Virtualization Optimization presentation given by Dave Thiessen, Senior Enablement Specialist with IBM Software Services for Tivoli, Cloud Enablement. The presentation was part of the IBM SmartCloud Technical Symposium in Budapest, Hungary October 15-19 2012

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Getting the Best from your Current Virtualization
Environment with Tivoli
Dave Thiessen – dthiesse@us.ibm.com
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Why is Cloud Management Important?
“The time available to capture, interpret and act on
“Virtualization has just allowed us to get ourselves
information is getting shorter and shorter.”
into trouble faster” CEO, Chemicals and Petroleum, United States 2
North American Financial Institution
of business executives believe cloud
enables business transformation and
leaner, faster, more agile processes.
“ … at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter if
what you have is called a private cloud, a well
run data center or a unicorn ranch. What
matters is that if your private cloud is
basically lots of virtualization and little or
no automation and orchestration, then you
aren’t gaining the benefits you could. Only
when automation and orchestration hit their
stride will you begin to enjoy full operational
81%
efficiencies.”1
McKinsey on Business Technology, Spring 2011
of CIOs are moving to Cloud
1 – InformationWeek Report Private Cloud Vision v.s Reality © 2012 IBM Corporation
2- 2012 IBM CEO Study

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“21% [#2 rank] “43% want more
Eased need Cloud to efficiency in cloud
align to the delivery, 25% developing
Delivery velocity of the new Cloud apps”
business”
IBM IBV Study
“54% were unsure “Nearly 70% “48% lack “55% of
of how many cloud of active cloud visibility into enterprises
Optimize services were being users report little cloud operations are connecting
QoS used, effecting
optimal business
confidence
monitoring their
inhibits analysis
of compliance,
mobile devices
to back-end
operations.” cloud services” Perform. & ROI” cloud services”
“40% lose “80% focused Cloud – Need to speed storage agility
Control of control & on Cloud
governance is processes and
Complexity a top concern” management
processes [#1]
IBM IBV Study
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Virtualization can increase costs if not it’s not optimized
 Virtualization environments are running in 90% of
businesses, but virtualization isn’t cheap, and it’s
definitely not free.
– Hypervisor promises of cutting infrastructure expense by 60%
have given way to 300% increases in license costs
 While costs rise, so does image volume… and now
they’re in as many as four hypervisors.
– More than 50% of virtualization environments today have more
than one brand of hypervisor.
– Number of virtual machines in use in data centers has
increased 10x in 10 years
– Average number of images “destroyed?” No one knows…
 Bringing these environments to optimum
performance – without dismantling existing
infrastructure – is a key challenge
– You can’t see always see them patch them or back them up.
– You only know they exist when you get the bill.
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IBM SmartCloud Foundation capabilities can help clients to reach the
higher value stages of Cloud Computing
Extend with
Foundation
Orchestration, consumption
based metering
Business service catalogs, and
dynamic capacity optimization
Virtualization Advanced Cloud service lifecycle management
underpins
Cloud
Cloud service delivery automation
Virtualization management
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As enterprises move beyond virtualization to higher value stages of
Cloud, having Cloud Management is critical to their success.
Organizations need progressive capabilities as they manage their Clouds
Key Capabilities Extended Value
1. Virtualization Optimization + Get Maximum value out of your VMware or
other virtualized environment.
Enable Infrastructure Agility and Automate
2. Cloud Enabled Data Center + cross domain service delivery across your
entire data center
3. Continuous Delivery + Accelerate software delivery for higher quality
Smart
Virtualization Clouds
underpins Cloud
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Introducing Fastpath for Virtualization Optimization
 Services Offering to address top virtualization management challenges
 Implements a bundle of IBM SmartCloud Foundation products
 Targeted at existing VMware virtualization environments
 No change to VMware – just making management easier
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Fastpath for Virtualization Optimization
Addresses 4 virtualization pain points
Optimization can be in one or more entry points based on need
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Fastpath for Virtualization Optimization – Tools Used
 IBM SmartCloud Monitoring
 Tivoli End Point Manager
• Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual
Environments
• Virtual Image Library *
• Image Composition and
Construction Tool *
* Available as part of IBM SmartCloud
Provisioning
Foundation
Platform as a Service Technologies
Applicati Applicatio Application Application Integrati
on n on
Lifecycle Resources Environmen Manageme
ts nt
Infrastructure as a Service Technologies
Infrastructu Management Availability Security and Usage and
re and and Compliance Accounting © 2012 IBM Corporation
Platform Administration Performance

