operational management challenges for converged infrastructure
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Operational Management Challenges for Converged Infrastructure
Wayne Greene
Evolution of Operational Analytics Technology
ProactiveReactive
Automated
Manual
Hyperic, SCOM,
Nagios, …
Traditional
Monitoring
Data collection
(Metrics, logs, …)
• Static thresholds
• Alerts
Specific
Generic
Predictive
Analytics
VC Ops
• Detect complex
issues from multiple
symptoms
• Remediation and
automation engine
• Scale-out, data-
agnostic platform
Data CollectionData collectionData collection
Event
Correlation
BMC, HP, CA,
IBM, …
• Aggregation
• Masking & filtering
• Rules-based alert
suppression
Data CollectionData collectionData collection
Performance
Analytics
VC Ops 1.0-5.x,
Netuitive, …
• Self-learning
• Dynamic thresholds
• Super metrics
Data collectionData collection
10x Alert
Reduction
The Five Pillars of Operational Analytics
Operational Analytics
Operational Analytics
Performance & AvailabilityPerformance & Availability
Logs & Unstructured
Data
Logs & Unstructured
Data
Topology AnalysisTopology Analysis
Configuration Health
Configuration Health
Capacity Consumption
Capacity Consumption
Extensibility with Management Packs
VMware
Solution
Exchange
Universal visibility in
product
Universal visibility in
product
Create domain specific
visibility through
Management Packs
Create domain specific
visibility through
Management Packs
vCenter Operations Management Packs FutureFrom “data pipes” to complete solutions
Relationships &
dependency
AdaptersAdapters
Management
Packs
Performance Capacity Config
Dashboards &
Badges
Reports
Logs
Data acquisition
Problem
Definitions
Remediation
Recommendations
Converged Infrastructure takes us to multi-domain / multi-variable object correlation, anomaly detection,
visualization, problem detection & remediation
HP OpenView –Converged SystemsOperational Management
HP’s goal
To make HP’s Converged Infrastructure the easiest platform to manage in a VMware environment
Provision & manage 1000s of servers as easily as one
Software-defined infrastructure architected with powerful infrastructure
templates
• Templates can be
provisioned repeatedly,
reducing time to
infrastructure
• Best practices built-in
reduces human error
• Role-based collaboration
eliminates process
serialization
CI Server
Templates
OS Build
Plan
Templates
Storage
Volume
Templates
Network
Connection
Templates
Servers
(server
profiles
on hardware)
Consistent, automated server configuration
Server Profile
• Configure all server settings in one tool, in one place
• Firmware baseline
• FC and Ethernet downlinks
• Now with the ability to dynamically add and remove networks
• Local and SAN storage volumes
• SAN storage automatically zone and presented to host
• Boot order
• BIOS configuration
• Deploy profiles automatically with REST API
• Create unassigned profile and copy to multiple systems
• Also with support for PowerShell and Python
New
Provision infrastructure >12x fasterAdd compute resource to a VMware cluster in 5 easy steps
With Traditional Tools
4. Update Virtual
Connect fw
5. Configure VC base
settings
6. Update server fw
7. Configure BIOS
8. Configure iLO
9. Configure
SmartArray
10.Configure Virtual
Connect
1. Manually identify
available capacity
2. Update enclosure
fw
3. Configure
enclosure settings
11. In Server
Provisioning –
Select target host
and build plan
12. Deploy ESXi to
bare metal server
* Based on HP internal testing as of August 2013 comparing HP One View v1 vs. traditional HP management tools, each deploying 16 servers. Test was to
configure the networks, enclosure, template, and profiles. HP OneView takes 14 minutes of an admins time vs. traditional HP management tools taking 170
minutes of admin time.
1. In VMware
vCenter - Right-
click on a target
cluster, select grow
cluster
2. Choose
appropriate
workflow
4. Provide
networking and
host credentials
3. Select target
host (s) and build
plan, if cluster
empty, select a
target HP OneView
profile
With HP OneView VMware integration: 5 Steps
13. Configure credentials
14. In VMware vCenter -
Add to cluster
15. Complete host net-
working configuration
16. 17.18… Setup
Storage
5. Validate
actions - and
start
provisioning
Automated 1. HP OneView profile is
applied (SPP, Bios, VC,
storage)
2. ESXi is deployed
3. Host(s) added to cluster
4. Host networking is
configured
Now with 3PAR
shared storage
support and boot
from SAN
StorageServer Network
HP OneViewREST APIs Message Bus
What’s new with VMware integrations
Advance provisioning with storage support create or grow
a VMware cluster consistently and reliably. Added supports for HP 3PAR shared storage
Transform Server capacity into Storage through simple deployment of StoreVirtual VSA from VMware vCenter Server
Root cause and impact analysis with new integration in VMware vCenter Operations Manager
Log analysis with new integration in VMware vCenter Log Insight
New features
Customers purchasing HP OneVieware entitled use our new VMware vCenter Operations Manager integration with standard edition --without having to upgrade to advance! ….Only from HP!
