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Q4 2010
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VMwares Management Story Management Whiteboard (Scripted) Management Whiteboard (Presentation Mode)
Management Overview
This is WHAT we want to say The following slides provide background and key talking points for the whiteboard presentation.
2. Management Whiteboard Discovery, Needs Assessment, Best Practices & Recommendations How VMware solves Mgmt challenges
3. Product Deep Dives Presentations & Demos How VMware Mgmt Products work
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Apps
App Stack A
App Stack B
Resource Pools
vSphere vSphere vSphere vSphere
Service catalog
Compute factory
Traditional IT
Private Cloud
Day-to-day is automated;
Management tools should focus on higher order tasks
Resource Pools
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vSphere
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Resource Pools
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Management Whiteboard
This is HOW we want to say it
Traditionally, Operations Management has been focused on infrastructure and application silos. Every application required its own hardware, OS, middleware and application stack. Each silo is very complex, and difficult to manage, requiring specialized skills. The more applications you have, the more specialized teams youll need. Applications live and die with the hardware or the next refresh cycle. On the other hand, the cost of these application is relatively easy to capture depending on who owns the hardware and software licenses.
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Private Cloud
vApp
DB
AD
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As we move to a Private Cloud, virtualization reduces infrastructure costs through server consolidation. But it also blurs the lines of ownership and financial responsibility by introducing new abstraction layers: Resource Pools, Datastores and VLANs. It is now much easier to provide standardized system configurations, such as Windows and Linux VM templates or a complete LAMP stack for rapid provisioning. These templates are used to build more complex virtualized applications (vApps). As SaaS applications like SalesForce.com and Infrastructure as a Service offerings become more viable, some of these VMs could run at a service provider but they still need to be managed consistently and integrated with the datacenter, for example, to provide authentication against AD.
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OS vApp vApp
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A Private Cloud architecture enables you to become more like an IT service provider, and over time, end users will be asking for more applications and higher Quality of Service (QoS), They will also benchmark corporate IT against application service provides like Google, Facebook and Yahoo. End users are now used to and expect applications to be available anywhere, anytime and with very little (if any) downtime. The impact on IT is that well need to figure out how to manage more VMs and a higher rate of change with the same number of people as headcounts and infrastructure budgets are most likely not going to increase.
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OS vApp vApp
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Optimize Resources
Automate Tasks
Manage SLAs
When transitioning to the Private Cloud, we must focus on three questions: 1. How can we optimize resource utilization and become more efficient?
2. How can we automate tasks to get more done in the same amount of time?
3. How can we better manage service levels of VMs and applications? Lets start with the first topic and talk about how to optimize resources.
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Managing the Transition tovSphere alreadyCloud a lot of resource the Private provides
Traditional IT
App MW OS HW App MW OS HW App MW OS HW
optimization features like Thin Provisioning, DRS Private Cloud and Power Management, so its important you take advantage of them. More Apps
But then you should focus on Capacity Higher QoS Management. Because VMs run on shared OS DB AD infrastructure, youll need to understand your consumption trends so you can forecastMore VMs future VM Resource Pool | Datastore | VLAN capacity needs and avoid shortfalls. More Change Ongoing capacity management is also important to right size VMs. You want to avoid a situation where over-provisioned physical servers SLAs Automate Tasks Manage become over-provisioned VMs during P2V. In fact, we hear from customers that have 90% of their VMs are over-provisioned which really limits your consolidation ratios.
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Optimize Resources
- Thin Provisioning, DRS, DPM - Capacity Management: - Usage Trends - Right-size VMs
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If you can go from 5:1 to 30:1 consolidation ratio youll literally get hundreds of thousands of dollars more out of your VMware investment and save even more on Microsoft and Oracle license costs if theyre licensed by the number of processors in the ESX hosts.
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Optimize Resources
- Thin Provisioning, DRS, DPM - Capacity Management: - Usage Trends - Right-size VMs - Default VM Configurations
Once youve right-sized your VMs you should look at your distribution of VM configurations to determine what your templates for app server, database, etc VMs should look like. Automate Tasks Manage SLAs Standardization is really what drives higher VM per admin ratios and we have customers reporting that they can only manage more than 800 VMs per admin only because theyve rigorously standardized their VM configurations instead of build to order VMs. Bottom line, optimizing your resources this way gives you a good foundation efficiency and scale.
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Lets talk about automation. I think youll agree that weve solved the provisioning Managing the Transition to the Private Cloud problem and the new challenge is how to deliver VMs faster but at the same time enforce IT control?
