HP Insight Dynamics - VSE
Bradford Nichols,HP Enterprise Storage and Servers
Abstract
• Insight Dynamics – VSE 4.0 (ID-VSE) is the latest release in HP’s server virtualization management software. It combines the scope and maturity of previous Virtual Server Environment (VSE) offerings of Integrity Servers with integration into the latest capabilities of the popular Insight Control Environment of products for ProLiant Servers. This talk will provide an overview of the features in Virtual Server Environment product for ProLiant and Integrity Servers, and then include a demo of some of the significant new features in the ID-VSE 4.0 release;
• Support for a Windows CMS• Virtualization Manager
– Blade Enclosure, Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager and Virtual Machine Management support
• Capacity Advisor– Consolidation scenario wizards– Power awareness
• Logical Server – Rapid provisioning of Blade and VM contexts which can be easily moved within
the available resource pool
About the speaker
• Bradford Nichols– Technical Consultant– HP Enterprise Storage and Servers– [email protected]
© 2008 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.The information contained herein is subject to change without notice
HP Insight Dynamics – VSE
Bradford Nichols, HPSeptember 2008
Optimize server utilization in real time
Agenda• Introducing HP Insight Dynamics – VSE• Demo
−Part 1: A Virtualized Infrastructure
−Part 2: Virtualization Manager (Vman)
−Part 3: Capacity Advisor (CapAd)
−Part 4: Server Migration Pack (SMP)
−Part 5: Logical Servers
• Wrap-up−Answers to Q&A
Questions• How many of you are involved in server management:
−specification, installation, provisioning and on-going maintenance?
• Which of the following are key interests where you work:−Reducing time to roll out new servers in response to requests?
−Reducing costs by better utilizing server resources or right sizing them in the first place?
−Increasing responsiveness to changes in server landscape: sizing, p2v, v2p etc.?
−All of the above?
• How many of you have physical and virtual servers in your environment?
Introducing HP Insight Dynamics - VSE• What problem is HP providing a solution
for?• Features and Components of ID-VSE• Relationship to Insight Control Suites• Relationship to HP Integrity VSE
Does your infrastructure get in the way of better business outcomes?
Too timeconsuming73% of consolidations took a year or more1
Too energyhungry?Data center electricity use more than doubled since 2000
Too costly?Sprawl is expensive – virtual servers are growing much faster than physical servers
Too unpredictable?Few servers have traditional HA clustering
1. IT executive and managers survey: Forrester Research, Inc: How Large Enterprises Approach IT Infrastructure Consolidation December 2007
HP Restricted. HP and Channel Partner Internal Use.
HP Insight Dynamics - VSE
• Control physical and virtual resources in the same way
• Real-time capacity planning for servers and power
• Ease of migration (P2P, V2P, V2P, V2V)
• Bring the flexibility of virtualization to physical servers
Building on the value of HP Systems Insight Manager,
Insight Control and Virtual Server Environment
Continuously analyze and optimize your infrastructure
Addressing key data center issues: cost, speed, quality and energy
HP Insight Dynamics – VSE and VSE Suites delivered in convenient packages
HP Insight Dynamics – VSE Suites for HP
ProLiant and HP BladeSystem with
ProLiant blades
HP Virtual Server Environment Suite
for HP Integrity
new new release
HP Insight software portfolio for HP servers
HP Insight Dynamics – VSE Suitefor ProLiant and BladeSystem ProLiant
HP Insight Control Suitesfor ProLiant and BladeSystem ProLiant
•Virtualization mgmt (VMM)•Power management (IPM)•Rapid server deployment (RDP)•Performance management (PMP)•Patch management (VPM)•Remote management (iLO Adv for ML/DL / iLO Select for blades)
•Central management (SIM)
•Virtualization mgmt (VMM)•Power management (IPM)•Rapid server deployment (RDP)•Performance management (PMP)•Patch management (VPM)•Remote management (iLO Adv for ML/DL / iLO Select for blades)
•Central management (SIM)
•Capacity planning (CapAd)
•Virtualization management (Vman)
•Logical server management (LSA)
•Server migration - P2P, V2P, V2V, P2V (SMP Universal)
•with Insight Control Suite
•Capacity planning (CapAd)
•Virtualization management (Vman)
•Logical server management (LSA)
•Server migration - P2P, V2P, V2V, P2V (SMP Universal)
•with Insight Control Suite
HP VSE Suitefor Integrity (incl. blades)
•Capacity planning (CapAd)
•Virtualization management (Vman)
•Logical server management* (LSA)
•Workload management (GWLM or HP-UX WLM)
