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Virtualization Management With Quest V Foglight
The document discusses virtualization management using vfoglight®, focusing on challenges like performance monitoring, capacity planning, and service management. It outlines the difficulties in detecting and resolving issues, planning for growth, and associating costs with infrastructure use while highlighting vfoglight's features to address these challenges. The software supports both VMware and Hyper-V environments, offering capabilities like automation, chargeback, and integration with third-party monitoring systems.
Virtualization Management With Quest V Foglight
- 1. Virtualization Management withvFoglight® Bringing Clarity and Control to Virtual Infrastructure Management Chris Roberts Virtualization Technology Manager Quest Software © 2011 Quest Software, Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
- 2. Fundamental Challenge Proactively understand,find and fix CPU Memory Network Disk • Multi-Core • Sharing • Shared • Shared storage Processors • Over-commit Connectivity • Fiber, iSCSI, • Virtual • Load Balancing NAS Processors • Redundancy 2
- 3. Problem Space Detecting, Difficult to plan Diagnosing & for growth Resolving and change Problems Virtualization Management Unable to Connecting associate Business SLAs costs with use To Infrastructure of Infrastructure 3
- 4. Problem Space Detecting, Diagnosingand Resolving Problems Clarity • Understanding the virtual infrastructure • Determining performance and availability Expertise • Diagnosing problems • Understanding the impact on other resources Relationships • Defining relationships between components • Shared resources = operational challenges 4
- 5. Problem Space Difficult toPlan for Growth and Change Calculate • Determining growth over time • Understanding change Scope • Revealing unexpected growth for planning • Anticipating future needs Inform • Forecasting and trending • Planning based on scenarios 5
- 6. Problem Space Unable toAssociate Costs for Use of Infrastructure Model • Determining how to group and allocate costs • Multiple groups use infrastructure resources Track • Determining resource utilization • Capturing costs by host or group Charge • “Billing” accurately • Multiple models may be needed 6
- 7. Problem Space Connecting businessSLAs to infrastructure Define • Determining what components support key services Measure • Understanding service performance • Meeting SLA commitments Report • Informing key stakeholders of service quality, service health and availability 7
- 8. The Ideal Solution Understand,find and fix Performance Capacity Service Chargeback Management Planning Management & Monitoring 8
- 9. Performance Capacity Service Chargeback Management Planning Management & Monitoring Automation Infrastructure Applications Virtual / Physical Storage 9
- 10. Performance Monitoring Bringing Clarity & Control to vFoglight Virtual Infrastructure Management Performance Monitoring: Detects and diagnoses problems to speed mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR) Highlights: Performance • Expert alerts & remediation Management & Monitoring • Incorporates Industry best practices • Predictive, Best Practice, Behavioral, Conditional • Automation and remediation – fix the problem • Architectural representations • Relationships/interactions between components • Deep visibility into the critical application infrastructure 10
- 11. Capacity Planning Bringing Clarity & Control to vFoglight Virtual Infrastructure Management Capacity Planning: Plan, manage and optimize capacity to support growth and change Highlights: Capacity Planning • Scenario-based models • Understand the impact of change • Forecast and trend reports • To aid communication with others • Predictive alerts • Reveal unexpected growth 11
- 12. Service Management Bringing Clarity & Control to vFoglight Virtual Infrastructure Management Service Management: Construct business views of dependent components and measure SLA achievement Highlights: Service Management • Provides service dependency models • Automatically /manually generated • Service-based dashboards and reports • Service health and availability • Resource consumption and more… • Service-based alarms 12
- 13. Chargeback Bringing Clarity & Control to vFoglight Virtual Infrastructure Management Chargeback: Tracks infrastructure utilization and costs so they can be recovered for the services provided Highlights: Chargeback • Leverages industry models • Tiered Flat Rate • Partial and Full Cost Recovery • Direct Costs • Uses models to allocate costs to services • Produces “billing” reports 13
- 14. vFoglight Validation Serving • 6,500+ Customers Worldwide • Serving SMB through Enterprise Customers • VMware Ready Optimized™ Extending • Supports vSphere & extends vCenter Hypervisors • New Hyper-V platform support Providing • High value, low cost solution • Easy to install and use Value • Scalable architecture and platform 14
- 15. vFoglight Packaging and KeyFeatures 15
- 16. VMware ESX ServerMonitoring Description: Understand the relationships and interactions between all the components in the virtual infrastructure. • How it works • How vFoglight helps – Integrates with vCenter – Allows admins to Server via VMware’s visualize the entire virtual APIs at user configurable infrastructure levels – Detect, diagnose and – Requires read-only rights resolve (fix) problems – View datacenters, data quickly stores, resource pools, – Operational in minutes, clusters, ESX Servers, yet powerful and scalable and VMs 16
