Troubleshooting Storage Devices Using vRealize Operations (formerly vC Ops)
In this presentation you will discover:
- The challenges facing today’s storage environment
- How vR Ops solves storage troubleshooting
- When to use vR Ops
- Where to get a Management Pack for Storage Devices (MPSD)
- Partner Solutions
The Age of Network Operations Management Software Defined Data Centers
Author: Bill Erdman
VMware’s Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) is a reference architecture designed to deliver important business outcomes in a scalable, highly flexible manner. SDDC enables intelligent operations from apps to storage.
Learn how to unlock the business value of SDDC for your enterprise, experiencing gains in key areas such as:
- Securing your infrastructure
- Speed and agility
- Time-to-market
- Compute capacity utilization
One key to mastering a converged infrastructure is to deploy an extensible architecture. You can create domain-specific visibility through management packs.
Learn more about maximizing vCenter Operation with additions such as these:
Managing HP’s Converged Infrastructure in a VMware environment
· Connecting with HP OneView for vCenter Operations Manager
· Preview the upcoming Vblock vC Operations Management Pack
· Explore integration with Hitachi Unified Compute Operational Management
IT could resolve storage issues much faster with better visibility into the storage area network. VMware’s vCenter Operations improves storage operations by offering an extensible, flexible architecture.
Learn more about how VMware works with leading storage solutions to create single-pane-of-glass management. VMware’s storage partners include:
- EMC
- Hitachi
- NetApp
- HP
- Fujitsu
- IBM
- Dell
The rapid growth of cloud workloads, coupled by the need for visibility across public, private and hybrid clouds are key drivers of a new generation of cloud management platforms.
Learn more about vRealize Suite, VMware’s new cloud management platform, featuring capabilities such as these:
· Tight integration with vCloud Air and AWS cloud services
· One console to manage public and private clouds
· Predictive analytics and self-learning management
· Service costing and metering
Cloud computing provides tremendous competitive advantages to companies, putting enormous pressure on IT departments. vRealize Suite, VMware’s new cloud management platform, is an entirely new way of managing private, public, and hybrid clouds, offering:
- On-demand service delivery & release automation
- Capacity and resource optimization
- Predictive analytics and self-learning management
- Service costing and metering
The Age of Network Operations Management Software Defined Data Centers
Author: Bill Erdman
VMware’s Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) is a reference architecture designed to deliver important business outcomes in a scalable, highly flexible manner. SDDC enables intelligent operations from apps to storage.
Learn how to unlock the business value of SDDC for your enterprise, experiencing gains in key areas such as:
- Securing your infrastructure
- Speed and agility
- Time-to-market
- Compute capacity utilization
One key to mastering a converged infrastructure is to deploy an extensible architecture. You can create domain-specific visibility through management packs.
Learn more about maximizing vCenter Operation with additions such as these:
Managing HP’s Converged Infrastructure in a VMware environment
· Connecting with HP OneView for vCenter Operations Manager
· Preview the upcoming Vblock vC Operations Management Pack
· Explore integration with Hitachi Unified Compute Operational Management
IT could resolve storage issues much faster with better visibility into the storage area network. VMware’s vCenter Operations improves storage operations by offering an extensible, flexible architecture.
Learn more about how VMware works with leading storage solutions to create single-pane-of-glass management. VMware’s storage partners include:
- EMC
- Hitachi
- NetApp
- HP
- Fujitsu
- IBM
- Dell
The rapid growth of cloud workloads, coupled by the need for visibility across public, private and hybrid clouds are key drivers of a new generation of cloud management platforms.
Learn more about vRealize Suite, VMware’s new cloud management platform, featuring capabilities such as these:
· Tight integration with vCloud Air and AWS cloud services
· One console to manage public and private clouds
· Predictive analytics and self-learning management
· Service costing and metering
Cloud computing provides tremendous competitive advantages to companies, putting enormous pressure on IT departments. vRealize Suite, VMware’s new cloud management platform, is an entirely new way of managing private, public, and hybrid clouds, offering:
- On-demand service delivery & release automation
- Capacity and resource optimization
- Predictive analytics and self-learning management
- Service costing and metering
VMware Ready vRealize Automation Program
Author: Meena Nagarajan
IT’s quest for maximum speed, flexibility and accountability is driving a shift in thinking about cloud management platforms. VMware’s new cloud management platform provides automated management for heterogeneous and hybrid clouds.
Learn more about how VMware delivers the foundation for the Software Defined Enterprise:
- Managing a multi-vendor, multi-cloud infrastructure
- Providing centralized automation of infrastructure services
- Creating extensibility opportunities for cloud management
VMware terminology can be confusing
this presentation tries to clarify some names and analyze vRealize Operations in-depth.
