vRealize Operations Insight 6.1 provides enhanced visibility and intelligent operations management across virtual, physical, and cloud infrastructure. New features include integrated OS monitoring, intelligent workload balancing, workload distribution planning, and dashboard and reporting enhancements. The update also provides improved scalability, data protection capabilities, and integrated single sign-on for security and simplified access.
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VMworld 2015: vRealize Operations Insight: Manage vSphere and Your Entire Data Center… All In One Place!
1. vRealize Operations Insight:
Manage vSphere and Your Entire Data Center…
All In One Place!
Himanshu Singh, Product Line Marketing Manager, VMware
Hicham (he-sham) Mourad, Group Technical Marketing Manager, VMware
MGT5245
#MGT5245
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• This overview of new technology represents no commitment from VMware to deliver these
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• Features are subject to change, and must not be included in contracts, purchase orders, or
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• Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
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Disclaimer
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3. Agenda
1 How Does IT Become Even More Awesome
2 What is vROI?
4 What’s Included & What Can You Do With It
5 Demo
3
4. IT at the
Speed of Business
Customers Need Help Bridging Between Existing and New IT
to Support the Business and ALL Workloads
* Source: Gartner, 2013: “Hunting and Harvesting in a Digital World: The 2013 CIO Agenda”
IT Technology Eras
Mainframe Client-Server Mobile-Cloud
$ $ $ $ $ $
Ability of IT to
Deliver
Steady IT
Budgets*
Business
Expectations
4
5. The Transformative Opportunity for IT
Provide Solutions at the
Speed the Business
Operates
Move from being
Reactive to Proactive
Become a Strategic
Partner to the Business
• Quickly deliver reliable
services and applications
and be more flexible to
business requests
• Enable higher performance
and availability of
infrastructure and
applications
• Deliver not just operational
efficiency, but improve the
way the business operates
and add value and
differentiation along the way.
6. What Does IT Need to Fuel this Transformation
#1 - Match Speed of the Business
Consistent
management and
automation for the
virtual data center
Optimize
infrastructure
efficiency and IT
productivity
Infrastructure
designed for mobile,
social, big data and
hybrid cloud apps
7. What Does IT Need to Fuel this Transformation
#2 – Become Proactive
Get meaningful
insights in one
place, covering the
entire stack
Get better visibility
into dependencies
of apps to infra
Improve
performance and
reduce downtimes
8. What Does IT Need to Fuel this Transformation
#3 – Become a Strategic Partner to the Business
Optimize workload
placement and
balancing, for better
app performance
Enforce IT
standards and
security hardening
guidelines, to
improve operations
Safely automate
manual tasks at an
effective scale, with
customizable and
adaptable tools
9. Today’s Reality in Operations Management
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Monitoring Data Overload Alert Storms
Finger Pointing
DBA
VI Storage
Over-provisioning
10. Silo-ed Operations
Management with no single
solution
Downtime and
Performance Degradation
• Unified operations solution across virtual,
physical, storage, network and apps
• Quality of service
• Guided remediation with accelerated root
cause analysis
Key Challenges For Customers
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Cost Cutting and Reduced
Budgets
1
2
3
• Optimal utilization of existing IT assets
• Greater operational efficiency
What do Customers Need?
