CIM1645-Cross-Domain Performance and Capacity Management of VNX Storage Using EMC VNX Connector and VMware vCenter Operations Manager_Final_US.pdf

7/27/2019 CIM1645-Cross-Domain Performance and Capacity Management of VNX Storage Using EMC VNX Connector and VMware vCenter Operations Manager_Final_US.pdf

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Cross-Domain

Performance and CapacityManagement of VNXStorage Using EMC VNXConnector and VMware

vCenter OperationsManager

James Comstock, EMC Corporation

Mahesh Kumar, VMware, Inc.

OPS-CIM1645

#vmworldops


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Disclaimer

This session may contain product features that are

currently under development.

This session/overview of the new technology represents

no commitment from VMware to deliver these features in

any generally available product.

Features are subject to change, and must not be included in

contracts, purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind.

Technical feasibi lity and market demand will affect final delivery.

Pricing and packaging for any new technologies or features

discussed or presented have not been determined.


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VMware Cloud ManagementA Differentiated Approach

Service

Provisioning

Automate

the

provisioning of

infrastructure,

applications and

desktops as a service

Operations

Management

Adopt

embedded,

converged

management for the

Software Defined

Datacenter

Business

Management

Govern

and manage

cloud services as a

critical element of

running IT like a

business

Simple, automatedmanagement

for heterogeneousand hybrid clouds


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AUTOMATED Management

vCenter Operations Management Suite Value Proposition

COMPREHENSIVE Management

INTEGRATED ManagementPhysical

Private

Cloud

PublicvCloud

Public

Cloud

vSphere and Non-

vSphere Based Couds

Tightly integrated to manage the Software Defined Data Center

Comprehensive to manage heterogeneous and hybrid cloud environments

Highly automated to reduce Opex and Capex

Virtual Infrastructure

Virtual Datacenter

Software DefinedNetworking and

Security

Software DefinedStorage and

Avai labil ity

Cloud Infrastructure


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vCenter Operations Management Suite

vCenter

Operations Management Suite

Unified Operations Console

(with Single Sign On)

Performance Compliance

Common Services

ConfigCapacity

App Visibility Reporting LogsInventory Orchestration

Extensibility

APIs, SDKs

3

rd

Party

Adapters

Content

Packs

Cost

An Extensible, Automated Operations Management Solution that

Supports Hybrid, Heterogeneous Clouds


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Automating Operations Management for Cloud

Why?

What?

How?

Why is OperationsManagement

different in the

virtual world?

What exactly needsto be managed and

what should you

focus on?

How do wedeliver with the

vCenter

Operations Suite?


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Cloud Requires a New Approach

Traditional IT Management

Services andassets tiedtogether incomplex,

brittle, verticalstacks thatare hardto changeand manage

Business agilitysuffers

IT able to keep up withspeed of the business

Cloud Management

Servicecomponentsare abstractedand sourced

from dynamicresource poolswith horizontallayers looselybound intoservices


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The Role of Operations Management

Monitor

IsolateRemediate

!Problem

Slow performance

Config issueRollback change

Plan

OptimizeAutomate

Maintenance

Utilization / forecast

Reclaim capacityOrchestrate changes

Ensure and Restore

Service Levels

Optimize for

Efficiency and Cost

Reactive Proactive


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TraditionalTools?


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Example: Problems with Traditional Monitoring Tools

What does this really mean?

Why is it happening?

What should you do?

vSpherevCenter Server Server, Storage,Network Monitoring OS, DB, AppMonitoringCloud requires a new approach to management.

Traditional monitoring tools alone cant handle it.


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Example: Problems with Static Thresholds and Alerts

Low thresholds causealert storms

High thresholds miss alerts

?


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Firedrill


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VMwares Approach and Differentiation, Key Use Cases

vSpherevCenter Server Server, Storage,Network Monitoring OS, DB, AppMonitoring

vCenter Operations Management Suite

Patented

Analyt ics

Self-Learning

Dynamic Thresholds

Smart Alerts

1Integrated

Approach

Performance Data

Capacity Consumption

Configuration Changes

2Designed

forCloud

Health Model

Open and extensible

Evolutionary Approach

3


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Solving the Alerts Problem with Dynamic Thresholds

Learns your dynamic ranges of Normal without templates

Learns patterns of behavior and identifies Abnormalities Dynamic thresholds eliminate false alerts

vSphere Health Models further opt imize analytics engine

BLUE LINE

Metrics Current

Value

GRAY BAR

Upper and Lower band

of Dynamic Threshold -

Normal

RED BAR

Breached Dynamic

Threshold Abnormal


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Solving the Monitoring Problem with Analytics

Efficiency

Risk

HealthCalculatesupermetrics from

thousands of data points

vCenter Server and external data sources


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Early Warning


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Visibi lity Into Immediate and Potential Future Problems

Immediateproblems

What ishappening

right now?

What do Ineed topay

attention

to?

Operations Short and Long Term Capacity

ForwardLooking

Are thereareas that I

should be

concerned

about from a

capacity

perspective?

Have Ideployed my

VI in themost efficient

manner?


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Discover and Map Application Dependencies

View applications mapping

in Infrastructure Navigator

Is there High

Availability?


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Correlate Change Events with Performance and Health

New software installed

related registry changes


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Monitor Resource Consumption and Optimize for Cost

Analyse cost savings

from Capacity Optimization

Monitor cost of

cloud resources


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AutomatedOperations


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Automating Operations Management Across the Enterprise

SecurityEvents

HW

Performance

Availabil ity

Admin

actions

App

Performance

Usage Data Metrics

Web App

How do we

leverage all

of this data??


