Hints and Tips for Monitoring Cisco UCS

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Hints and Tips –Monitoring Cisco UCS

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Product ManagementVirtualization, Clouds Monitoring

Steve SmithProduct MarketingVirtualization, Clouds Monitoring

Chakri AvalaCisco UCS Product ManagerManagement Software Solutions


Today

› Nimsoft Unified Management

› Cisco UCS and Clouds

› Cisco UCS Discovery and Monitoring

› Associating Cisco UCS with supported environments and services

› Setting thresholds and metrics

› Automatic configuration of Cisco UCS monitoring

› Demo

› Q&A


Nimsoft - Unified IT Management

› Until now, IT solutions existed in silos» Separate solutions for each IT discipline» High cost & complexity» Difficult integrations, manual processes

› Nimsoft customers at the forefront:» Service Providers – seeing high growth» Emerging Enterprises

› Requirement – Unified IT Management» Single solution, infrastructure, view» Modular architecture

Rapid adoption of cloud, virtualization and external IT service providers drive new IT management requirements


Cisco Unified Computing System

› A Platform for Tomorrow’s Data Center. And Today’s.» Run any application: virtualized

or non-virtualized» Integrate with existing networks,

storage, and management infrastructure

» Run side by side with legacy infrastructure

» Self integrating: Deploy rapidly & increase productivity


Cisco UCS – Modular and Powerful


4.Unified Infrastructure Systems (VBlock, FlexPod, ...) enable scalable systems acquisition, deployment and operations

2. Unified Network Servicesprovides dynamic multi-tenant network service provisioning and operations 3. Unified Computing

Systemensures scalable on-demand resource addition and graceful deletion

5. Unified Service Delivery assures consistent portability and interoperability.

1. Unified Fabric enables wire-once and eliminates I/O overheads

Cisco Cloud Building Blocks


Nimsoft Cisco UCS Monitoring› Dense compute power

› Self-service orientation

› Shared infrastructure

› Elasticity

› Support for mission critical applications and services

Required –A unified approach

› Support for all Cisco UCS components

› Agentless data collection(from Cisco UCS Manager)

› Auto-discovery of all Cisco UCS components and its details

› Auto-configuration

› Auto-monitoring

› Detailed events, alerts and performance


Discovery – For Dynamic Cisco UCS Environments

Three key capabilities:

› Network » Network and Topology

› Configuration» Internal components / configuration

› Context» Converged Infrastructure stacks – FlexPod, Vblock


Associating Cisco UCS with Environments and Services

› Converged Infrastructure

› Cloud and Virtualization

› Applications and services» Email» Web Apps» …


Cisco UCS Converged InfrastructureVblock / FlexPod

A turnkey monitoring solution for UCS-based Cloud stacks

› Flexible, scalable monitoring

› Discovers and monitors all physical and virtual components inside and outside of Vblock or FlexPod

› Event correlation and analysis

› Customizable, roll-based dashboards

› Service level and usage optimization reporting

› True multi-tenant SaaS delivery

› Usage-based metering and billing

› OOB Unified Dashboards

FlexPod

Cisco/VMware/EMC

Cisco/VMware/NetApp




› Set thresholds appropriate to usage» Baseline current usage

- Check typical growth rates- Set threshold times and exceptions

› Best practice thresholds» Use the “Top Ten” / “Bottom Ten”» Alarms for growth rates –

Not just thresholds- Physical CPU/Memory/Disk/Network use- Alarm on Rate, not just threshold

» Use % measures as standard- Will still reflect meaningful data even if resized

» Set alarms for minimum available %- Long enough time to correct the problem when usage grows

disproportionately» Physical performance and capacity

- By platform component Physical CPU, I/O (read/write performance), network, memory

Setting Appropriate Thresholds


Automatic Application of Cisco UCS Monitoring

› Auto-configuration» Auto-apply to existing elements

› Auto-monitoring» Auto-apply to new elements

› Nimsoft Templates» Policies for monitoring» Transportable to other instances,

or applicable within auto-configsor auto-monitors

› Key metrics» Nimsoft includes best practices in

the Templates» Templates are included with probes


Cisco UCS Related List Views

Automatically display the status of new elements» Virtualization Environment» Chassis» Chassis fan module» Chassis fans» Power supply units» IO modules» Blade servers» Blade server adaptor units» Blade server memory arrays» Blade server processors» Blade server interface cards» Fabric interconnect fans» Fabric interconnect power supplies» Fabric interconnect IO modules and

vethernet ports» Fabric interconnect IO module fibre

channel ports» Fabric interconnect local storage and

dynamic counters» Fabric interconnect


Demo

Auto Discovery of UCS EnvironmentsDelivering UCS Monitoring


Free Trial – With Automated UCS Monitoring Wizard…

Cisco UCS/Vblock Wizard Utility for SaaS

» Installs SaaS relay with UCS / Vblock probes

» Auto-configured /deployed within 15 minutes

» Automatic population of monitoring data into pre-built UMP dashboards


Nimsoft Monitor for Cisco UCS Environments

› Nimsoft - Complete single tool » Single infrastructure and portal» Coverage for Cisco UCS,

virtual environment, networks,applications, services and more

» Automatically detect configuration and apply monitoring

» Events, alarms, performance» Service Desk and Monitor

› Effectively, efficiently, maintain Service Levels» Rapidly identify & correct outages» Proactively prevent problems


Thank You

Q&A

More information at http://www.nimsoft.com/solutions/nimsoft-monitor/server/cisco-ucs

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