Check my books about VMware products at https://beacons.ai/tagido
VMworld 2015: vRealize Operations Insight: Manage vSphere and Your Entire Dat...VMworld
Learn how vRealize Operations Insight delivers an integrated solution for performance management, capacity optimization, real-time log analytics, and more.
Webinar Fondazione CRUI e VMware: VMware vRealize SuiteJürgen Ambrosi
vRealize Suite è una piattaforma di Cloud Management di classe enterprise progettata appositamente per il cloud ibrido che consente di distribuire e gestire rapidamente l’infrastruttura e le applicazioni senza compromettere il controllo IT.
Blue Medora - VMware vRealize Operations Management Pack for Oracle Enterpris...Blue Medora
Overview presentation for the Blue Medora - vRealize Operations Management Pack for Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM). The vRealize MP for OEM extends vC Ops by integrating with Oracle Enterprise Manager and providing comprehensive visibility and insights to the performance, capacity, and healthy of Oracle Databases, Oracle Middleware, and Oracle business critical applications.
PuppetConf 2016: Puppet and vRealize Automation: The Next Generation – Ganesh...Puppet
Here are the slides from Ganesh Subramaniam's PuppetConf 2016 presentation called Puppet and vRealize Automation: The Next Generation. Watch the videos at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV86BgbREluVjwwt-9UL8u2Uy8xnzpIqa
VMware and Puppet: How to Plan, Deploy & Manage Modern ApplicationsPuppet
Are you looking to better understand how to use Puppet with VMware to rapidly deploy applications?Join us to learn how to easily model and automate delivery of modern applications to private or public clouds. We will walk through how to use Application Director and Puppet together to build, deploy and configure standardized multi-tier applications within minutes. Once these applications are deployed, you’ll learn how best to provide ongoing management and maintenance. We will show you how to manage drift, roll out updates and ensure consistency in your applications to reduceoutages and unnecessary downtime. This session will include a demo of common use cases and customer case examples.
Speakers
Nigel Kersten
CTO, Puppet Labs
Nigel came to Puppet Labs from Google HQ in Mountain View, where he was responsible for the design and implementation of one of the largest Puppet deployments in the world. He’s been a sysadmin for Linux and Mac deployments for longer than he is entirely comfortable calculating.
Becky Smith
Product Line Manager, VMware
Becky Smith has 16 years of experience in IT and System Management space. As a Product Line Manager for VMware's Enterprise Management business unit, Becky is responsible for product direction for operational, security and regulatory configuration and compliance management across cloud, virtual and physical infrastructures and workloads. Becky Smith's technical background and expertise consists of cloud and virtualization infrastructure management, system administration and compliance.
Building self-service on demand infrastructure with Puppet and VMwarePuppet
"Building self-service infrastructure with Puppet and VMware: An intro to vSphere automation" by Cody Herriges of Puppet Labs at Puppet Camp London 2013. Find a Puppet Camp near you: https://puppetlabs.com/community/puppet-camp/
There is no doubt that Openstack represents one of the massive industry alignment towards the Open source cloud, Some even touting it to be the linux of cloud computing. But is it “THE” perfect solution ?
Vanilla Openstack is a “Myth”
The choice of Openstack as part of your cloud strategy purely depends on the kind of workload and the add-on features.
Openstack can be a serious contender especially for fresh deployments and applications that are being architected for cloud. But as the environment gets diverse(legacy integrations) Openstack can be tricky to integrate and maintain
One might require a vendor based Cloud management platform especially when the cloud strategy involves public clouds(AWS, Azure, GCE) and migration of application services across
No doubt it is fully open source, but it comes with learning curve, release cycles, Vendor specific driver integrations etc.
Interesting developments with respect to containers, docker, Kubernetes, Mesosphere etc will challenge Openstack
Openstack will no doubt will grow mature over next couple of years, until then, the hunt for the CMP continues...
Topics of interest :
to build a true hyper converged cloud ?
as an enterprise cloud management platform ?
public cloud ? (as a CSP)
Telco carrier grade cloud ?
VNF, MANO and SDN integrations
VMware Ready vRealize Automation Program
Author: Meena Nagarajan
IT’s quest for maximum speed, flexibility and accountability is driving a shift in thinking about cloud management platforms. VMware’s new cloud management platform provides automated management for heterogeneous and hybrid clouds.
Learn more about how VMware delivers the foundation for the Software Defined Enterprise:
- Managing a multi-vendor, multi-cloud infrastructure
- Providing centralized automation of infrastructure services
- Creating extensibility opportunities for cloud management
VMware terminology can be confusing
this presentation tries to clarify some names and analyze vRealize Operations in-depth.
Check my books about VMware products at https://beacons.ai/tagido
VMworld 2015: vRealize Operations Insight: Manage vSphere and Your Entire Dat...VMworld
Learn how vRealize Operations Insight delivers an integrated solution for performance management, capacity optimization, real-time log analytics, and more.
