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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