vRealize Operations Insight:Manage vSphere and Your Entire Data Center…

All In One Place!Himanshu Singh, Product Line Marketing Manager, VMware

Hicham (he-sham) Mourad, Group Technical Marketing Manager, VMware

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• This presentation may contain product features that are currently under development.

• This overview of new technology represents no commitment from VMware to deliver these features in any generally available product.

• Features are subject to change, and must not be included in contracts, purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind.

• Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.

• Pricing and packaging for any new technologies or features discussed or presented have not been determined.

Disclaimer

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Agenda

1 How Does IT Become Even More Awesome

2 What is vROI?

4 What’s Included & What Can You Do With It

5 Demo

IT at theSpeed of Business

Customers Need Help Bridging Between Existing and New IT to Support the Business and ALL Workloads

* Source: Gartner, 2013: “Hunting and Harvesting in a Digital World: The 2013 CIO Agenda”

IT Technology Eras

Mainframe Client-Server Mobile-Cloud

$ $ $ $ $ $

Ability of IT to Deliver

Steady IT Budgets*

Business Expectations

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The Transformative Opportunity for IT

Provide Solutions at the Speed the Business Operates

Move from being Reactive to Proactive

Become a Strategic Partner to the Business

• Quickly deliver reliable services and applications and be more flexible to business requests

• Enable higher performance and availability of infrastructure and applications

• Deliver not just operational efficiency, but improve the way the business operates and add value and differentiation along the way.

What Does IT Need to Fuel this Transformation

#1 - Match Speed of the Business

Consistent management and automation for the virtual data center

Optimize infrastructure

efficiency and IT productivity

Infrastructure designed for

mobile, social, big data and hybrid

cloud apps

What Does IT Need to Fuel this Transformation

#2 – Become Proactive

Get meaningful insights in one

place, covering the entire stack

Get better visibility into dependencies

of apps to infra

Improve performance and

reduce downtimes

What Does IT Need to Fuel this Transformation

#3 – Become a Strategic Partner to the Business

Optimize workload placement and

balancing, for better app performance

Enforce IT standards and

security hardening guidelines, to

improve operations

Safely automate manual tasks at an effective scale, with customizable and adaptable tools

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Today’s Reality in Operations Management

Monitoring Data Overload Alert Storms

Finger Pointing

DBA

VI Storage

Over-provisioning

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Silo-ed Operations Management with no single

solution

Downtime and Performance Degradation

• Unified operations solution across virtual, physical, storage, network and apps

• Quality of service

• Guided remediation with accelerated root cause analysis

Key Challenges For Customers

Cost Cutting and Reduced Budgets

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• Optimal utilization of existing IT assets

• Greater operational efficiency

What do Customers Need?

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The Five Pillars of Operational Analytics

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Operational Analytics

Performance & Availability

Logs & Unstructured

Data

Topology Analysis

Configuration Health

Capacity Consumption

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vRealize Operations Insight: Best of vRealize Operations and vRealize Log Insight TogethervROI is an add-on bundle for vSOM, that lets you leverage all your IT data for comprehensivevisibility in one place

Structured Data

Metrics Alerts Events

VMware vRealize OperationsCapacity, Performance and Configuration

Management Events

Launch in Context

Unstructured Data

Logs Messages

VMware vRealizeLog Insight

Log analytics, aggregation, and search

App

App

App

App

App

App

App

App

App

App

App

vRealize Operations Insight Partner Ecosystem

This is not an exhaustive list

VMware Solutions

Amazon Web Services

vCloud Air

Storage Devices

NSX

vCloud Networking & Security

EMC Smarts

Partner Solutions

EMC Storage Analytics

HP OneView

VCE Vision

Dell Compellent Storage

HP StoreFront

Cisco UCS

NetFlow Logic

Integrated solution for managing performance, capacity and logs– Converged disciplines of performance, capacity and

configuration management

360 degree view of all IT data and intelligent operations management– From apps to storage – enabling faster problem solution

Predictive analytics using structured and unstructured data– Better performance and enhanced end-user experience

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Why vRealize Operations Insight Is Better Than The Competition

Limited and Siloed Visibility

Under-utilized

Capacity

Slower Trouble-shooting

Problems with Traditional Tools

and Point Solutions

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Benefits• Up to 30% Reduction in Capex1

• Up to 50% Faster problem resolution2

• Up to 54% Lower application downtime3

• Up to 53% Reduction in IT costs3

• Up to 2.4X Return on investment3

vRealize Operations Insight Benefits“Intelligent Operations Management from Apps to Storage”

vRealize Operations Insight

vRealize Log Insight

vRealize Operations Advanced

1 2013 Study: The Total Economic Impact Of VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite2 Dimensional Research Paper, Log Insight, vmware.com3 VMware vCenter Operations Customer Benchmark Study by Management Insight, Wave Two

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vRealize Operations Insight 6.1

What’s New: Intelligent Workload Management

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Intelligent Workload Balancing Integrated OS Monitoring

Problem: • Workloads are often placed sub-

optimally, resulting in inefficient usage of clusters.

