Taking VMware Performance Monitoring Beyond VCOPS7 Steps for Virtualization SuccessPresenterSrinivas Ramanathan | CEO | eG Innovations
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Live Audience Poll
“What is Your Biggest Performance Monitoring Challenge?” User experience issues Lack of visibility across virtualized environment Slow & complex problem diagnosis Proactive problem solving Chasing issues that originate in other IT
domains
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Today’s Presenter
SrinivasRamanathanCEO & Founder eG [email protected]
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VirtualizationPerformance
is Critical
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Virtualization is Critical for Businesses
6Source: Virtualization Practice 2012
VMware customers are virtualizing a significant percentage of business-critical, Tier-1 workloads.
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Downtime is … Extremely Expensive
Downtime can jeopardize virtualization projects, if not managed properly.
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Virtualization is a CommodityBy 2014, over 70% of workloads will be virtualized.
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The User’s Perspective of Virtualization The success of virtualization
depends on how application owners and their users perceive the service.
They expect the same reliability and performance they had with physical systems.
Slow performance can threaten the acceptance of virtualized applications.
Application owners understand response time and transaction rate. They really do not care about CPU, memory, network I/O, and disk I/O rates. – Bernd Harzog, Virtualization Practice
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Network Web onESX
Active DirectorySQL
XenApp onVMware ESXZDC on
Hyper-V
License Server
Profile Server
EnterpriseApps
vCenterOracle
Client
The Administrator’s Perspective
SANSwitch
What is the root cause of the service problem?Network? vSphere? AD? SQL? Storage? Profile Server?
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Virtualization Performance:7 Key Considerations
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VMware Monitoring Requirements
VMware Monitoring Requirements1 Monitor all the VMware vSphere infrastructure components
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Manage VMware Subsystem Performance
Is the server hardware working
fine?
Is there a CPU bottleneck on the
server?
Is there sufficient memory on the
server to handle its workload?
Are the physical NICs working well?
Is there excessive disk queueing?Is any LUN
excessively utilized?
Are the VMs powered on? Which
VM is consuming most resources?
Are the vNICs and vSwitches working
properly?
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Are any of the datastores reaching their storage limit?
Which datastores are seeing most I/O?
Are any of the resource pools at capacity?
Which VMs are taking most of the resources?
How much CPU/memory capacity does the cluster have
available?
How is VMotion activity within the cluster?
Manage VMware Subsystem Performance
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VMware Monitoring Requirements
VMware Monitoring Requirements1 Monitor all the VMware vSphere infrastructure components2 Multi-hypervisor support is essential
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Multi-Hypervisor Support is Essential
Most responding organizations (56%) are running one or more additional hypervisors in addition to VMware. Only 43% of responding organization are running VMware alone.
56%
SOURCE: http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/VMware's_hypervisor_hold_may_be_waning
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VMware Monitoring Requirements
VMware Monitoring Requirements1 Monitor all the VMware vSphere infrastructure components2 Multi-hypervisor support is essential3 Performance monitoring must extend beyond the hypervisor and
include the VM OS and applications
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Virtualization Performance Goes Beyond the Hypervisor and VMs
Virtualization performance today
focuses on the hypervisor and VMs.
To be effective, virtualization performance needs to look at the OS and
applications.
