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© 2011 Quest Software, Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Chris RobertsVirtualization Technology ManagerQuest Software
Virtualization Management with vFoglight® Bringing Clarity and Control to Virtual Infrastructure Management
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Fundamental ChallengeProactively understand, find and fix
CPU
•Multi-Core Processors
•Virtual Processors
Memory
•Sharing
•Over-commit
Network
•Shared Connectivity
•Load Balancing
•Redundancy
Disk
•Shared storage
•Fiber, iSCSI, NAS
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Problem Space
Virtualization
Management
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Problem Space Detecting, Diagnosing and Resolving Problems
Clarity
•Understanding the virtual infrastructure
•Determining performance and availability
Expertise
•Diagnosing problems
•Understanding the impact on other resources
Relationships
•Defining relationships between components
•Shared resources = operational challenges
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Problem Space Difficult to Plan for Growth and Change
Calculate
•Determining growth over time
•Understanding change
Scope
•Revealing unexpected growth for planning
•Anticipating future needs
Inform
•Forecasting and trending
•Planning based on scenarios
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Problem Space Unable to Associate Costs for Use of Infrastructure
Model
•Determining how to group and allocate costs
•Multiple groups use infrastructure resources
Track
•Determining resource utilization
•Capturing costs by host or group
Charge
•“Billing” accurately
•Multiple models may be needed
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Problem Space Connecting business SLAs to infrastructure
Define
•Determining what components support key services
Measure
•Understanding service performance
•Meeting SLA commitments
Report
•Informing key stakeholders of service quality, service health and availability
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The Ideal SolutionUnderstand, find and fix
Performance
Management
& Monitoring
Capacity
Planning
Service
Management
Chargeback
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Performance
Management
& Monitoring
Capacity
Planning
Service
Management
Chargeback
Automation
Virtual /
Physical
Storage
Infrastructure
Applications
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Bringing Clarity & Control to
Virtual Infrastructure ManagementvFoglight
Performance Monitoring: Detects and diagnoses problems to speed mean-time-to-resolution
(MTTR)
Highlights:
•Expert alerts & remediation
•Incorporates Industry best practices
•Predictive, Best Practice, Behavioral, Conditional
•Automation and remediation – fix the problem
•Architectural representations
•Relationships/interactions between components
•Deep visibility into the critical application infrastructure
Performance Monitoring
Performance
Management
& Monitoring
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Bringing Clarity & Control to
Virtual Infrastructure ManagementvFoglight
Capacity Planning: Plan, manage and optimize capacity to support growth and change
Highlights:
•Scenario-based models
•Understand the impact of change
•Forecast and trend reports
•To aid communication with others
•Predictive alerts
•Reveal unexpected growth
Capacity Planning
Capacity
Planning
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Bringing Clarity & Control to
Virtual Infrastructure ManagementvFoglight
Service Management: Construct business views of dependent components and measure SLA
achievement
Highlights:
• Provides service dependency models
• Automatically /manually generated
• Service-based dashboards and reports
• Service health and availability
• Resource consumption and more…
• Service-based alarms
Service Management
Service
Management
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Bringing Clarity & Control to
Virtual Infrastructure ManagementvFoglight
Chargeback: Tracks infrastructure utilization and costs so they can be recovered for the services
provided
Highlights:
•Leverages industry models
•Tiered Flat Rate
•Partial and Full Cost Recovery
•Direct Costs
•Uses models to allocate costs to services
•Produces “billing” reports
Chargeback
Chargeback
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vFoglight Validation
•6,500+ Customers Worldwide
•Serving SMB through EnterpriseServing Customers
•VMware Ready Optimized™
•Supports vSphere & extends vCenter
•New Hyper-V platform support
Extending Hypervisors
•High value, low cost solution
•Easy to install and use
•Scalable architecture and platform
Providing Value
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vFoglight Packaging and Key Features
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VMware ESX Server Monitoring
• How it works– Integrates with vCenter
Server via VMware’s APIs at user configurable levels
– Requires read-only rights– View datacenters, data
stores, resource pools, clusters, ESX Servers, and VMs
• How vFoglight helps– Allows admins to
visualize the entire virtual infrastructure
– Detect, diagnose and resolve (fix) problems quickly
– Operational in minutes, yet powerful and scalable
Description:
Understand the relationships and interactions between all the components in the virtual
infrastructure.
