This document discusses how HP Server Automation can help control virtual server sprawl. It begins by noting that while virtualization promises to make IT services more efficient and adaptive, in reality virtualization is not living up to its full promise due to ineffective, siloed management of virtual and physical environments. HP Server Automation provides capabilities for baseline discovery, patching, provisioning, and controlling virtual sprawl across VMware and Solaris environments. It allows managing the entire lifecycle of virtual machines from a single console, including creation, modification, resource allocation, provisioning, maintenance, and removal. The document presents examples of how HP Server Automation can be used for baseline discovery, patching, provisioning virtual and physical servers, and
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Looking at Deploying Microsoft System Center 2012 ... This is a must see session for you. Typically Microsoft System Center has been well documented as a complex system to implement into your organisation, with a single component taking 2-3 months and the suite normally 18 months to deploy. This means a high overhead and protracted deployment process before your business can start to realise the benefits of the system.
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2. Business outcomes
HP Software BTO portfolio
Project & Portfolio
Management
Center
CIO Office
CTO Office
SOA
Center
SAP, Oracle, SOA, J2EE, .Net
Quality
Center
Performance
Center
Application
Security Center
Application
lifecycle
Business service
management
IT service
management
Business
Availability
Center
Operations
Center
Network
Management
Center
Service
Management
Center
Client
Automation
Center
Data Center
Automation
Center
Business service
automation
Universal CMDB
Operations Orchestration
HP Software Virtualization Management Solutions
STRATEGY APPLICATIONS OPERATIONS
3. The promise of virtualization
Transform IT into an efficient and
adaptive service provider
Rigid Siloed
Manually assembled services
Dynamic Shared
Transparently assembled services
5. Virtual
Server
Admins
Network
Admins
Operation
Center
Storage
Admins
Desktop
Admins
Physical Server
Admins
(VMWare,
Xen, MS)
(HP, SUN,
IBM, Win)
Spiraling service
complexity, changes
Virtual stack explosion
1
Virtualization is not living up to its full
promise
IP Network
Data Center 2 Remote OfficesData Center 1
• • •
Splintered visibility,
tribal knowledge
Point tool sprawl
2
No policies,
standardization
More downtime,
longer MTTR
3
Management is the biggest obstacle
Ineffective, siloed management
Results:
70%+ IT costs are labor
30-50% storage underutilization
• Uncontrollable VM sprawl
• Lack end-to-end service monitoring
• Storage over-provisioning from lack of
utilization visibility
• Lack controls, security enforcement
• Risk tradeoff for production apps
6. Turning promise into reality
From siloed virtualization
management
To seamless, heterogeneous
service management
Lack of visibility across virtual and
physical infrastructures
Consolidated service view of physical
and virtual resources
Tribal management toolsets for each
virtualization technology
Common management of all physical
and virtual resources
Disconnected management processes
and tasks
Automated service management
across physical and virtual domains
Lack enforceable security and
compliance policies
Global compliance visibility and
enforcement
Unifying management of your hybrid virtualized environment
MOVE
8. The complexity beneath the surface
Network
Storage
Servers
What must work
behind the scenes…
What the users see
9. 99%
85%
99%
99%
20 minutes
2 weeks
2 days
1 incident
per week
HP Server Automation: delivering
unparalleled increases in efficiency
Task
Before HP
server automation
Customer
Implement software
change on 2600
servers
Provision & configure
600 Windows servers
Automate compliance
of 800 servers
2 weeks
3-4 months
32 weeks
Automatic health-
check
of servers
80+ sev1
incidents/week
After HP
server automation
11. Patching and
provisioning
Application release
management
Compliance
management
HP Server Automation
• Establish and enforce compliance policies and “gold” standard
configurations
• Identify risks and remediate in seconds
• Receive ongoing information about risks via HP Essentials Network
Cut costs and risk by automating manual tasks
• Visualize relationships and dependencies between applications and
servers, network and storage
• Eliminate manual handoffs and establish and enforce policies of
who can do what at each step of the process
• Establish a baseline
• Identify patch levels and create patch policies
• Bare metal provisioning of thousands of servers in minutes
• Provision physical or virtual servers from a single pane of glass
12. Manage virtual
sprawl
Standardize
HP Server Automation
• Manage servers consistently regardless of geographic location
• Establish and enforce consistent configuration policies
• Establish and enforce access policies: who can do what to which
server or group of servers
Cut costs and risk by automating manual tasks
• Identify relationships and dependencies between physical and
virtual servers
• Discover, create and control virtual machines
• Manage physical and virtual servers consistently
13. Controlling virtual sprawl
Baseline
• Understand physical and virtual environments
• Map dependencies between apps, servers,
network devices and storage
Heterogeneous
support
• Single management solution across heterogeneous virtualization
platforms
• Seamless management across physical and virtual servers
Create and
secure
• Complete virtualization hypervisor and virtual machine lifecycle –
provision, update, start, stop, end of life: VMware and Solaris
zones
• Establish policies for who can do what to which servers
How HP server automation can help
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Establish a baseline
View servers, software and storage
View servers by
name, operating
system or IP
address
View servers,
software and
storage
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Establish a baseline of virtual servers
VMware
View by OS:
Vmware and Solaris
Zones
17. Establish a baseline: storage
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View the capacity
and free space of
my storage to make
sure I have enough
free space for my
service
Understand if you have enough storage for your planned needs
View unmounted volumes to see if storage requested
has been provisioned or if you have storage you don’t
need
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Patching
Establish and enforce patch policies by OS
Search
patch
policies by
OS
Drill down
into patch
details
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Provisioning: Bare metal provisioning
Select the OS
sequence
The key
steps in
the
process
Assign the
server to the
right server
groups and
automatically
apply the right
policies
20. 20 30 January 2015
Provisioning virtual machines
Virtual and physical from a single pane of glass
Establish
the virtual
machines
properties
from SA
Configure
the network
and data
store
Check the
progress of
the job
without
leaving SA
22. Virtualization automation
Key CapabilitiesKey Capabilities
Lifecycle automation for
VMware ESX
− ESX hypervisor
provisioning
− Create, modify, delete
Virtual Machines
− Power On, Power Off,
Suspend, and Reset
ESX VMs
Audit VMware
Trend reporting
23. Key CapabilitiesKey Capabilities
Lifecycle automation for
VMware ESX and Solaris 10
containers
− ESX hypervisor
provisioning
− Create, modify, delete
Virtual Machines
− Power On, Power Off,
Suspend, and Reset
ESX VMs
Audit VMware and Solaris 10
Containers
Trend reporting
Expanded virtualization support
Virtualization automation
24. Key CapabilitiesKey Capabilities
Lifecycle automation for
VMware ESX and Solaris 10
containers
− ESX hypervisor
provisioning
− Create, modify, delete
Virtual Machines
− Power On, Power Off,
Suspend, and Reset
ESX VMs
Audit VMware and Solaris 10
Containers
Trend reporting
Expanded virtualization support
Virtualization automation
25. The Challenge
HP Solution
Use case: virtual server lifecycle
automation
Can’t manage virtualized
environment end to end
using the console used to
manage traditional servers
Create virtual servers,
allocate resources
Provision, patch,
maintain compliance
Control: Start, stop,
suspend, remove
Audit vm configurations