CRA Virtualization Tools

Name Mario MarquezTitle Systems Engineermmarquez@vizioncore.com

Agenda Overview

1. Functionality and setup. Hardware and Software

Requirements of system components.

2. Performance and Alerting

3. Management

4. Reporting

5. Capacity Planning and Modeling

6. Analysis and Optimization

7. ChargebackI

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Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring (APM), Includes Foglight

Performance Monitoring/Reporting vFoglight

• Single web-based “pane-of-glass” view, visualize multiple virtual centers using a single screen

• Manage the relationships and interactions between all the components in the virtual infrastructure

• Scalable solution for any size environments

• Fully customizable dashboards, reports, and alarms

• LDAP directory service support with role based administration

• Chargeback models (FTR, MU, Add-ons)

• Capacity Planning

• Ability to drill down to guest processes

• Monitoring of physical servers operating systems• Service Level Monitoring

vFoglight ProvCenter ESX Server Monitoring aManagement Server (FMS) aGuest Process Investigation aService Management aCapacity Planning aChargeback aPhysical OS Monitoring aHigh Availability (Management Server) aFederation aThird-Party Integration aLicensed Per Physical CPU Socket

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vFoglight - Multiple VC Implementation

vFoglight Agent (Virtual_VMware Agent)

is installed on multiple VCenters or a VM per VCenter

vFoglightIs Scalable!

vFoglight Requirements

• Server Configuration is Dependant on the Environment Size • Number of vCenters , Data Centers, Clusters, Resource Pools, ESX Hosts, VMs, Data Stores

• Example : Total of 900 Components Minimum Requirements• Single-tier 64-bit installation of vFoglight are as follows:

• CPU 4-way 2.4 GHz CPUs—one of the following:• 1 quad core• RAM 12 GB in total:

• Storage

For Management Server: 40 GB, 7500 RPM hard disk or betterFor Database Repository: 80 GB, 10000 RPM hard disk or better

• Software • Microsoft Windows® Server 2003 x86_64 - 64-bit support• DOTNET 3.5 SP1• SQL 2005 or 2008• vFoglight MySQL is included• Internet Explorer 7 Windows

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Bringing Clarity to VM ManagementvFoglight

Performance Monitoring: Detects and diagnoses problems to speed mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR)

Highlights:• Expert alerts

• Incorporates Industry expertise• Predictive, Best Practice, Behavioral, Conditional

• Architectural representations• Relationships/interactions between components• Unique visual paradigm

Performance Monitoring

Infrastructure Visibility

• Proactively understand the infrastructure – small/large

• Top-level visibility of state and health

• “Quick View” of the infrastructure in more detail

• FAQts to provide answers to commonly asked questions

vFoglightPro

QuickViews

• Summary views• Top consumers • Detailed component views• Alerts

vFoglightSE/Pro

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Detailed Architectural Representations at ANY Topology Level

Storage Visibility

• I/O operations• Latency• Capacity• Dependencies

vFoglightSE/Pro

CPU-Constrained VMs

Quickly See % Ready• See VMs that are ready to run, waiting to run,

but unable to run because ESX lacks resources• See them at whole infrastructure, VC, data

center, cluster, and ESX host levels

vFoglightSE/Pro

Detailed Architectural Representations

Unique visual paradigm:• Clear, high-level visual representations which

include color coding and movements • Focuses attention on problem areas to quickly

identify problems/speed diagnosis

vFoglightSE/Pro

Performance and Alerting

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Infrastructure Visibility

• Proactively understand the infrastructure – small/large

• Top-level visibility of state and health

• “Quick View” of the infrastructure in more detail

• FAQts to provide answers to commonly asked questions

vFoglightPro

Out-of-the-Box Alerts / Expert Advice

4 Alarm Types• Best Practices• Future Predictions• Deviations from Normal Activity• Specific Operational Problems

Helps administrators to:• Accurately diagnose the root-cause of incidents and problems• Speed mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR)

vFoglightSE/Pro

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Configuration Management

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Configuration ManagementAsset and configuration Tracking

Track VMs and Changes to Their Configurations• Correlate the impact those changes have on performance and availability• Understand what happened and when to more accurately identify impacts on the

virtual infrastructure, applications and services

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Reporting

Reporting

vFoglightSE/Pro

OOTB Reports• Capacity• Performance• Chargeback• Asset Tracking• Provisioning Trends• Infrastructure Events

Custom Reporting• Drag-n-drop report • Wizard-based reports• Scheduled & ad hoc• Multiple formats

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Custom Reporting• Drag-n-drop report • Wizard-based reports• Scheduled & ad hoc• Multiple formats

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Capacity Planning and Modeling

Capacity Planning

Description:Plan, manage and optimize infrastructure capacity for improved performance and better resource utilization.

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

vFoglight Version:

Pro a

Workload Migration Modelling

Show Resource Impact• Review impact of moving VMs from

one physical system to another• Determine if planned moves will

have unfavorable impact

vFoglightSE/Pro

Capacity Planning

Scenario Modeler• Show capacity limits• Model base load• Assess impact on resources

for adding workloads (e.g. existing VMs or similar)

vFoglightSE/Pro

Resource Utilization Management

Visualize capacity trends• History• Show upper and lower

bands (min/max)• Alarms based on trends and

forecasts• Customizable for any metric

vFoglightSE/Pro

Capacity Forecasting

vFoglightSE/Pro

Linear Forecasts• CPU• Memory• Network• Storage

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Analysis and Optimization

Guest Process Investigation

Drill-down into the processes running within VMs• Understand internal performance• Identify which processes are

impacting VM performance• Determine which processes are

utilizing resources ineffectively or to the detriment of other workvFoglight

SE/Pro

Physical OS Monitoring

Extend visibility into the physical infrastructure• Monitor Memory, CPU, Disk I/O, and Network I/O• Includes color coding and movement to focus attention on

problem areas

General Purpose Monitoring

General Purpose Monitoring• Extends monitoring to infrastructure and

application components not covered by specific agents

• Increase coverage of the infrastructure and applications

vFoglightPro

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Summary

vFoglight Benefits

VM Admin

Detect, Diagnose & Resolve

Performance & Availability

Capacity Reporting

Key Benefits

• Proactively understand the entire virtual infrastructure while reducing administration costs and minimizing risk.

• Understanding the relationships and interactions of all the components in the virtual infrastructure

• Quickly determining the root-cause of an incident or problem

• Tracking movement of virtual machines and understanding their resource impact

• Containing alarm storms from virtual machines and physical servers

• Identifying contention for resources between and within virtual machines

• Allocating costs for the use of infrastructure hosts or groups of hosts, both physical and virtual

Thank You.

Mario MarquezTitle System EngineerEmail mmarquez@vizioncore.com

For more information, visit www.vizioncore.comor Email sales@vizioncore.com