- 17. Microsoft Hyper-V Monitoring Description: Extendedhypervisor support with consistent functionality and usability across all platforms • How it works • How vFoglight helps – Integrates with Microsoft – Allows admins to Server 2008R2 visualize infrastructure accessing multiple across vendor plaftforms sources including WMI – Detect, diagnose and performance counters resolve (fix) problems – Requires read-only rights quickly – View clusters, servers – Operational in minutes, and virtual machines yet powerful and scalable 17
- 18. Guest Process Investigation Description: Drill-downinto the processes running within VMs to understand internal performance & resource utilization • How it works • How vFoglight helps – Start by viewing any – Quickly determine VM within vFoglight which processes are – vFoglight uses a touch impacting VM less connector to performance gather information – Pinpoint which VMs using WMI (Windows) are utilizing resources and SSH on Linux- ineffectively based guests 18
- 19. Workflows Description: Automate repeatable processesthrough managed workflows • How it works • How vFoglight helps – Build the workflow – Easily perform process in the repetitive processes “automation” interface quickly and with – Test on “non-live” consistency environment (VMware, – Tying workflows to or Hyper-V) alerts fix problems – Couple with alerts for faster assignments to fix specific problems 19
- 20. Service Management Description: Construct business views of dependent components & measure SLA achievement • How it works • How vFoglight helps – Groups VMs and – Better aligns IT and infrastructure components the business into services – Measure service levels – Allows admins to use those – Recover costs for services to: services provided • Record Status – Report key information • Check Availability to stakeholders • Perform Chargeback • Report KPIs, SLOs, and SLAs 20
- 21. In-Context Administration Description: Undertake commonVM administration tasks in the context of the objects being viewed • How it works • How vFoglight helps – Fix problems from within – Eliminates lengthy the vFoglight Console process – Execute common tasks like • Accessing another start, stop, and pause vendor tool • Locating the object in question • Completing the task 21
- 22. Capacity Planning Description: Plan, manageand optimize infrastructure capacity for improved performance and better resource utilization • How it works •How vFoglight helps – Perform “what if?” – Reduce the need for scenarios for moving VMs additional resources to to or from support the actual/hypothetical servers infrastructure – Understand the impact one – Reduce hardware VM has on another for costs while gaining performance and availability administration efficiencies 22
- 23. Chargeback Description: Allocate costs forthe use of infrastructure to hosts or groups of hosts, both virtual or physical. • How it works • How vFoglight helps – Group together virtual or – Determine utilization of physical hosts into tiers the infrastructure by – Assign a cost (any currency different groups or and arbitrary) to a each tier organizations – Generate reports on an ad – “Chargeback” costs to hoc or scheduled basis to those groups based on show the flat costs for a their utilization particular month 23
- 24. Event Analytics Description: Measure performancetrends against the impact of change over time to pinpoint issues due to change • How it works • How vFoglight helps – Graphical display of – Enables users to performance over a quickly determine period of time with point whether a change is in time events overlaid to cause to a identify the impact of performance and/or change on performance availability issue 24
- 25. Physical OS Monitoring Description: ExtendsvFoglight visibility into the physical infrastructure (Memory, CPU, Disk I/O and Network I/O) on Windows and Linux OS environments • How it works • How vFoglight helps –vFoglight Management –Performance issues on Server deploys and agent physical servers in –Agent collects metrics for addition to virtual Memory, CPU, Disk I/O, and servers Network I/O –Want to consolidate –Metrics processed virtual and physical –Color coding/movement monitoring into a single focus attention to problems solution 25
- 26. High Availability (Mgmt.Server) Description: Configure the vFoglight Management Server to function in HA mode to ensure continuous operation and service. • How it works • Indicators of need –vFoglight Management –Mission-critical Server can be set for infrastructures active/passive failover –Requirement/desire for –In the event of a failure, the continuous operation clients automatically switch the vFoglight to a secondary server performance monitoring –Continuous operation for solution monitoring the infrastructure 26
- 27. Federation Description: Integrate and managelarge virtual & physical infrastructures, gaining maximum flexibility& visibility. • How it works • Indicators of need –Separate instances of the –Need to monitor multiple vFoglight Management infrastructures Server can be deployed –Desire to have a “single –One instance is configured pane of glass” across as the “Federator” and all multiple infrastructures instances are linked –Federator can queried for a single pane of glass 27
