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VMworld 2015: vRealize Operations Insight: Manage vSphere and Your Entire Data Center… All In One Place!
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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- 1. vRealize Operations Insight: ManagevSphere 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
- 2. • This presentationmay 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. Disclaimer CONFIDENTIAL 2
- 3. Agenda 1 How DoesIT 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 Speedof 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 Opportunityfor 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 ITNeed 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 ITNeed 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 ITNeed 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 inOperations Management CONFIDENTIAL 9 Monitoring Data Overload Alert Storms Finger Pointing DBA VI Storage Over-provisioning
- 10. Silo-ed Operations Management withno 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 CONFIDENTIAL 10 Cost Cutting and Reduced Budgets 1 2 3 • Optimal utilization of existing IT assets • Greater operational efficiency What do Customers Need?
- 11. The Five Pillarsof Operational Analytics CONFIDENTIAL 11 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 CONFIDENTIAL 12 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 InsightPartner 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 solutionfor 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 to30% 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 CONFIDENTIAL 15 “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: IntelligentWorkload Management 17CONFIDENTIAL 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.
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- 20. 20 Alright…Details. What’s Included, and WhatCan You Do With It?
- 21. Custom Data Center Understandcapacity 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 DistributionLevels 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 doesit 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 WorkloadBalance 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 • Whatdoes 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 doesit 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 doesit 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 doesit 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 capacitybased 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 aVM 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 & WidgetsEnhancements 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 theUse 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 Monitorand 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 RemoteCollector 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 drivenby 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 • Notescan 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 39
- 40. Enhanced Symptom Compare Bettersymptoms 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 AutomaticallyDiscover 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 forStorage 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 MoreControl & 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 TighterIntegration • 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 TechnicalOverview 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 LogInsight 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
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- 53. Learn More Try theHands-on Lab. Nothing to download! CONFIDENTIAL 53 Visit the website for resources, 60-day free trial, and purchasing information. #vROI @vRealizeOps @VMLogInsight vmware.com/go/vROI vmware.com/go/vRealize-Ops-Insight-HOL Website: Hands-on Lab:
- 56. vRealize Operations Insight: ManagevSphere 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
- #4 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.
- #5 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 <CLICK> and enables IT to deliver at the speed of Business.
- #7 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.
- #8 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
- #9 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.
- #10 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.
- #11 Let’s take a look at the key challenges for customers.
- #12 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.
- #16 We have brought all these capabilities together in a package for you and that is VMware vRealize Operations Management.
- #18 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.
- #19 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.
- #20 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.
- #35 Max numbers TBD
- #52 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.