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vCenter OperationsExtensibility

Accepts any time ser ies data (examples)

Server OS (Virtual, Physical)

Server App layer (eg, IIS, Oracle, WebSphere, etc)

Cloud Topology (VMware vCloud Director)

Network

Storage

User Experience Business Data

Change Events

Minimal Required Fields (4)

Object Name, Metric Name, Value, Timestamp

Data Extraction *not* an analytic question

No rules/templates to Write and Maintain

vCenter Operations Analytics do all of the Work

vCenterOperations


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Be Sure To See vC Ops at VMworld

Other vCenter Operations Management Suite Sessions

Session ID Title 1st Showing 2nd Showing

SS1020

Simplify and Automate How to Manage Services Across Multiple

Platforms and Clouds Monday 2:30pm

OPS-CIM2285

How to Improve Service Levels and Reduce Cost with vCenter

Operations Wednesday 2:00pm Thursday 12:30pm

OPS-CIM1564 Troubleshooting Using vCenter Operations Manager Tuesday 10:30am Wednesday 2:00pm

OPS-CIM1718

Configuration Management for Your Cloud using vCenter Operations

Suite Tuesday 3:00pm Thursday 2:00pm

OPS-CIM1926 5 Must Know Design Considerations for Planning Capacity WhenYou are 50% or More Virtualized Tuesday 3:00pm Thursday 2:00pm

OPS-CIM1940

Real World Stories of Operational Performance Troubleshooting ,

Capacity and Configuration Management with vCenter Operations

Suite Wednesday 11:00am

HOL # Lab

HOL-OPS-01 Introduction to vC Ops Enterprise

HOL-OPS-02 Introduction to vCM Enterprise

HOL-OPS-05 Automated Operations for Virtualized

Datacenters

Demo Products Showcased

Hybrid Cloud OperationsManagement

VMware vCenter OperationsManagement Suite

VMware vFabric Hyperic

VMware vCenter Orchestrator

Cloud Security and

Compliance

VMware vCenter Configuration

Manager

Demos Hands On Lab


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New Strategic Partnership

vCenter

Operations


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The Storage Management Challenge in Todays Virtualized World

Dynamic nature of applications

Higher user expectations of

performance and uptime

Actionable information needed

in real-time Increasing complexity to

manage more data with the

same resources

Virtual server pool

Self-Optimizing Storage Pools

Storage

system

Discrete servers

Static RAID Groups

Storage

system

RAIDgroups

Storagepool

AUTOMATIC DATA OPTIMIZATION

AUTOMATIC APPLICATION OPTIMIZATION

ADMINISTRATORS REQUIRE A

NEW MANAGEMENT APPROACH


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Cross-domain (end-to-end) view of IT infrastructure

Proactive Analytics vs. Static Monitor ing

Single tool to manage your VMware & EMC Storage environments

Taking Storage Management to a Higher Level

Observe.Diagnose.

Act.EMC Storage

Analyt ics

vCenter

Operations

Manager

Enterprise


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EMC Storage Analytics Suite: Changing Storage Management

Standalone application for storage administrators toanalyze their storage infrastructure

End-to-end vis ibil ity into EMC storage infrastructure health

Dynamically visualize and assess storage impacts of applicationworkload changes

Proactively manage block & f ile performance and capacity

Buil t on the vCenter Operations Manager Analytics &

Visualization platform

Extensible to vCenter Operations Manager Enterprise


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Correlated performance

between virtual and

storage resources

A look into

the EMC

system

Manage multiple VNX

systems

EMC Storage Metrics Dashboard for VNX

All EMC Systems

accessible from a single

dashboard

Selectable Key EMC

System Metrics


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Quickly assess

possible issues

See inside the system

Manage multiplesystems

Quickly assess performance issues

Performance-at-a-Glance view shows

integrated block and file statistics

across all arrays

Quickly locate capacity problems

EMC VNX Performance at a Glance


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vCenter Datastore

LUN

Storage Processor and

Pool

End-to-End VM to Storage Topology View

Storage Topology

and Health

Child and Parent resource

health

E l D t t H lth I L k t P f


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Datastorehealth is low

High datastorelatency

Example: Datastore Health Issues...Look at Performance

Performance Dashboard Shows Low Util ization


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Performance Dashboard Shows Low Util ization

Pre-EMC FAST Cache

Pool utilization is too

high. Need more Flash

for performance!

Enable VNX FAST Cache

A t P f I i ft bli FAST C h


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Aggregate Performance Increasing...after enabling FAST Cache

Array throughput

increased

substantially after

enabling VNXFAST Cache

Performance Dashboard Shows Higher Utilization


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gPost-EMC VNX FAST Cache

FAST Cache Hit

Ratio improved

D t t H lth R t i t N l


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Datastore Health Returning to Normal

Total Datastore

latency reduced

substantially

Latency turningnormal

Problem Resolved!!!

S mmar


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Summary

New Storage Management partnership between EMC and VMware

New EMC Storage Analytics Suite

Deep storage analytics for EMC Storage in virtualized and cloud environments

Proactively manage EMC Storage performance and capacity

ANNOUNCINGTHE

EARLY ACCESS PROGRAM FOR VNX

(DOWNLOAD AVAILABLETOVCENTER OPERATIONS

MANAGER ENTERPRISE CUSTOMERS)

VISIT BOOTH #1203 TOSEE EMCS VNX

STORAGE ANALYTICS SUITE!

EMC Must Attend Activities


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EMC Technical Breakout Sessions

Mission Critical Apps, Mon @ 11:00 AM

Latest In IT Transformation, Wed @

3:30 PM With Chad Sakac

VMware Hands On Lab

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EMC Interactive Demo Booth #229

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Meet-Ups @ 12 Noon In EMC

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James Comstock, EMC Corporation

Mahesh Kumar, VMware, Inc.

OPS-CIM1645

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