11. The Five Pillars of Operational Analytics
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Operational
Analytics
Performance
& Availability
Logs &
Unstructured
Data
Topology
Analysis
Configuration
Health
Capacity
Consumption
12. vRealize Operations Insight: Best of vRealize Operations and
vRealize Log Insight Together
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vROI is an add-on bundle for vSOM, that lets you leverage all your IT data for comprehensive
visibility in one place
Structured Data
Metrics Alerts Events
VMware vRealize Operations
Capacity, Performance and Configuration
Management Events
Launch in
Context
Unstructured Data
Logs Messages
VMware vRealize
Log Insight
Log analytics, aggregation, and search
13. vRealize Operations Insight Partner Ecosystem
This is not an exhaustive list
VMware Solutions
Amazon Web Services
vCloud Air
Storage Devices
NSX
vCloud Networking & Security
EMC Smarts
Partner Solutions
EMC Storage Analytics
HP OneView
VCE Vision
Dell Compellent Storage
HP StoreFront
Cisco UCS
NetFlow Logic
14. Integrated solution for managing performance,
capacity and logs
– Converged disciplines of performance, capacity and
configuration management
360 degree view of all IT data and intelligent
operations management
– From apps to storage – enabling faster problem solution
Predictive analytics using structured and unstructured
data
– Better performance and enhanced end-user experience
1
2
3
Why vRealize Operations Insight Is Better Than The Competition
Limited
and Siloed
Visibility
Under-
utilized
Capacity
Slower
Trouble-
shooting
Problems with
Traditional Tools
and Point Solutions
15. Benefits
• Up to 30% Reduction in Capex1
• Up to 50% Faster problem resolution2
• Up to 54% Lower application downtime3
• Up to 53% Reduction in IT costs3
• Up to 2.4X Return on investment3
vRealize Operations Insight Benefits
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“Intelligent Operations Management from Apps to Storage”
vRealize Operations Insight
vRealize Log Insight
vRealize Operations Advanced
1 2013 Study: The Total Economic Impact Of VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite
2 Dimensional Research Paper, Log Insight, vmware.com
3 VMware vCenter Operations Customer Benchmark Study by Management Insight, Wave Two
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17. What’s New: Intelligent Workload Management
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Intelligent Workload
Balancing
Integrated OS Monitoring
Problem:
• Workloads are often placed sub-
optimally, resulting in inefficient
usage of clusters.
• Ongoing balancing of resources is a
difficult, time-consuming, and non-
strategic activity.
Solution:
• Visualize how your clusters are
loaded with workloads across
clusters, vCenters, data centers.
• Get a Balancing Plan that
recommends optimal placement of
the workloads and balances the
workloads across clusters.
Problem:
• Monitoring OS and infrastructure is
complex, requires multiple tools, and
can lead to blind spots
Solution:
• OS monitoring is now available
natively in vRealize Operations.
• Predictive analytics help IT to
proactively identify and avoid
potential issues across infrastructure
and application stacks in one place.
21. Custom Data Center
Understand capacity across vCenter boundaries
• Custom Data Centers (CDC) span clusters and vCenter
server environments
• Combine Hosts, Clusters, and Data Center’s from one or
more vCenter environments
• Simple wizard driven CDC creation process
• Full Capacity management / planning for the Custom Data
Center
• “Is my West Coast CDC running short on Capacity?”
• Support for all analysis badges
• Looks like a “real” vSphere data center
• “What is the Health of my Production-East CDC?”
Technical Overview
New container that spans the SDDC
to provide new levels of visibility
22. Reserve Capacity Now
Committing & Reserving Capacity/Capacity Planning
• Plan a Project – A proposal showing change in demand or
resources
• E.g. Add 10 new Oracle VMs and 5 new Hosts on July 1
• Commit a Project – Affect Future Capacity
• Lets vR Ops/Users know there is a future planned project
• Reflects the project’s impact at a certain set date
• Affects Time Remaining badge & capacity trends (on the
implementation date)
• New - Commit a Project (DEFAULT) – Reserve Capacity Now
• Tells vR Ops to set aside the capacity for the project NOW
• Reserved Capacity affects vR Ops capacity analysis
• Affects the Time and Capacity Remaining badges
Technical Overview
Reserve Capacity
Affect Future
Capacity
Reserve
Capacity Now
23. Visualize Capacity Distribution Levels of the Infrastructure
Underutilized ZONE Optimal ZONE Overutilized ZONE
• New Capacity Utilization Dashboard
• Shows capacity utilization distribution within the CDC
• Uses Capacity Remaining values to determine “Optimal” recommended size
• Capacity Remaining takes into account Reserved Capacity
• Updates nightly based on Capacity Remaining calculations
• Partitioned into 3 ZONEs that show how far you are away from “Right Sized” or “Optimal”
• Zones show % deviation from the optimal recommended size
Hover Over
Details
Hover Over
Details
24. • What does it mean?
