog: http://blog.zenoss.com

http://platenreport.com

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Zenoss at a Glance

Transforming IT Operations• Founders lived the pain of legacy platforms at pioneering cloud

providers• New approach to both technology and business

Leading Commercial Open Source Player in Category• Large Global Footprint: 2.5M Downloads, 30K Organizations, 175

Countries• Large Active Community: 100K Members• Rapid Innovation & Lower Costs

Fastest Growing Enterprise Management Software Company

• 2010 and 2011 Inc 500• 2011 #22 on Deloitte Fast 500• Growth across key segments: Enterprise, Web, Federal, SMB, Service

Provider

Most Widely Adopted Cloud Management Console• Largest install-base of any cloud-capable management product in the

market• Unifies physical, virtual & cloud monitoring• Enables public, private and hybrid cloud scenarios

Strong Business & Team• Rapid growth with new customer acquisition and retention• Annapolis, MD & Austin, TX & San Jose, CA

Cool Vendor inIT Operations 2010

Best Monitoring Toolfor the Cloud

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What is Agility?

“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are

useless, but planning is indispensable.”

~Dwight Eisenhower

“The power of moving quickly and easily; nimbleness: exercises

demanding agility”~Dictionary.com

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What is Chaos?

“Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion

in our minds.”~George Santayana

(Philosopher)

“A state of utter confusion or disorder; a total lack of organization or order.”

~Dictionary.com

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What is Cloud?

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What’s The Effect on IT Operations ?

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A WORD FROM THE “ANALYSTS”

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Source: Forrester Research, Inc.

Complexity Accelerants

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What’s The Effect on IT Operations ?

Source: Gartner

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IT Infrastructure “Stack”• Cisco UCS-M• VMware vCenter

• Hypervisors• Nexus 1000v

• Cisco UCS• Fabric Interconnect

• Cisco ASR, Nexus 7000

• Cisco ACE, ASA• Cisco MDS

• EMC, NetApp• Others

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Journey to the Cloud

Virtualization

Converged Infrastructur

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Cloud

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MONITORING TODAY

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The Reality Timeline

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The Reality Timeline

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The Reality Timeline

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The Reality Timeline

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The Reality Timeline

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The Reality Timeline

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The Reality Timeline

Cloud/Programmable Data CenterImage: http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowldc/kurtz-hammers-fncs-hemmer-on-fair-

balanced_b19960

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FrankenMonitor

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Single Pane of Glass

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It’s All About Perspective

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The Anatomy of a New IT Ops Platform

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ZENOSS BASICS

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Zenoss: The Basics

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LinuxRed Hat, CentOS

Stay Tuned

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Zenoss Core 4 Architecture

Zenoss Core 4

Agentless Multi-protocol

ResourceModel

UnifiedPresentation

Layer

CommonMessagingPlatform

Web CLI

IntegrationRESTAMQPJSON

Mobile

CollectionCollection

Metrics

Service CatalogProvisioning

CMDBOrchestrationService Desk

BillingOther Managers

CommonExtensibilityFramework"ZenPack"

Discovery & Modeling Collection Notification &

Control

HTTPTCPSNMPWMI SSH ICMP SMTP/POPREST SOAPWEBMSMSJMXWIN-RPC ODBC

CloudStack OpenStack Cloud Foundry

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DEMO

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Where to Get Zenoss?

CORE Software

• http://community.zenoss.org

• http://wiki.zenoss.org

Additional ZenPacks

• http://gitub.com/zenoss

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Things to Think About•Rationalize current IT operations tools

• Success vs. unsuccessful vs. failure

•Cross domain involvement• IT, Customer, Executives

•Beware of vendor lock-In• Open vs. Closed or Open Source vs. Proprietary

•Past, present, and future• Static, Dynamic, Cloud, ?

•People, process, and tools• What are you and/or the customer looking to solve?

•Be open to new paradigms• Test and verify

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THANK YOU QUESTIONS & ANSWERSEmail: floyd@zenoss.com

Twitter: @platenreport

Slides Available: http://slideshare.net/zenoss