- 28. Third-Party Integration Description: Enables organizationsto forward alerts to, or receive alerts from, third-party monitoring systems. • How it works • How vFoglight helps: –Uses XML and pre- –Receive alerts from configured alert translation third-party systems that rules support the –Understand and receive infrastructure SNMP Traps as alerts –Forward alerts from vFoglight to enterprise monitors for more consolidated visibility 28
- 29. VMware Agent Overview– Multiple vCenters vFoglight is scalable! Best Practice: With multiple vCenters, each vFoglight Agent (Virtual-VMware Agent) instance is installed on a dedicated VM and communicates with one vCenter 29
- 30. vFoglight - DataCollection Details 30
- 31. Introduction • Perspectives • Capacity Planning • VMware • Storage • Hyper V • FAQts • Event Analysis • Chargeback • Automation • Service Management • Detect - Diagnose – Resolve • Exchange • Administration • Active Directory • Reports 31
- 32. Perspectives 32
- 33. VMware 33
- 34. Hyper V 34
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- 36. Automation How can I easily automate common tasks/workflow? 36 Back to Perspectives
- 37. Detect, Diagnose, Resolve(Remediation) How do I know if I have performance problems in my virtualized infrastructure? I need to be alerted of any problems affecting performance How can I fix this problem fast? 37
- 38. Detect – ProblematicActivity Customer Problem: Lack of visibility and understanding of state and health of VMs. Difficult to pinpoint and resolve issues quickly and efficiently New Hyper-V Support • VMware Alarm via User Interface • Drill into problem area(s) Customer Benefit: Quickly understand the virtual infrastructure through clear visual representations, color coding and movements to focus attention on problem areas. 38
- 39. Diagnose Root Cause CustomerProblem: Inability to quickly determine root cause and lack of understanding of the true underlying issue • Click through to access alarm details Best Practice Rule Alert Remediation New Customer Benefit: Accurately diagnose the root-cause of incidents and problems and speed mean-time-to-resolution. 39
- 40. Resolve the UnderlyingProblem Customer Problem: Inefficient and inconsistent practices for resolving common issues – taking too much time and prone to error. • Select workflow attached to specific alarm • Problem solved, alarm removed Launch New Automated Workflow Customer Benefit: Launch workflows specific to fast remediation of the problem to speed mean time to resolution by applying consistency to problem solving 40
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- 43. Storage 43
- 44. FAQts FAQts: I need a quick answer to common question across my virtual environment Mini FAQts: I need a quick answer in-context to my AD & Exchange environments 44
- 45. Chargeback How can I easily identify costs for resources used? How can I report/bill for these costs? 45
- 46. Service Management How can I see a view of my entire service? I need to create a service dashboard unique to my environment 46
- 47. Active Directory How can I manage deeper into my virtualized domain controllers? 47
- 48. Exchange How can I manage deeper into my virtualized Exchange app? 48
- 49. Wizard driven Reports Iwould like, powerful, easy and flexible reporting Out of the box Drag and drop 49
- 50. Q&A Thank You vCommunity vcommunity.vizioncore.com http://twitter.com/QuestVirt 50
Editor's Notes
- #4 Let’s consider the problem space when it comes to Virtualization Management.First is being able to Detect, Diagnose and Resolve Problems. Virtualization introduces new operational challenges brought on by shared resources and the multiple components that support the virtual infrastructure. Second, it’s difficult to plan for growth and change. How do you know that capacity you have today will serve the organization next week or next month, particularly as resources are shared in a more abstract manner.Next, administrators are often unable to associate costs for the use of infrastructure.With virtualization we lose the physical dependency between an application and a server, and it can be difficult understand who is using what resources. These resources are expensive, so many organizations are taking a closer look at Chargeback so they can understand and recoup costs.Last is being able to connect business systems to IT infrastructure.What’s needed is an understanding of how infrastructure components support these key business systems, such SLAs can be defined to communicate service availability to the business, service health to the system owner and infrastructure problems to IT.
- #5 OPTIONAL Let’s take a moment to review the key challenges that contribute to the problem of being able to detect, diagnose and resolve problems.Clarity, Expertise and Relationships each play a contributing role to the problem.Organizations often struggle to understand the relationships and interactions between infrastructure components, reducing clarity in being able to diagnose problems. They also can’t understand the impact one problem VM has on the next and on resources as a whole.
