Contenu connexe Similaire à Hints and Tips for Monitoring Cisco UCS (20) Hints and Tips for Monitoring Cisco UCS1. Hints and Tips –
Monitoring Cisco UCS
Stephen Smith Lax Sakalkale
Product Marketing Product Management
Virtualization, Cloud Virtualization, Cloud
Monitoring Monitoring
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2. Agenda
› Why Cisco UCS?
› Cisco UCS Monitoring Challenges
› Nimsoft Monitor for Cisco UCS
› Monitor the Entire Environment – Three Key Dimensions
› Cisco UCS Monitoring Best Practices:
» Setting thresholds and metrics
» Ensure consistent monitoring
» Automatic configuration of Cisco UCS monitoring
› Demo
› Q&A
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3. Why Cisco UCS?
› 10,000 UCS customers
can’t be wrong!
› $1Billion in annual run
rate
› A turnkey converged infrastructure
solution for Cloud stacks
» Consolidates infrastructure, saves space,
power
» Base platform for both Vblock and FlexPod
systems
FlexPod
Cisco/VMware/EMC Cisco/VMware/NetApp
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4. Monitoring Cisco UCS – New challenges
UCS Monitoring
Challenges:
› Platform successful but
complex
› Silo’d monitoring solutions
» Separate platforms for each IT
technology
» Requires expertise in multiple
disciplines
» Difficult integrations, manual
processes
› Required –
A unified approach
» Single solution
» Modular architecture
» Unified views
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5. Nimsoft Monitor for Cisco UCS
Extending Monitor Visibility to the Full UCS Stack
Nimsoft Monitor - A turnkey
monitoring solution for UCS-
based Cloud stacks
› Discovers and monitors all physical
and
virtual components including Vblock
or FlexPod
» Server, Network, Storage, Software,
and Virtualization
» Service level and usage optimization
reporting
› Modular – No Integration Required
› Event correlation and analysis
› Customizable, roll-based dashboards
› True multi-tenant SaaS delivery
› Usage-based metering and billing
› OOB Unified Dashboards
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6. Best Practice
Monitor The Entire Environment
Three Key Dimensions:
› Network + Compute
» Physical and Virtual
› Configuration
» Internal components / configuration
› Context
» Converged Infrastructure stacks – FlexPod, Vblock
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7. Best Practice
Set Appropriate Thresholds
› Set thresholds appropriate to usage
» Baseline current usage
- Check typical growth rates
- Set threshold times and exceptions
› Best practice thresholds
» Use the “Top Ten” / “Bottom Ten”
» Alarms for growth rates –
Not just thresholds
- Physical CPU/Memory/Disk/Network use
- Alarm on Rate, not just threshold
» Use % measures as standard
- Will still reflect meaningful data even if resized
» Set alarms for minimum available %
- Long enough time to correct the problem when usage grows
disproportionately
» Physical performance and capacity
- By platform component
Physical CPU, I/O (read/write performance), network, memory
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8. Best Practice
Ensure Consistent Monitoring in Elastic Env.
› Auto-configuration
» Auto-apply to existing elements
› Auto-monitoring
» Auto-apply to new elements
› Nimsoft Templates
» Policies for monitoring
» Transportable to other instances,
or applicable within auto-configs
or auto-monitors
› Key metrics
» Nimsoft includes best practices in
the Templates
» Templates are included with probes
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9. Cisco UCS Related List Views
Automatically display the status
of new elements
» Virtualization Environment
» Chassis
» Chassis fan module
» Chassis fans
» Power supply units
» IO modules
» Blade servers
» Blade server adaptor units
» Blade server memory arrays
» Blade server processors
» Blade server interface cards
» Fabric interconnect fans
» Fabric interconnect power supplies
» Fabric interconnect IO modules and
vethernet ports
» Fabric interconnect IO module fibre
channel ports
» Fabric interconnect local storage and
dynamic counters
» Fabric interconnect
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10. Demo
Auto Discovery of UCS Environments
Delivering UCS Monitoring
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11. Nimsoft Monitor for Cisco UCS Environments
› Nimsoft - Complete single tool
» Single infrastructure and portal
» Coverage for Cisco UCS,
virtual environment, networks,
applications, services and more
» Automatically detect
configuration
and apply monitoring
» Events, alarms, performance
» Service Desk and Monitor
› Effectively, efficiently, maintain
Service Levels
» Rapidly identify & correct outages
» Proactively prevent problems
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12. Thank You!
Interested in learning more?
Want to learn more or see a more complete demo? Contact us
and receive a free, no-commit call from a Nimsoft product
expert to discuss how Nimsoft can help you make the most of
your UCS investment.
Join us for a Nimsoft Service Desk webcast on 1/31:
http://info.nimsoft.com/nimsoft-service-desk-webcast.html
Meet the Nimsoft Team at:
• CIO Summit, Feb 9-10, Hamburg
• CloudCon Conference, Feb 13-16, Santa Clara, CA
• Pink Elephant ITSM Conf, Feb 19-22, Las Vegas
More information: http://www.nimsoft.com/solutions/nimsoft-monitor/server/cisco-ucs
Contact Nimsoft at: 408-796-3400
Q&A
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