•Soft partitioning (HP Integrity VM or vPar)
•Capacity planning (CapAd)
•Virtualization management (Vman)
•Logical server management* (LSA)
•Workload management (GWLM or HP-UX WLM)
•Soft partitioning (HP Integrity VM or vPar)
* Q109 for Integrity
HP Virtual Server Environment for HP Integrity
HP Virtual Server Environment
Intelligent control: including Insight Dynamics – VSE functionality
HP Systems Insight Manager
HP Capacity Advisor
Virtual serversPartitioning Availability Utility pricing• nPars• vPars• HP Integrity
Virtual Machines• HP Secure Resource
Partitions
• HP Serviceguard• HP Serviceguard
Storage Mgmt Suite• HP Metrocluster• HP Continentalclusters• SGeRAC/SGeSAP
• HP Instant Capacity• HP Temporary
Instant Capacity• HP Global
Instant Capacity• HP Pay Per Use
HP Virtualization Manager
HP Global Workload Manager
HP-UX Workload Manager
Integratedby design
Virtual fabric: HP Virtual Connect
HP Restricted. HP and Channel Partner Internal Use.
HP Systems Insight ManagerHP-UX Central Management Server
Managed from a common console
Integrity Essentials
HP Systems Insight Manager
HP-UX CMSIntegrity
Can Manage
Integrity Servers
Integrity Blades
Note: HP 9000 servers are also supported.
Note: no plans to support VCEM, logical server capability or RDP from HP-UX-based CMS.
HP Systems Insight ManagerWindows Central Management Server
Windows CMS on ProLiant
Insight Essentials
HP Systems Insight Manager
One common console
Can Manage Integrity Servers
Integrity Blades
ProLiant ML/DL
ProLiant Blades
Note: HP 9000 servers are also supported.
• New: Windows CMS supports all current Integrity tools
• Note: VCEM and LSM will be only supported on Windows CMS
Demo Part 1: A Virtualized Infrastructure
• System Insight Manager (SIM)−BladeSystem Integrated
Manager
• Virtual Machine Management Pack (VMM)
• Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM)
Questions• How many of you are currently using HP
c7000 blade enclosures?−Virtual Connect?
• How many have deployed VMware virtual machines?
• How many of you use HP System Insight Manager?
HP Insight software portfolio for HP servers
HP Insight Dynamics – VSE Suitefor ProLiant and BladeSystem ProLiant
HP Insight Control Suitesfor ProLiant and BladeSystem ProLiant
•Capacity planning (CapAd)
•Virtualization management (Vman)
•Logical server management (Vman)
•Server migration - P2P, V2P, V2V, P2V (SMP Universal)
•with Insight Control Suite
•Capacity planning (CapAd)
•Virtualization management (Vman)
•Logical server management (Vman)
•Server migration - P2P, V2P, V2V, P2V (SMP Universal)
•with Insight Control Suite
HP VSE Suitefor Integrity (incl. blades)
•Capacity planning (CapAd)
•Virtualization management (Vman)
•Logical server management* (Vman)
•Workload management (GWLM or HP-UX WLM)
•Soft partitioning (HP Integrity VM or vPar)
•Capacity planning (CapAd)
•Virtualization management (Vman)
•Logical server management* (Vman)
•Workload management (GWLM or HP-UX WLM)
•Soft partitioning (HP Integrity VM or vPar)
* Q109 for Integrity
•Virtualization mgmt (VMM)•Power management (IPM)•Rapid server deployment (RDP)•Performance management (PMP)•Patch management (VPM)•Remote management (iLO Adv for ML/DL / iLO Select for blades)
•Central management (SIM)
•Virtualization mgmt (VMM)•Power management (IPM)•Rapid server deployment (RDP)•Performance management (PMP)•Patch management (VPM)•Remote management (iLO Adv for ML/DL / iLO Select for blades)
•Central management (SIM)•Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM)
•Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM)
Demo
HP Insight Dynamics - VSE
• Control physical and virtual resources in the same way
• Real-time capacity planning for servers and power
• Ease of migration (P2P, V2P, V2P, V2V)
• Bring the flexibility of virtualization to physical servers
Building on the value of HP Systems Insight Manager,
Insight Control and Virtual Server Environment
Continuously analyze and optimize your infrastructure
Addressing key data center issues: cost, speed, quality and energy
Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
Capacity Advisor (CapAd)
Server Migration Pack (SMP)
Logical Servers
Demo Part 2: Virtualization Manager (Vman)• Graphical hierarchical
View of Infrastructure−Enclosures−Blades−Virtual Machine Hosts−Virtual Machine Guests−ProLiant and Integrity
• Status −Event icons−Performance meters −Power meter
• Quick launch of relevant tools
Questions• What do you currently use to visualize the
state of your server infrastructure?−A viso diagram
−VMware Virtual Center
−HP System Insight Manager
−Other
• How many windows or tools do you have open to get events, performance management tool access?
