This document discusses monitoring virtual environments from hardware to the service level. It describes how HP software solutions can provide end-to-end monitoring across hypervisors, systems, networks, storage and workloads. It also discusses how the various HP monitoring tools can be tied together at the service and operations bridge for a consolidated view.

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ÜberwachungvirtuellerUmgebungen
Von der Hardware biszumService Level
Stefan Bergstein –HP Software
September 2012
HP Software Anwendertreffen2012

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HP Software Anwendertreffen2012
Next hour entertainment
Control technology infrastructure
Keep an eye on the hypervisor
Automate workload monitoring
Deployment examples
Tie things together at the Service and Operations Bridge
Watch your public cloud workloads

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Introduction
Monitoring virtual environments
Why?
•Ensure availability, capacity and response time
•Avoid performance bottlenecks
•Quickly respond to faults
How?
•End to end monitoring
•Proactive problem identification
•Across multiple hypervisor platforms
Hypervisor
System | Network | Storage
Workloads
Monitoring

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Control technology infrastructure
Hypervisor
System | Network | Storage
Workloads
Monitoring

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HP Insight Control for VMware vCenterServer
Management of virtual and physical
Single pane
to your HP Converged Infrastructure
Management
software
Network
Servers
Storage

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ProLiant
Blade Enclosure
HP Insight Control for VMware vCenterServer
Management of virtual and physical
CIM ProvidersSNMP Agents
ESX or ESXi
vSphereAPI
ProLiant
Server
Network
Storage
CPUs
Memory
HP Insight Control for VMware vCenter
VMware vSphereClient
iLO
Virtual Connect Modules
Fans
Power Supplies
Onboard Administrator
HP Insight Manager
HP Operations Mgr
HP Storage
Server Module
Storage Module

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Management data
Server health
•Fans
•Temperature
•Powersupplies
•Memory
•CPU
Storage
•Smart Array
•HBA
•FibreChannel andiSCSI
•SMART Drive Monitoring
•Tape
•External storage
NIC
•MACand IP address
•Link Up/Down
•Teaming information
•VLAN information
Other
•OS information
•iLOdata
•Performance data
•Configurable thresholds
•Loggingevents OS system log
•Clustering information

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Extend Insight Manager
HP Operations Manager integration
•Obtaining in-depth data for more accurate root cause analysis and problem resolution
•In-depth monitoring of applications such as MS Exchange, MS Active Directory, SAP etc.
•Baselining, correlation of data to actionable and automated corrective actions
HP Universal CMDB integration
•Provides consolidated view of business service dependency to hardware, software and application layers
•Enables change management and impact analysis across all business services mapped in UCMDB, from an infrastructure point of view

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HP Operations Smart Plug-in for Virtualization Infrastructure
Hardware monitoring with HP OM
VMware CIM SMASH
Monitor the health and status of your HP ProLiantservers
•Server health, temperature, fan, power
•RAID Controller performance and availability, disk device failure, power supplies
•Performance and availability of the Network Interface Card
•Health of the Console Management Controller
•State of the battery, monitor, Hot Plug Slot Board, memory
•Virtual connect domain, clusters
•Rack Power Manager, Rack information
•Intelligent Drive Array status
•Obtain data from the VMware CIM SMASH/Server Management APIs
•Host Ethernet Port Health
•Host Sensor Health
•Host Chassis Health
•Host Processor Health
•Host Fan Health Monitor
•Host Physical Memory Health
•Platform independent
HP ProLiantSNMP

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Keep an eye on the hypervisor
Hypervisor
System | Network | Storage
Workloads
Monitoring

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HP Operations Center Virtualization monitoring
Multiple hypervisor platforms
HPVM
VMWareESX/ESXi
Hyper-V
Solaris Zones
IBM LPAR
Host CPU
Guest CPU
Active VM Memory Swapping
Disk load / IO, throughput latency
Network packets dropped
Datacenter utilization, ….
faults, availability
performance, capacity
XEN/KVM

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HP OMC Virtualization monitoring
Discoveryof Virtualization platforms –Host, Virtual Machines, and Resource pools
Monitors diagnostic eventsof virtualization platforms
Monitors virtualization resource utilizationof hosts and VM
Tools for ease of management of virtualization environment
Graphsto show the virtualization resource utilization
ReportsTop 10 reports to identify top consumers, reports to depict the virtualization configuration and resource utilization

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Virtualization monitoring with SiteScope
•VMware Solution Template
•Hyper-V and KVM
•Host and VM Guest
•Storage
•Elastic monitoring
•Smart counters
•VMware via ESX host or V-Center

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Rapidly monitor your entire ESX environment

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Topology –discovered by VI-SPI or SIS
•Virtual datacenter
•Clusters
•Hosts
•VMFS
•VMs

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Key metrics to watch

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Performance Graphs
Key metrics to watch
•Host Memory Utilization Baseline
•Guest Memory Utilization
•Host Memory Utilization
•CPU Ready Utilization
•CPU Entitlement Utilization Baseline
•Host CPU Utilization –Hypervisor
•Host –Inward/Outwarddata (MB)
•CPU Utilization across Hosts, Resource Pools, Guests
•Disk Throughput, disk latency
•VMFS Utilization

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Trends and Performance
Reporting
Visibility to Resource pool usage and cluster inventory
•Resource Pool utilization to monitor ‘department/team’ level usage
•Cluster level utilization, inventory
−Use ‘SM Virtualization VMware Cluster Inventory’ and drill-down into systems
−Use drill-down and get into “Node inventory”
•Top-10 and Bottom-10 performers

