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MonitorYourCloudInfrastructurewithCAUnifiedInfrastructureManagement

RajSundaram,Sr.PrincipalProductManager,CATechnologies

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Abstract

CAUnifiedInfrastructureManagement(CAUIM)providescomprehensivecapabilitiesforproactivelymonitoringtheperformanceofyourpublic,privateandhybridcloud-basedinfrastructuresalongsidetraditionalones.Joinusinthissessiontolearnhowtomonitorcloud-basedtechnologiessuchasAWS,AzureandOpenStackwithCAUIM.Topicscoveredwillincludetechnologyoverviewforadministrators,monitoringconfigurationforcloudprobes,metricssupportedanddashboard/reportgeneration.

Raj

SundaramCATechnologiesSr.PrincipalProductManager


Agenda

CAUNIFIEDINFRASTRUCTUREMANAGEMENTFORHYBRIDCLOUDOVERVIEW

MONITORINGAZURE

MONITORINGOPENSTACK

MONITORINGAWS

MONITORINGDOCKER

MONITORINGNUTANIX

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MONITORINGOPENSHIFT7


CAUnifiedInfrastructureManagementOverview


MostComprehensiveCloud&HybridITMonitoringCAUnifiedInfrastructureManagement

TRADITIONAL DYNAMIC

+ +PUBLICCLOUD SAAS

+ +PRIVATECLOUD

ServiceCentric-Views

ActionableDashboards,Alerts

Availability,Performance,SLADev

Ops

Open,flexiblearchitectureallowsyoutocustomize&rapidlysupportnewtechnologies

Singlepane-of-glass–withproactiveandactionableinsightsacrosscloud&hybridIT

StandardizedandElastic,monitoringconfigurationssavestimeandcost

Outoftheboxsupportforover140cloudandonpremisetechnologiesspeedtimetovalue

UseExperienceTracking


OptimizingPerformanceofHybridCloudandModernITInfrastructures

CoversninekeyAWSservices,custommetricsandbillingdataprocesseswithconsistenttags/workflows

MonitorsAzureinfrastructureandservicesspanningVMs,storageandwebsites.

MonitorsthehealthandperformanceofOpenStackenabled clouddeployments

ReportsandcollectsdataaboutthehealthandavailabilityofNutanixcluster,host,VM,storagepool,container,anddiskcomponents.

Comprehensivesupportforenablingtechnologiesspanningvirtualization(vSphere),convergedinfrastructure(Vblock)andcloud(vCloud)

TrackskeyperformancemetricsforRackspaceCloudserversandcloudfiles

MonitorsDockerenvironmentandtheprocessesorservicesrunningonthem.

MonitorstheperformanceandusageoftheRedHatOpenShiftContainerPlatform


KeyCloudUseCases


PublicCloud

§ TrackSLAsandperformanceofallyourCloudservicessuchasAWSEC2,RDS,S3andmore

§ Getdeeper,predictiveinsightsontheapplicationsandprocessesrunningonthemtorapidlyfindperformancebottlenecks

§ Bettermanageyourcloudresourcesthroughintelligentalertsoncost&utilization


PrivateCloud

§ TrackSLAsandperformanceofallyourinfrastructureinyourturnkeyorcustomprivatecloudorconvergedinfrastructures

§ Getdeeper,predictiveinsightsontheapplicationsandprocessesrunningonthemtorapidlyfindperformancebottlenecks

§ IntegratewithotherITOMtoolsandautomatemonitoringdeploymentforseamlessoperations


HybridCloud

§ Proactivelyandholisticallytrackendtoenduserexperienceacrosscloudandonpremiseinfrastructures

§ Singleview,eliminates“swivel”chairintegrationstoboostissuesresolutionandstaffproductivity

§ Singleconsoletorapidlymanageallyourmonitoringconfigurationsboostscloudadoptionandapplicationdeployments


WorkloadMigration

§ Getinsightsoninfrastructureutilizationthroughoutthemigrationprocess;bothpre(onpremise)andpost(cloud)

§ Holisticallymonitornewlymigratedworkloadstoensureasmoothtransition

§ EnsureCloudSLAsareconsistent(orbetter)thanonpremise

§ Proactivelyrun“tests”toconfirmsuccess


CloudUtilization

§ Analyzehistoricaldatatobetterplanforcapacityandbudgetaryneeds

§ Correlatevariouscloudandonpremisemetricsforrootcauseidentification

§ Getpredictivealertsonperformanceandbudgetthresholdbaseduponutilizationdata


AmazonWebServices


AmazonWebServices(AWS)

§ Leadspubliccloudmarketinshareandrevenue– Now$11billion+businessforAmazon– OffersnumerousIaaS,PaaS,andSaaSservices– Globalpresenceofferedthroughagrowing

numberofregionaldatacenters

§ CAUnifiedInfrastructureManagementAWSprobe5.11– AutomateddiscoveryofAWSEC2instances

and11otherAWSservices– NewOOTBdashboardsusingCABusiness

Intelligence(CABI)basedonJaspersoft

MarketShareLeaderForPublicCloud


WhyNotJustUseAmazonCloudWatch?