Webinar Fondazione CRUI e VMware: VMware vRealize SuiteJürgen Ambrosi
vRealize Suite è una piattaforma di Cloud Management di classe enterprise progettata appositamente per il cloud ibrido che consente di distribuire e gestire rapidamente l’infrastruttura e le applicazioni senza compromettere il controllo IT.
Blue Medora - VMware vRealize Operations Management Pack for Oracle Enterpris...Blue Medora
Overview presentation for the Blue Medora - vRealize Operations Management Pack for Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM). The vRealize MP for OEM extends vC Ops by integrating with Oracle Enterprise Manager and providing comprehensive visibility and insights to the performance, capacity, and healthy of Oracle Databases, Oracle Middleware, and Oracle business critical applications.
PuppetConf 2016: Puppet and vRealize Automation: The Next Generation – Ganesh...Puppet
Here are the slides from Ganesh Subramaniam's PuppetConf 2016 presentation called Puppet and vRealize Automation: The Next Generation. Watch the videos at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV86BgbREluVjwwt-9UL8u2Uy8xnzpIqa
VMware and Puppet: How to Plan, Deploy & Manage Modern ApplicationsPuppet
Are you looking to better understand how to use Puppet with VMware to rapidly deploy applications?Join us to learn how to easily model and automate delivery of modern applications to private or public clouds. We will walk through how to use Application Director and Puppet together to build, deploy and configure standardized multi-tier applications within minutes. Once these applications are deployed, you’ll learn how best to provide ongoing management and maintenance. We will show you how to manage drift, roll out updates and ensure consistency in your applications to reduceoutages and unnecessary downtime. This session will include a demo of common use cases and customer case examples.
Speakers
Nigel Kersten
CTO, Puppet Labs
Nigel came to Puppet Labs from Google HQ in Mountain View, where he was responsible for the design and implementation of one of the largest Puppet deployments in the world. He’s been a sysadmin for Linux and Mac deployments for longer than he is entirely comfortable calculating.
Becky Smith
Product Line Manager, VMware
Becky Smith has 16 years of experience in IT and System Management space. As a Product Line Manager for VMware's Enterprise Management business unit, Becky is responsible for product direction for operational, security and regulatory configuration and compliance management across cloud, virtual and physical infrastructures and workloads. Becky Smith's technical background and expertise consists of cloud and virtualization infrastructure management, system administration and compliance.
Building self-service on demand infrastructure with Puppet and VMwarePuppet
"Building self-service infrastructure with Puppet and VMware: An intro to vSphere automation" by Cody Herriges of Puppet Labs at Puppet Camp London 2013. Find a Puppet Camp near you: https://puppetlabs.com/community/puppet-camp/
There is no doubt that Openstack represents one of the massive industry alignment towards the Open source cloud, Some even touting it to be the linux of cloud computing. But is it “THE” perfect solution ?
Vanilla Openstack is a “Myth”
The choice of Openstack as part of your cloud strategy purely depends on the kind of workload and the add-on features.
Openstack can be a serious contender especially for fresh deployments and applications that are being architected for cloud. But as the environment gets diverse(legacy integrations) Openstack can be tricky to integrate and maintain
One might require a vendor based Cloud management platform especially when the cloud strategy involves public clouds(AWS, Azure, GCE) and migration of application services across
No doubt it is fully open source, but it comes with learning curve, release cycles, Vendor specific driver integrations etc.
Interesting developments with respect to containers, docker, Kubernetes, Mesosphere etc will challenge Openstack
Openstack will no doubt will grow mature over next couple of years, until then, the hunt for the CMP continues...
Topics of interest :
to build a true hyper converged cloud ?
as an enterprise cloud management platform ?
public cloud ? (as a CSP)
Telco carrier grade cloud ?
VNF, MANO and SDN integrations
VMworld 2013: How SRP Delivers More Than Power to Their Customers VMworld
VMworld 2013
Sheldon Brown, SRP
Girish Manmadkar, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Summit 16: Deploying Virtualized Mobile Infrastructures on OpenstackOPNFV
Service Provider is evolving and competing with leaner Over the Top Providers (OTP) providers such as Google and Amazon to provide mobile services. Furture SP network has ot be agile, resilient and auto salable. SPs are leaning towards using COTS infra, open networking (OPNFV, ONOS) and VNF to run routers, switches, mobile gateways, firewall, NAT, DPI functions. Session covers design and deployment of virtualizing the mobile infra such as Virtual Evolved Packet Core, GiLAN and VoLTE as well as 5G core. We will also cover performance fine tuning using DPDK, SR-IOV etc. WE will present case study using Cisco (VNF Manager and NFVO), Redhat (NFVI), Openstack and block storage using CEPH technology. Participants will be able to understand complexities of mobile packet core, evolution NFV based solution and architecture framework for 5G mobile packet core.
