Operational Management Challenges for Converged Infrastructure
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The document discusses the evolution and challenges of operational management for converged infrastructures, emphasizing the integration of various management tools such as HP OneView and VMware vCenter Operations Manager. It highlights the benefits of proactive analytics, automated processes, and streamlined provisioning to enhance operational efficiency and reduce management time. The integration supports improved performance monitoring, fault remediation, and capacity management in virtualization environments.
Operational Management Challenges for Converged Infrastructure
- 1. © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved. Operational Management Challenges for Converged Infrastructure Wayne Greene
- 2. Evolution of Operational Analytics Technology ProactiveReactive Automated Manual Hyperic, SCOM, Nagios, … Traditional Monitoring Data collection (Metrics, logs, …) • Static thresholds • Alerts Specific Generic Predictive Analytics VC Ops • Detect complex issues from multiple symptoms • Remediation and automation engine • Scale-out, data- agnostic platform Data CollectionData collectionData collection Event Correlation BMC, HP, CA, IBM, … • Aggregation • Masking & filtering • Rules-based alert suppression Data CollectionData collectionData collection Performance Analytics VC Ops 1.0-5.x, Netuitive, … • Self-learning • Dynamic thresholds • Super metrics Data collectionData collection 10x Alert Reduction
- 3. The Five Pillars of Operational Analytics Operational Analytics Operational Analytics Performance & Availability Performance & Availability Logs & Unstructured Data Logs & Unstructured Data Topology Analysis Topology Analysis Configuration Health Configuration Health Capacity Consumption Capacity Consumption
- 4. Extensibility with Management Packs VMware Solution Exchange Universal visibility in product Universal visibility in product Create domain specific visibility through Management Packs Create domain specific visibility through Management Packs
- 5. vCenter Operations Management Packs Future From “data pipes” to complete solutions Relationships & dependency AdaptersAdapters Management Packs Performance Capacity Config Dashboards & Badges Reports Logs Data acquisition Problem Definitions Remediation Recommendations Converged Infrastructure takes us to multi-domain / multi-variable object correlation, anomaly detection, visualization, problem detection & remediation
- 6. HP OpenView – Converged Systems Operational Management
- 7. HP’s goal To make HP’s Converged Infrastructure the easiest platform to manage in a VMware environment
- 8. Provision & manage 1000s of servers as easily as one Software-defined infrastructure architected with powerful infrastructure templates • Templates can be provisioned repeatedly, reducing time to infrastructure • Best practices built-in reduces human error • Role-based collaboration eliminates process serialization CI Server Templates OS Build Plan Templates Storage Volume Templates Network Connection Templates Servers (server profiles on hardware)
- 9. Consistent, automated server configuration Server Profile • Configure all server settings in one tool, in one place • Firmware baseline • FC and Ethernet downlinks • Now with the ability to dynamically add and remove networks • Local and SAN storage volumes • SAN storage automatically zone and presented to host • Boot order • BIOS configuration • Deploy profiles automatically with REST API • Create unassigned profile and copy to multiple systems • Also with support for PowerShell and Python New
- 10. Provision infrastructure >12x faster Add compute resource to a VMware cluster in 5 easy steps With Traditional Tools 4. Update Virtual Connect fw 5. Configure VC base settings 6. Update server fw 7. Configure BIOS 8. Configure iLO 9. Configure SmartArray 10.Configure Virtual Connect 1. Manually identify available capacity 2. Update enclosure fw 3. Configure enclosure settings 11. In Server Provisioning – Select target host and build plan 12. Deploy ESXi to bare metal server * Based on HP internal testing as of August 2013 comparing HP One View v1 vs. traditional HP management tools, each deploying 16 servers. Test was to configure the networks, enclosure, template, and profiles. HP OneView takes 14 minutes of an admins time vs. traditional HP management tools taking 170 minutes of admin time. 1. In VMware vCenter - Right- click on a target cluster, select grow cluster 2. Choose appropriate workflow 4. Provide networking and host credentials 3. Select target host (s) and build plan, if cluster empty, select a target HP OneView profile With HP OneView VMware integration: 5 Steps 13. Configure credentials 14. In VMware vCenter - Add to cluster 15. Complete host net- working configuration 16. 17.18… Setup Storage 5. Validate actions - and start provisioning Automated 1. HP OneView profile is applied (SPP, Bios, VC, storage) 2. ESXi is deployed 3. Host(s) added to cluster 4. Host networking is configured Now with 3PAR shared storage support and boot from SAN
- 11. StorageServer Network HP OneView REST APIs Message Bus What’s new with VMware integrations Advance provisioning with storage support create or grow a VMware cluster consistently and reliably. Added supports for HP 3PAR shared storage Transform Server capacity into Storage through simple deployment of StoreVirtual VSA from VMware vCenter Server Root cause and impact analysis with new integration in VMware vCenter Operations Manager Log analysis with new integration in VMware vCenter Log Insight New features Customers purchasing HP OneView are entitled use our new VMware vCenter Operations Manager integration with standard edition -- without having to upgrade to advance! ….Only from HP!