• Ongoing balancing of resources is a difficult, time-consuming, and non-strategic activity.

Solution: • Visualize how your clusters are

loaded with workloads across clusters, vCenters, data centers.

• Get a Balancing Plan that recommends optimal placement of the workloads and balances the workloads across clusters.

Problem: • Monitoring OS and infrastructure is

complex, requires multiple tools, and can lead to blind spots

Solution: • OS monitoring is now available

natively in vRealize Operations.• Predictive analytics help IT to

proactively identify and avoid potential issues across infrastructure and application stacks in one place.

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Intelligent Workload Balancing

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Integrated OS Monitoring

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Alright…Details.

What’s Included, andWhat Can You Do With It?

Custom Data Center

Understand capacity across vCenter boundaries• Custom Data Centers (CDC) span clusters and vCenter

server environments

• Combine Hosts, Clusters, and Data Center’s from one or more vCenter environments

• Simple wizard driven CDC creation process

• Full Capacity management / planning for the Custom Data Center

• “Is my West Coast CDC running short on Capacity?”

• Support for all analysis badges• Looks like a “real” vSphere data center

• “What is the Health of my Production-East CDC?”

Technical Overview

New container that spans the SDDC to provide new levels of visibility

Reserve Capacity Now

Committing & Reserving Capacity/Capacity Planning• Plan a Project – A proposal showing change in demand or

resources• E.g. Add 10 new Oracle VMs and 5 new Hosts on July 1

• Commit a Project – Affect Future Capacity• Lets vR Ops/Users know there is a future planned project

• Reflects the project’s impact at a certain set date

• Affects Time Remaining badge & capacity trends (on the implementation date)

• New - Commit a Project (DEFAULT) – Reserve Capacity Now• Tells vR Ops to set aside the capacity for the project NOW

• Reserved Capacity affects vR Ops capacity analysis

• Affects the Time and Capacity Remaining badges

Technical Overview

Reserve Capacity

Affect Future Capacity

Reserve Capacity Now

Visualize Capacity Distribution Levels of the Infrastructure

Underutilized ZONE Optimal ZONE Overutilized ZONE

• New Capacity Utilization Dashboard• Shows capacity utilization distribution within the CDC• Uses Capacity Remaining values to determine “Optimal” recommended size

• Capacity Remaining takes into account Reserved Capacity

• Updates nightly based on Capacity Remaining calculations

• Partitioned into 3 ZONEs that show how far you are away from “Right Sized” or “Optimal”• Zones show % deviation from the optimal recommended size

Hover Over Details

Hover Over Details

• What does it mean?– Host and Clusters Overutilized – High Capacity Risk– Hosts and Clusters Underutilized – Space available– Workloads improperly distributed in the CDC

• What should you do?– Better distribute workloads – Avoid Capacity Risk – Distribute workloads, but how?

Distribute WorkloadsDistribute Workloads

Visualize Capacity Distribution Levels of the InfrastructureExample 1: Imbalanced Infrastructure

Workload Balance Plan

Workload Balance Plan drives best fit • NEW Rebalance Action

• Recommends best fit destination for optimal capacity utilization

• Workload Balance Plan shows movement candidates

• Distribute workloads within the CDC and across cluster boundaries

• Does not violate DRS Affinity Rules

• How it works• Chose Rebalance Container action

• Review the Workload Balance Plan

• Approve recommendations

• “Begin Action” to execute the plan

• Automatically moves VMs based on plan

• Periodic Redistribution

Technical Overview

Intelligently Balance Workloads within a CDC

Workload Balance Plan

Workloads under Stress

• What does it mean?– VMs are improperly sized – Too small– VMs starving for resources due to contention – High Demand and Stress

• What should you do?– Rightsize VM UP to give it enough resources – Meet workload Demand and remove Stress– View Stress & Capacity Remaining badges and run Rightsize action to quickly resolve issue

• Example: Set CPU Count and Memory for VM

– Run Rebalance Action Review Workload Balance Plan Approve “Begin Action”

Visualize Capacity Distribution Levels of the InfrastructureExample 2: Overutilized workloads

