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VMware vRealize
Claes Bäckström
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vRealize Suite namnförändringar
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Existing Name New Name New SaaS
vCenter™ Operations Management Suite™ vRealize™ Operations™ vRealize™ Air™
Operations
vCloud™ Automation Center™ vRealize™ Automation™ vRealize™ Air™
Automation
IT Business Management™ vRealize™ Business™ vRealize™ Air™ Business
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vR Ops – New Improved UI
Powerful New “Combined” UI for
Better Visualization
• One UI to rule them all!
• Unified Mgmt
• Access to all object types
• Highly customizable
• Features and views work the same
throughout
• Alerting consolidated
• All objects are “First Class Citizens”
Technical Overview
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vR Ops – Alerting and Remediation
New Alerting Drives Ease of Use
• Policy based Alerts combine multiple
symptoms to show actual issue
• Correlation across objects
• Symptoms not limited to badges
• Any Metric – Any Object
• Fix the problem
• Troubleshooting tips
• Remediation actions
• New Dashboard views of Alerts
• Shows real issues
• Allows for quick MTTR
Technical Overview
Intelligent, Actionable Alerts
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vR Ops – Alert Definitions• Alerts are issues that are active on a given
object
– Alerts are assigned to an Alert Base Object (e.g. Datacenter)
– Alerts are assigned to a Major Badge (Health)
• Alert Components
– One or more active Symptoms
– One or more Recommendations in priority order
– One or more Actions
• Alerts Engine to correlate Symptoms
– Across relationships
• Symptoms can be on the Alert Base Object
• Symptoms can be related to the Alert Base Object (e.g. Children Objects, Parent Objects)
Alert Definition
Symptom(s)
Recommendation(s)
Action(s)
• Alert Defs and its components
• OOTB from VMware
• OOTB from Partner Vendors
• User Created
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vR Ops – Symptoms
• A Symptom is a simple condition test
– Badge
– Metric or SuperMetric
– Object Property
– Change Event
– Fault
• Applies to any Resource Kind
– Host, VM, Datastore, Switch, OS, App…
• Test Conditions
– HT Comparison (>, <, >=, <=, ==, !=)
– DT Check (above, below, abnormal)
– Events/Fault that include specific text
• Examples
– VM: CPU Ready% > 10
– Datastore: Latency above DT
– Change: “Shares Decreased”
– Fault: “Host Disconnected”
Alert Definition
Symptom(s)
Recommendation(s)
Action(s)
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vR Ops – Recommendations
• Guidance Provided to Help Resolve
Alerts
– Best Practices
– Vendor Recommendations
– Tribal Knowledge
• Displayed with the Alert
• Create a library of Recommendations
– Single Recommendation is Reusable for multiple Alerts
– Multiple Recommendations for an Alert
– Recommendation order part of Alert Definition
Alert Definition
Symptom(s)
Recommendation(s)
Action(s)
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Alert Definition
Symptom(s)
Recommendation(s)
Action(s)
vR Ops – Actions
• Makes Recommendations
Actionable
– One-Click Actions to fix
operational issues
– Remediation Actions like Power
Off/On VMs, Shutdown, VM
CPU and Memory settings
• Support for actions written as VCO
workflows & Python scripts
• Role based access control
• Launch in Context
• View action results
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• Current Badge Status
– Health
– Risk
– Efficiency
• Alerts on the Object
– Recommendations
• Alerts on Descendents
– Number of objects with the alert
– Recommendations
• Click alert to see details
Object Summary View
Go to Alert Details
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vR Ops – Viewing Alerts
Alert Details – Summary Tab
Available Actions
Recommendations
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vR Ops – Viewing Alerts
Alert Details – Summary Tab
Actions in “Action”
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vR Ops – Integrated Compliance
Integrated Compliance Framework
• vSphere Hardening Content included with
vSphere Management Pack.
• Symptoms, Alerts, Views,
Dashboards
• Managed per object/group via policies
(ie, rule exceptions for group).
