table of contentsidentify how you can react better to these scenarios and promote better forecasting...

Table of ContentsLab Overview - HOL-1901-03-CMP - Optimize vSphere Capacity and Cost Savings withvRealize Operations .......................................................................................................... 2

Lab Guidance .......................................................................................................... 3Module 1 - Assess Capacity of Your vSphere Datacenters with vRealize Operations (45minutes)............................................................................................................................ 9

Introduction........................................................................................................... 10Hands-on Labs Interactive Simulation: Understanding and Forecasting vSphereCapacity ................................................................................................................ 11Log in to the vRealize Operations Live Instance ................................................... 12Capacity Allocation Dashboard ............................................................................. 16Conclusion............................................................................................................. 20

Module 2 - Identify Cost Savings and Automate Reclamation of Resources with vRealizeOperations - (30 minutes) ............................................................................................... 21

Introduction........................................................................................................... 22Log in to the vRealize Operations HVM instance ................................................... 23Assess Cost Overview ........................................................................................... 26Cost Settings in Detail........................................................................................... 38Conclusion............................................................................................................. 44

Module 3 -Predict Resource Demand and Identify Capacity Shortfalls with vRealizeOperations (30 minutes) ................................................................................................. 45

Introduction........................................................................................................... 46Log in to the vRealize Operations HVM instance ................................................... 47Reclaiming Capacity.............................................................................................. 50Reclaiming Resources from Oversized VM(s) ........................................................ 62Conclusion............................................................................................................. 72

Module 4 - Capacity Planning with vRealize Operations (45 minutes) ............................73Introduction........................................................................................................... 74Log in to the vRealize Operations Live Instance.................................................... 75Make a new Workload Scenario............................................................................. 79Private and Public Cloud What-If Scenarios........................................................... 90Conclusion............................................................................................................. 98

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Lab Overview -HOL-1901-03-CMP -Optimize vSphereCapacity and Cost

Savings with vRealizeOperations

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Lab GuidanceNote: It may take more than 90 minutes to complete this lab. You shouldexpect to only finish 2-3 of the modules during your time. The modules areindependent of each other so you can start at the beginning of any moduleand proceed from there. You can use the Table of Contents to access anymodule of your choosing.

The Table of Contents can be accessed in the upper right-hand corner of theLab Manual.

In this lab we will cover customer scenarios for our new Capacity Management Engineas well as embedded costing information in vRealize Operations 6.7.

Lab Module List:

• Module 1 - Assess Capacity of your vSphere Datacenters with vRealizeOperations (45 minutes)

• Module 2 - Identify Costs Savings and Automate Reclamation of Resources withvRealize Operations (30 minutes)

• Module 3 - Predict Resource Demand and Identify Capacity Shortfalls withvRealize Operations (30 minutes)

• Module 4 - Capacity Planning with vRealize Operations (45 minutes)

Lab Captains:

• Modules 1-4 - Nathan Schroeder, Cloud Management Engineer, USA

This lab manual can be downloaded from the Hands-on Labs Document site found here:

http://docs.hol.vmware.com

This lab may be available in other languages. To set your language preference and havea localized manual deployed with your lab, you may utilize this document to help guideyou through the process:

http://docs.hol.vmware.com/announcements/nee-default-language.pdf

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http://docs.hol.vmware.com

http://docs.hol.vmware.com/announcements/nee-default-language.pdf

Location of the Main Console

1. The area in the RED box contains the Main Console. The Lab Manual is on the tabto the Right of the Main Console.

2. A particular lab may have additional consoles found on separate tabs in the upperleft. You will be directed to open another specific console if needed.

3. Your lab starts with 90 minutes on the timer. The lab can not be saved. All yourwork must be done during the lab session. But you can click the EXTEND toincrease your time. If you are at a VMware event, you can extend your lab timetwice, for up to 30 minutes. Each click gives you an additional 15 minutes.Outside of VMware events, you can extend your lab time up to 9 hours and 30

minutes. Each click gives you an additional hour.

Alternate Methods of Keyboard Data Entry

During this module, you will input text into the Main Console. Besides directly typing itin, there are two very helpful methods of entering data which make it easier to entercomplex data.