§ Differentiation– Retainhistoricaldata(CloudWatchonlykeeps14

days)– CloudWatchmetricsarelimited(hypervisorview,

nomemorymetrics,frequency,etc.)– Fullstackcoverageincludingenduser

experience,database,middlewareandapplicationswithadditionalprobes

– Elasticconfigurationofmonitoringatscaletokeeppacewithdynamicinfrastructure

– ManagepubliccloudandtraditionalITfromsingletool

– AdvanceddashboardsandreportswithCABI

Example:AutomaticallyconfiguremonitoringbasedondynamicgroupsbasedonAWSTags


AWSServicesSupportedbyCAUIMTodayAWS Service Description

AWSServiceHealth Statusof AWSservicesacrossallregions

CloudWatch AWS monitoringserviceprovidesmetricsandestimatedcharges

EC2– ElasticCompute Cloud IaaS – ComputeInstances

EBS – ElasticBlockStorage IaaS– Blockstorage volumes

ELB– ElasticLoadBalancing IaaS– Loadbalancing service

AutoScaling IaaS– Group ofEC2instancesthatcanscaleupordown

S3– SimpleStorageService IaaS– ObjectStorage

RDS– Relational DatabaseService PaaS– Relational databaseas aservice

Elasticache PaaS– Cachingservice

SQS – SimpleQueueService PaaS– Messagequeueing service

SNS– SimpleNotificationService PaaS– Pushnotificationservice

ECS– EC2ContainerService IaaS– Container managementservice

Route53– DNS IaaS– Domainnameservices

DynamoDB PaaS– NoSQLdatabaseasaservice


AmazonWebServices

§ Configurationoptions– Probediscoveryandcollectionintervals

(thiscanaffectcosts)– Accountcredentials(don’tconfuse

youraccesskeyandsecretkey§ Tocollectbillingdataseparate

credentialsmayberequired– EC2labelproperty=determines

whetherinstanceID,primaryIP,ornametagareusedinprobeorientedconfiguration

– Proxyinfo;parametersforconfiguringaproxy

ProbeConfiguration


AmazonWebServicesinUnifiedServiceManager

§ USMdetailstab– ContainsadditionalEC2instance

informationintheleftpane– GraphsfromCloudWatchare

displayed

§ USMtreeview– EC2instancesandAWSservice

healthshowascomputersystems– TheAWSprofile/resourceshowsas

acomputersystem§ Non-IPservicesmetricsfoundhere


AWSProbeDynamicGroups

§ Dynamicgroupingbypropertiesortags– Groupsautomaticallycreatedfor

Amazon,thenbyOS– Fortags,inthegroupeditor,

amazontagsarefoundinthefilterssectionunderneathadvanced;lookforUserProp<tag>

– Groupscanalsobecreatedusingotherattributessuchasregionortype

GroupingbyTagsorProperties


AWSCABIDashboards– Summary

§ AWSprobeincludesOOTBCABIdashboardsummarizingstatusofAWSservices


AWSCABIDashboards– ServiceDrilldown

§ AWSservicedashboardsdisplaykeyusageandperformancemetricsforeachservice


AWSCABIDashboards– Sprawl

§ AWSservicedashboardshelpsidentifycloud“sprawl”tobetteroptimizeutilizationandcontrolcosts


MicrosoftAzure


MicrosoftAzure

§ SecondinmarketsharetoAWSbutgrowingfaster– Stillseeingtripledigitgrowth– StronginbothIaaSandPaaS,usedasplatformforMicrosoftSaaSofferings

suchasOffice365andDynamics365– Globalpresenceofferedthroughagrowingnumberofregionaldatacenters

§ CAUnifiedInfrastructureManagementAzureprobe3.0– RevisedtosupportAzureResourceManagermodel– NewOOTBdashboardsusingCABIJaspersoft


NewAzureProbe3.0

§ SupportforAzureResourceManagermodel– NewAPIbasedonresourcegroups

§ AzureVMsandAzurestorage– SubstantiallymoremetricsandpropertiesavailablefromnewAPI