VMworld 2015: Advanced SQL Server on vSphereVMworld
Microsoft SQL Server is one of the most widely deployed “apps” in the market today and is used as the database layer for a myriad of applications, ranging from departmental content repositories to large enterprise OLTP systems. Typical SQL Server workloads are somewhat trivial to virtualize; however, business critical SQL Servers require careful planning to satisfy performance, high availability, and disaster recovery requirements. It is the design of these business critical databases that will be the focus of this breakout session. You will learn how build high-performance SQL Server virtual machines through proper resource allocation, database file management, and use of all-flash storage like XtremIO. You will also learn how to protect these critical systems using a combination of SQL Server and vSphere high availability features. For example, did you know you can vMotion shared-disk Windows Failover Cluster nodes? You can in vSphere 6! Finally, you will learn techniques for rapid deployment, backup, and recovery of SQL Server virtual machines using an all-flash array.
Webinar: Untethering Compute from StorageAvere Systems
Enterprise storage infrastructures are gradually sprawling across the globe and consumers of data increasingly require access to remote storage resources. Solutions for mitigating the pain associated with this growth are out there, but performance varies. This Webinar will take a look at these challenges, review available solutions, and compare tests of performance.
Google and Intel speak on NFV and SFC service delivery
The slides are as presented at the meet up "Out of Box Network Developers" sponsored by Intel Networking Developer Zone
Here is the Agenda of the slides:
How DPDK, RDT and gRPC fit into SDI/SDN, NFV and OpenStack
Key Platform Requirements for SDI
SDI Platform Ingredients: DPDK, IntelⓇRDT
gRPC Service Framework
IntelⓇ RDT and gRPC service framework
DAOS - Scale-Out Software-Defined Storage for HPC/Big Data/AI Convergenceinside-BigData.com
In this deck, Johann Lombardi from Intel presents: DAOS - Scale-Out Software-Defined Storage for HPC/Big Data/AI Convergence.
"Intel has been building an entirely open source software ecosystem for data-centric computing, fully optimized for Intel® architecture and non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies, including Intel Optane DC persistent memory and Intel Optane DC SSDs. Distributed Asynchronous Object Storage (DAOS) is the foundation of the Intel exascale storage stack. DAOS is an open source software-defined scale-out object store that provides high bandwidth, low latency, and high I/O operations per second (IOPS) storage containers to HPC applications. It enables next-generation data-centric workflows that combine simulation, data analytics, and AI."
Unlike traditional storage stacks that were primarily designed for rotating media, DAOS is architected from the ground up to make use of new NVM technologies, and it is extremely lightweight because it operates end-to-end in user space with full operating system bypass. DAOS offers a shift away from an I/O model designed for block-based, high-latency storage to one that inherently supports fine- grained data access and unlocks the performance of next- generation storage technologies.
Watch the video: https://youtu.be/wnGBW31yhLM
Learn more: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/high-performance-computing/daos-high-performance-storage-brief.html
Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter: http://insidehpc.com/newsletter
Comprehensive and Simplified Management for VMware vSphere Environments - now...Hitachi Vantara
Learn how to build out a robust private cloud infrastructure with the assurance that all the underlying server, storage, and network resources are in place and aligned to the appropriate service levels.
See how to achieve predictable reliability based on business needs in a robust, enterprise-class cloud platform – Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro for VMware vSphere.
We’ll take you through the latest updates to this industry-leading solution that is deeply integrated with vSphere, including HDS servers and storage, Brocade Fibre Channel, your choice of Cisco or Brocade Ethernet networking. We’ll also talk about software updates that include bare-metal support, improved monitoring and performance tuning, federated management, and non-disruptive firmware upgrades.
Event-Driven Architecture Masterclass: Engineering a Robust, High-performance...ScyllaDB
Discover how to avoid common pitfalls when shifting to an event-driven architecture (EDA) in order to boost system recovery and scalability. We cover Kafka Schema Registry, in-broker transformations, event sourcing, and more.
NFV workloads pose challenges for IIAS providers. Learn how hardware performance enhancements (DPA&EPA) by Intel, integrated with virtualization providers, can be an NFV enabler, and how advanced orchestration by TOSCA and Cloudify can put the right VNF on the right hardware and coordinate complex deployments.
EMC Symmetrix VMAX: An Introduction to Enterprise Storage: Brian Boyd, Varrow...Brian Boyd
This session gives an overview of the EMC Symmetrix VMAC enterprise storage array. We will discuss the appropriate time to start looking at enterprise storage in your datacenter, the benefits and difference in technology between VMAC and other storage arrays, and give specific examples of how VMAX has helped out customers in their environments
Madhu Rangarajan will provide an overview of Networking trends they are seeing in Cloud, various network topologies and tradeoffs, and trends in the acceleration of packet processing workloads. They will also talk about some of the work going on in Intel to address these trends, including FPGAs in the datacenter.
