One key to mastering a converged infrastructure is to deploy an extensible architecture. You can create domain-specific visibility through management packs. Learn more about maximizing vCenter Operation with additions such as these: Managing HP’s Converged Infrastructure in a VMware environment · Connecting with HP OneView for vCenter Operations Manager · Preview the upcoming Vblock vC Operations Management Pack · Explore integration with Hitachi Unified Compute Operational Management

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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

30. VCE Vblock
Operational Management

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