– Host and Clusters Overutilized – High Capacity Risk
– Hosts and Clusters Underutilized – Space available
– Workloads improperly distributed in the CDC
• What should you do?
– Better distribute workloads – Avoid Capacity Risk
– Distribute workloads, but how?
Distribute
Workloads
Distribute
Workloads
Visualize Capacity Distribution Levels of the Infrastructure
Example 1: Imbalanced Infrastructure
25. Workload Balance Plan
Workload Balance Plan drives best fit
• NEW Rebalance Action
• Recommends best fit destination for optimal capacity
utilization
• Workload Balance Plan shows movement candidates
• Distribute workloads within the CDC and across
cluster boundaries
• Does not violate DRS Affinity Rules
• How it works
• Chose Rebalance Container action
• Review the Workload Balance Plan
• Approve recommendations
• “Begin Action” to execute the plan
• Automatically moves VMs based on plan
• Periodic Redistribution
Technical Overview
Intelligently Balance Workloads within a CDC
Workload
Balance Plan
26. Workloads
under Stress
• What does it mean?
– VMs are improperly sized – Too small
– VMs starving for resources due to contention – High Demand and Stress
• What should you do?
– Rightsize VM UP to give it enough resources – Meet workload Demand and remove Stress
– View Stress & Capacity Remaining badges and run Rightsize action to quickly resolve issue
• Example: Set CPU Count and Memory for VM
– Run Rebalance Action Review Workload Balance Plan Approve “Begin Action”
Visualize Capacity Distribution Levels of the Infrastructure
Example 2: Overutilized workloads
27. • What does it mean?
– Host and Clusters Overutilized due to current or future reserved capacity – High Capacity Risk
– No Hosts and Clusters Underutilized – No space available
• What should you do?
– Remove some unneeded workloads
– Obtain more HW
Nothing
Underutilized
Everything
Overutilized
Visualize Capacity Distribution Levels of the Infrastructure
Example 3: Overutilized Infrastructure
28. • What does it mean?
– VMs are improperly sized – Too big
– Resources are being wasted – Available Reclaimable Capacity
• What should you do?
– Rightsize DOWN to reclaim capacity – Save on future HW spend $$$
– View Stress data and run Rightsize action to quickly resolve issue
• Example: Set CPU Count and Memory for VM
Visualize Capacity Distribution Levels of the Infrastructure
Example 4: Identify unused resources
Reclaim
Capacity
29. • What does it mean?
– Infrastructure and workloads operating at optimal – All is good!
• What should you do?
– Success!
