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Cisco Workload Optimization Manager(CWOM)Lars GranbergSystems Engineer, lagranbe@cisco.com

12. April 2018

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“Assuring workload performance while maximizing utilization”

The Desired State

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Decision Engine

for IT environments

• Software that continuously analyzes workload consumption, costs and compliance constraints and automatically allocates resources in real-time.

• It assures workload performance by giving workloads the resources they need when they need them.

What is Cisco Workload Optimization Manager?

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Dynamic Adjustment

Self-Managing

• Initial Workload Placement

• Increase Resources

• Decrease Resources

• Move Workload

• Retire Resources

Thread UtilizationCore Utilization

Ready Queue/ Wait Time

UtilizationSwappingBallooning

IOPSCapacityThroughputCompression

LatencyRelationships

BandwidthGeography

WORKLOAD

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Decision Automation

Provision

Scale Placement

Applications

Compute

StorageCisco UCS Director

Cisco ACICisco CloudCenter

Cisco UCS Central/Manager

Cisco

Public Cloud

Databases

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Workload Performance Depends on Supply Chain

Performance Supply Chain• Workload requires resources from VM• VM requires resources form Hypervisor• Hypervisor requires resources

• Network• Compute• Storage

• Thousands of variables to tune• Placement• Scaling• Provisioning

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Evolution of AutomationManual

Physical to Virtual

Self-managingScale

1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019 . . . . . . . 2025

ManualWorkflow

Automated Real-Time

Scripting Scale

Manual Scale

Scripts,Orchestration

Self-Managing

Com

plex

ity

Automating Processes à Automating Decisions

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Process

• Problems typically addressed after alerting -> reactive

• Labor intensive

• More data == more noise

Decision

• Problems typically addressed before alerting -> preventative

• Little to no human intervention

• More data == better decisions

Process Automation versus Decision Automation

deploy(new_app)new_vm(large, ssd) Desired

state

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Decision Automation for Cisco Multi-Cloud

Tetration

Turbonomic

HyperFlex

UCS Manager UCS Director

Placement Scaling

Capacity

CloudCenterOrchestration

Cloud

Infrastructure

Applications

ACI

Workload OptimizationPowered by Turbonomic

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How Does It Work

• Installs within 20 minutes from an .ova file

• Connect to browser choice (Firefox, Chrome)

• Add license key and select targets

• Add IP addresses, user names, and password credentials

• Connects to virtualization, compute, storage

• Detects all service entities

• Overlays constraints

• Result: virtual market of buyersand sellers

• Topological map = relationshipsArrow show buying/selling association

• Recommended actions designed to optimize virtual market

• Three types of actions

• Placement• Scaling • Provisioning

• Actions are global

Reduce Vmem capacity for Virtual Machine test-AppSvr1 from 2097152.0 to 1048576.0 to address underutilization

Actions

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Cisco WOM and VMware – Feature Comparison and Crossover

Cisco WOM

Feature Overlap• Balance load in a cluster (DRS)• Visibility into performance and

configuration issues (vROps)• Capacity planning (vROps)• Policy based new VM deployment

(vRA)• Visibility into cost / showback (vRB)

Only Cisco WOM Does• Continuously optimize workload

performance • Improve resource & cost efficiency

on-prem and in public cloud• Deliver predictable SLAs • Compliance assurance • Heterogeneous platform to support

any technology choice • Performance based new VM

deployment

Only vRealize Does• Hypervisor (vSphere)• High-availability and Maintenance

mode (DRS)• Virtual network config (vSwitch)• Automated new VM deployment and

self-service (vRA) • Log analysis (Log Insight)

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CloudCenter

Self-service environments must continuously perform as applications

are dynamically deployed into the environment.

Performance assurance for newly deployed and existing workloads in self-service environments.

CiscoCloudCenter

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How does it work together?

CiscoCloudCenter

User requests new cloud app…

CloudCenter calls to WOM via API….

WOM, where should this workload go?

WOMDiscoveryWhat’s the current state of the environment?

AnalyticsWhere will this app get the best price for the resources it needs?

ActionInitial placement

WOM returns a placement action…

CloudCenter places the workload as WOM

dictates

Cisco WOMDemo

Thank you.