1. VMware vCenter Operations Standard Real-time Performance Management for VMware Administrators Michael Woduschegg, Enterprise Management CEE

2. Why vCenter Operations Standard? 80% of VMware admin time spent isolating performance problems “1st generation” green-yellow-red static threshold reporting insufficient and too complex to use Point solutions only address a subset of issues VMware administrators have two conflicting goals Maximize ROI by increasing VM density Ensure required capacity for business growth and other changes in real-time Ensure that virtual component performance supports required application performance

3. VMware vCenter Operations Standard Basics Clear and quick way to identify VMware performance problems Easy to use for VMware Administrators Deeply integrated as a vCenter pane Intuitive screens guide users to issues needing attention Automatically collects data from vCenter Time-series performance data, topological relationships and configuration change events VMware vCenter Operations Standard business benefits Increased performance for end users of business applications and services Reduced infrastructure costs through increased VM to ESX density Reduced VM administration costs and optimized VMware admin productivity

5. Memory (VM and ESX Allocation)

6. A Configuration issue?

7. Lack of resources?

12. All VC data contextually consolidated One click to any detail

13. Filters on “all” “normal” and “problem” Searches on any string.

14. Lack of holistic VC environment view

15. Can’t determine state of all elements (clusters, hosts, guests) at once

17. Better product usability

18. Visually isolate problems via a “HUD” for vCenter

20. Automatically aggregate, correlate states of 100s of metrics into two scores for each element – Health and Workload

21. Administrators blind to brewing problems

22. Too much data, too many clicks

23. Preset thresholds, many details

25. Remove guesswork, provide clarity into the environment

26. Speed up MTTR

28. Is 65% usage normal for an hour, day, week or month?

29. Or, is it the beginning of a problem?

30. Visibility into normal operation of every metric in VC

32. Project forward future behavior hours or days in advance

33. Remove guess work and confusion, clarify expectations

35. Increase density by matching opposite VM behaviors on an ESX

36. Ensure smooth, consistent use of resources

37. VC unaware of affinities and workload profiles of all VMs

39. Optimize use of resources

41. Easier to see impact of change and before and after performance

42. Change is common and necessary in VM environments

44. Visual correlation to component's health

47. Slice and dice historical collected data across any dimension

50. Architecture includes

51. PostgresSQL DB

52. File-based DB (FSDB) for raw metric storage

54. VMware vCenter Operations Editions vCenter Operations Enterprise + Full Configuration & Compliance Management +Other VMware & 3rd Party Integrations (View, management, servers, storage) vCenter Operations Advanced + Capacity Planning vCenter Operations Standard Performance Real-time Capacity Configuration Change vSphere VMware Cloud / vCenter Non-VMware (incl. physical) environments

55. Understanding the vCenter Operations Editions Scope Function

56. Questions