HP Insight Dynamics - VSE Bradford Nichols, HP Enterprise Storage and Servers.

HP Insight Dynamics - VSE

Bradford Nichols,HP Enterprise Storage and Servers

Abstract

• Insight Dynamics – VSE 4.0 (ID-VSE) is the latest release in HP’s server virtualization management software. It combines the scope and maturity of previous Virtual Server Environment (VSE) offerings of Integrity Servers with integration into the latest capabilities of the popular Insight Control Environment of products for ProLiant Servers. This talk will provide an overview of the features in Virtual Server Environment product for ProLiant and Integrity Servers, and then include a demo of some of the significant new features in the ID-VSE 4.0 release;

• Support for a Windows CMS• Virtualization Manager

– Blade Enclosure, Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager and Virtual Machine Management support

• Capacity Advisor– Consolidation scenario wizards– Power awareness

• Logical Server – Rapid provisioning of Blade and VM contexts which can be easily moved within

the available resource pool

About the speaker

• Bradford Nichols– Technical Consultant– HP Enterprise Storage and Servers– [email protected]

© 2008 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.The information contained herein is subject to change without notice

HP Insight Dynamics – VSE

Bradford Nichols, HPSeptember 2008

Optimize server utilization in real time

Agenda• Introducing HP Insight Dynamics – VSE• Demo

−Part 1: A Virtualized Infrastructure

−Part 2: Virtualization Manager (Vman)

−Part 3: Capacity Advisor (CapAd)

−Part 4: Server Migration Pack (SMP)

−Part 5: Logical Servers

• Wrap-up−Answers to Q&A

Questions• How many of you are involved in server management:

−specification, installation, provisioning and on-going maintenance?

• Which of the following are key interests where you work:−Reducing time to roll out new servers in response to requests?

−Reducing costs by better utilizing server resources or right sizing them in the first place?

−Increasing responsiveness to changes in server landscape: sizing, p2v, v2p etc.?

−All of the above?

• How many of you have physical and virtual servers in your environment?

Introducing HP Insight Dynamics - VSE• What problem is HP providing a solution

for?• Features and Components of ID-VSE• Relationship to Insight Control Suites• Relationship to HP Integrity VSE

Does your infrastructure get in the way of better business outcomes?

Too timeconsuming73% of consolidations took a year or more1

Too energyhungry?Data center electricity use more than doubled since 2000

Too costly?Sprawl is expensive – virtual servers are growing much faster than physical servers

Too unpredictable?Few servers have traditional HA clustering

1. IT executive and managers survey: Forrester Research, Inc: How Large Enterprises Approach IT Infrastructure Consolidation December 2007

HP Restricted. HP and Channel Partner Internal Use.


• Control physical and virtual resources in the same way

• Real-time capacity planning for servers and power

• Ease of migration (P2P, V2P, V2P, V2V)

• Bring the flexibility of virtualization to physical servers

Building on the value of HP Systems Insight Manager,

Insight Control and Virtual Server Environment

Continuously analyze and optimize your infrastructure

Addressing key data center issues: cost, speed, quality and energy

HP Insight Dynamics – VSE and VSE Suites delivered in convenient packages

HP Insight Dynamics – VSE Suites for HP

ProLiant and HP BladeSystem with

ProLiant blades

HP Virtual Server Environment Suite

for HP Integrity

new new release

HP Insight software portfolio for HP servers

HP Insight Dynamics – VSE Suitefor ProLiant and BladeSystem ProLiant

HP Insight Control Suitesfor ProLiant and BladeSystem ProLiant

•Virtualization mgmt (VMM)•Power management (IPM)•Rapid server deployment (RDP)•Performance management (PMP)•Patch management (VPM)•Remote management (iLO Adv for ML/DL / iLO Select for blades)

•Central management (SIM)



•Capacity planning (CapAd)

•Virtualization management (Vman)

•Logical server management (LSA)

•Server migration - P2P, V2P, V2V, P2V (SMP Universal)

•with Insight Control Suite



•Logical server management (LSA)



HP VSE Suitefor Integrity (incl. blades)



•Logical server management* (LSA)

•Workload management (GWLM or HP-UX WLM)

•Soft partitioning (HP Integrity VM or vPar)



•Logical server management* (LSA)



* Q109 for Integrity

HP Virtual Server Environment for HP Integrity

HP Virtual Server Environment

Intelligent control: including Insight Dynamics – VSE functionality

HP Systems Insight Manager

HP Capacity Advisor

Virtual serversPartitioning Availability Utility pricing• nPars• vPars• HP Integrity

Virtual Machines• HP Secure Resource

Partitions

• HP Serviceguard• HP Serviceguard

Storage Mgmt Suite• HP Metrocluster• HP Continentalclusters• SGeRAC/SGeSAP

• HP Instant Capacity• HP Temporary

Instant Capacity• HP Global

Instant Capacity• HP Pay Per Use

HP Virtualization Manager

HP Global Workload Manager

HP-UX Workload Manager

Integratedby design

Virtual fabric: HP Virtual Connect

HP Restricted. HP and Channel Partner Internal Use.