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How many VMs do I have?
How are they performing?
How is my Cloud infrastructure
performing?
Where are my bottlenecks?
Is my load well balanced?
How much growth can I handle?
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Monitoring and Capacity Planning Solution
 Health dashboards to provide an instant,
consolidated glimpse into cloud health
 Topology views of the key interrelated •Look for other clusters with available capacity
components of the cloud
•Cluster Workload Utilization and Forecast
•Cluster Workload Balance
 Reports on the health trends of cloud
•Cluster Top Consumers
•Cluster Bottom Consumers
components and workloads, powered by
Cognos
 What-If capacity planning scenarios
 Policy-Based optimization to put workloads
where they’ll perform best, not just where
they’ll fit •1
 Performance Analytics for right-sizing of
virtual machines
 Integration with industry-leading Tivoli service
management portfolio
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How do I maintain corporate standards
across thousands of VMs?
How can I maintain security controls?
How do I make sure all my VMs are
patched?
Can I continually track compliance?
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Patch and Compliance Solution
Tivoli Endpoint Manager
Clients
Content delivery service
Console
Enterprise LAN
Relay
Relay
Relay
Major Functions
 Security and compliance
 Patch Management Remote LAN
 Core Protection (malware, etc) Relay
 Software Use Analysis
 Power Management
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Can I keep regular backups of all
these VMs?
Schedule them automatically?
What is the impact of backup and
recovery on production and
performance?
Is it easy to restore?
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Backup and Recovery Solution
Simplify management of the backup
and restore process for virtual
machines
Utilize VMware’s vStorage APIs for
Data Protection, including block-level
incremental backups based on
VMware’s Changed Block Tracking
Offload the backup workload from
virtual machines to vStorage backup
servers
Provides flexible recovery options—
file, volume and image—from a
single-pass backup
Simplify day-to-day administration
with a centralized IBM Tivoli®
Storage Manager console
Capture incremental backups at the
block level and periodic full backups
at the image level
Speed recovery of data to reduce
downtime following a failure
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How many different images do I have?
How can I tell what is in those images?
How many of my images are the same?
Are people changing my master
images?
How can I quickly build new images and
make them work?
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Image Management Solution – Image analytics, comparison
• • Powerfulsearch capabilities to find the image you
Powerful search capabilities to find the image you
• • Imageanalytics technology to index the contents of
Image analytics technology to index the contents of need without the need for agents or for powering
need without the need for agents or for powering
images to provide aaknowledgebase of software
images to provide knowledgebase of software on the images
on the images
products, patches, and files
products, patches, and files
• • Identify“drift” of aavirtual machine since its
Identify “drift” of virtual machine since its
• • Comparisonof images and deployed VMs to detect
Comparison of images and deployed VMs to detect deployment at the product and file levels
deployment at the product and file levels
differences at the software product and file levels
differences at the software product and file levels
• • Helpscontrol image sprawl by finding groups of
Helps control image sprawl by finding groups of
• • Similarity analysisto identify clusters of alike images
Similarity analysis to identify clusters of alike images similar images to be replaced by aastandard
similar images to be replaced by standard
image
image
• • Referencerepository for storing and assigning
Reference repository for storing and assigning
version numbers to images in chains
version numbers to images in chains • • Asource of standard images identified by version
A source of standard images identified by version
numbers. Deployments are recorded to trace
numbers. Deployments are recorded to trace
virtual machines back to their origin.
virtual machines back to their origin.
import
Analytics VM images
VM instances
Production
Environment Image Lists
and Details
discover
Environment
Operational
Operational
Repository
Repository
Reference checkout,
Repository checkin
VMware datastore
I UG
I PA T SE R
Knowledge Indexer index
Base * Virtual Image Library
is available as part of
Operational
Operational
IBM SmartCloud
Analytics Repository
Repository Provisioning
Engine
VM images VM instances
Virtual Image Library IBM SmartCloud Provisioning
Service Region © 2012 IBM Corporation

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Image Management Solution – Image Building
• • Idealfor creating aareusable, sharable image
Ideal for creating reusable, sharable image
• • Createparameterized images for your cloud
Create parameterized images for your cloud catalog
catalog
• • Deploy images aspart of multi-image patterns
Deploy images as part of multi-image patterns • • Ensurecorporate standard content in all your
Ensure corporate standard content in all your
images
images
• • Outof the box software bundles to expedite image
Out of the box software bundles to expedite image
construction
construction • • AllowsOS and software specialists to create
Allows OS and software specialists to create
reusable components for fast image assembly
reusable components for fast image assembly
• • Buildimages for private and public cloud
Build images for private and public cloud
deployments
deployments • • Optimizedeployment with pre-built, deploy time
Optimize deployment with pre-built, deploy time
customizable images
customizable images
Image
Builder
* Image Composition and Construction Tool Define image (OS
is available as part of IBM SmartCloud
and bundles)
Provisioning IBM
IBM
SmartCloud
SmartCloud
Image Enterprise
Enterprise
OS Specialist
Construction Tool
SmarCloud Provisioning
Create base OS
Build IBM Workload Deployer
images
SW Specialist
VMControl, VMware ESX, KVM
Create bundle
Bundle
Bundle
Repository
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Virtualization Optimization with IBM SmartCloud – Learn More
Optimize your VMware Environment with IBM SmartCloud
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/features/vmware/index.html
Virtualization Optimization Demo on YouTube
http://bit.ly/U5h5CU
Fastpath for Virtualization Optimization
Services Offering Page
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/services/consulting/offers-provisioning.html
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