1. vCenter Operations Management Suite 5.6
Lode Vermeiren
VMware BeLux
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2. VMware Cloud Management – What’s New in Q4 2012
NEW vCenter
Operations 5.6
Management
Suite
vCloud Automation Center
IaaS PaaS DaaS
vCloud Other
Hyper-
Service Service Hardware
vCloud Director & Connector Providers Providers
visors
vCenter IT
Operations Business
Mgmt Software Software vFabric Mgmt
Defined Defined
Application
Networking & Storage &
Security Availability Mgmt
vSphere
vCloud Suite
NEW vFabric Application
Director 5.0
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3. vCloud Suite
vCloud Suite Q4 2012 Update
vCloud Automation Center
5.1 (formerly Dynamic Ops)
vCenter Site Recovery
Manager 5.1
vCloud Suite 5.1 vFabric Application Director
New way to easily 5.0 for Provisioning
purchase and license vCenter Operations
these offerings via a Management Suite 5.6
single SKU
vCloud Networking
and Security 5.1
vCloud Connector 2.0
Advanced
vCloud Director 5.1
vSphere 5.1
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4. vCenter Operations 5.6
Management Suite
Key New Capabilities
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5. Automated Operations Management for Hybrid Cloud
Enabling Customers to
proactively ensure quality
of service, operational
efficiency and continuous
compliance
vCenter Operations
Management Suite
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6. The Role of Operations Management
Ensure and Restore Optimize for
Service Levels Efficiency and Cost
Slow performance Utilization / forecast
!
Problem Maintenance
Rollback change Config issue Orchestrate changes Reclaim capacity
Reactive Proactive
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7. VMware’s Approach to Cloud Operations Management
vCenter Operations Management Suite
1 2 3
Patented Analytics Integrated Approach Designed for Cloud
Self-Learning Performance Data Health Model
Dynamic Thresholds Capacity Consumption Open and extensible
Smart Alerts Configuration Changes Evolutionary Approach
vSphere Server, Storage, OS, DB, App
vCenter Server Network Monitoring Monitoring
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8. Vc Ops vSphere UI – Unified Dashboard
! Launching Pad
• Click to Drill down
! Focused on problems
• Click to drill into details!
• Almost everything is clickable
! Main Themes
• Health
• Risk
• Efficiency
! New Concepts
• Faults
• Weekly Stress Profile
• Reclaimable Waste
• Density
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9. vC Ops vSphere UI – Two Different Users
Operations Short and Long Term Capacity
• Immediate • Forward
problems Looking
• What is • Are there
happening areas that I
right now? should be
• What do I concerned
need to pay about from a
attention to? capacity
perspective?
• Have I
deployed my
VI in the
most efficient
manner?
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10. vC Ops Default UI – Major and Minor Badges
• High level
Understanding
Major x 3
• Calculated
from scores of
Minor Badges
• Specifics
Minor x 8 • Guidance
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11. vCenter Ops: Visibility & Management Across Multiple Clouds
Gain Cross-Cloud Visibility
VMs
• Visibility into and management
running in
Overall
of a heterogeneous, hybrid
AWS
health status software defined datacenter
for all clouds
• Drill down for root cause
analysis of performance
A vCloud
A vCloud Director- issues
Director
private
based public
cloud
• Capacity monitoring/planning
cloud and waste reclamation
Overall health status
for applications
running in all clouds
Drill Down to Identify Performance Issues Drill down for root
cause analysis and
solution
Click to get guest
details
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12. vCenter Ops: Cross-Cloud Config and Compliance Governance
Govern, Automate and Enforce Compliance in the Cloud
• Compliance - governance,
automation and enforcement
across clouds
• For each cloud: create separate
machine groups, configure
Track Compliance compliance templates, collect
results for each cloud data for every machine and
remediate compliance breaches
Configure separate • One click remediation of
compliance template configuration changes that
for each cloud
adversely affect performance
Correlate Config Changes to Performance and Remediate
Monitor Compliance Correlate changes
with health scores
Drill down and
remediate in
Configuration Manager Right click to
remediate
NDA
Note: Certain Features such as the Compliance Badge, Intelligent Groups and Policies will be available in Q4 2012
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13. Key New Features in vCenter Operations Management Suite 5.6
Intelligent Operations Groups Application and OS-level Monitoring
• Manage your infrastructure aligned with the • Monitor physical hardware resources,
business: by application, line of business or tag Windows and Linux, Microsoft Exchange,
SQL, IIS, .NET and Oracle databases with
• Flexible Group Policies allow prioritized vFabric Hyperic now included with select
management of business critical applications editions of the vCenter Operations Suite
and production vs non-production workloads
Actionable Recommendations Compliance Dashboard Views
• Get insight and guidance to better understand • Track compliance with configuration standards,
performance issues and how to remediate them IT policies and regulatory requirements from the
based on VMware best practices vCenter Operations dashboard
Automated Workflows
• Associate automated workflows created in
vCenter Orchestrator with vCenter Operations
alerts
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14. Intelligent Operations Groups
Overview
! Organize IT operations by line of business,
production workload or configuration type
! Create group policies to prioritize alerts,
thresholds and group membership
! Automatically discover application components
Screenshot(s) and/or and dependencies and monitor them
diagram ! View health, risk and efficiency at the group
and component level
Benefits
! Align Infrastructure Operations with business
teams and priorities
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15. Application and OS-level Monitoring
Overview
! Monitor physical hardware resources, OS and
business critical applications from Microsoft
and Oracle with vFabric Hyperic, now included
in the vCenter Operations Management Suite
! Automatically correlate infrastructure and
application performance and health
Screenshot(s) and/or ! Proactively identify abnormal behavior and
diagram performance bottlenecks
Benefits
! Gain comprehensive visibility into virtual and
physical infrastructure, OS and applications
performance
! Monitor and manage infrastructure and
applications with a single solution across virtual,
physical and multi-cloud environments
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16. Compliance Badge
Overview
! Monitor compliance of configurations for critical
standards from within the operations
management console
! Assess risk of violations by level of severity
! Take action on non-compliant items by
launching Configuration Manager in-context
Benefits
! Provide increased visibility into the compliance
posture of the infrastructure
! Enhanced ‘Risk’ score calculation that takes into
account both Capacity and Compliance
information
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17. Chargeback Manager – Enhancements
Overview
! Improved Platform support
! Deeper integration with vCloud Director
! Included with vCenter Operations Management
Suite
! Connectors to ITBM cost model push real
usage data for planning
Benefits
! Meter usage of your private cloud
! Know and publish the true costs of running cloud
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18. vCenter Operations Manager Foundation
Overview
Launch to ! vCenter Operations Manager included in all
vC Ops editions of vSphere at NO CHARGE
! Provides performance and health management
of vSphere hosts and virtual machines
! Fully integrated with the new vSphere 5.1 client
Benefits
! Simplified management of vSphere
! Easy on-ramp to automated operations
management concepts delivered by the full Suite
Health details
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19. vCenter Operations Management
Suite 5.6
Packaging Highlights
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