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Microsoft Hyper-V Monitoring
• How it works– Integrates with Microsoft
Server 2008R2 accessing multiple sources including WMI performance counters
– Requires read-only rights– View clusters, servers
and virtual machines
• How vFoglight helps– Allows admins to
visualize infrastructure across vendor plaftforms
– Detect, diagnose and resolve (fix) problems quickly
– Operational in minutes, yet powerful and scalable
Description:
Extended hypervisor support with consistent functionality and usability across all platforms
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Guest Process Investigation
• How it works – Start by viewing any
VM within vFoglight– vFoglight uses a touch
less connector to gather information using WMI (Windows) and SSH on Linux-based guests
• How vFoglight helps– Quickly determine
which processes are impacting VM performance
– Pinpoint which VMs are utilizing resources ineffectively
Description:
Drill-down into the processes running within VMs to understand internal performance & resource
utilization
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Workflows
• How it works – Build the workflow
process in the “automation” interface
– Test on “non-live” environment (VMware, or Hyper-V)
– Couple with alerts for assignments to fix specific problems
• How vFoglight helps– Easily perform
repetitive processes quickly and with consistency
– Tying workflows to alerts fix problems faster
Description:
Automate repeatable processes through managed workflows
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Service Management
• How it works – Groups VMs and
infrastructure components into services
– Allows admins to use those services to:• Record Status• Check Availability• Perform Chargeback• Report KPIs, SLOs, and
SLAs
• How vFoglight helps– Better aligns IT and
the business– Measure service levels– Recover costs for
services provided– Report key information
to stakeholders
Description:
Construct business views of dependent components & measure SLA achievement
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In-Context Administration
• How it works– Fix problems from within
the vFoglight Console– Execute common tasks like
start, stop, and pause
• How vFoglight helps– Eliminates lengthy
process• Accessing another
vendor tool• Locating the object
in question • Completing the task
Description:
Undertake common VM administration tasks in the context of the objects being viewed
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Capacity Planning
• How it works– Perform “what if?”
scenarios for moving VMs to or from actual/hypothetical servers
– Understand the impact one VM has on another for performance and availability
•How vFoglight helps– Reduce the need for
additional resources to support the infrastructure
– Reduce hardware costs while gaining administration efficiencies
Description:
Plan, manage and optimize infrastructure capacity for improved performance and better
resource utilization
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Chargeback
• How it works– Group together virtual or
physical hosts into tiers– Assign a cost (any currency
and arbitrary) to a each tier– Generate reports on an ad
hoc or scheduled basis to show the flat costs for a particular month
• How vFoglight helps– Determine utilization of
the infrastructure by different groups or organizations
– “Chargeback” costs to those groups based on their utilization
Description:
Allocate costs for the use of infrastructure to hosts or groups of hosts, both virtual or physical.
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Event Analytics
• How it works– Graphical display of
performance over a period of time with point in time events overlaid to identify the impact of change on performance
• How vFoglight helps– Enables users to
quickly determine whether a change is cause to a performance and/or availability issue
Description:
Measure performance trends against the impact of change over time to pinpoint issues due to
change
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Physical OS Monitoring
• How it works–vFoglight Management
Server deploys and agent–Agent collects metrics for
Memory, CPU, Disk I/O, and Network I/O
–Metrics processed–Color coding/movement
focus attention to problems
• How vFoglight helps–Performance issues on
physical servers in addition to virtual servers
–Want to consolidate virtual and physical monitoring into a single solution
Description:
Extends vFoglight visibility into the physical infrastructure (Memory, CPU, Disk I/O and Network
I/O) on Windows and Linux OS environments
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High Availability (Mgmt. Server)
• How it works–vFoglight Management
Server can be set for active/passive failover
– In the event of a failure, the clients automatically switch to a secondary server
–Continuous operation for monitoring the infrastructure
• Indicators of need–Mission-critical
infrastructures–Requirement/desire for
continuous operation the vFoglight performance monitoring solution
Description:
Configure the vFoglight Management Server to function in HA mode to ensure continuous
operation and service.