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Click and Drag Lab Manual Content Into Console ActiveWindow

You can also click and drag text and Command Line Interface (CLI) commands directlyfrom the Lab Manual into the active window in the Main Console.

Accessing the Online International Keyboard

You can also use the Online International Keyboard found in the Main Console.

1. Click on the Keyboard Icon found on the Windows Quick Launch Task Bar.

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Click once in active console window

In this example, you will use the Online Keyboard to enter the "@" sign used in emailaddresses. The "@" sign is Shift-2 on US keyboard layouts.

1. Click once in the active console window.2. Click on the Shift key.

Click on the @ key

1. Click on the "@ key".

Notice the @ sign entered in the active console window.

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Activation Prompt or Watermark

When you first start your lab, you may notice a watermark on the desktop indicatingthat Windows is not activated.

One of the major benefits of virtualization is that virtual machines can be moved andrun on any platform. The Hands-on Labs utilizes this benefit and we are able to run thelabs out of multiple datacenters. However, these datacenters may not have identicalprocessors, which triggers a Microsoft activation check through the Internet.

Rest assured, VMware and the Hands-on Labs are in full compliance with Microsoftlicensing requirements. The lab that you are using is a self-contained pod and does nothave full access to the Internet, which is required for Windows to verify the activation.Without full access to the Internet, this automated process fails and you see this

watermark.

This cosmetic issue has no effect on your lab.

Look at the lower right portion of the screen

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Please check to see that your lab is finished all the startup routines and is ready for youto start. If you see anything other than "Ready", please wait a few minutes. If after 5minutes you lab has not changed to "Ready", please ask for assistance.

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Module 1 - AssessCapacity of Your vSphereDatacenters with vRealizeOperations (45 minutes)

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IntroductionRainpole Company Scenario

Rainpole has recently experienced some issues managing their capacity for their virtualinfrastructure. Due to the increase of demand for capacity and workload placement,they have seen “hotspots” inside their infrastructure and they need a way to monitorwhat areas need capacity based on workload demand.

The new Capacity and Cost Engine in vRealize Operations 6.7 uncovers many new use-cases for driving efficiencies as well as staying ahead of demand. In this module, we willidentify how you can react better to these scenarios and promote better forecastingwith cost visibility.

This Module contains the following lessons:

• [Lesson 1 & 2] [Understand Capacity Management Overview]• [Lesson 3] [Capacity Allocation Dashboard]

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Hands-on Labs Interactive Simulation:Understanding and ForecastingvSphere CapacityThis part of the lab is presented as a Hands-on Labs Interactive Simulation. This willallow you to experience steps which are too time-consuming or resource intensive to dolive in the lab environment. In this simulation, you can use the software interface as ifyou are interacting with a live environment.

1. Click here to open the interactive simulation. It will open in a new browserwindow or tab.

2. When finished, click the “Return to the lab” link to continue with this lab.

The lab continues to run in the background. If the lab goes into standby mode, you canresume it after completing the module.

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http://docs.hol.vmware.com/hol-isim/HOL-2019/HOL-1901-03-vrealizeassess.htm

Log in to the vRealize Operations LiveInstanceThis lab environment is running three different instances of vRealize Operations and oneinstance of vRealize Log Insight. We have the different vRealize Operations instances inorder to be able to work through different use cases that have unique requirements. Thelab instances are as follows:

• Live Instance: Connected to the small running vSphere environment in the lab.There isn't a large inventory of objects in this instance but it allows us to interactwith vCenter.

• Historical Instance: Running a 30-minute time loop of data that was captured inthe past. This instance has a much larger inventory of objects but since it is notcurrently connected to a vCenter, we can't perform any actions here.

• Blue Medora Management Packs: Also running in historical mode, this instancehas a large number of management packs from Blue Medora that allow us to seeinformation from adjacent infrastructure (storage and physical servers) as well asoperating system and application information.

In this lesson we will be using the Live Instance of vRealize Operations.

If you are already logged into the live (not historical) instance of vRealize Operations,click to skip ahead.

Open the Chrome Browser from Windows Quick LaunchTask Bar

If your browser isn't already open, launch Google Chrome

1. Click the Chrome icon on the Windows Quick Launch Task Bar

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Open the vRealize Operations - Live Instance Tab

The browser home page has links to the different instances of vRealize Operations thatare running in the lab.