• Users may tweak and enforce their own
compliance property symptoms
• Configuration properties and changes
assessed near real-time
• Compliance Framework will allow for
future content
Technical Overview
New, Integrated Compliance Framework
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vSphere Compliance
Analysis – Compliance Tab
“Expected” vs. “Found” property
values
Violated Compliance Rules
Rule violated date
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vR Ops – New Reporting and Customizations
Customizable Views, Reports and
Dashboards
• Custom Views
• Object detail visibility
• Numerous view types & options
• Build once use MANY times
• Custom Reports
• Drag and drop a view into the report
• Custom Dashboards
• Drag and drop a view into a dashboard
• Drag and drop a widget into the
dashboard (as before)
Technical Overview
Views
Reports Dashboards
Widgets(from the Old Custom UI)
View your data the way you need to
vR Ops Adv
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vR Ops – Views – Reports – Dashboards• Numerous View Types
– Summary, Chart,
• Wizards Simplify Building
– View, Reports, Dashboards
• Any object of any type can be Added to View, Reported on, or used in a Dashboard
– vSphere
– Hyperic
– 3rd Party Adapters
• SCOM
• NetApp
• EMC
• Oracle OEM
• Etc…
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vR Ops – Capacity Planning
Extending Capacity Planning
• Capacity modeling for all containers and
vSphere
• Capacity for Heterogeneous
environments
• Must be built into the adapter
• Improved defaults, first Default Policy
Configuration flow
• Projects - Persistent What-If Scenarios
• Extensible Views and Reports for Capacity
• Alert definitions for Capacity
Technical Overview
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vR Ops – Projects
• Projects are events that model changing Total Capacity and/or Usage
• Projects have an event timestamp which can be applied now or at some point in the future
• Projects can be applied to any containers
• Projects can be
– Can be scheduled as repeating events
– Can be edited, saved, combined and compared
Now
Usable Capacity
Usage
Demand
Persistent “What-If Scenarios”
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vR Ops – Projects
• Determine Capacity shortfall
• Create a project
– Plan or Commit
• vR Ops Adv
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vR Ops – Policy Based Automation
Advanced Policy and Group
Management
• Group and Application creation now
performed from one UI
• New Policy creation UI
• Policies apply to vSphere and non-
vSphere object types
Technical Overview
Better management for ANY object in
your environment
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vR Ops – New Access Control Options
Flexible User Access
• New User Access Control methodology
• Greater flexibility with a three pronged
approach
• vCenter only for vSphere Objects
• Active Directory and OpenLDAP for
vSphere and non-vSphere objects
• Local vR Ops for vSphere and non-
vSphere objects
Technical Overview
VC users
LDAP users
vR Ops LocalUsers
Both object and privilege access
control in one place
???
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vR Ops – Access Control
WHO can do WHAT to WHAT?
Ex – ‘Joe’ can ‘Power On’ ‘Virtual Machine 1’
User Privilege Objects
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vR Ops – Access Control - Authentication
• vR Ops authentication module will authenticate users from different sources: vCenter Server, Active Directory, OpenLDAP, and Local users (xDB)
FSDB
vR Ops
Authentication Module
GlobalxDB
VC users
LDAP users
vR Ops LocalUsers
Virtual Center
LDAPDelegate
Virtual CenterVirtual Center
LDAPLDAP
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vRealize Operations Suite 6.0
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vR OpsStandard
vR OpsAdvanced
vR OpsEnterprise
Operations Management Platform
• Predictive Analytics and Smart Alerts
• Policy Management
• Automation and Guided Remediation
• Customizable Dashboards and Reports
Performance Monitoring and Analytics
• vSphere Performance and Health Monitoring
• SAN Storage Analytics
• Application Discovery and Dependency Mapping
• OS Monitoring (Windows, Linux, Solaris, … for Physical & Virtual)
• Application, Middleware and Database Monitoring (MS, Oracle, …)
Capacity Management
• vSphere Resource Monitoring, Planning and Optimization
• Define and Save Capacity Modeling Projects
• Commit Projects for Model-Driven Analytics
Configuration and Compliance Management
• vSphere Hardening
• vSphere change, configuration, and regulatory compliance
• OS-level Configuration & Regulatory Compliance (PCI, HIPAA, SOX…)
Architectural Features
• Multi-Node Configuration and Remote Collectors
• High Availability
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vRealize Log Insight 2.5
More Control & Flexibility
• Role Based Access Control
• Assign roles to users/groups
• Control access to data sets,
dashboards, Interactive Analytics,
Admin Tasks
• Allows customers to utilize Log
Insight as a multi-tenant solution
• Native Linux Agent
• Lightweight, configurable agent
• Multiple Installation packages:
RHEL, SLES, Ubuntu
Technical Overview
Role Based Access Control
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vRealize Log Insight 2.5
Tighter Integration
• Inventory Unification• Data Integration & mapping with
vSphere & vRealize Operations• VM & Host Log entries tagged with
vCenter ID, vC Ops ID, relationships• Launch in context to vRealize
Operations Manager • Integrated Load Balancer & HA
• No longer rely on 3rd party LB
• Single FQDN is entry for all
functionality: ingest, query, monitor,
manage
• Ingestion traffic distributed equal
among data worker nodes
Technical Overview
Inventory Unification!
