CRA Virtualization Tools

1. CRA Virtualization Tools Name Mario Marquez Title Systems Engineer mmarquez@vizioncore.com

2. Agenda Overview • Functionality and setup. Hardware and Software Requirements of system components. • Performance and Alerting • Management • Reporting • Capacity Planning and Modeling • Analysis and Optimization • Chargeback • I

3. Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring (APM), Includes Foglight

4. Performance Monitoring/Reporting vFoglight • Single web-based “pane-of-glass” view, visualize multiple virtual centers using a single screen • Manage the relationships and interactions between all the components in the virtual infrastructure • Scalable solution for any size environments • Fully customizable dashboards, reports, and alarms • LDAP directory service support with role based administration • Chargeback models (FTR, MU, Add-ons) • Capacity Planning • Ability to drill down to guest processes • Monitoring of physical servers operating systems • Service Level Monitoring

7. vFoglight Requirements • Server Configuration is Dependant on the Environment Size • Number of vCenters , Data Centers, Clusters, Resource Pools, ESX Hosts, VMs, Data Stores • Example : Total of 900 Components Minimum Requirements • Single-tier 64-bit installation of vFoglight are as follows: • CPU 4-way 2.4 GHz CPUs—one of the following: • 1 quad core • RAM 12 GB in total: • Storage • For Management Server: 40 GB, 7500 RPM hard disk or better • For Database Repository: 80 GB, 10000 RPM hard disk or better • Software • Microsoft Windows® Server 2003 x86_64 - 64-bit support • DOTNET 3.5 SP1 • SQL 2005 or 2008 • vFoglight MySQL is included • Internet Explorer 7 Windows

8. Performance Monitoring Bringing Clarity to VM Management vFoglight Performance Monitoring: Detects and diagnoses problems to speed mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR) • Highlights: • Expert alerts • Incorporates Industry expertise • Predictive, Best Practice, Behavioral, Conditional • Architectural representations • Relationships/interactions between components • Unique visual paradigm

9. Infrastructure Visibility • Proactively understand the infrastructure – small/large • Top-level visibility of state and health • “Quick View” of the infrastructure in more detail • FAQts to provide answers to commonly asked questions vFoglight Pro

10. QuickViews vFoglight SE/Pro • Summary views • Top consumers • Detailed component views • Alerts

11. Detailed Architectural Representations at ANY Topology Level

12. Storage Visibility • I/O operations • Latency • Capacity • Dependencies vFoglight SE/Pro

13. CPU-Constrained VMs • Quickly See % Ready • See VMs that are ready to run, waiting to run, but unable to run because ESX lacks resources • See them at whole infrastructure, VC, data center, cluster, and ESX host levels vFoglight SE/Pro

14. Detailed Architectural Representations vFoglight SE/Pro • Unique visual paradigm: • Clear, high-level visual representations which include color coding and movements • Focuses attention on problem areas to quickly identify problems/speed diagnosis

15. Performance and Alerting

16. Infrastructure Visibility • Proactively understand the infrastructure – small/large • Top-level visibility of state and health • “Quick View” of the infrastructure in more detail • FAQts to provide answers to commonly asked questions vFoglight Pro

17. Out-of-the-Box Alerts / Expert Advice • 4 Alarm Types • Best Practices • Future Predictions • Deviations from Normal Activity • Specific Operational Problems vFoglight SE/Pro • Helps administrators to: • Accurately diagnose the root-cause of incidents and problems • Speed mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR)

18. Configuration Management

20. Configuration Management Asset and configuration Tracking • Track VMs and Changes to Their Configurations • Correlate the impact those changes have on performance and availability • Understand what happened and when to more accurately identify impacts on the virtual infrastructure, applications and services

21. Reporting

22. Reporting • OOTB Reports • Capacity • Performance • Chargeback • Asset Tracking • Provisioning Trends • Infrastructure Events • Custom Reporting • Drag-n-drop report • Wizard-based reports • Scheduled & ad hoc • Multiple formats vFoglight SE/Pro

23. Custom Reporting • Drag-n-drop report • Wizard-based reports • Scheduled & ad hoc • Multiple formats

24. Capacity Planning and Modeling

25. Capacity Planning vFoglight Version:Pro a Description: Plan, manage and optimize infrastructure capacity for improved performance and better resource utilization. • How it works: • Perform “what if?” scenarios for moving VMs to or from actual/hypothetical servers • Understand the impact one VM has on another for performance and availability • How vFoglight helps: • Reduce the need for additional resources to support the infrastructure • Reduce hardware costs while gaining administration efficiencies

26. Workload Migration Modelling • Show Resource Impact • Review impact of moving VMs from one physical system to another • Determine if planned moves will have unfavorable impact vFoglight SE/Pro

27. Capacity Planning vFoglight SE/Pro • Scenario Modeler • Show capacity limits • Model base load • Assess impact on resources for adding workloads (e.g. existing VMs or similar)

28. Resource Utilization Management • Visualize capacity trends • History • Show upper and lower bands (min/max) • Alarms based on trends and forecasts • Customizable for any metric vFoglight SE/Pro

29. Capacity Forecasting • Linear Forecasts • CPU • Memory • Network • Storage vFoglight SE/Pro

30. Analysis and Optimization

31. Guest Process Investigation • Drill-down into the processes running within VMs • Understand internal performance • Identify which processes are impacting VM performance • Determine which processes are utilizing resources ineffectively or to the detriment of other work vFoglight SE/Pro

33. Physical OS Monitoring • Extend visibility into the physical infrastructure • Monitor Memory, CPU, Disk I/O, and Network I/O • Includes color coding and movement to focus attention on problem areas

34. General Purpose Monitoring • General Purpose Monitoring • Extends monitoring to infrastructure and application components not covered by specific agents • Increase coverage of the infrastructure and applications vFoglight Pro

35. Summary

36. vFoglight Benefits

37. Key Benefits • Proactively understand the entire virtual infrastructure while reducing administration costs and minimizing risk. • Understanding the relationships and interactions of all the components in the virtual infrastructure • Quickly determining the root-cause of an incident or problem • Tracking movement of virtual machines and understanding their resource impact • Containing alarm storms from virtual machines and physical servers • Identifying contention for resources between and within virtual machines • Allocating costs for the use of infrastructure hosts or groups of hosts, both physical and virtual

38. Thank You. For more information, visit www.vizioncore.comor Email sales@vizioncore.com Mario Marquez Title System Engineer Email mmarquez@vizioncore.com