January 2009 New England VMUG at Gillette presentation

1. vFoglight Overview
Name
Title

2. Vizioncore Corporate Overview
• Founded in 2002
• Wholly owned by Quest Software as of December 2007
• Chicago-based HQ, Worldwide Sales Channel
• Proven – Over 12,500 customers; 2,200 partners worldwide
• 200-plus employees worldwide
• Providing management functionality for key virtualization platforms
• Strong VMware partner

3. Enterprise Clients

4. VMware Recognized

5. Enterprise-Capable:
VM Performance Monitoring & Reporting

6. Fundamental Challenge
Understanding the impact of resource sharing
CPU Network
Multi-Core Processors Shared Connectivity
Load Balancing
Redundancy
Core 4
Resources
Memory Disk
Sharing Shared storage
Fiber, iSCSI, NAS
Over-commitment

7. Virtualization Monitoring
Additional Challenges
• Clarity to understand each layer of the virtual infrastructure
• Expertise to identify a problem and resolve it quickly
• Containment of alarm storms
• Tracking of VMs
• Prevention of future problems
• Transparency of costs and use of infrastructure hosts

8. Clarity
To see what you need to quickly and easily
• Existing tools show data in many
tabs
• Alarming is simplistic and doesn’t
show trends
• Management frameworks require
multiple management servers
– Administering servers independently
– Missing “single pane of glass”
virtualization data views
– Struggling to compare metrics, virtual
infrastructure layers

9. Expertise
To manage new and different technology
• No context around virtualization
metrics
• Expert advice not given
• Virtual machine metrics inaccurate
– Hypervisor has dynamic
resource scheduling
– Live migrations to
alternate hardware
– Timekeeping issues
inside virtual machines

10. Containment
Of alarm storms and information overload
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• Host issues could impact virtual
machines
• Host issues alarm when issue
detected
• Each VM on host raises its own
alarm
• One single issue can
escalate to many
– Complicates root-cause
analysis and resolution
– Makes problem appear
more significant that it is

11. Tracking
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• VMs moving across hosts due to
Live Migration and High Availability
technologies
• Could move to more/less powerful
systems
– May impact overall VM
performance
• Migrations impact resource
prioritization
• Need to track migrations to assist
with root cause analysis
• Required to meet government
regulations

12. Prevention
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• Impact analysis prior to migration
– For all “Core 4 Resources”
– Understand growth trends
• Ensure service levels are
maintained
• Understand “Best Practice”
configurations and patterns
• Starting to move toward the fluid
datacenter
– Predictive
– Automated

13. Transparency
Of infrastructure costs
• Multiple groups and workloads
consume resources in the physical
and virtual infrastructures
• Allocating costs for the use of
infrastructure hosts or groups of
hosts is a complex challenge
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• IT management and business
stakeholders need transparency
to utilization and costs

14. Summary
Addressing the Challenges of Monitoring a Virtual Infrastructure
Clarity Containment
Expertise
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Tracking Prevention Transparency

15. vFoglight Overview
Best-in-class virtualization monitoring to:
• Manage the relationships and
interactions between all the
components in the virtual infrastructure:
• Detect, diagnose and resolve incidents
and problems
• Ensure performance and availability
• Perform capacity planning
• Manage chargeback processes

16. vFoglight – Key Benefits
• Understanding the relationships and interactions of all the
components in the virtual infrastructure
• Quickly determining the root-cause of an incident or problem
• Tracking movement of virtual machines and understanding their
resource impact
• Containing alarm storms from virtual machines and physical servers
• Identifying contention for resources between and within virtual
machines
• Allocating costs for the use of infrastructure hosts or groups of
hosts, both physical and virtual

17. Detailed Architectural Representations
Understand the virtual
infrastructure in a single
view
• Datacenters, datastores,
clusters, resource pools,
hosts, VMs
• Clear, high-level visual
representations which
include color coding and
movements
• Focuses attention on
problem areas to quickly
identify problems/speed
diagnosis

18. Out-of-the-Box Alerts with Expert Advice
Detailed Alarms with
Recognized Industry Expertise
• 4 Alarm Types
• Best Practices
• Future Predictions
• Deviations from Normal
Activity
• Specific Operational
Problems
• Accurately diagnose the root-
cause of incidents and
problems
• Speed MTTR

19. Asset and Configuration Tracking
Track VMs and Changes to
Their Configurations
• Correlate the impact those
changes have on
performance and availability
• Understand what happened
and when to more accurately
identify impacts on the virtual
infrastructure, applications
and services

