With additional point tools for managing virtual components and new groups responsible for managing virtualized deployments, virtualization raises the complexity of data centers as well as can cause splintered visibility and control. These have in cases increased IT operating costs and have stalled virtualization deployment to around 30% of the available infrstructure. In Part III of its five-part webinar series Managing IT Operations in a Virtualized World, Pepperweed Consulting will discuss HP Software Operations Center tools that will give you a single view for controlling, maintaining, and operating your physical and virtual infrastructure.

1. Pepperweed Consulting An IT Integration Company Gaining Control & Visibility of your Virtualized Infrastructure Alex Ryals Chief Technology Officer Pepperweed Consulting September 15, 2010

2. The promise of virtualization Transform IT into an efficient and adaptive service provider Rigid  Siloed Manually assembled services Dynamic  Shared Transparently assembled services

3. Virtualization adoption is spiraling And it ’s changing the way your customers run their business Source: 202009 Virtual Machine installed base projected to grow by 11x Over half of all workloads will be deployed in virtual environments by 2012

4. Virtualization is the new data center Are you ready? How do I operationalize Virtualization? How do I scale my resources to achieve 100% Virtualization? It saves IT money but how does my LOB benefit ? What guarantee do I receive it will perform better than what I have now? What are the r isks? What knowledge am I missing to ensure success? Do I have the right combination of process, tools, and people? How do I know IT is ready to support my application? How do we drive significant CAPEX and OPEX savings without sacrificing agility? CIO Business viewpoint IT viewpoint Integrated physical and virtual service management is the answer!

7. Virtualization and HP Converged Management Compliance Data Protection Provisioning Availability and Performance Virtual Clients Applications Middleware Virtual Networks Virtual Servers Virtual Storage

10. Pepperweed Operate Evolution heterogeneous enterprise event management Probes Alerts and performance reports HP SiteScope server HP Operations Manager server HP Network Node Manager Other event mgmt tool (e.g. SCOM, vCenter) HP Operations Manager consoles xMatter ’s AlarmPoint (notification) HP Runtime Service Model (UCMDB)

12. HP Smart Plug-Ins extend Operations Manager capabilities beyond infrastructure Business application Operating system Database Internet infrastructure Out-of-the-box coverage for many IT components used to support heterogeneous business processes. Additional 3 rd parties SPIs are available from other partners

18. TBEC: Causes and Symptoms Pinpoint the cause - indication of causes and symptoms in browser Event Correlation is one of the big topics for 2010. The HP solution is unique and very effective as it operates on infrastructure and impacted business services in the UCMDB that are dynamically updated. Cause Cause and Symptom Symptom

19. TBEC: Do proper assignments of problems Cause Cause and Symptom Symptom Storage team needs to fix this, NOT the database or Employee Self Service Application specialists As soon as Storage experts works on his message, DB and app specialists see that someone is working on “their” events”

20. TBEC: Reduce event noise Minimize distraction from operations experts Reduction of events in browser: From three … … to one: filtered browser just shows the causes Simplified event view enables focus on what matters to the business

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