– Nothing to do – Sit back and enjoy
Everything
Optimal
Visualize Capacity Distribution Levels of the Infrastructure
30. Custom Profiles
Understand capacity based on your important
workload sizes
• User defined workloads for capacity modeling
• Understand capacity based on your important workload sizes
• Publish Capacity Remaining results in a user-defined profile
size
• Example: “10 VM’s of ACME DB profile”
• Copy Metrics from an existing workload, or create new
• Capacity planning in projects using user-defined custom
profiles
• Use Custom Profiles in project scenarios
Technical Overview
31. Intelligently Move a VM
Move VMs without causing Performance Problems
• New Operational Move VM action
• Provide Scope Receive a recommended list of destinations
• Supports cross cluster moves
• Notified if move would violate Affinity Rule
• Supports moving to different datastore
• On Demand Move
• Use Actions dropdown menu
• Review the prioritized “Will it Fit” list of destinations
• Chose the desired destination
• Click “OK” to automatically move the VM
Technical Overview
Intelligent Operational Moves
32. Dashboard & Widgets Enhancements
Dashboard Flexibility and Enhanced Design
• Dashboard Enhancements
• Customizable widget sizing and layout changes on dashboard
• Rows can span columns
• Widget Enhancements
• Improved widget visualization and look-n-feel
• Scoreboard
• Sparkline
• Top-N widget
• Pie chart
• Bar charts*
Technical Overview
Better dashboard flows
Custom widget
layout re-sizing
Rows Can Now
Span Columns
33. Report Enhancements
Extending the Use of Assets
• Dashboard added to Reports
• Simply Drag an Existing Dashboard into a Report
• Post Report to network share location
• Schedule report sharing by auto-posting network
share location to enhance team collaboration
• Improved Report layout capability
• Portrait and Landscape
Technical Overview
Enhanced Use of Existing Assets
Drag An Existing
Dashboard to the
Report
34. Significant Scale Improvements
Monitor and operate large environments
• Enhanced scale with increased
• Max cluster size and number of Remote Collectors
• Max number of Objects and Resources
• Max number of Concurrent Users
Technical Overview
More More MORE…
Cluster Nodes and
Remote Collectors
Objects and
Resources
Concurrent
Users
35. Remote Collector Improvements
Remote Collector resiliency and security
Remote Collector groups
• Adapter resiliency – automatic failover / failback of adapter
instances within collector group
• Load balancing – automatically instantiates adapter instances
based on Collector load of all adapter instances running in the
RC group
• Collector HA is independent of vR Ops cluster HA
• One Collector can be part of only one Collector Group
• Remote Collectors can be Independent OR part of a Collector
Group
Technical OverviewRemote Possibilities
Remote Collector
Groups
36. Single Sign-On Integration (SSO)
Better security and simplicity
SSO as Authentication Source
• vSphere 6 SSO Integration
• Use the same SSO login for vCenter and vR Ops!
• Import SSO Users and Groups
• Assign Roles and Permissions to SSO Users in vR Ops
Requirements
• vSphere 6.0 Platform Services Controller (PSC)
• Supports vSphere 6 including vCenter 6
• Supports single PSC domain
Technical Overview
SSO Authentication
37. Data Protection / Backup & Restore
Reduce risk with data protection
• Disaster Recovery via SRM / vSphere Replication
• vR Ops 6.1 support
• Backup / Restore
• vSphere Data Protection (vDP)
• Symantec NetBackup
Technical Overview
vROps Nodes
BC/DR Solutions
Site Recovery
Manager
vSphere Data
Protection
NetBackup
38. Telemetry
Product improvements driven by customer
Deployment and usage reporting
• Secure upload over HTTPS
• Sensitive data is one-way hashed
• Proxy servers can be automatically detected
• Phase 1 – Configuration (6.1)
• Deployment details, version, edition, scale, policies
• Phase 2 – Performance and errors (post-6.1)
• Latency of user activities / processing times
• Associated errors and exceptions
Technical Overview
Phone Home DB
and Reporting
v5.5
33%
v5.1
30%
v5.0
25%
v4.1
8%
v4.0
4%
Other
12%
% of install base by [product] versions
5%
10%
30%
40%
Q3'13 Q4'13 Q1'14 Q2'14
% of customers using features X
10
15
22
35
50
80
Q3'13 Q4'13 Q1'14 Q2'14 Q3'14 Q4'14
Number of product instances
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
Feature 1 Feature 2 Feature 3 Feature 4 Feature 5 Feature 6 Feature 7 Feature 8
% of product instances using [product] features
vROps Nodes
Application Feedback
39. Miscellaneous Enhancements
• Notes can now be added to Alerts
• IPv6 support in vR Ops
• Windows 2012 R2 support for vR Ops Installable
• There's no plan to ship 6.x Foundation
• Direct upgrade path from 6.0 or migrate 5.8 to 6.0, then upgrade to 6.1
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40. Enhanced Symptom Compare
Better symptoms provide more detailed alerts
• Quickly compare two metrics
• Works with Metric and Property Symptom Definition
• E.g. CPU Demand > CPU Entitlement
• E.g. Memory Demand > Memory Usage
• Built into the current Symptom wizard
• Drag and drop!
