For more information on Virtualization Manager, visit: http://www.solarwinds.com/virtualization-manager.aspx Watch this webcast: http://www.solarwinds.com/resources/webcasts/virtualization-manager-50-now-with-hyperv-support.html Whether you have a Hyper-V virtual environment, VMware, or both – Virtualization Manager now has you covered. Watch SolarWinds virtualization experts Brian Radovich and Robbie Wright as we discuss the key areas for managing a Hyper-V virtual environment. • How to manage performance on a shared virtual infrastructure • Building out a proactive capacity plan • Tracking and reporting on virtual configurations and drift • Living in a multi-hypervisor world! Also during this webcast we demonstrate key technologies from SolarWinds that help to conquer these challenges and ensure success in virtual environments.

1. SolarWinds® Virtualization Manager 5.0
Now with Hyper-V®!!
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2. Introduction
 A big “Howdy” from SolarWinds in Austin, Texas
» Robbie Wright – Director of Product Marketing
» Brian Radovich – Sr. Product Manager, Virtualization & Storage
 Todays Topic:
SolarWinds® Virtualization Manager 5.0 - Now with
Hyper-V®!!

3. A Few Notes about Today’s Session
 Today’s content will be fairly high-level
» We only have an hour
» No attendee left behind…
 Ask Questions!
» Don’t be afraid to ask deeper questions
» Don’t wait ‘til the end – ask away
 Today’s session is being recorded
» Recorded session on SolarWinds.com
» Slides available on slideshare.com
» We’ll email you links when each are posted

4. Agenda
 What’s New in Virtualization Manager 5.0?
 Specifics of Hyper-V support
 Heterogeneous Virtualization Management
 Virtualization Manager 5.0 Demo
 Q&A
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5. Introducing Virtualization Manager 5.0!!
 What’s new?
» Hypervisor:
• Added Microsoft® Hyper-V support
» Including Storage Manager Integration
» Usability:
• Significant navigation changes
» Supportability
• Modified licensing flow
• Removed Windows Installer
• Migration tool for Windows

6. Implementation
 Add Support for Hyper-V®
» Host Discovery
• Cancellable
• Schedulable or on-demand
» Does not assume SCVMM
» Hypervisor aware content switch
» Mixed mode operation enabled
» Explicit goal: don’t break what already works
» Deploy to Hyper-V appliance
» Group policy template to assist config

7. Navigation Improvements

8. • How many VMs do I have? • When will I run out of resources? • What departments are using what
• How many have I added in the • How many app servers will fit in my resources?
last 6 months? virtual infrastructure? • How much would it cost to run
• Do I have rogue or orphan VMs? • How much more do I need to buy? 8
certain workloads on Amazon
EC2®?
• What OSes do they run? • “What-if” I add more hosts or VMs?
• How can I automate private cloud
• Where’s the bottleneck? • Where should I place these new VMs?
resource allocation?

9. Heterogeneous Environments
 The Hypervisor Wars have begun
 VMware® is ceding share to Microsoft Hyper-V …
especially in the mid-market
» Hyper-V grew 62% in 2011 vs. ESX at 21% (IDC)1
» Hyper-V should achieve 27% market share in 2012 (Gartner)2
» 85% of businesses with less than 1K employees will be
contained in Microsoft’s 27% (Gartner) 2
 Tools like NPM & vCenter™ have been good enough
in the past, but neither monitors Hyper-V
 Hyper-V 3.0 expectations have companies
considering multi-hypervisor environments
1. http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS22787311
2. http://www.gartner.com/it/content/1382100/1382132/july_28_servervirtualization_virtualmachines_clouds_tbittman.pdf

10. Virtualization Manager 5.0 Features…
 Single pane of glass management for both VMware® &
Microsoft Hyper-V environments
» Same functionality
» View heterogeneous environments as a single aggregate or as
separate groups
» Install as EITHER a VMware or Hyper-V virtual appliance
• Either appliance will monitor both environments
 Integration with SolarWinds Storage Manager
» VM-to-spindle visibility
» Unprecedented storage visibility for Hyper-V environments
 Simple implementation
» Discovers VMware VMs through vCenter
» Discovers Hyper-V VMs by searching hosts (SCVMM not
required)

11. Discovery (Hyper-V)

13. Dashboards
 Based on configured data collection
 Dashboards have been tagged Hyper-V, VMware, or both
 If both types data collection configured – get all of them
 Keep an eye out for “mixed mode”

14. Sprawl Signs
VMs Powered ON – not being
accessed - Zombies
VMs OFF or
Suspended Thin
CPU MEM DISK Provisioning
DISK
DISK
DISK
DISK
“Orphaned” Files App Licenses
DISK
Unchecked Snapshots

15. Memory and CPU Contention
 Memory Swapping
VM » ESX forcibly reclaim
VM memory from VM
VM
VM
VM
 Memory Ballooning
» VMs with tools, balloon
driver
• Encourage guest to use its
own swapping algorithms
 VM CPU Ready %
» VMs are waiting for CPU
cycles
» Could indicate maxed out host
• Bigger Host Needed
• Less VMs on the Host
• VM CPU limits

16.  Latency is a good indicator of a
storage issue
» Queues can build up at any
point in the path
» Is the latency “high” from the
Host to the array? (i.e. > 20
ms)
 Is the bottleneck in the Host or
the array?
» Is most of the delay coming
from the host or the array?
 Which VMs are generating
the most IO?

17. Capacity Best Practices
Capacity Planning Dashboard

18. Product Demo
DEMO

19. Questions and Answers
Q&A
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20. Wrap-Up
Thank you for attending!
To learn more or to download free 30-day
trials of SolarWinds products visit:
www.SolarWinds.com
Contact information
» robbie.wright@solarwinds.com
» brian.radovich@solarwinds.com
P.S. Remember to renew your maintenance!!!
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