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VMware Monitoring Requirements
VMware Performance Monitoring Requirements1 Monitor all the VMware vSphere infrastructure components2 Multi-hypervisor support is essential3 Performance monitoring must extend beyond the hypervisor and
include the VM OS and applications
4 Monitoring must include configuration tracking (not just performance tracking)
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Monitor Configuration in Addition to Performance
Configuration changes cause 30% of all performance and user experience issues
Need ability to easily trace performance issues back to root-cause configuration changes
Configuration changes need to be tracked at every tier & layer - virtual machine, OS, apps
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VMware Monitoring Requirements
VMware Performance Monitoring Requirements1 Monitor all the VMware vSphere infrastructure components2 Multi-hypervisor support is essential3 Performance monitoring must extend beyond the hypervisor and
include the VM OS and applications
4 Monitoring must include configuration tracking (not just performance tracking)
5 Track virtualization dependencies for performance correlation
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Disk reads
Streaming Media AppSlow Database Queries
Excessive disk reads by one VM slows down application within another VM
Virtualization Introduces New Dependencies
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VMware Monitoring Requirements
VMware Performance Monitoring Requirements1 Monitor all the VMware vSphere infrastructure components2 Multi-hypervisor support is essential3 Performance monitoring must extend beyond the hypervisor and
include the VM OS and applications
4 Monitoring must include configuration tracking (not just performance tracking)
5 Track virtualization dependencies for performance correlation6 Manage virtualization as an integral part of managing your business
service, not as yet another silo
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Virtualization is Not Yet Another Silo!
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A problem in one tier can affect all the other tiers. Is it the network, database, app server, or virtualization tier?
“My application is slow!”
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Virtualization-Aware Monitoring
FIREWALL WEB SERVER APP SERVER DB SERVER
A problem in the virtualization tier can impact all the applications it supports. Monitoring systems need to be “virtualization-aware”.
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VMware Monitoring Requirements
VMware Performance Monitoring Requirements1 Monitor all the VMware vSphere infrastructure components2 Multi-hypervisor support is essential3 Performance monitoring must extend beyond the hypervisor and
include the VM OS and applications
4 Monitoring must include configuration tracking (not just performance tracking)
5 Track virtualization dependencies for performance correlation6 Manage virtualization as an integral part of managing your business
service, not as yet another silo7 Virtualization monitoring must handle dynamic, fast-changing
dependencies
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Dynamic, Fast-Changing Dependencies
VMotionAPP1 APP3 APP4APP2
VMware ESX server VMware ESX server
Virtualization management systems must discover dependencies in real-time and use them for automated management.
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VMware Monitoring Requirements:A Summary
VMware Performance Monitoring Requirements1 Monitor all the VMware vSphere infrastructure components2 Multi-hypervisor support is essential3 Performance monitoring must extend beyond the hypervisor and
include the VM OS and applications
4 Monitoring must include configuration tracking (not just performance tracking)
5 Track virtualization dependencies for performance correlation6 Manage virtualization as an integral part of managing your business
service, not as yet another silo7 Virtualization monitoring must handle dynamic, fast-changing
dependencies
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VMwarePerformance Monitoring
Today
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Silo Monitoring with VCOPS
VCOPS Visibility
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Achieving End-To-End Visibility
VCOPS Visibility
An amalgamation of monitoring tools is needed
to provide end-to-end monitoring, diagnosis and
reporting.
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Fragmented Silo Tools Are the Problem
Cloud Private, Hybrid,Public
VirtualVMware, Citrix,Microsoft, IBM,Red Hat, Solaris
PhysicalX86, SPARC, PARISC, RS6000
Desktop Apps Storage Network Compute
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Traditional tools don’t deliver actionable performance insight -slow, fragmented, confusing.
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Infrastructure Triage is a Hot Potato!
End UserLAN
Admin
Firewall admin
Server admin
VMware admin
Domain admin
ERP Admin Sys admin ApplicationAdmin
The serveris working
OK
No othercomplaints
All lights Are green
We don’t see anything
wrong
Database Admin
“My application is
slow!”
VMs are lightly loaded
EverythingIs OK
Not ourproblem
Looks fine Not mine
either
Talk tothe other
guys
IT Service Manager
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Is Your Performance Monitoring …
… still like this?
… or like that?
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Traditional Monitoring is …
Manual, slow, frustrating Low visibility ahead Who connects the dots
(“correlation”)? You And what if your
environment is changing faster than your map …
SLOW & REACTIVE problem resolution
… still like this?
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Next Gen Performance Monitoring
Automated, fast, easy High visibility ahead Who connects the dots?
System (Auto-Correlation) Keeps up with changing
environment and conditions FAST & PRE-EMPTIVE problem
resolution … or like that?