The cloud revolution is less about the technology it's built on, and more about the peoples and processes that make it go. As many claim that the cloud is reforming the IT practice, it's more important to see the efforts and intuition behind the implementation of the cloud.
Discover why the cloud is optimizing businesses and what is making this automation of organizations both efficient and measurable.
There’s a new route to the top of the IT department. The path has changed in the past years as CIOs are now required to command a full arsenal of business, technology, and political skills. Find out what’s new in the path to becoming a CIO and gain insight into the six positions that candidates should have under their belt.
For more thought provoking cloud management insights, please visit vmware-erdos.com.
What is the role of clouds in driving substantial IT organizational change? Adopters of private clouds are looking for more agility and speed, according to IT market research highlighted in the presentation.
These business benefits are made possible by the adoption of cloud automation. The presentation examines automation advantages such as:
• Reducing management costs while also cutting cloud deployment time
• Cutting complexity via standardization
• Optimizing resource utilization
• Accelerating service delivery times.
Power to Change also spotlights specific gains achieved by Dow Jones & Co.’s adoption of VMware cloud automation software, including an 80% improvement in operational efficiency and substantial operational savings.
Learn how adopting cloud automation tools will provide a competitive edge to your organization.
Tools for cloud management and automation are poised to become the ‘assembly line’ for integrated cloud services.
See the complimentary infographic here: http://bit.ly/vmareinfographic4
Free Gartner Report: Aligning Supply and Demand for IT Services
Cloud computing is transforming how IT manages costs and standards, but its impact extends into how IT itself is managed as a business. Public cloud computing puts pressure on the entire IT cost structure to become wiser and more efficient about balancing the supply and demand for IT services.
While cloud commoditization is driving down prices, IT is forced to manage resulting increases in consumption. The report recommends steps CIOs should take to improve the maturity of their approach to IT service management, installing:
• Benchmarking and chargeback to manage demand for cloud services
• Expand their strategic vendor management and IT procurement practices
• Become a broker of services, including external cloud computing.
Consider using IT cost transparency improvement as a cultural change agent to transform the IT organization from a focus on “speed and quality” to one of “IT cost and business value”.
For more cloud management insights visit http://vmware-erdos.com
You may not be familiar with the term, but chances are Shadow IT is happening right now at your company. No longer content waiting for their companies' IT help, today's employees are taking action into their own hands.
In today's dynamic environment, businesses can't rely on old ways of doing things. To stay relevant and competitive, companies must adopt agile and efficient tools to manage their systems and services. Cloud management software lets you multitask, helping your company run more efficiently, provide faster service, and save money while doing it.
Cloud computing holds the promise of elevating IT within the enterprise by addressing the need for rapid service delivery.
Today, clouds can be implemented in a variety of ways: private, public, and hybrid.
This combination places IT in the unique role of being a service broker, enabling it to provide a range of service delivery options. This allows applications and data to be placed in the appropriate locations based on unique business requirements.
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Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Monitoring Java Application Security with JDK Tools and JFR Events
Troubleshooting Storage Devices Using vRealize Operations (formerly vC Ops)
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3. Disclaimer
• This presentation may contain product features that are currently under development
• This overview of new technology represents no commitment from VMware to deliver these
features in any generally available product
• Features are subject to change, and must not be included in contracts, purchase orders, or
sales agreements of any kind
• Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery
• Pricing and packaging for any new technologies or features discussed or presented have not
been determined
CONFIDENTIAL 4
4. Agenda
1 What are today’s storage challenges?
2 Why vR Ops for Storage troubleshooting?
3 When to use vR Ops?
4 MPSD (Management Pack for Storage Devices)
5 Demo
6 Where - MPSD Release information
7 Partners & Ecosystem
5. What Are the Challenges in
Today’s Storage Environment?
6. Challenges
• Storage landscape is rapidly changing and new storage models are emerging resulting in
increased MTTI & SLA
– Converged Infrastructure
– Flash Based Arrays
– Software Only Storage
– Cloud Based Storage
• Heterogeneous Environment
– File and Block Storage Arrays – NFS, iSCSI, FC, FCoE
– Scale Out Storage - VSAN
– Switches – FC, FCoE, Ethernet, SAS
• Cost - Storage is expensive - Excess Capacity (Same thing that happened in compute
virtualization – from allocation based to demand based)
• Lack of Skillset as technology is evolving so quickly and where to draw line what belongs to
storage team and what belongs to compute team
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7. Challenges - Continued
• Data Services – Snapshot, Replication etc.