- 12. With HP OneView for VMware vCenter, Operations Manager and Log Insight : From VMware vCenter tools, access HP’s deep management ecosystem Single pane of glass with VMware vCenter Simplify administration with single-console access Reduce by automating responses to hardware events Take control by launching your trusted HP management tools Proactively manage changes with detailed relationship dashboards On demand server and storage capacity Maintain stability and reliability with online firmware inventory and deployment Deep analytics and troubleshooting via integration in VMware vCenter Operations and Log insight New integrations with VMware vCenter Operations and Log insight VMware vCenter Server VMware vCenter Operations Manager VMware vCenter Log Insight
- 13. HP OneView monitors the environment and identifies changes to status Example: Automate monitoring to vCOPS Performance degradation is detected Dashboard is updated by querying the REST API vCenter Operations Manager displays the change “I want to support my converged infrastructure from my VMware Operations Manager console Automation hub HP OneView is the publisher VM VM VM VM
- 14. Introduction HP OneView for VMware vCenter Operations Manager is HP’s OneView Adapter for VMware vCenter Operations Manager Provides OneView Server and Infrastructure topology, status, and alerts to the vCenter Operations Manager environment
- 15. Overview - Dashboard HP OneView Dashboard Shows the relationship between VMware and OneView Resources Metric Graphs Health Tree Alerts
- 16. Overview - Dashboard Selecting an object here updates the information in the other portlets The selected object on the left is always the center object on the tree
- 17. Overview - Dashboard Color indicates the health of the Object as reported by OneView The Color Badge shows the “Collection Heath” of the object. This is NOT the OneView Health.
- 18. Overview - Alerts This enclosure has Active Alerts. To view the alerts Click the enclosure icon and then the Alerts icon on the Health Tree button bar.
- 19. Overview - Alerts A list of the active alerts for this object will be displayed. Double click on the alert to view the details.
- 20. Overview – Launch to OneView The user can launch to an object’s OneView page by selecting the object on the Health Tree and then selecting the OneView option on the External Applications dropdown.
- 21. Understand usage trends Correlate events for fast troubleshooting Optimize resource utilization VMware vCenter Operations Manager HP OneView vCOps Initiative Provision and update infrastructure in minutes Track hardware issues and utilization information Understand association between infrastructure elements Start with HP OneView Unique HP + VMware Value Reduce cost with faster troubleshooting and analysis of VMware virtualized environments + = With HP OneView , use new VMware vCenter Operations Manager integration with standard edition – no upgrade to vCOPs advanced required!
- 22. Example 1: efficient fault remediation 1 HP OneView identifies server or Virtual Connect hardware issue 2 vCOPs uses HP OneView fault and association data visually connect hardware issue and impacted resources 3 Virtualization admin places system in maintenance mode and proactively addresses hardware issue 4 Issue resolved before it results in unplanned downtime and with no service interruptions
- 23. Example 2: simplified bottleneck analysis 1 HP OneView constantly collects select server and Virtual Connect (VC) performance counters 2 vCOPs merges VC performance data with vCOPs metrics to identify potential bottleneck 3 Virtualization admin rebalances virtual machines across clusters to alleviate potential bottleneck 4 IO bottleneck resolved before it results in serious performance issue or end user outage
- 24. Now with Vmware vSphere with Operations (vSOM) Converged Systems for Virtualization VMware vSphere , vCenter Server and Operations Manager as a foundation Implement end-to-end lifecycle management of virtual machine hosts, virtual machines (VMs) and workload HP OneView for VMware vCenter integration Exposes relationship between the physical and virtual infrastructure and provides provisioning of an entire cluster compute and storage in 5 easy steps HP OneView for VMware vCenter Operations Manager integration Provides key health, utilization and performance metrics in context of the HP Server/BladeSystem for improved trend analysis and root cause/impact analyses via custom dashboards VMware vCenter Server VMware vCenter Operations Manager
- 25. HP OneView for VMware vCenter Log Insight
- 26. Dashboards for HP Server iLo and OA systems log HP OneView for VMware vCenter Log Insight 1.0
- 27. Dashboards - iLO • Count of All events • Count of Warnings • Count of Errors • Count of Security events • Count of Power events Double Clicking a bar on the graph will show the log events