With HP OneView for VMware vCenter,
Operations Manager and Log Insight :
From VMware vCenter tools, access HP’s deep management ecosystem
Single pane of glass with VMware vCenter
Simplify administration with single-console access
Reduce by automating responses to hardware events
Take control by launching your trusted HP management tools
Proactively manage changes with detailed relationship dashboards
On demand server and storage capacity
Maintain stability and reliability with online firmware inventory and deployment
Deep analytics and troubleshooting via integration in VMware vCenter Operations and Log insight
New integrations
with VMware
vCenter
Operations and
Log insight
VMware vCenter Server
VMware vCenter Operations Manager VMware vCenter Log Insight
HP OneView monitors the environment and identifies changes to status
Example: Automate monitoring to vCOPS
Performance
degradation is
detected
Dashboard is
updated by
querying the
REST API
vCenter
Operations
Manager displays
the change
“I want to support
my converged
infrastructure from
my VMware
Operations
Manager consoleAutomation hub
HP OneView is
the publisher
VM VM
VM VM
Introduction
HP OneView for VMware vCenter Operations Manager is HP’s OneView Adapter
for VMware vCenter Operations Manager
Provides OneView Server
and Infrastructure topology,
status, and alerts to the
vCenter Operations
Manager environment
Overview - Dashboard
HP OneView
Dashboard
Shows the
relationship
between VMware
and OneView
Resources
Metric Graphs
Health Tree
Alerts
Overview - Dashboard
Selecting an object
here updates the
information in the
other portlets
The selected
object on the left is
always the center
object on the tree
Overview - Dashboard
Color indicates the
health of the
Object as reported
by OneView
The Color Badge
shows the
“Collection Heath”
of the object. This
is NOT the
OneView Health.
Overview - Alerts
This enclosure has
Active Alerts.
To view the alerts
Click the enclosure
icon and then the
Alerts icon on the
Health Tree button
bar.
Overview - Alerts
A list of the active
alerts for this
object will be
displayed.
Double click on the
alert to view the
details.
Overview – Launch to OneView
The user can
launch to an
object’s OneView
page by selecting
the object on the
Health Tree and
then selecting the
OneView option on
the External
Applications
dropdown.
Understand usage trends
Correlate events for fast
troubleshooting
Optimize resource utilization
VMware vCenter
Operations Manager
HP OneView vCOps Initiative
Provision and update
infrastructure in minutes
Track hardware issues and
utilization information
Understand association between
infrastructure elements
Start with HP OneView Unique HP + VMware
Value
Reduce cost with faster
troubleshooting and
analysis of VMware
virtualized
environments
+ =
With HP OneView , use new
VMware vCenter
Operations Manager
integration with standard
edition – no upgrade to
vCOPs advanced
required!
Example 1: efficient fault remediation
1
HP OneView
identifies server or
Virtual Connect
hardware issue
2
vCOPs uses HP
OneView fault and
association data
visually connect
hardware issue
and impacted
resources
3
Virtualization
admin places
system in
maintenance mode
and proactively
addresses
hardware issue
4
Issue resolved
before it results in
unplanned
downtime and with
no service
interruptions
Example 2: simplified bottleneck analysis
1
HP OneView
constantly collects
select server and
Virtual Connect
(VC) performance
counters
2
vCOPs merges VC
performance data
with vCOPs
metrics to identify
potential bottleneck
3
Virtualization
admin rebalances
virtual machines
across clusters to
alleviate potential
bottleneck
4
IO bottleneck
resolved before it
results in serious
performance issue
or end user outage
Now with Vmware vSphere with Operations (vSOM)
Converged Systems for Virtualization
VMware vSphere , vCenter Server and Operations Manager as a foundation
Implement end-to-end lifecycle management of virtual machine hosts, virtual machines (VMs) and workload
HP OneView for VMware vCenter integration
Exposes relationship between the physical and virtual infrastructure and provides provisioning of an entire cluster compute and storage in 5 easy steps
HP OneView for VMware vCenter Operations Manager integration
Provides key health, utilization and performance metrics in context of the HP Server/BladeSystem for improved trend analysis and root cause/impact analyses via custom dashboards
VMware vCenter Server
VMware vCenter Operations Manager
HP OneView for VMware vCenter Log Insight
Dashboards for HP Server iLo and OA systems log
HP OneView for VMware vCenter Log Insight 1.0
Dashboards - iLO
• Count of All
events
• Count of
Warnings
• Count of Errors
• Count of
Security events
• Count of Power
events
Double Clicking
a bar on the
graph will show
the log events
Dashboards - OA
• Count of All events
• Count of Warnings
• Count of Notice
events
• Count of Critical
events
• Count of Errors
• Count of Alerts
• Count of Emergency
events
• Count of Thermal
events
• Count of Power
events
HP OneView for VMware vCenter Operations Manager
Architecture
Proliant
Server
OA
VC
iLO
ESXi
vCenter
Ops
Manager
OneView
OV4VCOM
VCE VblockOperational Management
Managed as one
VISIBILITY, CONTEXT, AND CONFORMANCE SIMPLIFIED
• VCE Vision™ Intelligent Operations system context, discovery, and RCM compliance
• Native integration into VMware toolsets; connectors into management frameworks
NetworkNetwork
ComputeCompute
StorageStorage
HypervisorHypervisor
Vblock
System
Vblock
System
VCE Vision
Intelligent
Operations
Software
VCE Vision
Intelligent
Operations
Software SIEM ConnectorsSIEM Connectors
NMS ConnectorsNMS Connectors
Compliance ConnectorsCompliance Connectors
vCenter IntegrationvCenter Integration
VCE Vision
System Library
vCops adapter architecture
DiscoveryCollector
vC Ops Adapter
VMware vC Ops
Analytics VM
Event interface
API
VCE Vision Adapter for VC Ops —intro
What is vC
Ops?
