Operational Management

Challenges for Converged

Infrastructure

Wayne Greene

© 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved.

 Evolution of Operational Analytics Technology
Automated Specific

10x Alert Predictive

Reduction Analytics

VC Ops

Performance
Analytics • Detect complex
Event issues from multiple
VC Ops 1.0-5.x,
Correlation Netuitive, … symptoms
Traditional • Remediation and
Monitoring BMC, HP, CA, automation engine
IBM, … • Self-learning • Scale-out, data-
Hyperic, SCOM, • Aggregation • Dynamic thresholds agnostic platform
Nagios, … • Masking & filtering • Super metrics
• Rules-based alert
• Static thresholds
suppression
• Alerts

Data collection
Data
Data Collection
collection Data collection Data
DataCollection
collection
(Metrics, logs, …)
Manual Generic

Reactive Proactive
The Five Pillars of Operational Analytics

Topology
Analysis
Logs &
Configuration
Unstructured
Health
Data

Performance Operational Capacity

& Availability Analytics Consumption
Extensibility with Management Packs

VMware
Solution
Exchange

Universal visibility in
product
Create domain specific
visibility through
Management Packs
vCenter Operations Management Packs Future
From “data pipes” to complete solutions

Remediation
Recommendations

Problem
Definitions
Management
Reports Packs
Dashboards &
Badges
Relationships &
dependency

Data acquisition
Adapters

Performance Capacity Config Logs

Converged Infrastructure takes us to multi-domain /

multi-variable object correlation, anomaly detection,
visualization, problem detection & remediation
HP OpenView –
Converged Systems
Operational 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

Storage Network
• Templates can be Volume Connection
provisioned repeatedly, Templates Templates
reducing time to
infrastructure CI Server
• Best practices built-in Templates
reduces human error
• Role-based collaboration
eliminates process OS Build
serialization Plan
Templates
Servers
(server
profiles
on hardware)
Server Profile
Consistent, automated server configuration

• 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
New
• 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
 Provision infrastructure >12x faster Now with 3PAR
shared storage
Add compute resource to a VMware cluster in 5 easy steps support and boot
from SAN

With Traditional Tools

1. Manually identify 4. Update Virtual 7. Configure BIOS 11. In Server 13. Configure credentials
available capacity Connect fw 8. Configure iLO Provisioning – 14. In VMware vCenter -
2. Update enclosure 5. Configure VC base Select target host Add to cluster
9. Configure and build plan
fw settings SmartArray 15. Complete host net-
3. Configure 6. Update server fw 12. Deploy ESXi to working configuration
10.Configure Virtual bare metal server
enclosure settings Connect 16. 17.18… Setup
Storage

With HP OneView VMware integration: 5 Steps Automated

1. HP OneView profile is
applied (SPP, Bios, VC,
1. In VMware 2. Choose 3. Select target 4. Provide 5. Validate storage)
vCenter - Right- appropriate host (s) and build networking and actions - and 2. ESXi is deployed
click on a target workflow plan, if cluster host credentials start
3. Host(s) added to cluster
cluster, select grow empty, select a provisioning
4. Host networking is
cluster target HP OneView
configured
profile

* 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.
 Customers purchasing HP OneView
are entitled use our new VMware
vCenter Operations Manager
What’s new with VMware integrations integration with standard edition --
without having to upgrade to advance!
….Only from HP!

New features

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 HP OneView
REST APIs Message Bus

Log analysis with new integration in VMware

vCenter Log Insight

Server Storage Network

 New integrations
Single pane of glass with VMware vCenter with VMware
vCenter
From VMware vCenter tools, access HP’s deep management ecosystemOperations and
Log insight

VMware vCenter Server

With HP OneView for VMware vCenter,
Operations Manager and Log Insight :

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

VMware vCenter Operations Manager VMware vCenter Log Insight

Example: Automate monitoring to vCOPS
HP OneView monitors the environment and identifies changes to status

Dashboard is
updated by
“I want to support querying the
my converged
infrastructure from REST API
my VMware HP OneView is
Operations the publisher Automation hub
Manager console
vCenter
Operations
VM VM
VM VM Manager displays
the change