• VM Mobility
– vMotion, Storage vMotion
• Scale
– Hundreds - Thousands of Servers
– Thousands – Millions of VM
– 1Gig, 16Gig – 40Gig Throughput
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9. Complexity in Storage Operations
Lacking end-to-end visibility into storage stack
• Need visibility from the VM > Fabric > Array for proper root-cause
analysis
1
No VM > Array
mapping
Current frameworks provide limited visibility
• SMI-S implementations vary across vendors and provide
inconsistent information
2
Lacking a holistic
approach
Lack of correlation between Compute, Storage &
Network issues
3
Delays
troubleshooting
13. Shared Responsibility towards Storage Operation Management
End to End Storage
visibility and
troubleshooting
Storage
Arrays
Partner-specific
Management Packs
…
VASA
Fabric
Switch
SMI-S,SNMP
SSD,
MD,HBA
NIC
SMART,IODM
EMC
Management Pack for
Storage Devices
Brocade
Industry Standards
And
VMware Certified
SMART IOVP …
Partners Provide
visibility into their
storage devices
!!!!!!
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14. Value Proposition of MPSD and Storage Management Packs
Cloud Admin
Topology/Objects
VM, Datastore, Host, HBA/NIC, Fabric/Switch,
Array/LUN
Availability
HBA Links, Port Up/Down, LUN available/not
available, APD, PDL
Performance Stats
Read/Write IO, Throughput, Bandwidth,
Latency for HBA, Fabric and LUN
Capacity
Generic capacity containers using the objects
& metrics above
Configuration
Link Speed, Max/Optimal Speed, Number of
ports, Vendor Info, Firmware Version, Zone
Name, Disk Free, LUN Size, SPBM Profiles
Topology/Objects
Disk, Disk Group, Pool, LUN, SP, Cache,
SP Port
Availability
Up/Down info on all objects above plus
physical components (e.g. power, fan)
Performance Stats
Comprehensive performance stats on all
objects above plus physical components
Capacity
Comprehensive capacity containers using
the objects & metrics above
Configuration
Disk Type, Disk Speed, Disk Group Size,
RAID Level, S.M.A.R.T, Caching Details,
Pool type (Thick/Thin), Disk Tiers & Perf
Profiles, Encryption, Replication,
Compression, SP Config (LUN masking,
Speed), Service Time, Data Integrity Checks,
Workload Profile (e.g. SQL), Best Practices
Storage Admin
Delivered through MPSD Delivered through partner MP
Broad Narrow
Shallow Deep
Isolation Remediate
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15. IO Stats Support in VASA 2.0
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IOStatsProfile is an optional spec in VASA 2.0 (based on SMI-S specifications)
and brings stats support for the storage objects in the VASA spec such as:
1. Storage Array
2. Storage Processor
3. Storage Port
4. Storage LUN
5. File System
6. Virtual Volume
Mandatory
• TotalIOs
• KBytesTransfered
• IOTimeCounter
• ReadIOs
• ReadIOTimeCounter
• KBytesRead
• WriteIOs
• WriteIOTimeCounter
• KBytesWritten
Preferred
• ReadHitIOs
• ReadHitIOTimeCounter
• WriteHitIOs
• WriteHitIOTimeCounter
• OtherIOs
• IdleTimeCounter
Extra Credit/Future
• Random vs sequential
• Seek Time
• Peak Throughput
• Peak Latency
CONFIDENTIAL
17. Common Complains – It All Starts With
• Unable to extend or grow DataStore
• Unable to Unmount or Detach DataStore
Configuration
Errors
• Unable to Power On VM
• Snapshots not visible in UI
Failures and
Capacity Issues
• Long rescan or slow Boot
• ESX disconnected from VC
Connectivity
Issues
Performance
Issues
• VM Unresponsive
• Slow or High Latency
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18. Common Storage Root Causes on vSphere
• Availability
– Connectivity Issues – APD, PDL
– Protocol Incompatibilities
– Hardware Failures, Faults
• Performance
– Misconfiguration, Upgrades, Non Offload
– Firmware, Microcode Out Of Date or Faulty
• Capacity
– Snapshots filling up Datastore
– Incorrect Storage Presentation
– Manual Process to detach LUN causing human error
19CONFIDENTIAL
19. MPSD – Enhanced Analytics
• Root Cause Analysis - (APD, PDL, Network Partition etc.)
– Identifies RCA for various Situations based on the health of End to End Devices
– Provides Corrective Suggestions
• Early Warning – (SSD Life, Compliance etc.)
– Warns of immediate risks to the environment
– Provides Corrective Suggestions
• Future Planning – (Disk and Throughput Modeling etc.)