- 28. Dashboards - OA • Count of All events • Count of Warnings • Count of Notice events • Count of Critical events • Count of Errors • Count of Alerts • Count of Emergency events • Count of Thermal events • Count of Power events
- 29. HP OneView for VMware vCenter Operations Manager Architecture Proliant Server OA VC iLO ESXi vCenter Ops Manager OneView OV4VCOM
- 31. Managed as one VISIBILITY, CONTEXT, AND CONFORMANCE SIMPLIFIED • VCE Vision™ Intelligent Operations system context, discovery, and RCM compliance • Native integration into VMware toolsets; connectors into management frameworks NetworkNetwork ComputeCompute StorageStorage HypervisorHypervisor Vblock System Vblock System VCE Vision Intelligent Operations Software VCE Vision Intelligent Operations Software SIEM ConnectorsSIEM Connectors NMS ConnectorsNMS Connectors Compliance ConnectorsCompliance Connectors vCenter IntegrationvCenter Integration
- 32. VCE Vision System Library vCops adapter architecture Discovery Collector vC Ops Adapter VMware vC Ops Analytics VM Event interface API
- 33. VCE Vision Adapter for VC Ops —intro What is vC Ops? Predictive Analytics and Capacity Management tool from VMware Key component of Operations Management Suite What do you get with vC Ops? Operations Dashboards Performance Analytics and Capacity Optimization capabilities Correlation of events What do you get with VCE Adapter for vCOps? System information based on Vblock Systems identity Four dashboards to visualize resources VCE recommended thresholds Visualization of system component relationships
- 34. SNAPSHOT OF Vblock HEALTH vCOPS Heatmap
- 35. WHICH COMPONENTS OF VBLOCK ARE CAUSING ALERTS
- 36. TREND CERTAIN METRICS OF VBLOCK
- 37. DRILL INTO COMPONENTS OF THE VBLOCK
- 38. 38 VCE VisionVCE Vision ComputeCompute vSpherevSphere UCS C & BUCS C & B vCenter OperationsvCenter Operations VCE Vblock MPVCE Vblock MP ESA MPESA MP Nexus MPNexus MP UCS MPUCS MP vCenter MPvCenter MP Preview of the upcoming Vblock vC Operations Management Pack StorageStorage VNXVNX VMAXVMAX VPLEXVPLEX NetworkNetwork N1kVN1kV Nexus 3k,5kNexus 3k,5k MDSMDS Cisco AssetCisco Asset EMC AssetEMC AssetVCE AssetVCE Asset VMware Asset VMware Asset N-bound APIs
- 39. Hitachi Unified Compute Operational Management
- 40. Hitachi Unified Compute Platform EXTEND BUSINESS AGILITY • Enterprise-class storage, servers and networking • Best in class Converged management • Control and manage physical and virtual infrastructure from a vCenter and vC OPS • Single pane of glass • All workloads, test/dev to mission critical EXTEND BUSINESS AGILITY • Enterprise-class storage, servers and networking • Best in class Converged management • Control and manage physical and virtual infrastructure from a vCenter and vC OPS • Single pane of glass • All workloads, test/dev to mission critical
- 41. The Five Pillars of Operational Analytics Operational Analytics Operational Analytics Performance & Availability Performance & Availability Logs & Unstructured Data Logs & Unstructured Data Topology Analysis Topology Analysis Configuration Health Configuration Health Capacity Consumption Capacity Consumption
- 42. The Five Pillars of Operational Analytics Operational Analytics Operational Analytics Performance & Availability Performance & Availability Logs & Unstructured Data Logs & Unstructured Data Topology Analysis Topology Analysis Configuration Health Configuration Health Capacity Consumption Capacity Consumption
- 43. The Five Pillars of Operational Analytics Operational Analytics Operational Analytics Performance & Availability Performance & Availability Logs & Unstructured Data Logs & Unstructured Data Topology Analysis Topology Analysis Configuration Health Configuration Health Capacity Consumption Capacity Consumption
- 44. The Five Pillars of Operational Analytics Operational Analytics Operational Analytics Performance & Availability Performance & Availability Logs & Unstructured Data Logs & Unstructured Data Topology Analysis Topology Analysis Configuration Health Configuration Health Capacity Consumption Capacity Consumption
- 45. Visibility to Low-Level Components
- 46. Problem Remediation • Integration with UCP Director enable easy remediation • In this case, simply by expanding storage volume
- 47. UCP Director and vC OPS • Consistent visibility into the converged stack • Single pane of glass vC OPS native integration • Faster MTTR
- 48. Conclusion • Over the past two years, vCenter Operations has moved from vSphere management to multi-domain management • Converged Infrastructure (and in the future hyper-converged infrastructure) will be a strong driver for advanced analytics based operational management • Converged Infrastructure vendors are seizing the opportunity for vCenter Operations integration to drive operational excellence and lower cost of ownership