Performance
degradation is
detected
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 Alerts
Resources

Health Tree

Metric Graphs
 Overview - Dashboard

The selected
object on the left is
always the center
object on the tree
Selecting an object
here updates the
information in the
other portlets
 Overview - Dashboard

The Color Badge

shows the
“Collection Heath”
Color indicates the of the object. This
health of the is NOT the
Object as reported OneView Health.
by OneView
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.
HP OneView vCOps Initiative
Start with HP OneView VMware vCenter Unique HP + VMware
Operations Manager Value

Reduce cost with faster

troubleshooting and

+ = analysis of VMware
virtualized
environments

Provision and update
infrastructure in minutes
Track hardware issues and
utilization information
Optimize resource utilization
Understand association between
infrastructure elements
Understand usage trends
Correlate events for fast
troubleshooting
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 2 3 4

HP OneView vCOPs uses HP Virtualization Issue resolved

identifies server or OneView fault and admin places before it results in
Virtual Connect association data system in unplanned
hardware issue visually connect maintenance mode downtime and with
hardware issue and proactively no service
and impacted addresses interruptions
resources hardware issue
Example 2: simplified bottleneck analysis

1 2 3 4

HP OneView vCOPs merges VC Virtualization IO bottleneck

constantly collects performance data admin rebalances resolved before it
select server and with vCOPs virtual machines results in serious
Virtual Connect metrics to identify across clusters to performance issue
(VC) performance potential bottleneck alleviate potential or end user outage
counters bottleneck
 Converged Systems for Virtualization
Now with Vmware vSphere with Operations (vSOM)

VMware vSphere , vCenter Server and VMware vCenter Server

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 Operations Manager

HP OneView for VMware vCenter Log Insight
HP OneView for VMware vCenter Log Insight 1.0
Dashboards for HP Server iLo and OA systems log
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
vCenter
Ops ESXi
Manager
OV4VCOM

iLO

OneView OA

VC
VCE Vblock
Operational 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

Hypervisor vCenter Integration

Compute VCE Vision NMS Connectors

Vblock Intelligent
System Operations
Network Software SIEM Connectors

Storage Compliance Connectors

vCops adapter architecture

vC Ops Adapter

Event interface
Discovery
Collector
VCE Vision
System Library

VMware vC Ops
Analytics VM API
VCE Vision Adapter for VC Ops —intro

 Predictive Analytics and Capacity Management tool

What is vC from VMware
Ops?  Key component of Operations Management Suite
 Operations Dashboards
What do you
 Performance Analytics and Capacity Optimization
get with vC capabilities
Ops?  Correlation of events
 System information based on Vblock Systems
What do you identity
get with VCE  Four dashboards to visualize resources
Adapter for  VCE recommended thresholds
vCOps?
 Visualization of system component relationships
SNAPSHOT OF Vblock HEALTH
vCOPS Heatmap
WHICH COMPONENTS OF VBLOCK ARE CAUSING
ALERTS
TREND CERTAIN METRICS OF VBLOCK
DRILL INTO COMPONENTS OF THE VBLOCK
Preview of the upcoming Vblock vC Operations
Management Pack
Network
N1kV
Nexus 3k,5k
VCE Vision
MDS

N-bound Compute
APIs
vSphere
vCenter Operations
UCS C & B
VCE Vblock MP

Nexus MP

vCenter MP Storage
VNX
VMAX
UCS MP
VPLEX
ESA MP

VCE Asset
VMware Cisco Asset EMC Asset 38
Asset
Hitachi Unified Compute
Operational 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
Extends the Reach of vCenter and vC OPS
VMware vC OPS
DO MORE WITH VMWARE
VCENTER AND VC OPS
 Monitor, provision, protect virtual and
physical from vCenter and vC OPS
 Fastest problem remediation

UCP Director

Storage Server Network

 Single Tool for Managing Converged Stack
• Consistent view
of the entire
convergd stack
• Consistent UI
• Native vC OPS VMware Network
integration

Compute Storage

VMware Hitachi
vCenter UCP
Operations Director
Manager
 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 vSphere
management 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