Watching the Clouds: Challenges with Monitoring Hybrid Cloud Environments

Craig Lee & John Dias

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Watching the Clouds: Challenges with Monitoring Hybrid Cloud Environments

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John Dias

VMware Cloud Business Unit

Senior Technical Marketing Architect

Craig Lee

Blue Medora

Chief Systems Architect

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AgendaWATCHING THE CLOUDS

• Why Hybrid Cloud? • Agility in Monitoring

• Define the Monitoring Challenges

• Challenge Scenarios:

• Hybrid Cloud Capacity Planning and Migration • Workload Costing

• Capacity Optimization – for hybrid cloud evaluation

• Health and Availability

• SLA’s between the business units

• Performance • Depth of Monitoring

• Q&A

• Resources

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HOW TO MINIMIZE IT ALERTSGreg Hohertz

Principal Solution Architect

Why Hybrid Cloud?

Objective Drive Approach to Monitoring

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Public Cloud Adoption Grows

-Gartner

$318BPUBLIC CLOUD

SPENDING THROUGH 2018

-IDC

60%OF LARGE ENTERPRISES

RUN VMS

- Gartner

87%USING IAAS BY 2017

-IDC

65%HAVE A HYBRID

STRATEGY

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Hybrid Cloud Drivers

We (IT) had this figured out

• Suite of tools, hardware, and industry devoted to this

IT is still accountable for uptime

• Single throat to choke!

Rise of shadow IT

• Decoupling of business needs and IT responsiveness

• Prevalence of SaaS based solutions

• IT becomes the gatekeeper and not enabling business

SLAs, Uptime, and Performance for Production Applications

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• Emphasis on services and application and not the server

• Virtualization has already reduced emphasis on the hardware server

• Cloud hosted continues that trend by putting the focus on the Application

• Agility within the infrastructure can reduce reliance on Shadow IT

Agility and Rise of DevOps

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• On-Demand infrastructure

• Quicker provisioning

• Capex vs Op-Ex

• No Investment

• Minimal Risk in Failure

Infrastructure Capacity Revamped

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Monitoring StrategyRequires A WHY?

Understand the Why of your cloud strategy.

Embrace the business challenges that drove cloud adoption.

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Agility Capacity OpEx requirements Global availability

New problems require new solutions, but you don’t want tool sprawl.

You need a monitoring solution that will move with your line of business.

To succeed: look to your cloud business goals WATCHING THE CLOUDS

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Multi-Cloud Costing

Current Cloud Utilization Analysis

Chargeback / Showback to the BU

VMware vRealize Business for Cloud 7.3TOOLS

Deep vRealize Operations 6.6 integration

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Especially powerful with combining: custom reports,

dashboards and alerts.

Includes VMware monitoring

Deep out-of-the-box VMware monitoring.

Extended w/ True Visibility

Dozens of management packs cover everything from

data center to cloud.

Covers hybrid-cloud

Extensible platform allows for monitoring across

hybrid-cloud infrastructure.

VMware vRealize Operations 6.6TOOLS

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Infrastructure

Aggregate and analyze across the entire stackBLUE MEDORA AND VREALIZE OPERATIONS

Cloud

Applications

Data

Virtualization

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Virtualization

Databases Storage Network & Compute

Extending vRealize OperationsBLUE MEDORA

Enterprise Applications

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Challenge Scenarios

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vRealize Operations 6.6

Cloud management

• Cisco UCS

• Netapp

• Cisco Nexus

On-prem: ESXi

• RDS

• AuroraDB

Public cloud: AmazonDatabases

Demo configurationWATCHING THE CLOUDS

• MSSQL

• MySQL

• Oracle

• Postgresql

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VMWare Datacenter

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Start by taking inventory.

What’s worth keeping and what needs to go?1

Categorize your workloads.

Which databases can move to RDS?

Webservers with external connectivity?

Regional considerations (DR and international)?

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Cloud Migration: House CleaningCHALLENGE 1

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Cloud migration #1

Solution demo:

➢Blue Medora monitors all database servers

➢vROps Monitors the vSphere servers

➢Supermetrics total up the amount of data being stored

vRealize Operations with Blue Medora True Visibility Suite

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Cloud migration #2

Solution demo:

vRealize Business for Cloud 7.3Integrates with vRealize Operations data

VMWare Updates the costing tables frequently for on-prem and cloud operational expenses.

Reclaimable Costs shows where there can be cost saving with the current workload

Costs estimations for the cross cloud environments

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Multi-Cloud Production WorkloadsCHALLENGE 2

IT is still responsible

No matter where the application lives – IT is still

responsible

Evaluate a Successful Cloud Migration

• ”Why is it slow?”

• ”Did you even test?”

• Use synthetic benchmarks or user session

simulators where possible. TPCC / OLTP

Benchmakring tools

Compare key metrics side by side

• Latency, CPU, and throughput metrics still apply to

the performance of the application

• These are still databases just being hosted

somewhere else

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Multi-Cloudproduction workflows

Solution demo:




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Amazon East 1 Availability Zone Outage

(You need to know how to handle that situation)

SLAs

How do you keep your promises and

protect your reputation?

Your SLAs to the BU

Multi-vendor SLA Management

Need to account downtime and outages

from an independent source

Your service providers’ SLAs to you

SLAs and Availability of DataChallenge:

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SLAs &Availability #1

Solution demo:

VMware vRealize Operations 6.6 availability dashboard

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SLAs & Availability #2

Solution demo:




➢Custom dashboard showing the variety of data

○ Amazon US East datacenter-outage inspired dashboard

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Resources

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vROps 6.6 Demo Hybrid

Cloud Environment

Login to experience it yourself➔http://go.bluemedora.com/hybridcloud

Resources

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http://hybrid-cloud.bluemedora.com/

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Hybrid cloud

assessment

Resources

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Get your personalized report➔https://www.vmware.com/hybrid-cloud-assessment.html

https://www.vmware.com/hybrid-cloud-assessment.html

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vROps webinar series

Resources

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What’s new in vROps 6.6➔https://www.definit.co.uk/2017/07/vrops-webinar-series-2017-part-3-whats-new-with-vrops-6-6/Very Thorough Walkthrough of all the new functionality in the VROPS 6.6 UpdateBy Simon Eady and Sunny Dau

‘Full Stack monitoring with vROps➔http://vxpresss.blogspot.com/2017/05/vrops-webinar-series-2017-part-2-full.htmlBrock Peterson (Blue Medora) and Craig Lee (Blue Medora) guest host. • Full-Stack On-Premises • Amazon Hybrid Cloud Monitoring specifically RDS Databases

https://www.definit.co.uk/2017/07/vrops-webinar-series-2017-part-3-whats-new-with-vrops-6-6/

http://vxpresss.blogspot.com/2017/05/vrops-webinar-series-2017-part-2-full.html

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