Traditional IT
Private Cloud
This is where Self Service Policies comes in because it gives end users to the ability to More Apps App App App ?access control and the number of VMs users can access vApp vApp provision VMs but IT can limit Higher QoS MW MW MW OS OS OS simultaneously. HW
HW HW OS DB AD For example, you could define policies to limit access for contractors to only 1 preSAP Oracle Exchange configured VM. Developers may access up to 5 VMs pre-approved and architects More VMs VM Resource Pool | Datastore | VLAN $$$ More You could $ even $$ create new VM templates and publish them to the rest of their group.Change can also automate approval/request workflows for even more control and oversight.
Optimize Resources
- Thin Provisioning, DRS, DPM - Capacity Management: - Usage Trends - Right-size VMs - Default VM Configurations
Automate Tasks
- Self Service Policies - Access Control - Workflow Automation
Manage SLAs
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Private Cloud ?
vApp vApp
You should also consider what service tiers are required for different types of workloads to auto deploy VMs. But ultimately and any additional lifecycle policies OS DB AD youll need to enforce to make sure abandoned or expired VMs are removed from the SAP Oracle example, environment. ForExchange 1 hour leases for demo environments, 30-day leases for More VMs VM Resource Pool | Datastore | VLAN $$ $ $$$ More dev/test environments and unlimited expiration dates for approved production Change systems. These are capabilities currently available in vCloud Director and Request Manager.
Optimize Resources
- Thin Provisioning, DRS, DPM - Capacity Management: - Usage Trends - Right-size VMs - Default VM Configurations
Automate Tasks
- Self Service Policies - Access Control - Workflow Automation - Service Tiers
Manage SLAs
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Once VMs the Transition into the wild it can be a real Managinghave been releasedto the Private Cloud nightmare to ensure VMs stay in compliance with corporate IT and regulatory policies.
Private report Traditional IT Youll need to have in place an effective system toCloud and remediate against compliance risks and violations. The first step is to understand exactly what Apps More App App App ? to organization and audit your current systems. QoS vApp vApp Higher MW MW MW regulatory requirements apply OS OS OS With an effective monitoring system in place youll get notified when systems fall HW HW HW OS DB AD out of compliance, e.g. when users install unauthorized software.
More vCenter Configuration Manager isResource Pool | solution| for change, configurationVMs VMwares Datastore VLAN VM $$ $ More Change and compliance$$$ management. In addition to reporting, we can also remediate against unwanted systems changes and roll out patches from a single system that can manage both physical and virtual infrastructure. SAP Oracle Exchange
Automate Tasks Manage SLAs ByOptimize Resources with self-service and control policies you can save a automating VM delivery lot of time to focus on more important tasks. Policies - Self-Service - Thin Provisioning, DRS, DPM
- Capacity Management: - Usage Trends - Right-size VMs - Default VM Configurations - Access Control - Workflow Automation - Service Tiers - Compliance Policies - Report and Remediate
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- Self-Service Policies - Access Control - Workflow Automation
Manage SLAs
Before we talk about managing service levels, we need - Service Tiers to define what is a service level? because SLAs mean - things to different - Default VM Configurations differentCompliance Policies people. This is where the IT Supply Chain comes in. - Report and Remediate <<Draw the following whiteboard in a separate area.>>
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In simple terms, the IT supply chain typically looks like this: Youve got VI admins, application owners and DBAs and end users.
VI Admins package physical resources and deliver them as VMs to DBAs and application owners. On these VMs App owners deploy applications to the end user. Service level agreements, implicit or not, exist between every supplier and consumer every step of the way.
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The definition of service levels varies between each member of the supply chain. A VI admin cares about the 5 performance indicators for VMs, while an app owner or DBA cares about throughput, latency and availability. End users typically care about only one performance indicator is the application fast, slow or not working?
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IT Supply Chain
Not me!
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the end user experiences a problem with the application. They file a help ticket and this is typically Fast? Transactions when the finger Working? starts. The help tickets gets pointing Throughput Latency escalated to a Level 2 engineer, and the DBAs and App Availability Owners get involved. The VI admin is usually at the bottom of the stack and gets the blame. Everyone looks in their silo and its no-ones fault. This is why 80% of the time it takes to troubleshoot an issue is spent on conference calls trying to reboot servers to see if it solves the problem.
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HW Failure Not me!
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We find that the root cause of problems typically falls into one App Owner of three categories. End User
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3. But most of the time issues are change related because someone reconfigured a network switch or changed a database schema or copied a wrong configuration file which arent immediately impacting application performance for end users.