1. Click the vRealize Operations - Live Instance link to open the UI in a newbrowser tab

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Log in to vRealize Operations

vRealize Operations is integrated with VMware Identity Manager which we will use foruser authentication in this lab.

VMware Identity Manager should be pre-selected as the identity source. However, if it isnot you will choose it.

Click the drop-down arrow

1. Select VMware Identity Manager2. Click REDIRECT to take you to the user login page

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VMware Identity Manager Login

The user and password information should already be filled out. However, if neededtype them in.

USER: hol

PASSWORD: VMware1!

1. Click Sign in

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Capacity Allocation DashboardNow that we have changed our Capacity Engine to look at only demand-basedperformance in vRealize Operations, there are many customers who still use anAllocation oversubscription model for virtualized environments. VMware recommendsthat you use the demand based modeling but switching over to a demand-based modelcannot happen overnight. That is why we have created the Capacity AllocationDashboard to rank how you are performing at the various tiers of oversubscription.

Navigate to Capacity Allocation Dashboard

1. Click Dashboards at the top

Capacity Dashboards

1. Click Capacity and Utilization from the Dashboards Start Page

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Select Capacity Allocation Overview

1. Scroll down2. Click Capacity Allocation Overview to navigate to that dashboard

Capacity Allocation Overview Summary

In this Allocation Summary, we see an inventory list of the various objects we haveconnected to vRealize Operations. For the purpose of resource allocation, vRealizeOperations calculates vCPU/pCPU and vMem/PMem ratios to determine the amount ofoversubscription across the environment. This is now out of the box in version 6.7!

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Capacity Allocation Tiers

Now we have our guidelines for oversubscription model for certain tiers of workload.

• Tier 1 applications that require dedicated performance• Tier 2 workloads will have some oversubscription for CPU• Tier 3 is meant for staging and test environments, not customer facing workloads

Current Allocation Percentage for Clusters

Here is where we get the most value out of this dashboard! We break down each clusterand identify where they fit into each oversubscription tier and by how much.

This table view shows us inventory levels for resources. Looking at the CPU Allocation %1:1 column, we see that the RegionA01-COMP02 cluster is 150%. That means we are1.5:1 oversubscribed for CPU resources, which puts the cluster between Tier 1 and 2from our Allocation guidelines in the previous page. Perhaps we would need more CPUresources if this were a Tier 1 workload.

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Capacity Allocation Percentage Continued

1. Scroll to the right in the table.

As we look further to the right we also see Memory allocation. Note how we are withinthe Tier 3 guidelines for memory in both clusters.

Also note that this view is named Current Allocation Percentage for Clusters. This wouldbe a great report to send to your management within the Rainpole organization to helpidentify when you need to procure more resources.

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ConclusionIn this module, we provided an overview of what is new with Capacity Management invRealize Operations 6.7. We learned about the difference between Demand andAllocation capacity modeling. In the next modules, we will focus on how to apply costinformation to these objects and run What-if Capacity Management scenarios that youcan take back to your organization.

You've finished module 1

Congratulations on completing the module.

If you are looking for additional information on vRealize Operations, you can start here:https://www.vmware.com/products/vrealize-suite.html

If you want to jump to a particular module, follow one of the links below.

• Module 2 - Identify Costs Savings and Automate Reclamation ofResources with vRealize Operations

• Module 3 - Predict Resource Demand and Identify Capacity Shortfallswith vRealize Operations

• Module 4 - Capacity Planning with vRealize Operations

Or if you want to end your lab,

1. Click on the END button at the top of the page.

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https://www.vmware.com/products/vrealize-suite.html

Module 2 - Identify CostSavings and Automate

Reclamation of Resourceswith vRealize Operations -

(30 minutes)

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Introduction

In the new release of vRealize Operations 6.7, we have added a cost engine to helpcalculate basic infrastructure costs. This is meant for the Infrastructure admin tounderstand their current costs broken down by each infrastructure component. Thisdoes not replace what vRealize Business currently does, which provides more capabilitylike show-back, cloud, and data center cost comparison analysis.

Rainpole has also been caught by the ever-increasing budget requirements for addingcapacity, and they would like to do some very simple cost modeling on the requeststhey get from the organization. This will help the IT Director communicate back to thebusiness what growth costs are.