HP Systems Insight ManagerHP-UX Central Management Server

Managed from a common console

Integrity Essentials


HP-UX CMSIntegrity

Can Manage

Integrity Servers

Integrity Blades

Note: HP 9000 servers are also supported.

Note: no plans to support VCEM, logical server capability or RDP from HP-UX-based CMS.

HP Systems Insight ManagerWindows Central Management Server

Windows CMS on ProLiant

Insight Essentials


One common console

Can Manage Integrity Servers

Integrity Blades

ProLiant ML/DL

ProLiant Blades

Note: HP 9000 servers are also supported.

• New: Windows CMS supports all current Integrity tools

• Note: VCEM and LSM will be only supported on Windows CMS

Demo Part 1: A Virtualized Infrastructure

• System Insight Manager (SIM)−BladeSystem Integrated

Manager

• Virtual Machine Management Pack (VMM)

• Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM)

Questions• How many of you are currently using HP

c7000 blade enclosures?−Virtual Connect?

• How many have deployed VMware virtual machines?

• How many of you use HP System Insight Manager?

HP Insight software portfolio for HP servers

HP Insight Dynamics – VSE Suitefor ProLiant and BladeSystem ProLiant

HP Insight Control Suitesfor ProLiant and BladeSystem ProLiant



•Logical server management (Vman)





•Logical server management (Vman)



HP VSE Suitefor Integrity (incl. blades)



•Logical server management* (Vman)





•Logical server management* (Vman)



* Q109 for Integrity




•Central management (SIM)•Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM)

•Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM)










Virtualization Manager (VMAN)

Capacity Advisor (CapAd)

Server Migration Pack (SMP)

Logical Servers

Demo Part 2: Virtualization Manager (Vman)• Graphical hierarchical

View of Infrastructure−Enclosures−Blades−Virtual Machine Hosts−Virtual Machine Guests−ProLiant and Integrity

• Status −Event icons−Performance meters −Power meter

• Quick launch of relevant tools

Questions• What do you currently use to visualize the

state of your server infrastructure?−A viso diagram

−VMware Virtual Center

−HP System Insight Manager

−Other

• How many windows or tools do you have open to get events, performance management tool access?

Physical and Virtual Perspective within Vman

Demo Part 3: Capacity Advisor (CapAd)• Profiles: Historical

Utilization Data of Servers

• Scenarios: Projections and Hypothetical Configurations−Servers and Workloads

−Forecasting

−Limits

−Solvers

Questions• How many of you have server consolidation

projects to virtual machines planned or in-progress?

• Of those doing consolidations, what do you currently use size replacement systems:−A spreadsheet?

−A service from a vendor?

−Other?

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HP Capacity Advisor• Utilization Calculator

− moving workloads adds and subtracts

− workloads can be multiplied by a constant to reflect expected growth

• Simple data collection

− Uses standard WBEM

− Automatic nightly data collection

• Integration with VSE features

− SG failover planning

− VM planning

− gWLM estimating• Smart Solver

− Automatically generate plans for consolidation and load balancing

• Power Planning

− Estimate the power consumption of different configurations

• Easy to use

+ =8 Core Peak

8 Core Peak

12 Core Peak

HP Insight Dynamics – VSE: Capacity planning to optimize utilizationThe new math: 8+8 = 12

• Two workloads each have an 8 CPU peak demand but the peak of their sum is 12 CPUs.

• Peaks for different workloads do not all happen at the same time.

Demo Part 4: Server Migration Pack (SMP)

Questions• How many of you see a use for

−P2V?

−V2P?

−V2V?

−P2P?

• Anyone see V2P2V?

The New Server Problem

• Replacing an old server with a new physical server?

• How long, and how many experts does it take to:−lay down an operating system?−implement security?−install application and configure?−quality assurance and validation?

• Replacing old servers with virtual machines?−Does your migration tool support multiple

virtualization platforms?−Can it migrate a VM back to physical if needed?−Do you have time to learn multiple tools?