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Compare & ContrastTraditionalMonitoring
Next Gen Performance Monitoring
Visibility Limited visibility – one/few silos. Not virtualization-aware.
Broad and deep visibility end-to-end.
Correlation Many, many metricsManual correlation and analysis
Auto-correlation and analytics; Actionable insights to solve the problem
Alerting Alerts often after the fact, as users complain
Predictive analytics enable pre-emptive diagnosis and action before user impact
Diagnosis Complex, slow, manual, fragmented
Simple, fast, automated, holistic
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VMwarePerformance Monitoring
Next Gen
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Live Solution Tour: eG Enterprise
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Unmatched Performance Visibility
Cloud Private, Hybrid,Public
VirtualVMware, Citrix,Microsoft, IBM,Red Hat, Solaris
PhysicalX86, SPARC, PARISC, RS6000
Desktop Apps Storage Network Compute
!
Complete, correlated visibility beyond basic health. Actionable insight into service performance & dependencies.
Root
cause
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eG Enterprise: VMware Service Manager
Identify & resolve problems preemptively,
before users call!
Network? Database?
Application?
VMware?Storage?Active Directory?
The Service Manager is a General Practitioner for your VMware Infrastructure.
eG Enterprise ManagerService Owner
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eG Enterprise Provides Broad Virtualization Support
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The eG Universal Agent
• A single agent license for Microsoft, Linux, Sun Solaris, HPUX,IBM AIX, VMware, Tru64
• A single price, regardless of OS or server configuration - 2, 4, 8, 16 CPUs
• A single agent for monitoring any application
• A single price to manage multiple applications on the same server
• Auto-upgradeable
• Agentless monitoring option
• 100% web-based – HTTP/HTTPS
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Correlating Performance & Configuration: A Real-World Example
Days after a P2V migration, many user complaints were received
Even RDP access to the front-end server was failing
Some users experienced failuresmid-way through a session.
At times the web site was not accessible.
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Correlating Performance & Configuration: A Real-World Example
eG’s performance monitor reveals that the network connection failure was the cause.
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Correlating Performance & Configuration: A Real-World Example
The default gateway setting was reset several times.
The eG Configuration Tracking Console
The default gateway had changed several times during the day!
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Correlating Performance & Configuration: A Real-World Example
A search of the Microsoft Knowledge Base indicates that Microsoft Windows OS can have connectivity problems when multiple default gateways are configured on a server.
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Finding the True Root-Cause of the Problem
It’s Not VMware
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eG Enterprise Delivers
VMware Performance Monitoring Requirements eG Enterprise
Capabilities1 Monitor all the VMware vSphere infrastructure components2 Multi-hypervisor support is essential3 Performance monitoring must extend beyond the hypervisor
and include the VM OS and applications
4 Monitoring must include configuration tracking (not just performance tracking)
5 Track virtualization dependencies for performance correlation6 Manage virtualization as an integral part of managing your
business service, not as yet another silo7 Virtualization monitoring must handle dynamic, fast-changing
dependencies
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ROI of eG Innovations
• Reduce downtime• Increase application availability• Boost user experience
Boost User Satisfaction
& Productivity
• Simplify, automate & accelerate diagnosis & troubleshooting
• Optimize staffing levels & reduce OPEX
Reduce IT Support
Cost & Complexity
• Increase hardware utilization • Leverage investment in software• Right-size & optimize environment
Reduce Infrastructure Cost & Avoid Cost Overruns
• Accelerate deployments & rollout• Reduce risk, deliver successful projects
& peace of mind
Deliver Projectson Time, on Budget,
on Target
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B A C K U P
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Manage All the VMware Components
Are the physical NICs working fine?
Are the vSwitches ok?
Is any of the vNICs heavily loaded?
Are the VMs powered on? Which
VM is generating most traffic?
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Manage All the VMware Components
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What is Needed
End-to-End, Top to Bottom
PerformanceVisibility
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Manage All VMware Components
End-to-endPerformance Monitoring
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