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Visualization of efficiency and wastage
VISUALIZE
What you have,
What you use,
What can fit,
What can be improved
OPTIMIZE
Multi- dimensional,
Time-Varying Analysis and Workload Placement recommendation
FORECAST AND PLAN
What-if Scenarios, Trend Analysis

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Deployment example

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VI SPI deployment model
VMware:
•Deploy OM Agent and VI- SPI in VMware vSphereManagement Assistant
•Multiple host per vMA
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Hyper-V:
•Deploy OM Agent and VI- SPI on host OS
HP OM
Server
VMware ESX/ESXihost
Guest VM
Guest VM
Guest VM
vMA
VI-SPI
Microsoft Hyper-V host
Guest VM
Guest VM
Guest VM
VI-SPI
XEN/KVM host
Guest VM
Guest VM
Guest VM
VI-SPI

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HP OM, vMAappliance
OM server, OM agents deployment
•Fit a vMA per blade-server enclosure (1:500 monitored ‘instances’)
•Pre-build* vMA with operations11.x agent (‘defer-config’)
* vMA does not support cloning. However, procedure is available to get past this.
Deploy

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OM Setup
Bestpractice blueprint
•Software Matrix
−OA 11.0x,11.10 on vMA 4.1/5.01
−VISPI 2.01
−OM 9+
•Size vMA according to needs –min. 2gb RAM
•Run vMA in a separate set of servers/blades with HA/FT
•Do regular backups of vMA
•Enable root login to vMA (for running ‘fsck’)
•Operational monitoring of vMA health
−Agent/Collector status
•VI-PerfAgentProcessMonitor
•VI-VMwareVifpTargetCheck
−Disk space, Memory usage
•SI-DiskCapacityMonitor
•SI-MemoryBottleneckDiagnosis
−Logs to monitor
•/var/opt/perf/status.*

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Automate workload monitoring
Hypervisor
System | Network | Storage
Workloads
Monitoring

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Operations Orchestration Action for SiteScopeautomation
Virtual Workload monitoring (1)
Automate SiteScope
Create templates for your canned monitoring services
•E.g. OS, Database, web-app
Manage lifecycle (Deploy/Delete)
•SOAP Web service, or
•HP Operations Orchestration action

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Virtual Workload monitoring (2)
Automate HP OM & SPI
Prep VM Templ.
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Prod. OM Server
Create package
•Install SPIs (HP, 3rdparty, custom) on DevOM Server
•Select subset of policies
•Customize, test, extend
•Export signed polices and instrumentation from Dev-OM Server:
•opctmpldwn/ opcinstrumdwn
•Directory structure with signed polices will we created
•Optionally, create profile when special agent settings
•Export policies from Devand import into production OM Server (for instructions, etc)
•Export the trusted certificate from Dev- OM and add (import) it to the trusted root certificates on the Production OM Server
•Setup/configure auto granting
•Install HP agent with - def_configure
•Copy exported policies & instrumentation on agent
•Copy instrumentation into right/final directory
•Create custom script for VM Templates startup
•Define/set your out “nearest/available” OM Server
•Connect agent to OM Server: oasetup– configure
•Agent installed certificates.
•Import polices with ovpolicy-install
Select policies
VM start-up
Scenario: Embedded monitoring
•Install HP-OM agent & SPIs in VM Templates
•Use a test/development HP-OM Server

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SiteScope and AWS
Pulling data from AWS CloudWatch(instances, ELB, RDS, etc) Pushing SiteScope data into AWS CloudWatchfor Alerting, AutoScaling

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Monitoring AWS using HP SiteScope
EC2 Instance
HP
SiteScope
ELB
EC2 Instance
EC2 Instance
CloudWatch
API
Amazon Web Services
RDS
EBS
Users

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Monitoring the Cloud –Amazon CloudWatchImprove availability and performance

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Pushing SiteScope data into AWS CloudWatchAWS Graphing, Alerting, AutoScaling

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Tie things together at the Service and Operations Bridge
Hypervisor
System | Network | Storage
Workloads
Monitoring
•HP BSM/OMi
•HP OO
•HP Service Intelligence

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BSM Dashboard –virtualization end to end
Consolidated view
•Service health, applications, infrastructure and networks from one console
•Manage dynamic changes with the HP Run-time Service Model
•Optimize the performance and availability of cloud, virtual and mobile services
•Automate with universal event correlation to simplify daily operational tasks
•Anticipate real IT issues with service intelligence and analytics

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HP Operations Orchestration –Virtualization Content
Automate it
Virtualization Accelerator Packs
•VMware Server, VMware Virtual Infrastructure
•Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, Citrix PresentationServer
Out-of-the-box content examples
•Create/start/stop VMs, migrate (hot/cold) VMs, snapshot VMs,
•get VM info, reboot/shutdown guest, virtual network operations
To-do:
OO screenshot with Virtualization Content

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Analytics for a dynamic and virtual environment
HP Service Intelligence
Analyze the past |Optimize the present | Anticipate the future.
Service Health
Analyzer (SHA)
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Predictive Analytics
Capacity Management
Cross-Domain Reporting
SLA/KPI Dashboard
Anticipate issues before they occur
Optimizeyour
IT engine
Understand issues from a services view
Align IT to business and gauge total health
Service Health
Optimizer (SHO)
Service Health
Reporter (SHR)
Service Level
Management (SLM)
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Q&A

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