§ SupportforWebAppService(formerlyWebsites)withexpandedmetrics

§ NewsupportforAzureSQLdatabaseservice

§ NewOOTBCABIdashboards


AzureProbeAuthentication

§ NewAzureprobesupportsgetsdatafromAzureResourceManagermodelandclassicmodelwithsingleauthentication


AzureProbeConfiguration

§ SignificantlymoremetricsavailablethroughAzureResourceManagerAPIacrossmonitoredservices– AzureVMs– Azurestorage– AzureSQL– Azurewebapps


AzureSummaryDashboard


AzureStorageServiceDashboard


Docker


DockerOverview

§ Containers,notVMs

§ Intendedtorunasingleapplication– Repeatable– Isolated

§ Defactodeliveryvehicleforcloudapplications;secondmostpopularopensourceprojectafterOpenStack

§ Highlyscalable,millisecondstostartacontainer,vs.minutesforaVM

§ UsedbycustomerstodriveDevOpsstylesoftwaredevelopment


DockerMonitoring

§ DockerprobemonitorstheDockerengineAPI

§ Host(engine)metrics– Containerandimagecounts– CPU– Memory– Disk– Network

§ ContainerMetrics– Status– CPU– Memory– Disk– Network– Processesincontainer

§ Swarm


TheDockerProbe

§ Requirements– Dockerversion1.9orgreater,Linuxonly

§ %docker – versiontocheck,%docker ps tomakesureDockerisrunning

§ Configuration– UnixsocketfileorTCP;whenusingaUnixsocketfile,theprobemustbe

locatedlocallytotheDockerengine

§ Dockerswarm– Dockerswarm(clustering)issupported;ifthesocketfileortheTCPendpoint

isaswarmmanager,morethanonehostwillappearintheinventory

PrerequisitesandConfiguration


DockerCABIDashboard

§ AtaglanceviewofkeyperformanceandusageindicatorsforyourDockerenvironment


Nutanix


NutanixOverview

§ Marketleaderinhyper-convergedintegratedsystems(perGartnerMQ)– Marketgrowingrapidly,84%YoYrevenuegrowth,

IPOonSept30,2016– Aserverappliance,cloudplatforminabox– SupportshypervisorssuchasESX,Hyper-V,

oritsownAcropolis

§ SystemstorageorareplacementforSAN:– EachapplianceincludesSSDandHDDthatcluster

togethertoformtheNutanixdistributedfilesystem

§ OurproberetrievesinformationfromthePrismAPI


NutanixProbe1.33WhatDoWeMonitor?

§ Clustermetrics

§ Hostmetrics

§ VMmetrics

§ Storagepoolmetrics

§ Container(subsetofastoragepool)metrics

§ Diskmetrics


TheNutanixProbeDetails

§ Requirements– TestedwithPrism4.6and4.7

§ Configuration– Hostname,port,username,

password– MonitorVMs:WhenenabledVMs

willbeaddedtotheinventory


NutanixCABIDashboards

§ Nutanixsummary

§ Averageperformanceofclusters

§ Performancebycluster

§ Top10VMconsumers

§ Tophostperformance

§ Topstoragepoolperformance


OpenStack


OpenStackOverview

§ Privatecloudprovider,alsousedbyserviceproviderstoprovidecloudservices– Startedin2010byRackspaceandNASA– Opensourcesolution,releasesevery

6months;currentreleaseNewton

§ Opennessthatcomeswithcomplexity§ Oftenreferredtoasbuildyourowncloud

§ PrimarilyusedtoprovideonpremiseIaaSandreducecosts


OpenStackProbe1.30

§ Serviceendpoints– areOpenStackservicesrunning?

§ Controllernodestatus

§ Computenodemetrics

§ Instancemetrics– CPU,memory,diskandnetwork

§ Projectmetrics

§ Volumemetrics

WhatDoWeMonitor?


TheOpenStackProbe

§ Configuration– UtilizesstandardOpenStackAPIs– InterfaceswithKeystoneserviceon

controllernodeforauthenticationandservices

– InterfaceswithseveraladditionalservicesincludingNova,Neutron,Cinder,andCeilometerforinventoryandmetrics

Details


OpenShift


OpenShiftOverview

§ OpenShiftisRedHat'sPlatform-as-a-Service(PaaS)– BasedonDockerandKubernetes– Availableascloudserviceoron

premise(RedHatOpenShiftContainerPlatform)

§ UsedbyCATechnologiesasplatformforSaaSofferings


OpenShiftProbe

§ Collectperformance,usage,andstatemetricsforOpenShift– Projects– Services– Pods– Nodes

§ Associatepodswiththenodestheyrunon


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