Introducing: vSphere with Operations Management and vSphere Data

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Introducing:

vSphere with Operations Management

and vSphere Data Protection Advanced

Cesare G. Rossi

Senior Systems Engineer


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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


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


Standard

vSphere Enterprise+


Standard


Standard Enterprise Enterprise+


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%?

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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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Yes, buy

more RAM

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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


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%


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

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Introducing: vSphere with Operations Management and vSphere Data