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IT Supply Chain Alive comes in which we recently acquired and expect to Here is where Integrien
re-launch as a Vmware product shortly:
The issue is not that performance data is not collected, butHW Failure cant easily that you correlate with other metrics to understand the overall health of the environment. Resources Not me! Problem! 80%metrics from vCenter Server and application specific We collect infrastructure Change metrics monitoring tools like Hyperic. We can also take in data from 3rd party VM tools and enterprise mgmt systemsApp Tivoli and OpenView. like
SLA SLA Out of these millions of metrics we calculate in real-time workload, capacity and health information to predict when performance problems are about to happen End User VI root and to provide Admin cause App Owner for problems that have happened already. We analysis DBA call this a 3rd generation performance analysis solution that is self-learning to reduce the overall number of incidents being reported. Fast? CPU Transactions Memory Disk Disk IO Network IO
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IT Supply Chain
HW Failure Resources With a self-learning, real-time performance analytics solution in place, we can Not me! Problem! 80% Change provide a single source of truth to all departments involved in the troubleshooting process including Operations Teams, Architects and all the way up to VM App the CIO. More importantly, it helps reduce the number of people involved in the SLA SLA process because you can a smaller, very focused team who understands what is normal, where is the real problem and who should fix it. VI Admin App Owner DBA End User
Working?
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Private Cloud ?
vApp vApp
We just discussed the need for an effective performance analytics solution to ensure the performance and health of OS DB AD the environment.Exchange SAP Oracle
$$ $ $$$ You also want to make sure that youre protected against unexpected hardware failures and unplanned downtime. vSphere already provides High Availability and Fault Tolerance features. You can also guarantee network and Optimize Resources Automate Tasks storage bandwidth with the new IO Control features. For protection against major outages at - Self-Service Policies: the datacenter level, - Thin Provisioning, DRS, DPM Site Recovery Manager is a great solution to simplify - Access Control - Capacity Management: disaster recovery testing and failovers.
Resource Pool | Datastore | VLAN VM
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- Health Management
- Availability:
- HA, FT, IO Ctrl - Site Recovery Mgr
- Usage Trends
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vApp vApp
OS DB AD Finally, you want to start tracking the cost of virtual SAP Oracle Exchange infrastructure resources to show back the value of IT Resource Pool | Datastore | VLAN $$ $ services delivered $$$the users. We already hear from to customers with shared IT services groups that the business units are asking for consumption based pricing instead of having to pay a flat rate like all other groups.
VM
Optimize Resources
Automate Tasks
Manage SLAs
- Health Management
Tracking costs early also increases accountability and - Self-Service Policies: - Thin Provisioning, investments helps you prioritize DRS, DPM going forward. Upfront - Access Control pricing of services can also help you steer end user - Capacity Management: behavior even if you dont have internal - Workflow Automation billing in place. - Usage Trends Either way, we recommend you ask your Finance - Service Tiers - Right-size VMs business partners to work with you to help determine - Compliance Policies: Default VM Configurations some -of your fixed and variable costs. Ultimately, the Private Cloud requires us to rethink operations management to ensure quality of service.
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More Apps App App To summarize, weApp discussed why it is important to focus on resource optimization, ? vApp vApp Higher QoS MW MW MW task automation and SLA management when transitioning to the Private Cloud. OS OS OS HW HW HW In terms of next steps, we recommend you: OS DB AD
1. Define your standard VM configurations vCenter CapacityIQ helps analyze, SAP Oracle Exchange More VMs VM Resource Pool | Datastore forecast and optimize your infrastructure resources. | VLAN $$ $ $$$ More Change 2. Identify which self-service and compliance policies would best apply to your organizations and how to enforce them vCloud Director, Request Manager and vCenter Configuration Manager canAutomatethat. help with Tasks Optimize Resources Manage SLAs 3. Start measuring performance metrics and work with your business partners to - Self-Service Policies: - Thin Provisioning, DRS, DPM Health Management agree on SLAs Integrien Alive, Site Recovery Manager and -vCenter Chargeback - Access to simplify SLA Management. - Capacity Management: tools that VMware offersControl - Availability: are some of the key
- Usage Trends - Right-size VMs - Default VM Configurations - Workflow Automation - HA, FT, IO Ctrl - Site Recovery Mgr - Cost Tracking: - Showback
Thank you!
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Source: Leading Healthcare Provider in Southern US
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Distribution of VM Configurations
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- Thin Provisioning, DRS, DPM - Capacity Management: - Usage Trends - Right-size VMs - Default VM Configurations
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Automatically aggregates 1000s of metrics into performance scores Full visibility up and down the datacenter stack Automatically indicates poor performance
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Proactive Alert
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Optimize Resources
- Thin Provisioning, DRS, DPM - Capacity Management: - Usage Trends - Right-size VMs - Default VM Configurations
Automate Tasks
- Self-Service Policies: - Access Control - Workflow Automation - Service Tiers - Compliance Policies: - Report and Remediate
Manage SLAs
- Health Management
- Availability:
- HA, FT, IO Ctrl - Site Recovery Mgr - Cost Tracking: - Showback
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- Self-Service Policies: - Access Control - Workflow Automation - Service Tiers - Compliance Policies: - Report and Remediate
Manage SLAs
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1. Define VM configuration standards 2. Define self-service and control policies 3. Measure performance and cost metrics
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