Get High-Octane Virtual Datacenter Performance
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Supercharge your datacenter with Virtualization Manager (VMAN). Using VMAN with the Monitoring as a Discipline (MaaD) construct allows you to increase uptime, reduce time spent troubleshooting, and optimize your current workloads. Let SolarWinds Head Geek and vExpert Kong Yang and Product Marketing Manager Jared Hensle show the steps needed to get the full potential out of your virtual environment, and supercharge your datacenter.
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- 2. Kong Yang • SolarWinds Head Geek™ • US Patent Holder • VMware® vExpert and Cisco® Champion • With SolarWinds since 2014 • Focus on IT telemetry for any given environment 2 © 2016 SOLARWINDS WORLDWIDE, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ABOUT THE PRESENTER Jared Hensle • SolarWinds Sr. Product Marketing Manager for Virtualization Manager • 15+ years of IT systems support and engineering experience across multiple companies ranging from Fortune 100 to SMBs
- 3. AGENDA • What’s going on in my virtual datacenter going? • What is Monitoring as a Discipline and why do I need to embrace it? • How do MaaD Skills and Virtualization Manager help me perform my job better? 3 HIGH PERFORMANCE IN YOUR VIRTUAL DATACENTERS © 2016 SOLARWINDS WORLDWIDE, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Generalist Specialist Versatilist Polymath
- 4. 4 APP-PROPOS DISRUPTION APPLICATION REIGNS SUPREME Facebook®Alibaba.com® Uber®Airbnb® Most popular media owner Creates no content Most valuable retailer Has no inventory Largest Taxi company Owns no vehicles Largest accommodation provider Owns no real estate © 2016 SOLARWINDS WORLDWIDE, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
- 5. 5 APP LIFECYCLE IS CHANGING Virtualization Cloud Containers/ μ-services ApplicationTimeToLive © 2016 SOLARWINDS WORLDWIDE, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. SHOW ME THE MONEY = 100 job openings on Dice® Results of search on virtualization, cloud, container & microservices search on dice.com.
- 6. 6 IT IS CHANGING SHIFT DISRUPTING IT MINDSET AND CULTURE System of Continuous Integration / Delivery DevOps System of Record $$$$ Ops Dev CRM HRM © 2016 SOLARWINDS WORLDWIDE, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
- 7. CIO SLA REMAINS THE SAME • Secure • Lean • Agile © 2016 SOLARWINDS WORLDWIDE, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
- 8. 8 MONITORING AS A DISCIPLINE: EFFECTIVELY AND EFFICIENTLY TUNE YOUR VIRTUAL DATA CENTER Start with a balanced approach Bridge the shift with a skills framework that leverages existing skills & experience Put into practice MaaD with the proper tool © 2016 SOLARWINDS WORLDWIDE, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
- 9. 9 IT NINJA STAR: A BALANCED APPROACH TO IT TRANSFORMATIONAL REACTIONAL More URGENT More IMPORTANT BREAK/FIX OPTIMIZE BEST PRACTICES Less URGENT Less IMPORTANT • Adopting new methodologies and practices (i.e. DevOps) • Implementing security tools (i.e. SIEM) • Evaluate new technologies, tools and ways to do IT • Performance optimization: tuning, eliminating bottlenecks • Resource optimization – zombie VMs, reclaim unused storage and compute resources • Identify biggest resource and performance hogs/re-architect • Fix something broken, restart a server, disaster recovery • Helpdesk and user support • Backups and other essential daily processes [2015 Gerardo Dada] - https://thwack.solarwinds.com/community/solarwinds-community/geek-speak_tht/blog/2015/10/29/the-it-ninja-star-from-reactional-to-silent-deadly-transformational © 2016 SOLARWINDS WORLDWIDE, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
- 10. 10 DART FRAMEWORK © 2016 SOLARWINDS WORLDWIDE, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
- 11. 11 UNLOCK AGILITY WITH VIRTUALIZATION MANAGER © 2016 SOLARWINDS WORLDWIDE, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. SolarWinds® Virtualization Manager (VMAN) on average reclaims 23%1 of resources back into the virtual pool SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) helps to reduce the time troubleshooting by an average of 65%2 SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) helps to reduce downtime by an average of 59%3 1. [TechValidate survey of 159 users from 9/2015-3/2016] 2. [TechValidate survey of 107 users from 3/2016] 3. [TechValidate survey of 105 users from 3/2016] PLAN, OPTIMIZE, MAINTAIN