• What does it mean?– Host and Clusters Overutilized due to current or future reserved capacity – High Capacity Risk– No Hosts and Clusters Underutilized – No space available

• What should you do?– Remove some unneeded workloads– Obtain more HW

Nothing Underutilized

Everything Overutilized

Visualize Capacity Distribution Levels of the InfrastructureExample 3: Overutilized Infrastructure

• What does it mean?– VMs are improperly sized – Too big– Resources are being wasted – Available Reclaimable Capacity

• What should you do?– Rightsize DOWN to reclaim capacity – Save on future HW spend $$$– View Stress data and run Rightsize action to quickly resolve issue

• Example: Set CPU Count and Memory for VM

Visualize Capacity Distribution Levels of the Infrastructure

Example 4: Identify unused resources

Reclaim Capacity

• What does it mean?– Infrastructure and workloads operating at optimal – All is good!

• What should you do?– Success!– Nothing to do – Sit back and enjoy

Everything Optimal

Visualize Capacity Distribution Levels of the Infrastructure

Custom Profiles

Understand capacity based on your important workload sizes• User defined workloads for capacity modeling

• Understand capacity based on your important workload sizes

• Publish Capacity Remaining results in a user-defined profile size

• Example: “10 VM’s of ACME DB profile”

• Copy Metrics from an existing workload, or create new

• Capacity planning in projects using user-defined custom profiles

• Use Custom Profiles in project scenarios

Technical Overview

Intelligently Move a VM

Move VMs without causing Performance Problems• New Operational Move VM action

• Provide Scope Receive a recommended list of destinations

• Supports cross cluster moves

• Notified if move would violate Affinity Rule

• Supports moving to different datastore

• On Demand Move• Use Actions dropdown menu

• Review the prioritized “Will it Fit” list of destinations

• Chose the desired destination

• Click “OK” to automatically move the VM

Technical Overview

Intelligent Operational Moves

Dashboard & Widgets Enhancements

Dashboard Flexibility and Enhanced Design

• Dashboard Enhancements• Customizable widget sizing and layout changes on dashboard• Rows can span columns

• Widget Enhancements• Improved widget visualization and look-n-feel

• Scoreboard• Sparkline • Top-N widget• Pie chart• Bar charts*

Technical Overview

Better dashboard flows

Custom widget layout re-sizing

Rows Can Now Span Columns

Report Enhancements

Extending the Use of Assets

• Dashboard added to Reports• Simply Drag an Existing Dashboard into a Report

• Post Report to network share location• Schedule report sharing by auto-posting network

share location to enhance team collaboration

• Improved Report layout capability • Portrait and Landscape

Technical Overview

Enhanced Use of Existing Assets

Drag An Existing Dashboard to the

Report

Significant Scale Improvements

Monitor and operate large environments

• Enhanced scale with increased

• Max cluster size and number of Remote Collectors

• Max number of Objects and Resources

• Max number of Concurrent Users

Technical OverviewMore More MORE…

Cluster Nodes and Remote Collectors

Objects and Resources

Concurrent Users

Remote Collector Improvements

Remote Collector resiliency and security

Remote Collector groups• Adapter resiliency – automatic failover / failback of adapter

instances within collector group

• Load balancing – automatically instantiates adapter instances based on Collector load of all adapter instances running in the RC group

• Collector HA is independent of vR Ops cluster HA

• One Collector can be part of only one Collector Group

• Remote Collectors can be Independent OR part of a Collector Group

Technical OverviewRemote Possibilities

Remote Collector Groups

Single Sign-On Integration (SSO)

Better security and simplicity

SSO as Authentication Source

• vSphere 6 SSO Integration

• Use the same SSO login for vCenter and vR Ops!

• Import SSO Users and Groups

• Assign Roles and Permissions to SSO Users in vR Ops

Requirements

• vSphere 6.0 Platform Services Controller (PSC)

• Supports vSphere 6 including vCenter 6

• Supports single PSC domain

Technical OverviewSSO Authentication

Data Protection / Backup & Restore

Reduce risk with data protection

• Disaster Recovery via SRM / vSphere Replication• vR Ops 6.1 support

• Backup / Restore• vSphere Data Protection (vDP)

• Symantec NetBackup

Technical Overview

vROps Nodes

BC/DR Solutions

Site Recovery Manager

vSphere Data Protection

NetBackup

Telemetry

Product improvements driven by customer

Deployment and usage reporting

• Secure upload over HTTPS• Sensitive data is one-way hashed

• Proxy servers can be automatically detected

• Phase 1 – Configuration (6.1)• Deployment details, version, edition, scale, policies