Demo
Physical and Virtual Perspective within Vman
Demo Part 3: Capacity Advisor (CapAd)• Profiles: Historical
Utilization Data of Servers
• Scenarios: Projections and Hypothetical Configurations−Servers and Workloads
−Forecasting
−Limits
−Solvers
Questions• How many of you have server consolidation
projects to virtual machines planned or in-progress?
• Of those doing consolidations, what do you currently use size replacement systems:−A spreadsheet?
−A service from a vendor?
−Other?
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HP Capacity Advisor• Utilization Calculator
− moving workloads adds and subtracts
− workloads can be multiplied by a constant to reflect expected growth
• Simple data collection
− Uses standard WBEM
− Automatic nightly data collection
• Integration with VSE features
− SG failover planning
− VM planning
− gWLM estimating• Smart Solver
− Automatically generate plans for consolidation and load balancing
• Power Planning
− Estimate the power consumption of different configurations
• Easy to use
+ =8 Core Peak
8 Core Peak
12 Core Peak
HP Insight Dynamics – VSE: Capacity planning to optimize utilizationThe new math: 8+8 = 12
• Two workloads each have an 8 CPU peak demand but the peak of their sum is 12 CPUs.
• Peaks for different workloads do not all happen at the same time.
Demo
Demo Part 4: Server Migration Pack (SMP)
Questions• How many of you see a use for
−P2V?
−V2P?
−V2V?
−P2P?
• Anyone see V2P2V?
The New Server Problem
• Replacing an old server with a new physical server?
• How long, and how many experts does it take to:−lay down an operating system?−implement security?−install application and configure?−quality assurance and validation?
• Replacing old servers with virtual machines?−Does your migration tool support multiple
virtualization platforms?−Can it migrate a VM back to physical if needed?−Do you have time to learn multiple tools?
HP Server Migration Pack – Universal Edition
• SMP Universal meets all your HP ProLiant and BladeSystem migration needs−Physical to ProLiant (P2P)
• New HP ProLiant or HP BladeSystemservers
−Virtual to ProLiant (V2P)• Migrate VMs back to standalone servers
−Physical to Virtual (P2V)• Supports multiple virtualization platforms
−Virtual to Virtual (V2V)• Convert VMs between virtualization
platforms
SMP Universal – How it works
Source Server or VM Destination Server or VM
SMP Universal Application Station
SIM Integration or Standalone
Demo Part 5: Logical Servers• Definition of a Server
that can be mapped dynamically to a Blade or Virtual Machine
• Rapid response to the request for a new server
• Templating commonly requested server configs
• Flexible migration of servers
• New use cases leveraging activation and deactivation
Questions• What is the longest aspect of rolling out
new servers for you:−Closing on requirements?
−Searching to see if resources already exist that can be re-provisioned?
−Cabling and wiring into the infrastructure (virtual or physical)?
• Is efficiently managing Physical servers as well as Virtual ones a concern?
