This document discusses challenges with monitoring hybrid cloud environments and provides potential solutions. It begins with an overview of why organizations adopt hybrid cloud strategies due to factors like agility, capacity needs, cost optimization, and application performance requirements. Some key monitoring challenges addressed include hybrid cloud capacity planning and migration, workload costing across clouds, availability and SLAs when using multiple cloud providers, and ensuring in-depth monitoring of applications and infrastructure spanning on-premises and cloud environments. The presentation evaluates tools like VMware vRealize Operations and Blue Medora that can provide a unified view and help optimize hybrid cloud environments.

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Watching the Clouds:
Challenges with
Monitoring Hybrid Cloud
Environments

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John Dias
VMware Cloud Business Unit
Senior Technical Marketing Architect
Craig Lee
Blue Medora
Chief Systems Architect
Meet your speakers
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Agenda
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• Why Hybrid Cloud?
• Agility in Monitoring
• Define the Monitoring Challenges
• Challenge Scenarios:
• Hybrid Cloud Capacity Planning and Migration
• Workload Costing
• Capacity Optimization – for hybrid cloud evaluation
• Health and Availability
• SLA’s between the business units
• Performance
• Depth of Monitoring
• Q&A
• Resources

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CALMING THE STORM:
HOW TO MINIMIZE IT ALERTS
Greg Hohertz
Principal Solution Architect
Why
Hybrid
Cloud?
Objective Drive Approach to Monitoring

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Public Cloud Adoption Grows
-Gartner
$318BPUBLIC CLOUD
SPENDING THROUGH 2018
-IDC
60%OF LARGE ENTERPRISES
RUN VMS
- Gartner
87%
USING IAAS BY 2017
-IDC
65%
HAVE A HYBRID
STRATEGY
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Hybrid Cloud Drivers
We (IT) had this figured out
• Suite of tools, hardware, and industry devoted to this
IT is still accountable for uptime
• Single throat to choke!
Rise of shadow IT
• Decoupling of business needs and IT responsiveness
• Prevalence of SaaS based solutions
• IT becomes the gatekeeper and not enabling business
SLAs, Uptime, and Performance for Production Applications
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Hybrid Cloud Drivers
• Emphasis on services and application and not the server
• Virtualization has already reduced emphasis on the hardware server
• Cloud hosted continues that trend by putting the focus on the Application
• Agility within the infrastructure can reduce reliance on Shadow IT
Agility and Rise of DevOps
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Hybrid Cloud Drivers
• On-Demand infrastructure
• Quicker provisioning
• Capex vs Op-Ex
• No Investment
• Minimal Risk in Failure
Infrastructure Capacity Revamped
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Monitoring Strategy
Requires A WHY?
Understand the Why of your cloud strategy.
Embrace the business challenges that drove cloud adoption.

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Agility Capacity OpEx requirements Global availability
New problems require new solutions, but you don’t want tool sprawl.
You need a monitoring solution that will move with your line of business.
To succeed: look to your cloud business goals
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Multi-Cloud Costing
Current Cloud Utilization Analysis
Chargeback / Showback to the BU
VMware vRealize Business for Cloud 7.3
TOOLS
Deep vRealize Operations 6.6 integration

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Especially powerful with combining: custom reports,
dashboards and alerts.
Includes VMware monitoring
Deep out-of-the-box VMware monitoring.
Extended w/ True Visibility
Dozens of management packs cover everything from
data center to cloud.
Covers hybrid-cloud
Extensible platform allows for monitoring across
hybrid-cloud infrastructure.
VMware vRealize Operations 6.6
TOOLS

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Infrastructure
Aggregate and analyze across the entire stack
BLUE MEDORA AND VREALIZE OPERATIONS
Cloud
Applications
Data
Virtualization

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√
Virtualizati
on
Databases Storage Network &
Compute
Extending vRealize Operations
BLUE MEDORA
Enterprise
Application
s

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CALMING THE STORM:
HOW TO MINIMIZE IT ALERTS
Greg Hohertz
Principal Solution Architect
Challenge
Scenarios

