Tech Talk: Monitor Nutanix and Traditional IT with CA Unified Infrastructure Management Using These Best Practices

World®
’16
Tech Talk: Best Practices for Monitoring Nutanix and
Traditional IT With CA Unified Infrastructure
Management
Raj Sundaram, Sr. Principal Product Manager, CA Technologies
DO4T40T
DEVOPS: AGILE OPERATIONS

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Abstract
Nutanix simplifies datacenter infrastructure by integrating server and storage resources into a
turnkey appliance that is deployed in just 30 to 60 minutes and runs any application at any scale.
Quite a few enterprise organizations are adopting this solution for this very reason. But reality is
that organizations are typically running a mix of Nutanix, cloud services, and traditional
infrastructure. Join this Tech Talk to hear best practices for managing performance of Nutanix
and hybrid IT environments. They will also provide real-life examples of Nutanix monitoring
practices and dashboards that provide a comprehensive picture of your service levels.
Raj
Sundaram
Director Product
Management
CA Technologies

Agenda
NUTANIX OVERVIEW IN 60 SECONDS
WHY IS THIS MODEL HARD TO MONITOR?
WRAP UP / Q&A
WHAT TO MONITOR AND WHY
PLANNING AND DEPLOYMENT
BEST PRACTICES FOR QOS AND ALARMING
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Nutanix in 60 Seconds
§ Converged vs hyper-converged
– Tightly integrated all in one solution for:
§ Compute
§ Storage
§ Networking
§ Virtualization
– True Scaling, efficiency , and protection
§ Scale out by adding more “building block” like resources
§ Reduced IOP and bandwidth due to global inline de-dupe
§ Highly improved local and remote backup
What is Nutanix?

Why Is This so Hard to Monitor?
§ Functions like converged
– When we break this down by functional component we see
§ Storage infrastructure
§ Host infrastructure
§ Network infrastructure
§ Not laid out like converged
– Due to the tightly integrated platform there are no standard probe models that
will work with this solution
– Cannot probe or trap the hardware using conventional standards

What to Monitor?
§ Cluster performance
– What is my utilization footprint?
§ Host count
§ VM count
§ Percentage of used cluster CPU
and memory
§ Storage capacity and usage
§ Latency, input/output operation
per sec (IOPS) and bandwidth
consumption

What to Monitor?
Sample Dashboard: Top 10 Host

§ Host performance
– How are my hosts running?
§ VM count
§ Percentage of used host CPU
and memory
§ Storage capacity and usage of
the host
§ Latency, IOP, and bandwidth
consumption of the host
What to Monitor?

What to Monitor?
Sample Dashboard: Top 10 Host

What to Monitor?
§ VM performance
– How are my VMs
running?
§ Power state
§ Percentage of used
host CPU and
memory

What to Monitor?
Sample Dashboard: Top 10 VM Consumers

§ Storage Pools
– How are my storage pools running?
§ Capacity vs. used
§ Latency
§ IOP consumption
§ Bandwidth
§ Disks
– How are the individual disks looking?
§ Capacity vs. used
§ Average disk usage
What to Monitor?

What to Monitor?
Sample Dashboard: Top Storage Pools

What to Monitor?
Sample Dashboard: Summary

§ Questions to ask yourself
– What type of environment are you deploying to?
§ Where should the probe live?
§ Do you need to segregate the data?
§ Do you need to correlate data from other probes?
§ What is the footprint of the probe?
§ How many physical locations are you monitoring and how will this affect other
monitoring that is already in place?
Planning and Deployment

§ QoS samples
– What performance metrics should I choose?
§ Meet with your engineers
§ Define what is important them
§ Template your discovery, review, implement
§ Alarming
– What alarms should I choose?
§ Define severity and actionable path
§ Only define actionable alarms
§ Template your discovery, review, implement
Best Practices for QoS and Alarming

Sample Deployment Timeline
Goals Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5
Plan and deploy probe
Confirm metrics and alarms
Tune metrics and alarms
Build reports and dashboard views
Meet, plan and deploy
Confirm work
Perfect the work
Build and review

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