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Federation
• How it works–Separate instances of the
vFoglight Management Server can be deployed
–One instance is configured as the “Federator” and all instances are linked
–Federator can queried for a single pane of glass
• Indicators of need–Need to monitor multiple
infrastructures–Desire to have a “single
pane of glass” across multiple infrastructures
Description:
Integrate and manage large virtual & physical infrastructures, gaining maximum flexibility&
visibility.
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Third-Party Integration
• How it works–Uses XML and pre-
configured alert translation rules
–Understand and receive SNMP Traps as alerts
• How vFoglight helps:–Receive alerts from
third-party systems that support the infrastructure
–Forward alerts from vFoglight to enterprise monitors for more consolidated visibility
Description:
Enables organizations to forward alerts to, or receive alerts from, third-party monitoring systems.
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Best Practice:
With multiple vCenters,
each vFoglight Agent (Virtual-
VMware Agent) instance is
installed on
a dedicated VM and
communicates with
one vCenter
vFoglight
is scalable!
VMware Agent Overview – Multiple vCenters
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vFoglight - Data Collection Details
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Introduction• Perspectives• VMware• Hyper V• Event Analysis• Automation• Detect - Diagnose – Resolve• Administration
• Capacity Planning• Storage• FAQts• Chargeback• Service Management• Exchange• Active Directory• Reports
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Perspectives
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VMware
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Hyper V
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Event Analysis
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Automation
Back to Perspectives
How can I easily automate common tasks/workflow?
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Detect, Diagnose, Resolve (Remediation)How do I know if I have performance problems in my virtualized
infrastructure?
I need to be alerted of any problems affecting performance
How can I fix this problem fast?
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Detect – Problematic Activity
• VMware Alarm via User Interface
• Drill into problem area(s)
Customer Benefit: Quickly understand the virtual infrastructure through clear visual representations, color coding and movements to focus
attention on problem areas.
New
Hyper-V
Support
Customer Problem: Lack of visibility and understanding of state and health of VMs. Difficult to pinpoint and resolve issues quickly and
efficiently
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Diagnose Root Cause
• Click through to access alarm details
Best Practice Rule
Alert Remediation
Customer Benefit: Accurately diagnose the root-cause of incidents and problems and speed mean-time-to-resolution.
New
Customer Problem: Inability to quickly determine root cause and lack of understanding of the true underlying issue
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Resolve the Underlying Problem
• Select workflow attached to specific alarm
• Problem solved, alarm removed
Launch Automated
Workflow
Customer Benefit: Launch workflows specific to fast remediation of the problem to speed mean time to resolution by applying consistency to
problem solving
New
Customer Problem: Inefficient and inconsistent practices for resolving common issues – taking too much time and prone to
error.
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Administration
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Capacity Planning
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Storage
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FAQtsFAQts: I need a quick answer to common question
across my virtual environment
Mini FAQts: I need a quick answer in-context to my AD
& Exchange environments
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ChargebackHow can I easily identify costs for resources
used?
How can I report/bill for these costs?
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Service Management
How can I see a view of my entire service?
I need to create a service dashboard unique to
my environment
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Active Directory
How can I manage deeper into my virtualized domain controllers?
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Exchange
How can I manage deeper into my virtualized Exchange app?
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Reports
I would like, powerful, easy and flexible reporting
Out of the box
Wizard driven
Drag and drop
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Q&AThank You
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