• Verifies values are of the same type for comparison
• E.g. Numeric to Numeric (>, <, ≤, ≥, =, etc)
• E.g. String to String (Equals, Starts with, Ends with,
Contains, Does not contain, etc)
Technical Overview
More Intelligent Alerting
41. vR Ops – Integrated Compliance
Integrated Compliance Framework
• vSphere Hardening Content included with vSphere
Management Pack.
• Symptoms, Alerts, Views, Dashboards
• Managed per object/group via policies (ie, rule
exceptions for group).
• Users may tweak and enforce their own compliance
property symptoms
• Configuration properties and changes assessed
near real-time
• Compliance Framework will allow for future content
Technical Overview
New, Integrated Compliance Framework
42. Application Dependency Mapping
Automatically Discover Apps
• Automatically discover instances of your apps
• Maps application services and dependencies to
virtual infrastructure
• Define your custom multi-tier apps
• Understand health of complex apps
• Alerts in your VI that might affect app performance
• Impact on applications when changing your virtual
infrastructure
• Create SRM protection groups & recovery plans
with accurate application visibility
Technical Overview
Understand VI in context of the Apps
Application
Dependencies
VM
43. Management Pack for Storage Devices
Broad…Shallow…Isolation…
• Auto discovery of SAN/Storage
• View complete topology from SAN and VI
perspective
• Get actionable alerts for storage w/ impact and
recommendations
• Storage devices leverage Health, Risk & Efficiency
badges
• Performance metrics across Mount/LUN, HBA and
Fabric
• Capacity Details
• Provides demand and usage information for end to
end devices
Technical Overview
Unified MGMT For the Infra Admin
44. Infrastructure Management Packs
Narrow…Deep…Remediate
• Deep technical understanding of the specific
technology
• Delivered through VMware & Partners
• Storage: EMC, NetApp, HP, Dell
• SAN: Brocade, Cisco, Qlogic
• Network: NSX
• Available on VMware Solutions Exchange
• solutionexchange.vmware.com
• Leverages vRealize Operations features
• Alerts, Badges, Views, Dashboards, Reports
Technical Overview
Unified MGMT For the Storage Admin
45. OS Monitoring
Unified Management
• Integration with vRealize Operations
• Monitors large array of OS metrics
• Fed into vRealize Operations Manager for
analysis/trending
• Automatically associate OS to VI relationships
• Host VM OS
• OOTB OS Alerts & Dashboards
• Built on VI and OS metrics
• Simple to follow Recommendations
• Support for wide range of OS’s
• Windows, Linux, UNIX, etc.
Technical Overview
Automatically monitor the health of the underlying
OS
46. Analyzing Unstructured Data – Log Insight
Intelligent Operations
• Log Analytics
• Predictive Analytics/Machine Learning for faster
problem resolution
• Log Everything – Lightweight Windows & Linux
Agents
Built for the vSphere Ecosystem
• Powerful big data log management for VMware
products
• Insight into VMware products incl. NSX, vRealize
Automation Center, Horizon View
• Attractive pricing model for customers of all sizes –
not based on log volume
Technical Overview
Big data log management for VMware
environments across physical, virtual, and cloud
environments
Operating
system
vSphere
System
statistics
Applications
Security
Other IT
All Types of Logs
Log Insight 2.0
Analyze
Discover
Search
Visualize
IT Operations
Security
Compliance
40B events 10 event types
…by machine learning
App
App
47. vRealize Log Insight
More Control & Flexibility
• Role Based Access Control
• Assign roles to users/groups
• Control access to data sets, dashboards,
Interactive Analytics, Admin Tasks
• Allows customers to utilize Log Insight as a
multi-tenant solution
• Native Linux Agent
• Lightweight, configurable agent
• Multiple Installation packages: RHEL, SLES,
Ubuntu
Technical Overview
Role Based Access Control
48. vRealize Log Insight
Tighter Integration
• Inventory Unification
• Data Integration & mapping with vSphere &
vRealize Operations
• VM & Host Log entries tagged with vCenter ID,
vC Ops ID, relationships
• Launch in context to vRealize Operations
Manager
• Integrated Load Balancer & HA
• No longer rely on 3rd party LB
• Single FQDN entry for all functionality: ingest,
query, monitor, manage
• Ingestion traffic distributed equal among data
worker nodes
Technical Overview
Inventory Unification!