– Based on the current trends, predicts future requirements
– Helps with budgeting
• Errors, Faults – (Link, Speed, Thin Provisioning etc.)
– Notifies on Health Issues impacting the cluster
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20. vR Ops – Management Pack for Storage Devices
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• New Dashboards, Views and Reports
– Provides Out of the Box Experience
– VM to Array Mapping
– Performance and Health Visibility
– Availability Details
• Capacity Details
– Provides demand and usage
information for end to end devices
• Brings in key configuration “property”
information from devices/resources
– Vendor, Hardware, Firmware,
driver version, etc.
– Zone Details
Technical Overview
Key configuration info
CONFIDENTIAL
21. vR Ops – Management Pack for Storage Devices (Cont’d)
22
New Support
• Support for FCoE Fabric
– End to End FCoE Transport (Host,
Fabric, Storage)
– FCoE-FC Mapping
• Broadened Eco System Support
– Covers Brocade, Cisco and Qlogic
SAN(FC and FCoE) Fabric
Technical Preview
• Support for NFS & iSCSI
– End to End NFS & iSCSI Transport
(Host, Fabric, Storage)
• Support for VSAN 6.0
• Visibility and Cluster Insights
Mount/LUN
HBAFabric
Technical Overview
CONFIDENTIAL
23. Demo Setup
VSAN compatible Rack
Servers with FC, FCoE,
SAS HBA, NIC, SSD
and MD
FCoE – FC Switch
FC Switch
Ethernet Switch
Multiprotocol Storage Array
CONFIDENTIAL 24
24. Demo Use Cases
1 Broad Storage Coverage
2 End to End troubleshooting
3 Performance and Latency
4 Top Consumers and errors
5 Threshold based alerting
6 Root Cause Analysis
26. Sources for MPSD information and software download
• You can download the latest MPSD management pack from solutions exchange
https://solutionexchange.vmware.com/store/products/management-pack-for-storage-devices-6-
0#.VL3zBy7F-YQ
– Documentation
– Downloadable code
• MPSD architecture http://blogs.vmware.com/management/2015/02/vsan-simplifying-sddc-
storage-operations-with-vrealize-operations-management-pack-for-storage-devices.html
• Sign up for vR Ops Management Pack for Storage Devices VSAN 6.0 Beta support
http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2015/02/vrops4vsan-beta.html
29. vR Ops API & SDK
30
The vCenter Operations SDK provides partners with all the information
and tools they need to build a high quality Management Pack leveraging
all the powerful features vR Ops has to offer
30
SDK
Developer
Guide
Provides in depth details
on how to use the vR Ops
APIs and client bindings
vR Ops
Solution
Guide
Incudes best practices for
building a management
pack, including detailed
examples of key aspects
Workbench
Plugin &
Other Tools
An eclipse workbench
plugin and other tools to
help speed up
environment setup overall
development time
SDK
Components
RESTful
APIs
CONFIDENTIAL
30. Three New SDDC Competencies to Build Practice and Expertise
Ideal for advisory partners who
architect data center, networking
and storage solutions (Q2’15)
Ideal for process oriented partners
who sell and implement cloud
automation projects
Ideal for partners who want to
upgrade customer base to vSphere
6.0 with Operations Management
Solution Competencies boost profitability 2-4x
Management
Operations
Management
Automation
Software-Defined
Data Center
updated for
vRealize
Operations 6
31. • Customers are moving to software-defined solutions for data center, network and storage
• Are you ready to lead the way?
• VMware introduces new “SDDC IT Outcomes” sales training to up your game
– Make the move from selling product and capability to selling an “IT outcome” – an end result that a
customer cares about
– Learn how to lead outcomes-oriented conversations with CIOs and technical buyers
IT Outcomes – A New Sales Approach to Probe Buying Triggers
Required for
Server Virtualization 6.0
and SDDC Competencies
Enroll
Required in additional
Solution Competencies,
where applicable
IT Outcomes
Sales Training
Enroll Now
Q1 Q2
New program requirement
32. vSphere with
Operations
Management
(vSOM)
vCloud Air Disaster
Recovery
Virtual SAN
Take advantage of increased incentives, as well as synchronized
enablement, marketing programs, and sales assets for VMware Power
Play Solutions
1H’2015 VMware Power Play Solutions include:
Learn more: www.vmware.com/go/powerplays
VSOM Power Play increases deal size 3X
Accelerates deal close to less than 30 days
Are You Leveraging Power Plays?
33. vSphere Optimization Assessment Showcase
Experience the Power of
Operations Management
Moscone West,
Level 2 Lounge Area
Open from 11:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Tuesday and Wednesday
Win a 2015 VMworld Pass!