- 12. 12 VIRTUALIZATION MANAGER DEMO © 2016 SOLARWINDS WORLDWIDE, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Plan Optimize Maintain
- 13. CLOSING STATEMENTS Use DART to fulfill CIO’s SLA Try not to get breached Align IT with the business Develop products faster And seal it with a K.I.S.S. © 2016 SOLARWINDS WORLDWIDE, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
- 14. 14 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES Get the Geek’s Perspective on the latest tech trends & topics: bit.ly/GeekSpeakBlog Join the conversation on SolarWinds’ Community: THWACK.com SolarWinds Lab: Lab.SolarWinds.com © 2016 SOLARWINDS WORLDWIDE, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
- 15. THANK YOU! The SOLARWINDS and SOLARWINDS & Design marks are the exclusive property of SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC and its affiliates, are registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and may be registered or pending registration in other countries. All other SolarWinds trademarks, service marks, and logos may be common law marks, registered or pending registration in the United States or in other countries. All other trademarks mentioned herein are used for identification purposes only and may be or are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2016 SOLARWINDS WORLDWIDE, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Editor's Notes
- Kong Yang, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds, is an experienced Cloud and Virtualization Practice Leader. He has over 20 years of practical Enterprise IT experience, including Tier 1 application capacity sizing and performance optimization in virtualized and cloud environments. Kong is a US Patent holder, a VMware® vExpert 2010-2016 and a Cisco® Champion 2014-2016. He’s on Twitter® @KongYang.
- Disruptive innovation is changing the way business is being conducted. Four examples include Alibaba, Facebook, airbnb, and UBER. In turn, business is changing the nature of IT. Even more examples – Largest telcos but owns no telco infrastructure – Skype / WeChat; Fastest growing bank but no actual money – SocietyOne; World’s largest movie house owns no cinemas – NetFlix; Largest software vendors but don’t write the apps – Apple & Google. http://www.slideshare.net/dezblanchfield1/recent-developments-in-data-analytics-and-big-data
- On June 9th 2015 on dice.com, the # of jobs based on each keyword Virtualization: 2699 Cloud: 7176 Container or Microservice: 475 Fabric: 206 VMs used to be deployed in days and live for months if not years. Cloud VMs are now deployed in hours, live for weeks. Containers deploy in seconds and live for minutes. Microservices respond in milliseconds and live for seconds. Transition into what vendors are doing with their respective stacks in 2015. On December 31st 2015 on dice.com, the # of jobs based on each keyword Virtualization: 2570 Cloud: 8767 Container or Microservice: 640 VMs used to be deployed in days and live for months if not years. Cloud VMs are now deployed in hours, live for weeks. Containers deploy in seconds and live for minutes. Microservices respond in milliseconds and live for seconds. Transition into what vendors are doing with their respective stacks in 2015.
- IT is changing from the lab in the back – think CRM, ERP, HRM, ECM to a digital front for the business. System of record is conventional enterprise systems designed to hold the authoritative data source for a given piece of information. System of engagement was first coined by Geoffrey Moore and focuses on people not processes. They integrate real-time data from social, cloud, and mobile in the context of daily life events and workflows. Forrester predicts that in 2016, IT Spend will be a 50-50 split between systems of record and systems of engagement. DevOps is an equation balancing Dev and Ops. Where both Dev & Ops converge to is the application. Backend centralized SQL Database -> Distributed Key/Value NoSQL In-memory session -> Shared memcached/Redis session Chatty protocols -> Latency tolerant protocols Polled info -> Event-driven Fat complex objects -> Lightweight serial objects Java, .NET -> node.js, python, ruby, javascript
- Security – Don’t get breached. Lean – Maximize ROI. Do more with less. Agile – Pivot quickly on any important aspect.
- Bridge IT Ops to DevOps with MaaD.
- Start with an IT Ninja Star.
- It doesn’t matter where your application runs or what systems & services are involved. The DART framework can be used to effectively & efficiently perform change management at scale.