Monitoring virtual environments

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The information contained herein is subject to change without notice.
Ramkumar Devanathan, HP BSM Customer Assist Team
Stefan Bergstein, HP BSM/OMC Architect

Monitoring virtual environments – best practices
HP Systems
Management
(Operations Center)
tips and tricks
Ramkumar Devanathan, HP BSM Customer Assist Team
Stefan Bergstein, HP BSM/OMC Architect
June 2012

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Agenda
Introduction / overview
Control technology infrastructure
Keep an eye on the hypervisor
Automate workload monitoring
Deployment example
Tie things together at the Service and Operations Bridge

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Overview
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

Control technology
infrastructure
Hypervisor
Workloads
Monitoring

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HP Insight Control for VMware vCenter Server
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 vCenter Server
Management of virtual and physical
CIM Providers
SNMP Agents
ESX or ESXi
vSphere API
ProLiant
Server
Network StorageCPUs Memory
HP Insight Control for VMware vCenterVMware
vSphere
Client
iLO
Virtual Connect
ModulesFans
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
• Power supplies
• Memory
• CPU
Storage • Smart Array
• HBA
• Fibre Channel and iSCSI
• SMART Drive Monitoring
• Tape
• External storage
NIC • MAC and IP address
• Link Up/Down
• Teaming information
• VLAN information
Other • OS information
• iLO data
• Performance data
• Configurable thresholds
• Logging events 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
ProLiant servers
• 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 ProLiant SNMP

Keep an eye on the
hypervisor
Hypervisor
Workloads
Monitoring

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HP Operations Center Virtualization monitoring
Multiple hypervisor platforms
HP-VM
VMware
Hyper-V
Solaris Zones
IBM LPAR
Host CPU
Guest CPU
Active VM Memory Swapping
Storage load / IO
Network packets dropped
Datacenter utilization, ….
faults,availability
performance,capacity

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HP OMC Virtualization monitoring
 Discovery of Virtualization platforms – Host and Virtual Machines
 Monitors diagnostic events of virtualization platforms
 Monitors virtualization resource utilization of hosts and VM
 Graphs to show the virtualization resource utilization
 Reports to depict the virtualization configuration and resource
utilization

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Topology
• Virtual datacenter
• Clusters
• Hosts
• VMFS
• VMs

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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

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 Utilization – VMware
• CPU Entitlement Utilization Baseline
• Host CPU Utilization – Hypervisor
• Host – Inward/ Outward data (MB)
• CPU Utilization across Hosts, Resource
Pools, Guests

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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

Deployment example

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

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HP OM, vMA appliance
OM server, OM agents deployment
• Fit a vMA per blade-server enclosure
(1:500 monitored ‘instances’)
• Pre-build* vMA with operations11.0x agent (‘defer-config’)
* vMA does not support cloning. However, procedure is available to get past this.
Deploy

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OM Setup
Best practice blueprint
• Software Matrix
− OA 11.02,11.03 on vMA 4.1/5.01
− VISPI 2.01
− OMW 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.*

Automate workload
monitoring
Hypervisor
Workloads
Monitoring

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Operations Orchestration Action
for SiteScope automation
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.1Prod. OM ServerCreate package
• Install SPIs (HP, 3rd
party, custom) on Dev
OM 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
Dev and 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

Tie things together at the
Service and Operations
Bridge
Hypervisor
Workloads
Monitoring

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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
• Automate with universal event
correlation to simplify daily operational
tasks
• Optimize the performance and
availability of cloud, virtual and mobile
services
• 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 Presentation Server
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

Q&A

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After the event
Find out more
Attend these sessions
• TB2654, Monitoring cloud infrastructure
with HP SiteScope and Operations
Manager, Wednesday 4:00 PM
• TB2703, One-touch virtualization
provisioning with HP OO, Wednesday
2:45 PM
• TB2513, HP SHO 9.10 for large VMware
environments: ROI and best practices,
Wednesday 1:30 PM
• Contact your sales rep
• Visit the website at:
www.hp.com/go/OperationsManagement
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Appendix

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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)
1
Predictive Analytics Capacity Management Cross-Domain
Reporting
SLA/KPI Dashboard
Anticipate issues
before they occur
Optimize your
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)
2 3 4

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Monitor UCS with HP Operations Manager
Maintain with your best practices
for running x86 application stacks
on UCS within HP Software tools
• UCS topology view with
fault correlation
• Qualified SNMP trap receiver for
UCS
• Integration module available as
free download

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