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vSphere Optimization Assessment (vOA) is a free 30-day vSphere health check tool used to help customers identify performance improvement and capacity optimization recommendations
Visit the VOA Showcase at PEX to learn how vOA can help you upsell operations management and close larger deals in under 30 days
Learn from the experts with presentations every ½ hour
Drop in for a vOA technical demo
Learn why vOA is an ideal tool for vSphere 6.0 upgrades and renewals (VSOM upgrades)
What – What challenges are we seeing in today’s evolving storage environment with plethora of different storage architectures and innovations.
Why – Why vROps is the best tool to troubleshoot and isolate the storage problem
When – When we shall use vR Ops and we shall not
How – How do we use vR Ops MPSD
Where – Where you can get information about MPSD, links, blogs,
Partner & Ecosystem
Data Services – backups eating space
VM granularity (Big Iron – X VMs , one application on 1 physical server, (Pet – lot of grooming, cattle – notified only when an error is done)
Point 2 – We have improved it with VASA 1.0
Left side vR Ops (Vmware) and partners are right side is partner responsibility
Partner 2 types of responsibility
1- Detailed management pack for specific objects (storage, switch etc)
2 – They will have to provide interfaces for Vmware solutions to work end to end (support for VASA, SSD needs to be SMART, SMI-S for switches)
VROPS interested in “which” component has problem,
Talkng points
PDL – Permanent Device Loss
What – What challenges are we seeing in today’s evolving storage environment with plethora of different storage architectures and innovations.
Why – Why vROps is the best tool to troubleshoot and isolate the storage problem
When – When we shall use vR Ops and we shall not
How – How do we use vR Ops MPSD
Where – Where you can get information about MPSD, links, blogs,
Partner & Ecosystem
SDDC Solution Competencies Boost Profitability and Expertise. Solution Competencies enable partners to build sales and technical expertise across VMware’s solutions. Partners who invest achieve 2-4x greater annual sales and earn up to 10% in Solution Rewards rebates.
Introducing three new SDDC Solution Competencies.
1. Management Operations Competency updated for vRealize Operations 6.0 (formerly VC Ops)
Be the first to attend new sales and technical boot camps updated for vRealize Operations 6.0, VMware’s flagship management solution for vSphere 6.0. Build proficiency selling and implementing Operations Management technology. The Management Operations Competency is ideal for Partners who want to update their customer base to vSphere 6.0 with Operations Management. Along with new license sales and renewals, Partners have an opportunity to deliver their own data center efficiency and vSphere optimization projects. Note: Partners who already hold the Management Operations competency (versions 5.6 or earlier) should update to 6.0 as we’ve made significant enhancements to vRealize Operations Manager and introduced entirely new competency courseware. Register for PEX boot camps and earn up to 10% Solution Rewards.
2. Management Automation Competency Ideal for Partners who sell and implement automation and provisioning projects
Be recognized for your Cloud IaaS sales and implementation expertise. This competency is ideal for advisory partners who help customers architect cloud automation strategies, process and policies, and implement provisioning technologies to streamline the delivery of applications and IT services.
3. New SDDC Solution Competency
Build a practice selling and implementing software-defined storage, networking and data center solutions. The new SDDC competency is designed for partners to develop depth and breadth in selling and deploying SDDC solutions. Achieve sales and implementation proficiency in software-defined data center, storage, networking and management solutions and receive additional incentives and benefits. This is our way of rewarding partners who have invested in multiple SDDC solutions and recognizing their unique capabilities. Additional details about this competency will be available at launch in Q2.
Enroll in training:
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IT Outcomes: A New Sales Approach to Probe Buying Triggers
Get out of your comfort zone selling vSphere-only solutions. To succeed in the software-defined world, you must move from selling a product or capability to selling an “IT outcome,” or an end result that a customer cares about. VMware IT Outcomes training helps sellers lead results-oriented conversations with CIOs and executive technical buyers.
This training, available now, is a new requirement for the updated Server Virtualization Competency 6.0 and SDDC competencies (Q1). IT Outcomes training may be required in additional solution competencies, where application (Q2).
vSphere Optimization Assessment is a a proven best practice sales acceleration tool included in the vSOM Power Play. Think of a VOA as a virtual environment health check that solves your customer’s IT business problems and allows you to quickly close deals – often in less than 30 days.
But most importantly: VOA is a PROVEN program that has generated millions of dollars in incremental pipeline and revenue in a few short months – and an average deal size of $60K vs. $16K for an average VSOM deal.
vSphere Optimization Assessment (vOA) is a free 30-day vSphere health check tool used to help customers identify performance improvement and capacity optimization recommendations
Visit the VOA Showcase at PEX to learn how vOA can help you upsell operations management and close larger deals in under 30 days
Learn from the experts with presentations every ½ hour
Drop in for a vOA technical demo
Learn why vOA is an ideal tool for vSphere 6.0 upgrades and renewals (VSOM upgrades)