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vRealize Operations 6.6
Cloud management
• Cisco UCS
• Netapp
• Cisco Nexus
On-prem: ESXi
• RDS
• AuroraDB
Public cloud: AmazonDatabases
Demo configuration
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• MSSQL
• MySQL
• Oracle
• Postgresql

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VMWare Datacenter

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Start by taking inventory.
What’s worth keeping and what needs to go?1
Categorize your workloads.
Which databases can move to RDS?
Webservers with external connectivity?
Regional considerations (DR and international)?
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Cloud Migration: House Cleaning
CHALLENGE 1

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Cloud
migration #1
Solution demo:
➢Blue Medora monitors all database servers
➢vROps Monitors the vSphere servers
➢Supermetrics total up the amount of data being stored
vRealize Operations with Blue Medora True Visibility Suite

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Cloud
migration #2
Solution demo:
vRealize Business for Cloud 7.3
Integrates with vRealize Operations data
VMWare Updates the costing tables frequently for on-prem and cloud operational expenses.
Reclaimable Costs shows where there can be cost saving with the current workload
Costs estimations for the cross cloud environments

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Multi-Cloud Production Workloads
CHALLENGE 2
IT is still responsible
No matter where the application lives – IT is still
responsible
Evaluate a Successful Cloud Migration
• ”Why is it slow?”
• ”Did you even test?”
• Use synthetic benchmarks or user session
simulators where possible. TPCC / OLTP
Benchmakring tools
Compare key metrics side by side
• Latency, CPU, and throughput metrics still apply to
the performance of the application
• These are still databases just being hosted
somewhere else

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Multi-Cloud
production workflows
Solution demo:
vRealize Operations with Blue Medora True Visibility Suite
➢Blue Medora monitors all database servers
➢vROps Monitors the vSphere servers

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Amazon East 1 Availability Zone Outage
(You need to know how to handle that situation)
SLAs
How do you keep your promises and
protect your reputation?
Your SLAs to the BU
Multi-vendor SLA Management
Need to account downtime and outages
from an independent source
Your service providers’ SLAs to you
SLAs and Availability of Data
Challenge:

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SLAs &
Availability #1
Solution demo:
VMware vRealize Operations 6.6 availability dashboard

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SLAs &
Availability #2
Solution demo:
vRealize Operations with Blue Medora True Visibility Suite
➢Blue Medora monitors all database servers
➢vROps Monitors the vSphere servers
➢Custom dashboard showing the variety of data
○ Amazon US East datacenter-outage inspired dashboard

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CALMING THE STORM:
HOW TO MINIMIZE IT ALERTS
Greg Hohertz
Principal Solution Architect
Resources

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vROps 6.6 Demo Hybrid
Cloud Environment
Login to experience it yourself
➔http://go.bluemedora.com/hybridcloud
Resources
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Hybrid cloud
assessment
Resources
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CLOUDS
Get your personalized report
➔https://www.vmware.com/hybrid-cloud-assessment.html

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vROps webinar series
Resources
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What’s new in vROps 6.6
➔https://www.definit.co.uk/2017/07/vrops-webinar-series-2017-part-3-whats-new-with-vrops-6-6/
Very Thorough Walkthrough of all the new functionality in the VROPS 6.6 Update
By Simon Eady and Sunny Dau
‘Full Stack monitoring with vROps
➔http://vxpresss.blogspot.com/2017/05/vrops-webinar-series-2017-part-2-full.html
Brock Peterson (Blue Medora) and Craig Lee (Blue Medora) guest host.
• Full-Stack On-Premises
• Amazon Hybrid Cloud Monitoring specifically RDS Databases

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Supercharge
your platform
Sign up for a free trial in booth 106.
You could win a Super Scout 73.
The Blue Medora
True Visibility Suite will

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CALMING THE STORM:
HOW TO MINIMIZE IT ALERTS
Greg Hohertz
Principal Solution Architect
Questions?