Launch in context to vR Ops!
Launch to vR Ops
vCenter and vR Ops linked tags
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vRealize Log Insight 2.5
UI & UX Improvements
• Presentation mode: real-time charts with streaming autoupdate
• Edit Dashboard Widgets: Modify query, aggregation type and chart type inside dashboard view
• Improved Alerts Management• Hosts Overview: shows quantity of data
each host is sending to LI• Machine Learning: Compare Sources• Machine Learning Auto Manage:
Algorithms reduce resource usage of off-line jobs during peak periods
• Query Caching Policy algorithm enhancements to improve response time and analytics
Technical Overview
Update Chart Types from Dashboard
Edit dashboard widgets without leaving Dashboard
view
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vRealize Log Insight 2.5
Technical Overview
Extensibilty Enhancements
• Integrated Content Pack Marketplace• Enhanced User Experience: search
and install content without leaving vRealize Log Insight UI
• Syslog Forwarding to 3rd party
• Customer feature request for DR,
SIEM, silos, other use cases
• Internationalization/Localization support
*Integrated* Content Marketplace
Streamlined Content Pack Install from UI
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vRealize Operations Content
New Operations Mgr MGMT Packs• Hyperic - Updated• NSX for vSphere – Updated • NSX for Multi-Hypervisor – NEW!• MPSD – Updated • NetApp – New• EMC-ESA – Update• vRA (aka vCAC) – New • OpenStack (All distributions) - New• vCloud Air – Update • AWS – Update• SAP – Update• Oracle – Update
New Log Insight Content Packs• NSX for vSphere• Cisco Nexus Modular• Cisco Nexus Fixed• Cisco ASA• Arista switches• IIS• Java/JRW
Technical Overview
Unified Mgmt OOTB with vRealize
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vR Ops – Management Pack for Storage Devices
• New Dashboards, Views and Reports
– Provides Out of the Box Experience
• Actionable alerts with impact and
recommendations
• Capacity Details
– Provides demand and usage information for end to end devices
• Brings in key configuration “property”
information from devices/resources
– Vendor, Hardware, Firmware, driver version, etc
Technical Overview
Key configuration info
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vR Ops – Management Pack for Storage Devices
New Support
• Support for FCoE Fabric
– Supports End to End FCoE Transport (Host, Fabric, Storage)
– Supports FCoE-FC Mapping
• Broadened Eco System Support
– Covers Brocade, Cisco and QlogicSAN(FC and FCoE) Fabric
– Covers VASA 1.0 Compatible native FCoE Arrays and FCoE HBA
Technical OverviewMount/LUN
HBAFabric
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vRA (vCAC) Mgmt Pack
Cloud Provider Benefits
• Analytics in Context of vCAC Objects
• Reservations
• Tenants
• Policies
• Fabric Groups
• Tenant-aware Operations
• Which Tenants and LOB are impacted by an
infrastructure issue
• Which Tenants, Business Groups, VMs are
impacted
• Which Tenants are at Capacity Risk and need
more ‘vCAC Reservation’ for storage?
• Analytics Driven Insights for Provider
• Capacity Planning, Sizing, Waste, etc
Technical Overview
Tenant-aware Operations!
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Tenant Overview Dashboard
List of all supported Tenants & Monitoring Policies
Top Outstanding Alerts for selected Tenant/Business Group/Blueprint
Which Tenants are at Capacity Risk and need more ‘vCAC Reservation’
for storage?
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Top N Tenant Dashboard
Tenants & Business
Groups with most Wasteful
VMs
Tenants & Business
Groups with most under-
sized VMs & active Alerts
Most Popular & Most
Wasteful Blueprints
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Improved Operational Visibility
View vRealize Operations Health Status in vRealize Automation displays
CurrentHealth: Good
In Admin List Views
In End User Item Details
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vRealize Operations – Identifying Idle VMs
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Set Idle Threshold Values
View List of VMsThat meets Idle Threshold
Criteria
This list of VMs feeds vCAC Reclamation