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Virtualization supports mission-critical business services across various industry verticals. Too many IT organizations, however, don’t think about monitoring and managing virtualized environments until after they’ve been deployed. This presentation will show you how to actively monitor the availability, health, and performance of your VMware infrastructure using HP agentless and agent-based solutions in conjunction with HP Operations Manager Virtualization Infrastructure Smart Plug-in (SPI). In addition to best practices on a theoretical level, we’ll demonstrate how CT consultants utilized best practices to deploy the HP virtualization solution at several of their customer sites so that customers can comprehensively and effectively manage their particular VMware environmentsTRANSCRIPT
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Managing virtualized environments: agentless and agent-based solutions for managing VMware environments using HP SiteScope, Operations Manager agents, and Virtualization SPILuigi Tiano, CT Consultants
Jon HaworthProduct Marketing Manager, HP
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Agenda
Introduction
HP SiteScope
HP Virtual Infrastructure SPI for OM
Demo
Summary and Q&A
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Virtualization–Facts and Trends
Gartner—Percentage of x86 Server Architecture Workloads That Are
Running in Virtual Machines
Virtualization – Ranked #1 strategic technology for 2009
VIRTUALIZATION FORECAST
– VMs installed base will grow threefold between 2009 and 2013
– By 2012, the majority of x86 server workloads will be running on virtual machines
vmware
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Managing Virtualization
Enable the OpEx promises of Virtualization
Operational Benefits
Increased availability
Maximize resource utilization
Improved performance
Greater visibility of virtualization
infrastructure
Gartner – Virtual machine installed basemarket share, year-end 2012
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How to Monitor Virtualized EnvironmentsAgentless, Agent-Based or Both?
Agentless Solution:
HP SiteScope
Agent-Based Solution:
HP Operations Manager with Smart Plug-Ins (SPIs)
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HP Approach: a Hybrid SolutionThe ―Best of Both Worlds‖
– Choose the most appropriate technology for the target environment
• Align monitoring with cost, security and criticality
– Consolidate the events into one place
• One set of processes, one team of people
• Drives efficient and consistent behaviour
– Configure the monitoring from one place
• Easier to tune monitoring
• Reduce admin burden.
Systems with agent
Systems without agent
SitescopeOperations Manager
Manage from a single Operations Manager enterprise console
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Agenda
Introduction
HP SiteScope
HP Virtual Infrastructure SPI for OM
Demo
Summary and Q&A
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What Is HP SiteScope?– HP’s agentless monitoring solution– Lightweight and customizable– Uses standard protocols to connect to remote systems
Applications
Network Devices
Databases
Servers
HPSiteScope
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HP SiteScope Supports Virtualization
Virtual Center HP Sitescope
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HP SiteScope–VMware Performance Counters
Disk Performance
CPU Usage & Utilization for
Resources
Memory Performance
Network Performance
Cluster Services
System Performance
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SiteScope Monitors Integrated with OMWService Maps
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SiteScope Tightly Integrated with OMWEvents Mapped events
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SiteScope Tightly Integrated with OMWTools
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SiteScope Tightly Integrated with OMWSitescope Configuration
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SiteScope 11.0 Virtualization Support
Windows 2008 Hyper V, Hyper V Server 2008 R2 VMware ESX / vCenter 3.5, 4.0 Citrix XenApp 4.6
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Agenda
Introduction
HP SiteScope
HP Virtual Infrastructure SPI for OM
Demo
Summary and Q&A
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Smart Plug-in for Virtual InfrastructureHP Operations Manager
Management of hypervisors
Discovery of virtual infrastructure relationships
Event monitoring and adaptive thresholds for critical metric areas
Remote web console launch tool
Availability & performance reports for virtual servers and guests
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– VMware vSphere Management Assistant
Management Appliance - Benefits
Comprehensive VMware Management
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– Using HP Virtualization Infrastructure SPI
Virtual Infrastructure - Discovery
Consolidated view of virtual infrastructure
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Discovery Is Dynamic
− Host systems represented in virtualized infrastructure map
− Guest machines represented via individual service elements
− Dependency between guests and hosts dynamically updated
• Adapts monitoring to detected changes
• Show dependency between physical and virtual systems and the related applications
• Up to date impact analysis across infrastructure and applications
Quickly detect changes within the virtualized environment
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Adaptive Thresholds—Baselining Policies Monitoring of highly dynamic resources– Historical data used to calculate baseline of
―normal‖ range
– Messages sent when current value (red line) is above or below the ―normal‖ value
– Severity is assigned based on the distance from the ―normal‖ for that time period (one, two or three standard deviations from average)
• OM ―learns‖ behavior patterns for statistical data
• Reduces ―false‖ alarms by 95%: Only alarms for ―abnormal‖ behavior at a given time
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VMware Infrastructure—AvailabilityUsing HP's Virtualization Infrastructure SPI
VI State Monitor
Monitors the availability of servers
registered with vMA
ESX/ESXi Servers
Guest Operating Systems
Features Include:
Monitors disrupted states of virtual
machines
Alerts prolonged transient states
Provision to alert for selective time
Period
VI Event Monitor
Alerts events for virtual machines
and hosts
VM migration
VM creation/removal
VM powered off/on
Host standby
Alerts actions on virtual machines
triggered by DRS
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VMware Infrastructure—PerformanceMonitors performance data of ESX / ESXi / Hyper-V servers, resource
pools, and virtual machines
Key Metrics –
Memory usage of all virtual
machines
Entitled CPU utilization of virtual
machines
Disk utilization
Network flow rate
Alerts
Reports
Graphs
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VMware VMFS—PerformanceUsing HP's Virtualization Infrastructure SPI
VMware vStorage cluster file system
Simplifies VM provisioning and administration
Supports live migration
VISPI monitors disk storage space
Sends alert on threshold violation
Logs configuration and usage intoembedded performance component
VMware
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HP OM Smart Plug-In Virtualization Support
HP Smart Plug-In for Virtualized Infrastructure ESX / ESXi 3.5, 4.0 and Hyper-V 2008
Supported Platforms (OM Manager)OMW 8.10/8.16, OMU / OML / OM Solaris 9.0
Operations Agent 8.60 and PA Agent 5.0
SPI for Citrix Xen Partner offering from Hermes Softlab
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HP Operations ManagerLeveraging using both agentless and agent-based data collection
– Consolidated Event & Performance Management• Single console for all system events
• Agent-based and agentless monitoring from one console
• Extended footprint using SiteScope (SiS)
– Centralized Administration• Agent/agentless administration capabilities
• Administer multiple SiteScope servers
The industry‗s best combination of agent-based and agent-less
management to better match your unique requirements
– Tight Integration• Service map and alerts
• Ability to launch SiS tools directly from OM console
• Forwarding of SiS alerts directly into OM
• SiS populates OM Service Map
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Agenda
Introduction
HP SiteScope
HP Virtual Infrastructure SPI for OM
Demo
Summary and Q&A
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Demo
Agentless Monitoring
– Collects important VMware specific data without installing any software on the end nodes
Agent-based Monitoring
– Communicate with vMA directly for comprehensive VMware management
– Service views to display the relationship between VMware ESX, Virtual Machine & Business Services
Summary and Q&A
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