Bring flexibility of virtualization to physical servers
Server
Virtual Fabric
OS Imagereference
Configuration requirement
sUnique IDs
Logical server
Server
HP Logical Server technology
•A server profile that is easily created and freely moved across physical and virtual machines
Logical servers can be:
•Active physical blade servers
•Active virtual machines
•Offline templates
Available for Integrity Q1’09
OS image
Logical server management
Logical servers can be provisioned via templates and freely adjusted and migrated
• Bring logical servers on-line quickly for increased capacity, new projects or server recovery
• Shorten maintenance window by rapidly moving server profiles
• Drag and drop capabilities to move logical servers
Demo
Wrap-up• /www.hp.com/go/idvse
HP Insight Dynamics - VSE
• Control physical and virtual resources in the same way
• Real-time capacity planning for servers and power
• Ease of migration (P2P, V2P, V2P, V2V)
• Bring the flexibility of virtualization to physical servers
Building on the value of HP Systems Insight Manager,
Insight Control and Virtual Server Environment
Continuously analyze and optimize your infrastructure
Addressing key data center issues: cost, speed, quality and energy
Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
Capacity Advisor (CapAd)
Server Migration Pack (SMP)
Logical Servers
Questions? ( 1 of )
• What Operating Systems are supported with SMP-U?– The currently released version of SMP-U is 3.5. In this
version the supported source system OSs are Windows variants, in the case of a VtoX the source VM hosts are VMware, Xen and MS Virtual Server.
– The OS on the target server (if it exists) is not important because SMP provides a bootable image for its agent on the target. In the case of a migration to VM the supported target VM Hosts are VMware, Xen and MS Virtual Server.
– For specific details, the quick spec for the v3.5 version of the product is online at http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12855_na/12855_na.html
Questions? (2 of
• Are integrity blades supported as logical servers? – In the current ID-VSE 4.0 release they are not.
But the plan is to support them in the next release which is planned for Q109. See you can contact your HP rep for a formal NDA roadmap if you need more details.
– Note that today Integrity Blades, HP-UX and HP Integrity Virtual Machines are fully supported in the Virtualization Manager and Capacity Advisor components of the ID-VSE 4.0 product
Questions? (3 of
• Can Capacity Advisor work for an all Dell installed base?– Used in an on-going fashion CapacityAdvisor is not
intended for use with non-HP platforms. The licensing scheme is based on HP platforms and a platform-type check is made in the SIM CMS licensing mechanism when licenses are applied.
– That being said, CapacityAdvisor does have some low-level mechanisms to import historical performance data that is in ascii format independent of any platform-type labeling. These could be used to do a one time import of historical for purposes of a consolidation project of non-HP platforms to HP servers. Typically in this case, the tool would be used by HP services as part of a project on behalf of a customer. If this is of further interest I suggest you contact me or the local HP services delivery contact in your area.
Questions? (4 of
• Can virtualization manager be utilized w/o SIM?– Virtualization Manager is only available as a plug
in to SIM. The support SIM Server OS options are HP-UX or x86 Windows.
– Vman itself has no real dependencies in the Insight Control Suite other then SIM. So if you are concerned about a lot of complexity to set Vman up due to the Insight Suite’s size, it isn’t necessarily so. But Logical Servers requires VMM and VCEM. Also CapAd would utilizes VMM when gather information about VMware hosts.
Questions? (5 of 5)• How would be an answer to customer's question - what
VSE does offer which is not in Vmware's Vmotion/HA?– The short answer is ID-VSE is not a replacement for VMware
and its features. – ID-VSE adds additional features to a customer’s ProLiant
environment with VMware;• The ability to view and manage both physical and virtual aspects
of your environment from a single interface (Virtualization Manager). From this tool integrated in SIM you get low-level server hardware characteristics and events right up through Virtual Machine visibility and control and everything in between.
• An integrated full featured, directly accessible to the user capacity monitoring and planning tool – Capacity Advisor. The Capacity Advisor tool works for physical bare-iron server, vm host servers and vms.
• The ability to “Virtualize” physical blades in an enclosure much in the same way as vms are virtualized on a vm host. This is done using ID-VSE logical servers. When blades are logical servers, they (their context or settings like SAN and MAC addresses) can be templated, assigned, moved, much like a Virtual Machine.