Controlling Virtual Server Sprawl Luigi Tiano CT Consultants Inc. & HP February 23, 2010 VMware Server Management with HP Software
Controlling Virtual Server SprawlLuigi TianoCT Consultants Inc. & HPFebruary 23, 2010
VMware Server Management with HP Software
Business outcomes
HP Software BTO portfolio
Project & PortfolioManagement Center
CIO Office
CTO Office
SOACenter
SAP, Oracle, SOA, J2EE, .Net
QualityCenter
PerformanceCenter
Application Security Center
Application lifecycle
Business servicemanagement
IT service management
Business Availability Center
Operations Center
Network Management Center
Service Management Center
Client Automation Center
Data Center Automation Center
Business service automation
Universal CMDB
Operations Orchestration
HP Software Virtualization Management Solutions
STRATEGY APPLICATIONS OPERATIONS
The promise of virtualization
Transform IT into an efficient and adaptive service provider
Rigid SiloedManually assembled services
Dynamic SharedTransparently assembled services
VirtualServerAdmins
NetworkAdmins
Operation
Center
StorageAdmins
DesktopAdmins
Physical ServerAdmins
(VMWare, Xen, MS)
(HP, SUN,IBM, Win)
Spiraling service complexity, changesVirtual stack explosion
1
Virtualization is not living up to its full promise
IP Network
Data Center 2Remote Offices
Data Center 1
• • •
Splintered visibility, tribal knowledge
Point tool sprawl
2
No policies, standardization
More downtime, longer MTTR
3
Management is the biggest obstacle
Ineffective, siloed management
VirtualServerAdmins
NetworkAdmins
Operation
Center
StorageAdmins
DesktopAdmins
Physical ServerAdmins
(VMWare, Xen, MS)
(HP, SUN,IBM, Win)
Spiraling service complexity, changesVirtual stack explosion
1
Virtualization is not living up to its full promise
IP Network
Data Center 2Remote Offices
Data Center 1
• • •
Splintered visibility, tribal knowledge
Point tool sprawl
2
No policies, standardization
More downtime, longer MTTR
3
Management is the biggest obstacle
Ineffective, siloed management
Results:70%+ IT costs are labor
30-50% storage underutilization
• Uncontrollable VM sprawl
• Lack end-to-end service monitoring
• Storage over-provisioning from lack of utilization visibility
• Lack controls, security enforcement
• Risk tradeoff for production apps
Turning promise into reality
From siloed virtualization management
To seamless, heterogeneous service
management
Lack of visibility across virtual and physical infrastructures
Consolidated service view of physical and virtual resources
Tribal management toolsets for each virtualization technology
Common management of all physical and virtual resources
Disconnected management processes and tasks
Automated service management across physical and virtual domains
Lack enforceable security and compliance policies
Global compliance visibility and enforcement
Unifying management of your hybrid virtualized environment MOVE
Reduce Operational Cost and Risk with HP Server Automation
The complexity beneath the surface
Network
StorageServers
What must workbehind the scenes…What the users see
99%
85%
99%
99%
20 minutes
2 weeks
2 days
1 incident per week
HP Server Automation: delivering unparalleled increases in efficiency
TaskBefore HP
server automation
Customer
Implement software change on 2600 servers
Provision & configure 600 Windows servers
Automate compliance of 800 servers
2 weeks
3-4 months
32 weeks
Automatic health-check of servers
80+ sev1 incidents/week
After HP server
automation
HP Server Automation Capabilities
Patching and provisioning
Application release
management
Compliance management
HP Server Automation
• Establish and enforce compliance policies and “gold” standard configurations
• Identify risks and remediate in seconds • Receive ongoing information about risks via HP Essentials
Network
Cut costs and risk by automating manual tasks
• Visualize relationships and dependencies between applications and servers, network and storage
• Eliminate manual handoffs and establish and enforce policies of who can do what at each step of the process
• Establish a baseline• Identify patch levels and create patch policies• Bare metal provisioning of thousands of servers in minutes• Provision physical or virtual servers from a single pane of
glass
Manage virtual sprawl
Standardize
HP Server Automation
• Manage servers consistently regardless of geographic location
• Establish and enforce consistent configuration policies• Establish and enforce access policies: who can do what to
which server or group of servers
Cut costs and risk by automating manual tasks
• Identify relationships and dependencies between physical and virtual servers
• Discover, create and control virtual machines• Manage physical and virtual servers consistently
Controlling virtual sprawl
Baseline• Understand physical and virtual environments • Map dependencies between apps, servers,
network devices and storage
Heterogeneous support
• Single management solution across heterogeneous virtualization platforms
• Seamless management across physical and virtual servers
Create andsecure
• Complete virtualization hypervisor and virtual machine lifecycle – provision, update, start, stop, end of life: VMware and Solaris zones
• Establish policies for who can do what to which servers
How HP server automation can help
Common use cases: Baseline,Patching andProvisioning
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Establish a baselineView servers, software and storage
View servers by name, operating system or IP address
View servers, software and storage
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Establish a baseline of virtual servers VMware
View by OS: Vmware and Solaris Zones
Establish a baseline: storage
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View the capacity and free space of my storage to make sure I have enough free space for my service
Understand if you have enough storage for your planned needs
View unmounted volumes to see if storage requested has been provisioned or if you have storage you don’t need
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PatchingEstablish and enforce patch policies by OS
Search patch
policies by OS
Drill down into patch
details
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Provisioning: Bare metal provisioning
Select the OS sequence
The key steps in
the process
Assign the server to the right server groups and
automatically apply the right
policies
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Provisioning virtual machinesVirtual and physical from a single pane of glass
Establish the virtual machines properties from SA
Configure the
network and data
store
Check the progress of the job without
leaving SA
Controlling Virtual Sprawl
Virtualization automation
Key CapabilitiesKey Capabilities
Lifecycle automation for VMware ESX
−ESX hypervisor provisioning
−Create, modify, delete Virtual Machines
−Power On, Power Off, Suspend, and Reset ESX VMs
Audit VMware Trend reporting
Key CapabilitiesKey Capabilities
Lifecycle automation for VMware ESX and Solaris 10 containers
−ESX hypervisor provisioning
−Create, modify, delete Virtual Machines
−Power On, Power Off, Suspend, and Reset ESX VMs
Audit VMware and Solaris 10 Containers
Trend reporting
Expanded virtualization supportVirtualization automation
Key CapabilitiesKey Capabilities
Lifecycle automation for VMware ESX and Solaris 10 containers
−ESX hypervisor provisioning
−Create, modify, delete Virtual Machines
−Power On, Power Off, Suspend, and Reset ESX VMs
Audit VMware and Solaris 10 Containers
Trend reporting
Expanded virtualization supportVirtualization automation
The Challenge
HP Solution
Use case: virtual server lifecycle automation
Can’t manage virtualized environment end to endusing the console used to manage traditional servers
Create virtual servers,allocate resources
Provision, patch,maintain compliance
Control: Start, stop,suspend, remove
Audit vm configurations
Thank you