Launch in context to vR Ops!
Launch to vR
Ops
vCenter and vR Ops linked
tags
49. vRealize Log Insight
UI & UX Improvements
• Presentation mode: real-time charts with streaming
autoupdate
• Edit Dashboard Widgets: Modify query, aggregation
type and chart type inside dashboard view
• Improved Alerts Management
• Hosts Overview: shows quantity of data each host
is sending to LI
• Machine Learning: Compare Sources
• Machine Learning Auto Manage: Algorithms reduce
resource usage of off-line jobs during peak periods
• Query Caching Policy algorithm enhancements to
improve response time and analytics
Technical Overview
Update Chart Types from Dashboard
Edit dashboard widgets without
leaving Dashboard view
50. vRealize Log Insight
Technical Overview
Extensibilty Enhancements
• Integrated Content Pack Marketplace
• Enhanced User Experience: search and install
content without leaving vRealize Log Insight UI
• Syslog Forwarding to 3rd party
• Customer feature request for DR, SIEM, silos,
other use cases
• Internationalization/Localization support
*Integrated* Content
Marketplace
Streamlined Content Pack
Install from UI
51. What’s New
vRealize Log Insight for Large Environments
• Faster - Each node can ingest two times more data - up to 15,000
events per second.
• Bigger - The number of nodes that can be included in a Log Insight
cluster is doubled, from 6 to 12.
• Better - A cluster of twelve nodes can process an astounding 2.4 TB
of data per day.
Improved Analytics Engine
Low Touch Administration
• Masterless Architecture. for High Availability
• Seamless Rolling Upgrade
More Powerful Agents
Enhanced Charting
vRealize Log Insight 3.0
53. Learn More
Try the Hands-on Lab.
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56. vRealize Operations Insight:
Manage vSphere and Your Entire Data Center…
All In One Place!
Himanshu Singh, Product Line Marketing Manager, VMware
Hicham (he-sham) Mourad, Group Technical Marketing Manager, VMware
MGT5245
#MGT5245
Editor's Notes
This presentation begins with a brief introduction to vSphere with Operations Management (vSOM).
Following the introduction we will switch to a vC Ops demo in which we will showcase many of the features and capabilities provided with vSOM.
Following the demo we will talk about some additional vSphere Web Client integration.
We will wrap things up with an overview on what you need to do in order to download and install vSOM in your environment.
Before I start, I want to take a quick poll of the audience. How many of you experience an IT environment that looks similar to this chart here where Business Expectations are growing faster than the ability of IT to deliver. Also how many of you have flat IT budgets this year?
I want to welcome you to the new reality of the mobile-cloud era.
Today with more users, more endpoints, and more data than ever before, there is a widening gap between business expectations and ability of IT to deliver. The dynamic nature of the mobile-cloud era today means that traditional ways of managing IT are simply not feasible anymore.
We know that innovation is the key to enabling IT to deliver at the speed of business – and we know that freeing resources, and shifting them from maintenance to innovative projects is the only way to get there.
We need game changing technology that bridges this gap
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and enables IT to deliver at the speed of Business.
To stay ahead of the competition and take advantage of business opportunities, infrastructure needs to be designed for secure delivery of cloud, mobile, social and big data applications
In order for IT to support business growth, consistent management and automation of the virtual data center is a critical first step
Optimizing infrastructure efficiency and IT productivity frees up resources that could be better spent on more meaningful projects.