HP Server Migration Pack – Universal Edition

• SMP Universal meets all your HP ProLiant and BladeSystem migration needs−Physical to ProLiant (P2P)

• New HP ProLiant or HP BladeSystemservers

−Virtual to ProLiant (V2P)• Migrate VMs back to standalone servers

−Physical to Virtual (P2V)• Supports multiple virtualization platforms

−Virtual to Virtual (V2V)• Convert VMs between virtualization

platforms

SMP Universal – How it works

Source Server or VM Destination Server or VM

SMP Universal Application Station

SIM Integration or Standalone

Demo Part 5: Logical Servers• Definition of a Server

that can be mapped dynamically to a Blade or Virtual Machine

• Rapid response to the request for a new server

• Templating commonly requested server configs

• Flexible migration of servers

• New use cases leveraging activation and deactivation

Questions• What is the longest aspect of rolling out

new servers for you:−Closing on requirements?

−Searching to see if resources already exist that can be re-provisioned?

−Cabling and wiring into the infrastructure (virtual or physical)?

• Is efficiently managing Physical servers as well as Virtual ones a concern?

Bring flexibility of virtualization to physical servers

Server

Virtual Fabric

OS Imagereference

Configuration requirement

sUnique IDs

Logical server

Server

HP Logical Server technology

•A server profile that is easily created and freely moved across physical and virtual machines

Logical servers can be:

•Active physical blade servers

•Active virtual machines

•Offline templates

Available for Integrity Q1’09

OS image

Logical server management

Logical servers can be provisioned via templates and freely adjusted and migrated

• Bring logical servers on-line quickly for increased capacity, new projects or server recovery

• Shorten maintenance window by rapidly moving server profiles

• Drag and drop capabilities to move logical servers

Wrap-up• /www.hp.com/go/idvse










Virtualization Manager (VMAN)

Capacity Advisor (CapAd)

Server Migration Pack (SMP)

Logical Servers

Questions? ( 1 of )

• What Operating Systems are supported with SMP-U?– The currently released version of SMP-U is 3.5. In this

version the supported source system OSs are Windows variants, in the case of a VtoX the source VM hosts are VMware, Xen and MS Virtual Server.

– The OS on the target server (if it exists) is not important because SMP provides a bootable image for its agent on the target. In the case of a migration to VM the supported target VM Hosts are VMware, Xen and MS Virtual Server.

– For specific details, the quick spec for the v3.5 version of the product is online at http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12855_na/12855_na.html

http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12855_na/12855_na.html

http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12855_na/12855_na.html

Questions? (2 of

• Are integrity blades supported as logical servers? – In the current ID-VSE 4.0 release they are not.

But the plan is to support them in the next release which is planned for Q109. See you can contact your HP rep for a formal NDA roadmap if you need more details.

– Note that today Integrity Blades, HP-UX and HP Integrity Virtual Machines are fully supported in the Virtualization Manager and Capacity Advisor components of the ID-VSE 4.0 product

Questions? (3 of

• Can Capacity Advisor work for an all Dell installed base?– Used in an on-going fashion CapacityAdvisor is not

intended for use with non-HP platforms. The licensing scheme is based on HP platforms and a platform-type check is made in the SIM CMS licensing mechanism when licenses are applied.

– That being said, CapacityAdvisor does have some low-level mechanisms to import historical performance data that is in ascii format independent of any platform-type labeling. These could be used to do a one time import of historical for purposes of a consolidation project of non-HP platforms to HP servers. Typically in this case, the tool would be used by HP services as part of a project on behalf of a customer. If this is of further interest I suggest you contact me or the local HP services delivery contact in your area.

Questions? (4 of

• Can virtualization manager be utilized w/o SIM?– Virtualization Manager is only available as a plug

in to SIM. The support SIM Server OS options are HP-UX or x86 Windows.

– Vman itself has no real dependencies in the Insight Control Suite other then SIM. So if you are concerned about a lot of complexity to set Vman up due to the Insight Suite’s size, it isn’t necessarily so. But Logical Servers requires VMM and VCEM. Also CapAd would utilizes VMM when gather information about VMware hosts.

Questions? (5 of 5)• How would be an answer to customer's question - what

VSE does offer which is not in Vmware's Vmotion/HA?– The short answer is ID-VSE is not a replacement for VMware

and its features. – ID-VSE adds additional features to a customer’s ProLiant

environment with VMware;• The ability to view and manage both physical and virtual aspects

of your environment from a single interface (Virtualization Manager). From this tool integrated in SIM you get low-level server hardware characteristics and events right up through Virtual Machine visibility and control and everything in between.

• An integrated full featured, directly accessible to the user capacity monitoring and planning tool – Capacity Advisor. The Capacity Advisor tool works for physical bare-iron server, vm host servers and vms.

• The ability to “Virtualize” physical blades in an enclosure much in the same way as vms are virtualized on a vm host. This is done using ID-VSE logical servers. When blades are logical servers, they (their context or settings like SAN and MAC addresses) can be templated, assigned, moved, much like a Virtual Machine.

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