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Housekeeping Utilities for VMware

11 June 20092

Housekeeping is preparing meals for oneself and family and the managing of other domestic concerns. It is also the care and control of property ensuring its maintenance and proper use and appearance. A caretaker or janitor does housekeeping. In a private home a woman is employed to do the housekeeping.

Reference Wikipedia – 1961 Websters Third New International Dictionary

Housekeeping defined

Monitoring Required in a Virtual World

Free space of Datastores Free space of Service Consoles List of orphaned snapshots List of long running snapshots Failed (automatic) VMotions VMware tools running in hosts Size of VC database Monitor CPU READY (ms) or CPU %READY per VM per host Monitor %CPU BUSY percentages per VM per host Monitor network and disk I/O usage per VM per Host Monitor service console memory swap usage Monitor VM balloon memory and swap usage Host downtime reporting Server hardware faults (power supplies, fans, IO cards, disks, CPUs, RAM) SAN hardware faults (disks and vendor specific)

Virtual Management tasks we need to know

Create a new virtual machine Place a new virtual machine within the virtual

infrastructure into a Production state. This may be identical to the physical server commissioning procedure.

Place an ESX server into and then out of maintenance mode, migrating the guests onto other ESX Server hosts.

Contact VMware for support. It should include contact information and specify contact methods as well as means of collecting information.

Add a LUN to an existing ESX server cluster. Patch a template used for creating virtual

machines. Create a snapshot of a virtual machine. Restore the virtual machine state to its previous

state at the start of the snapshot. Investigating user reported virtual machine

performance issues. What to check and how to respond.

Add a disk to an existing virtual machine. Expand the size of an existing disk for a virtual

machine. Shrink a disk used by a virtual machine. Remove a disk from a virtual machine. Decommission a virtual machine.

Migrate (VMotion) a virtual machine between ESX Server hosts in the same ESX cluster.

Build an ESX server. Add an ESX server into an existing ESX

cluster. Migrate a virtual machine between ESX

Server hosts in the different ESX clusters (i.e. between datacenters).

Confirm that a SAN link is active, to be used after a SAN link has failed and been restored.

Confirm that a network link is active, to be used after a network link has failed and been restored.

Enable the network group to troubleshoot user reported network / performance issues.

Backing up/restoring VMs (VM-level and file-level).

Backing up/restoring VirtualCenter database. Backing up/restoring license server files (or

keys). Restoring VirtualCenter Server. Restoring ESX hosts.

Tools for your toolbox

VI3 Snaphunter & Snapalert can report all running snapshots on ESX hosts including name, size and date.

Storage VMotion Plug-in – A VI client plug-in that extends the client’s functionality by providing an integrated , graphical tool that can be used to invoke storage VMotion operations

VMotion info - A program that will collect Vendor, Model, CPU Types and the CPU feature bits from all hosts to check for VMotion compatibility

Tripwire ConfigCheck – Quickly assesses the security of ESX 3.5 configurations compared to the VI3 Security Hardening guidelines.

Health Check Script – Healthcheck is a Powershell script that reports information like snapshots, VMware tools version, datastore space, CDROM and/or floppy drives connected, VM details etc. to HTML and e-mail the output.

RVTools – is able to list information about cpu, memory, disks, nics, cd-rom, floppy drives, snapshots, VMware tools, ESX hosts, datastores and health checks

KS QuickConfig – GUI to help create ESX build scripts

vSphere Upgrade

vCenter upgradeBackup database and SSL certificatesDatabase schema upgrade occurs before vCenter upgradeNew vSphere clientLicense server no longer required

Host UpgradevSphere Host Update UtilityvCenter Update Manager (create server baselines)Offline upgrade via scriptNo VMFS upgrade requiredrollback-to-esx3 scriptcleanup-esx3 script

Virtual Machine upgradeMust upgrade VMware tools before upgrading virtual hardwareWindows requires three rebootsVersion 7 VMs created by default with version 4 available by using the custom

path

vCenter Data Recovery

Fast Disk-based backup and recovery

Deployed as a Virtual Machine appliance with a VI Client plug-in

Restore individual files or entire images

File level full and incremental backup

VSS support

Multiple restore points for each virtual machine

HA, VMotion and DRS aware

De-duplicated backup store

Supports any type of storage, FC, iSCSI, NAS or local storage

Wizard driven workflow

vCenter Data Recovery

LIVE DEMO!

vCenter CapacityIQ

BenefitsDeliver the right capacity at the right timeMake informed planning, purchasing, and

provisioning decisionsEnable capacity to be utilized most efficiently

and cost-effectively

Key FeaturesPerform “What-If” impact analysis to model

effect of capacity changes Identify and reclaim unused capacityForecast timing of capacity shortfalls and needs

Capacity management solution for VMware vCenter, enabling users to analyze, forecast, and plan capacity needs of their virtual datacenter

CapacityIQ: Overview

Capacity Management

Database

Virtual Datacenter Capacity Plan

VM Profiling

vCenter Database

Analysis Engine

Capacity Dashboard

Capacity Modeling

CapacityIQ: Screenshots

CapacityIQ: Screenshots

CapacityIQ: Screenshots

CapacityIQ: Screenshots

vCenter Chargeback

Account, monitor, and report on costs associated with your virtual infrastructureAccount, monitor, and report on costs associated with your virtual infrastructure

Benefits Improve Resource Utilization: By associating

costs to VM’s many of the “free” VM’s will go away, freeing up resources for higher priorities

Optimization of Budgets: Business units can understand how much they are paying for resources and how much goes to unused, allowing them to optimize resource consumption & costs

Key Features Fixed, allocation, and utilization based costing Charge different amounts for tiers of infrastructure Schedule reports & email results

vCenter Chargeback: Overview

ChargebackDatabase

Reports/Bills

Cost Modeling

Cost Accounting & Monitoring

Cost Configuration

ChargebackHierarchy

Web Browser

API

3rd Party

vCenter Chargeback: Screenshots

vCenter Chargeback: Screenshots

vCenter Chargeback: Screenshots

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