20. Workload Migration Modeling
Show Resource Impact
• Review impact of moving
VMs from one physical
system to another
• Determine if planned moves
will have unfavorable impact

21. Service Level Management
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Group VMs and Infrastructure
Components into Services
• Use services to record status
and availability
• Perform Chargeback
• Report KPIs, SLOs and SLAs
• Better align IT and the
business

22. Resource Utilization Management
Group VMs and Infrastructure
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Components into Services
• Use services to record status
and availability
• Perform Chargeback
VM and ESX Host Inventory Report • Report KPIs, SLOs and SLAs
• Better align IT and the
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business
VM Inventory Report

23. Resource Utilization Management
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VM Inventory Report

24. Multiple Virtual Center Management
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Visualize Multiple Virtual
Centers Using a Single Screen
• Proactively understand the
infrastructure
• Reduce administration costs
• Minimize risks
• Ideal for large infrastructures

25. Multiple VirtualCenter Management
Key Capabilities Summary
VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 (VI3)
Web-Based
Interface
Foglight for VMware
VMware VirtualCenter
Management
Server
Single VirtualCenter
Implementation

26. Multiple VirtualCenter Management (CONTINUED)
Key Capabilities Summary
VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 (VI3)
Web-Based
Interface
VMware VirtualCenter
Management Server (1)
VMware VirtualCenter
Foglight for VMware
Management Server (2)
VMware VirtualCenter
Management
Server
Multiple VirtualCenter VMware VirtualCenter
Implementation Management Server (N)

27. Reporting
Provides out-of-the-box reports
• Major Types
• Capacity
• Performance
• Asset Tracking
• Provisioning Trends
• Infrastructure Events
• Actionable Information
• Current and available
capacity
• VMs requiring attention
• Performance/Availability
Enhancements
• Changes to Assets

28. Chargeback
Allocate costs for the use of
infrastructure
• Indicate what groups and
workloads are consuming
resources
• Chargeback fro both virtual
and physical hosts
• Uses industry-standard
Chargeback models
• Provides costs transparency
to IT and business
stakeholders

29. Guest Process Investigation
Drill-down into the processes running within VMs
• Understand internal performance
• Identify which VMs are impacting performance
• Determine which VMs are utilizing resources ineffectively

30. Physical Platform Monitoring
Extend Visibility
• Indicate what groups and workloads are consuming resources
• Chargeback fro both virtual and physical hosts
• Uses industry-standard Chargeback models
• Provides costs transparency to IT and business stakeholders

31. General Purpose Monitoring
General Purpose Monitoring
• Extends monitoring to infrastructure and application components not
covered by specific agents
• Increase coverage of the infrastructure and applications

32. vFoglight: Improve Capacity Planning
• Predict Resource Failure
• Use predictive alarms to raise alerts for future failures (e.g. X many days to
datastore is full); Shown graphically as well
• Model a VM move before it is initiated
• Workload Migration Modeler shows the impacts of a potential move of a VM on the
four core resources (e.g. CPU, Memory, Disk, Network)
• Ensure VM workloads can fit within the resource constraints of the environment
• Track VM Counts at Different Levels of the Infrastructure
• VirtualCenter, Data Center, Cluster and Host
• Trend over time and even set alarms (e.g. weekly threshold for # of VMs added)
• Monitor, trend and alarm on abnormal growth trends to better understand VM sprawl

33. vFoglight: Ensure Performance
• Reduce Recovery Time
• Reduces the mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR) for incidents and problems
by 75% or more
• Increase IT Productivity
• Focus key IT resources on adding value and optimizing infrastructure
performance versus spending time on problem diagnosis and resolution
• Minimize Business Impact
• Ensure performance of the virtual infrastructure while minimizing the
impact on applications, end users and the business

34. vFoglight: Allocate Utilization Costs
• Summarize what groups or workloads are consuming
resources
• Allocate costs for use of infrastructure to hosts or groups of hosts, both
physical and virtual
• Recoup costs for providing IT support to the business
• Equitable and proportionate based on utilization

35. Vizioncore’s Strategic Solutions
• Backup and Recovery: vRanger Pro™
• Performance Monitoring/Reporting: vFoglight™
• Replication: vReplicator™
• P2V/V2V: vConverter™

36. Questions?
• Contact us at:
www.vizioncore.com
sales@vizioncore.com
support@vizioncore.com
975 Weiland Road
Buffalo Grove, IL 60089
847-589-2222