Predictive Analytics and Capacity Management tool
from VMware
Key component of Operations Management Suite
What do you
get with vC
Ops?
Operations Dashboards
Performance Analytics and Capacity Optimization
capabilities
Correlation of events
What do you
get with VCE
Adapter for
vCOps?
System information based on Vblock Systems
identity
Four dashboards to visualize resources
VCE recommended thresholds
Visualization of system component relationships
SNAPSHOT OF Vblock HEALTHvCOPS Heatmap
WHICH COMPONENTS OF VBLOCK ARE CAUSING ALERTS
TREND CERTAIN METRICS OF VBLOCK
DRILL INTO COMPONENTS OF THE VBLOCK
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VCE VisionVCE Vision
ComputeCompute
vSpherevSphere
UCS C & BUCS C & B
vCenter OperationsvCenter Operations
VCE Vblock MPVCE Vblock MP
ESA MPESA MP
Nexus MPNexus MP
UCS MPUCS MP
vCenter MPvCenter MP
Preview of the upcoming Vblock vC Operations Management Pack
StorageStorage
VNXVNXVMAXVMAX
VPLEXVPLEX
NetworkNetwork
N1kVN1kVNexus 3k,5kNexus 3k,5k
MDSMDS
Cisco AssetCisco Asset EMC AssetEMC AssetVCE AssetVCE AssetVMware
Asset
VMware
Asset
N-boundAPIs
Hitachi Unified ComputeOperational Management
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform
EXTEND BUSINESS AGILITY
• Enterprise-class storage, servers and
networking
• Best in class Converged management
• Control and manage physical and virtual
infrastructure from a vCenter and vC OPS
• Single pane of glass
• All workloads, test/dev to mission critical
EXTEND BUSINESS AGILITY
• Enterprise-class storage, servers and
networking
• Best in class Converged management
• Control and manage physical and virtual
infrastructure from a vCenter and vC OPS
• Single pane of glass
• All workloads, test/dev to mission critical
Extends the Reach of vCenter and vC OPS
ServerServer NetworkNetworkStorageStorage
UCP Director
DO MORE WITH VMWARE
VCENTER AND VC OPS
Monitor, provision, protect virtual and physical from vCenter and vC OPS
Fastest problem remediation
DO MORE WITH VMWARE
VCENTER AND VC OPS
Monitor, provision, protect virtual and physical from vCenter and vC OPS
Fastest problem remediation
VMware vC OPS
Single Tool for Managing Converged Stack
• Consistent view
of the entire
convergd stack
• Consistent UI
• Native vC OPS
integration
Hitachi
UCP
Director
VMware
vCenter
Operations
Manager
Compute
Network
Storage
VMware
Aggregated View
• Storage, hosts
and networking
data get
aggregated by
UCP to vC OPS
• vC OPS
behavioral
analysis identify
problem areas
Performance Problem Detection
• Performance
problem
detection is
simple
• In this case,
storage
problem gets
detected
• Easy click down
to the problem
volume
Visibility to Low-Level Components
Problem Remediation
• Integration
with UCP
Director
enable easy
remediation
• In this case,
simply by
expanding
storage
volume
UCP Director and vC OPS
• Consistent visibility into the converged stack
• Single pane of glass vC OPS native integration
• Faster MTTR
Conclusion
• Over the past two years, vCenter Operations has moved from vSpheremanagement to multi-domain management
• Converged Infrastructure (and in the future hyper-converged infrastructure) will be a strong driver for advanced analytics based operational management
• Converged Infrastructure vendors are seizing the opportunity for vCenter Operations integration to drive operational excellence and lower cost of ownership
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