• Phase 2 – Performance and errors (post-6.1)• Latency of user activities / processing times

• Associated errors and exceptions

Technical Overview

Phone Home DB and Reporting

vROps Nodes

Application Feedback

Miscellaneous Enhancements

• Notes can now be added to Alerts• IPv6 support in vR Ops• Windows 2012 R2 support for vR Ops Installable• There's no plan to ship 6.x Foundation• Direct upgrade path from 6.0 or migrate 5.8 to 6.0, then upgrade to 6.1

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Enhanced Symptom Compare

Better symptoms provide more detailed alerts• Quickly compare two metrics

• Works with Metric and Property Symptom Definition

• E.g. CPU Demand > CPU Entitlement

• E.g. Memory Demand > Memory Usage

• Built into the current Symptom wizard

• Drag and drop!

• Verifies values are of the same type for comparison

• E.g. Numeric to Numeric (>, <, ≤, ≥, =, etc)

• E.g. String to String (Equals, Starts with, Ends with, Contains, Does not contain, etc)

Technical Overview

More Intelligent Alerting

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

Application Dependency Mapping

Automatically Discover Apps• Automatically discover instances of your apps

• Maps application services and dependencies to virtual infrastructure

• Define your custom multi-tier apps

• Understand health of complex apps • Alerts in your VI that might affect app performance

• Impact on applications when changing your virtual infrastructure

• Create SRM protection groups & recovery plans with accurate application visibility

Technical Overview

Understand VI in context of the Apps

Application

Dependencies

VM

Management Pack for Storage Devices

Broad…Shallow…Isolation…• Auto discovery of SAN/Storage

• View complete topology from SAN and VI perspective

• Get actionable alerts for storage w/ impact and recommendations

• Storage devices leverage Health, Risk & Efficiency badges

• Performance metrics across Mount/LUN, HBA and Fabric

• Capacity Details• Provides demand and usage information for end to

end devices

Technical Overview

Unified MGMT For the Infra Admin

Infrastructure Management Packs

Narrow…Deep…Remediate • Deep technical understanding of the specific

technology

• Delivered through VMware & Partners • Storage: EMC, NetApp, HP, Dell

• SAN: Brocade, Cisco, Qlogic

• Network: NSX

• Available on VMware Solutions Exchange• solutionexchange.vmware.com

• Leverages vRealize Operations features• Alerts, Badges, Views, Dashboards, Reports

Technical Overview

Unified MGMT For the Storage Admin

OS Monitoring

Unified Management• Integration with vRealize Operations

• Monitors large array of OS metrics

• Fed into vRealize Operations Manager for analysis/trending

• Automatically associate OS to VI relationships• Host VM OS

• OOTB OS Alerts & Dashboards• Built on VI and OS metrics

• Simple to follow Recommendations

• Support for wide range of OS’s

• Windows, Linux, UNIX, etc.

Technical Overview

Automatically monitor the health of the underlying OS

Analyzing Unstructured Data – Log Insight

Intelligent Operations• Log Analytics

• Predictive Analytics/Machine Learning for faster problem resolution

• Log Everything – Lightweight Windows & Linux Agents

Built for the vSphere Ecosystem• Powerful big data log management for VMware

products

• Insight into VMware products incl. NSX, vRealize Automation Center, Horizon View

• Attractive pricing model for customers of all sizes – not based on log volume

Technical Overview

Big data log management for VMware environments across physical, virtual, and cloud

environments

Operating system

vSphere

System statistics

Applications

Security

Other IT

All Types of Logs

Log Insight 2.0

AnalyzeDiscover

SearchVisualize

IT Operations

Security

Compliance

40B events 10 event types…by machine learning

AppApp

vRealize Log Insight

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

vRealize Log Insight

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 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

vRealize Log Insight

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

vRealize Log Insight 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

What’s New

vRealize Log Insight for Large Environments• Faster - Each node can ingest two times more data - up to 15,000

events per second.

• Bigger - The number of nodes that can be included in a Log Insight cluster is doubled, from 6 to 12.

• Better - A cluster of twelve nodes can process an astounding 2.4 TB of data per day.

Improved Analytics Engine

Low Touch Administration• Masterless Architecture. for High Availability

• Seamless Rolling Upgrade

More Powerful Agents

Enhanced Charting

vRealize Log Insight 3.0

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vRealize Operations Insight:Manage vSphere and Your Entire Data Center…

All In One Place!Himanshu Singh, Product Line Marketing Manager, VMware

Hicham (he-sham) Mourad, Group Technical Marketing Manager, VMware

MGT5245

#MGT5245