- #6 OPTIONAL The next problem we examine is that planning for growth and change can be difficult.Understanding utilization versus allocation, scoping future requirements and finding wasted resources are key challenges for capacity planners in a virtual environment. Again, abstraction plays a role in masking what is really going on. In addition, growth in the environment is increasing with virtualization and necessitates more frequent reviews. Forecast reporting and trend alerting would solve these challenges, but most organizations lack the tools to enable these to happen.
- #7 The next problem that comes into play is being able to associate costs for the use of infrastructure.Enabling business system owners to understand the costs of the infrastructure that support the systems, today and in the future, is a key challenge for IT. Articulating why IT appears to be expensive to the business is also challenging, when frequently those costs cannot be linked back to systems the businesses use day-to-day.In order to link those costs, the organization must first agree to a methodology, then begin tracking utilization not just by host or group, but by business system, and finally charge in an equitable way.
- #8 OPTIONAL The last problem that organizations struggle with is connecting business systems to the infrastructure and constructing measurable SLAs.Being able to define what components support key services, then measuring and reporting on service quality, health and availability present new challenges. This is due to the layered nature of virtualization and the lack of tools that help you visualize these relationships and dependencies in meaningful ways.
- #9 As a result the Ideal Solution to addressing the problems of virtualization management are as follows: Performance Monitoring – to detect, diagnose and resolve problems Capacity Planning – to plan for growth and change Chargeback – to associate costs for the use of infrastructure Service Management – to connect business SLAs to infrastructure
- #11 vFoglight provides Performance Monitoring that enables administrators to detect and diagnose problems to help speed mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR).We provide Expert Alerts that incorporate industry expertise. And unlike others who provide only threshold-based alerts, we offer predictive, best practice, behavioral and conditional alerts to provide a complete understanding of performance, availability, capacity and service quality problems.Architectural representations show the relationships and interactions between components. And vFoglight uses a unique visual paradigm that uses color coding and movement to direct the eye to problem areas.More than 5,000 customers use vFoglight for performance monitoring.
- #12 vFoglight provides Performance Monitoring that enables administrators to detect and diagnose problems to help speed mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR).We provide Expert Alerts that incorporate industry expertise. And unlike others who provide only threshold-based alerts, we offer predictive, best practice, behavioral and conditional alerts to provide a complete understanding of performance, availability, capacity and service quality problems.Architectural representations show the relationships and interactions between components. And vFoglight uses a unique visual paradigm that uses color coding and movement to direct the eye to problem areas.More than 5,000 customers use vFoglight for performance monitoring.
- #13 vFoglight provides Service Management which allow users to construct business views of dependent components and measure SLA achievement.vFoglight provides service dependency models that are automatically or manually generated. Service-based dashboards and reports show service health and availability. Also through service-based alarms, vFoglight can show resource consumption and more.vFoglight has offered service Management since the first version of the product. With vFoglight 6.0 we have introduced auto-generated business views and services, aiding ease of use and time to value even more.
- #14 vFoglight provides Chargeback to help track infrastructure utilization so costs can be recovered for the services provided.vFoglight supports industry chargeback models like Tiered Flat Rate, Measured Resource Utilization (Both partial and full cost recovery), and Direct Costs. We use models to allocate costs to services and allow users to provide “billing” reports. These reports can be leveraged by finance for internal or external use.vFoglight was one of the original virtualization management solutions to provide chargeback and with support for industry models endorsed by Gartner, making it an easy choice over solutions that use no standards.
- #15 vFoglight is the market-leading solution for virtualization monitoring with more than 6,500 customers worldwide. We also serve SMB organizations through large enterprises.vFoglight is VMware Ready Optimized, which is an endorsement from VMware for virtualization monitoring. We support vSphere and prior platforms and extends vCenter Server.The product offers high value by providing performance monitoring, capacity planning, chargeback and service management, all in a low cost solution. vFoglight is easy to install and use and offers a scalable architecture to support your organization as it evolves and grows. With vFoglight you can also add application, database and end user monitoring to provide additional insight to performance and availability of key business services and applications.
- #34 VM ExplorerAlarm Showing problem diagnosisRemediation Showing workflow to fix
- #37 How to enable workflow to automate common tasks
- #38 VM ExplorerAlarm Showing problem diagnosisRemediation Showing workflow to fix
- #45 Mini FAQtsFAQts Tabs
- #50 OOTB, sample listDrag and DropWizard