Improving performance and reducing downtime remains a complex and expensive challenge—and IT teams need to be able to proactively address these issues rather than see first reports from end users
IT needs meaningful insights – all in one place, across the whole stack and leveraging all types of Monitoring data —so IT teams can take proactive action
IT needs to have better visibilities into dependencies of application and infrastructure components to avoid unwanted side effects of changes and extended trouble shooting
In order for teams to spend time where they can add most value, a wide and diverse range of manual tasks need to be safely automated at an effective scale
IT needs customizable and adaptable tools in order to safely automate in dynamic environments with policies and control
To become more efficient in resource utilization and application performance, IT needs to optimize initial placement and ongoing balancing of workloads
To improve operations, IT standards and security hardening guidelines must be more consistently and confidently enforced across the virtual infrastructure.
Today’s reality is that operations management to achieve the goals of SLAs, efficiency and control is a tough job. Why?
Because the tools that you use today don’t make it easy to manage the environment.
There is too much data, too many alerts, leading to fire drills and finger pointing. End users are often our best “monitoring tools” as they tell us something is not working.
In the physical world, we tend to overprovision because experience tells us that when you have enough resources, there shouldn’t be any problems. If you apply this mindset to a virtualized environment, you’ll negate the benefits of server consolidation.
Let’s take a look at the key challenges for customers.
In order to get rid of the challenges we discussed in the last slide i.e. monitoring overlaid, finger pointing, etc., what we need is a set of tools targeted for specific areas. There needs to tools to manage each of the fiver pillars of Operational Analytics: log management, capacity management, configuration management etc.
We have brought all these capabilities together in a package for you and that is VMware vRealize Operations Management.
The latest 6.1 release is all about Intelligent Workload Management. There are two significant ways in which this latest release is going to make the lives of our customers better. We do it through these new capabilities –
Intelligent Workload Balancing
In a typical virtualized data center, workloads are often placed sub-optimally, resulting in inefficient usage of clusters. Additionally, the ongoing balancing of resources is a difficult, time-consuming, and non-strategic activity.
With vRealize Operations 6.1, we provide the solution. You can now visualize how your clusters are loaded with workloads across clusters, vCenters, and data centers. And you can get a Balancing Plan that recommends optimal placement of the workloads and balances the workloads across clusters.
This helps customers save time and be more productive, and also optimize the utilization of their existing capacity, helping reduce future CapEx.
Integrated OS Monitoring
Monitoring OS and infrastructure is complex, requires multiple tools, and can lead to blind spots.
With this release, we have made OS monitoring available natively in vRealize Operations Insight. This means you have a single solution to monitor and manage your environment, making management easier, troubleshooting faster, and providing a more streamlined usage experience.
Predictive analytics help IT to proactively identify and avoid potential issues across infrastructure and application stacks in one place.
Intelligent Workload Placement and Proactive Rebalancing:
“It’s your library, and we help you add new books in the right places, and also put books back into the right shelves.”
Customer Benefit: Time savings, and optimal resource utilization.
Differentiation: Every customer environment is different. Our self-learning analytics approach adapts to each unique environment, unlike a one-size-fits-all approach that other vendors use.
Integrated OS Monitoring:
“It’s like a Apple Watch for your data center. We constantly monitor and capture all the right metrics, and give you the results and expert advice, all in one place.”
Customer Benefit: Comprehensive coverage and proactive visibility into the entire stack with a streamlined usage experience.
Differentiation: Single solution for monitoring and analytics.
Max numbers TBD
Detect transactions: The ability to automatically identify a series of events that lead to a failure. Optimistic in 3.0.
Detecting anomalous sources and events: Ability to find hosts that send offending messages.
Creating fingerprints: Giving the ability to users to define a set of events that lead to failures. They would be able to share this ‘fingerprint’ with other groups to detect such a pattern in other systems.