getting the best from your current virtualization environment with tivoli

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xCL45Getting the Best from your Current Virtualization Environment with Tivoli

Dave Thiessen – [email protected]

IBM Systems Technical Universities– Budapest, Hungary – October 15-19



Why is Cloud Management Important?

“ … 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 efficiencies.”1

“Virtualization has just allowed us to get ourselves into trouble faster”North American Financial Institution

1 – InformationWeek Report Private Cloud Vision v.s Reality2- 2012 IBM CEO Study

“The time available to capture, interpret and act on information is getting shorter and shorter.”CEO, Chemicals and Petroleum, United States 2

McKinsey on Business Technology, Spring 2011

of business executives believe cloudenables business transformation and leaner, faster, more agile processes.

of CIOs are moving to Cloud81%



Control Complexity

“80% focused on Cloud

processes and management

processes [#1]

Cloud – Need to speed storage agility“40% lose of control &

governance is a top concern”

IBM IBV Study

Eased Delivery

“43% want more efficiency in cloud

delivery, 25% developing new Cloud apps”

IBM IBV Study

“21% [#2 rank] need Cloud to

align to the velocity of the

business”

Optimize QoS

“55% of enterprises are connecting mobile devices to back-end

cloud services”

“48% lack visibility into

cloud operations inhibits analysis of compliance,

Perform. & ROI”

“54% were unsure of how many cloud services were being

used, effecting optimal business

operations.”

“Nearly 70% of active cloud users report little

confidence monitoring their cloud services”



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.

Virtualization can increase costs if not it’s not optimized



Orchestration, consumption based metering

Business service catalogs, and dynamic capacity optimization

IBM SmartCloud Foundation capabilities can help clients to reach the higher value stages of Cloud Computing

Cloud service delivery automation

Advanced Cloud service lifecycle management

Foundation

Extend with

Virtualization management

Virtualization underpins

Cloud



Key Capabilities Extended Value

Virtualization Optimization + Get Maximum value out of your VMware or other virtualized environment.

Cloud Enabled Data Center +Enable Infrastructure Agility and Automate cross domain service delivery across your entire data center

Continuous Delivery + Accelerate software delivery for higher quality

Virtualization underpins Cloud

Smart Clouds

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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



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



Fastpath for Virtualization OptimizationFastpath for Virtualization Optimization

Addresses 4 virtualization pain points

Optimization can be in one or more entry points based on need



Fastpath for Virtualization Optimization – Tools UsedFastpath 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

Platform as a Service Technologies

Infrastructure as a Service Technologies

Infrastructure

Platform

Usage and Accounting

Availability and

Performance

Managementand

Administration

Security and

Compliance

Application

Lifecycle

Application

Resources

Application

Environments

Application

Management

Integration

Foundation



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?



Health dashboards to provide an instant, consolidated glimpse into cloud health

Topology views of the key interrelated components of the cloud

Reports on the health trends of cloud 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

Performance Analytics for right-sizing of virtual machines

Integration with industry-leading Tivoli service management portfolio

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•Look for other clusters with available capacity

•Cluster Workload Utilization and Forecast

•Cluster Workload Balance

•Cluster Top Consumers

•Cluster Bottom Consumers

•Cluster Workload Utilization and Forecast

•Cluster Workload Balance

•Cluster Top Consumers

•Cluster Bottom Consumers

Monitoring and Capacity Planning SolutionMonitoring and Capacity Planning Solution



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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?



Clients

Tivoli Endpoint Manager

Relay

RelayRelay

Relay

Patch and Compliance SolutionPatch and Compliance Solution

Console Content delivery service

Major Functions Security and compliance Patch Management Core Protection (malware, etc) Software Use Analysis Power Management

Remote LAN

Enterprise LAN



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?



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



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?



• Powerful search capabilities to find the image you need without the need for agents or for powering on the images

• Identify “drift” of a virtual machine since its deployment at the product and file levels

• Helps control image sprawl by finding groups of similar images to be replaced by a standard image

• A source of standard images identified by version numbers. Deployments are recorded to trace virtual machines back to their origin.

• Powerful search capabilities to find the image you need without the need for agents or for powering on the images

• Identify “drift” of a virtual machine since its deployment at the product and file levels

• Helps control image sprawl by finding groups of similar images to be replaced by a standard image

• A source of standard images identified by version numbers. Deployments are recorded to trace virtual machines back to their origin.

• Image analytics technology to index the contents of images to provide a knowledgebase of software products, patches, and files

• Comparison of images and deployed VMs to detect differences at the software product and file levels

• Similarity analysis to identify clusters of alike images

• Reference repository for storing and assigning version numbers to images in chains

• Image analytics technology to index the contents of images to provide a knowledgebase of software products, patches, and files

• Comparison of images and deployed VMs to detect differences at the software product and file levels

• Similarity analysis to identify clusters of alike images

• Reference repository for storing and assigning version numbers to images in chains

ReferenceRepository

KnowledgeBase

OperationalRepository




index

VMware datastore

VM imagesVM instances

VM images VM instances

IBM SmartCloud ProvisioningService Region

AnalyticsEngine

import

checkout,checkin

Virtual Image Library

AnalyticsEnvironment

ProductionEnvironment

Indexer

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* Virtual Image Library is available as part ofIBM SmartCloudProvisioning



Image Construction Tool

• Ideal for creating a reusable, sharable image catalog

• Ensure corporate standard content in all your images

• Allows OS and software specialists to create reusable components for fast image assembly

• Optimize deployment with pre-built, deploy time customizable images

• Ideal for creating a reusable, sharable image catalog

• Ensure corporate standard content in all your images

• Allows OS and software specialists to create reusable components for fast image assembly

• Optimize deployment with pre-built, deploy time customizable images

• Create parameterized images for your cloud

• Deploy images as part of multi-image patterns

• Out of the box software bundles to expedite image construction

• Build images for private and public cloud deployments

• Create parameterized images for your cloud

• Deploy images as part of multi-image patterns

• Out of the box software bundles to expedite image construction

• Build images for private and public cloud deployments

Bundle Repository

Bundle Repository

IBM SmartCloudEnterprise

IBM SmartCloudEnterprise

IBM Workload Deployer

SmarCloud Provisioning

VMControl, VMware ESX, KVM

Buildimages

OS Specialist

SW Specialist

Create base OS

Create bundle

Image Builder

Define image (OS and bundles)

Image Management Solution – Image BuildingImage Management Solution – Image Building

* Image Composition and Construction Tool is available as part of IBM SmartCloud Provisioning



Virtualization Optimization with IBM SmartCloud – Learn MoreVirtualization Optimization with IBM SmartCloud – Learn More

Optimize your VMware Environment with IBM SmartCloudhttp://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/features/vmware/index.html

Virtualization Optimization Demo on YouTubehttp://bit.ly/U5h5CU

Fastpath for Virtualization OptimizationServices Offering Page

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/services/consulting/offers-provisioning.html