1. Managing the Power Infrastructurewithin your Virtualized
Environments SpiceWorld London 25 May 2012 Matthieu Jaeger
2. Agenda EATON Monitoring tool: Intelligent Power Manager
Virtualization (VM, VA, HA, hypervisors, manager..) Eaton solutions
for virtual infrastructure Live demo EATON ePDU new features
3. Why Power Management Software? Without communication, a UPS
will perform its tasks but your IT system could still be at risk:
If you are not warned of the remaining battery time in case of an
extended power failure, Or if the UPS gets overloaded for too long.
Communication can: Provide real time notification of the UPS status
And let you assign automatic actions to perform in case of power
event. Complete power sequences: Application and Operating system
shutdown after a preset time on battery backup UPS shutdown UPS
reboot on power restoration after a preset time Server &
operating system and application reboot Critical for systems
running unattended at night!
4. Intelligent Power ManagerEATON supervision and management
software for UPS, ePDU & shutdown applications Shutdown agent:
IPP UPS ePDU
5. What you should look for in a power management software
Monitor and manage power devices over the entire network Automated
Alerts Auto discovery Mass upgrade Mass configuration
Virtualization Centric Asset management Useful Information
Definable views Vendor Neutral See all devices, even globally, from
any PC on the network
6. Today, Virtualization is a reality! Virtualization drives IT
industry as the majority of new server installations are now
virtualized
7. What is virtualization? Physical world Virtualized
worldTraditional x86 Architecture Virtualization: Single OS image
per machine Separation of OS and hardware Software and hardware
tightly OS and application contained in single coupled file
Multiple applications often conflict Applications are isolated from
one Underutilized resources another Hardware independence and
flexibility These images are courtesy of VMware.
8. UPS agent installed into the virtual environmentMulti-host
site Single-host site Approach: Integrate UPS agent with Hypervisor
(single host) or central management server (multi-host) Report
power conditions to single location. Hypervisor/system manager
controls VMs No UPS s/w agent installed on VMs These images are
courtesy of VMware.
9. How IPP is protecting the ESXi server? When shutdown
criterias are reached: VMs will gracefully shutdown ESXi server
will shutdown
10. Redundancy configuration
11. Virtual Appliance : VA A virtual appliance is a
pre-integrated, self contained system that is made by combining a
software application (e.g., server software) with just enough
operating system for it to run optimally on industry standard
hardware or a virtual machine
12. Protecting multiple ESXi s serversStep 1: Download &
deploy IPMStep 2: Link IPM to vCenterStep 3: scan for devices and
virtual nodesStep 4: Set IPM with shutdown criterias and
vMotion
13. Features from the plug-in Power event notifications are
sent to the Alarms tab on the vCenter dashboard (power
failure)
14. HA : High Availability feature Provides automated restart
within minutes for all applications in the event of hardware or
operating system failures. Decrease downtime and improve
reliability with business continuity
15. Migrate avoid service downtimeMoves applications from
server or site facing imminent power disruption toanother one with
good power.Performs graceful shutdown of the hypervisor and powers
down the physicalserver.
16. Citrix XenMain features: Compatible HA IPM Integration into
XenCenter Hypervisor shutdown remotely via IPM
17. HyperVMain features: Agent IPP on each hypervisor IPM on
SCVMM
18. Mixed virtual environment IPM can managed multiple virtual
environment
19. Demo
20. IPM triggers vMotion - VMware
21. Managed ePDUs: whats new? Main features: individual or
group outlet monitoring (on/off) Power consumption per outlet /
group (Volt, Amps; Watts) Monitoring Temperature & Humidity
(sensor) Lets talk about the new features!
22. Create and manage a group of outletsCreate and set a group:
John Smith is a group with outlets A6 + B4Give access to a group:
Login as John Smith
23. Power Schedule Control outlets / groups automatically Set a
power schedule for a specific group: John Smiths group will swith
off at 8pm and switch back on at 7am everyday
24. Two more things ePDU Energy Wise Compliant (Cisco) ePDU is
fully integrated into Intelligent Power Management (Mass config,
Mass upgrade)