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Log in to the vRealize Operations HVMinstanceThis lab environment is running three different instances of vRealize Operations and oneinstance of vRealize Log Insight. We have the different vRealize Operations instances inorder to be able to work through different use cases that have unique requirements. Thelab instances are as follows:




In this lesson we will be using the Historical Instance of vRealize Operations.

If you are already logged into the historical (not live) instance of vRealize Operations,click here to skip ahead.




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Open the vRealize Operations - Historical Instance Tab


1. Click the vRealize Operations - Historical Instance link to open the UI in anew browser tab

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1. If Local Users is not the default, click the drop down as shown and click LocalUsers

Enter user credentials. Username is admin and password is VMware1!

2. Click LOG IN

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Assess Cost OverviewIn this section, we will learn more about what is available in the Assess Cost link fromthe Quick Start page. We want to do this now so we understand the costs and makesure they are relevant in regards to the Rainpole infrastructure environment. We thencan use this data to understand how much benefit there is for reclamation, capacityscenarios, and overall reporting.

Click Assess Cost

1. Click Assess Cost

Assess Cost information

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We get an overview of assets and total cost of ownership for assets connected tovRealize Operations. This includes Total Cost of Ownership and Potential Cost Savingsfor all vCenter children objects connected to vRealize Operations.

TOTAL COST OF EACH DATACENTER

In this screen, we see a breakdown of each data center with its associated configurationand reclamation opportunity. Items included here are...

1. Total cost for each Datastore2. Reclaimable vCPU's3. Reclaimable Memory4. Click the column name at the top, this will sort via ascending/descending.

Make sure to scroll to the right to see reclaimable disk space as well!

List of Most/Least expensive clusters

We also have a couple of views that sort the most and the least expensive clusters.Think of this as “How well am I driving density inside my infrastructure?” or “Why are

the costs so much more expensive in this cluster compared to another?” This will leadto more discussions with your peers and leadership to make your infrastructure moreefficient.

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1. Double-click the most expensive Cluster (east-comp)

Looking for Cost detail

Now we will understand why the east-comp cluster is the most expensive.

1. Select All Metrics

All Metrics

1. Open All Metrics2. Open Cost

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Monthly Cluster Cost

1. Double Click Monthly Cluster Total Cost2. Double Click Monthly Cluster Total Memory Cost3. Double Click Monthly Total Cluster CPU Cost

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Cost Breakdown

Now we see each metric represented graphically on the right side of the screen.

1. Total Cost2. Cost for Memory3. Cost for CPU

Example: CPU Cost (1568.84) > Memory Cost (1175.27)

We can then come to the conclusion that CPU costs more in this cluster. Go back andrepeat for the least expensive cluster (the lab-auto cluster). How do they compare?

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Can we reclaim?

Since east-comp is the most expensive cluster, lets go see if we can reclaim someresources and eventually perform some workload optimization to consolidate some ofour clusters.

1. Select the Home Button

Select Reclaim

1. Select Reclaim

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Open the Datacenter

1. Click msbu-east is selected if not already

Open east-comp Cluster

1. Select Oversized VMs2. Open east-comp

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Review Right-Size List

1. Scroll down to review the reclamation list

Review the Oversized VM's

Review the long list for reclamation.

1. Scroll back up

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Select All and Reclaim

1. We can reclaim up to 28 vCPU's in this cluster2. Select all to reclaim.3. Select RESIZE VM(S).

Resize Screen

Once the Resize VM(s) screen comes up.

1. Click Cancel

Since this is not a live environment, we will not be able to actually resize the VM's. Ifyou would like to run this action, please change to the live vRealize Operationsenviroment.

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Identify Cluster CPU Capacity

Now, continuing with this scenario, I wonder how much demand there is on CPU for thiscluster, since it is more expensive compared to memory?

1. Click the Home Button again.

Assess Capacity

1. Click Assess Capacity

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Select Cluster

1. Scroll Down and select east-comp again

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Review CPU Demand

1. Make sure CPU is selected2. Look at the CPU utilization for this cluster. It is at 23%, and the projected range is

very flat.

Do we need this cluster to be this large and expensive? “Based on the data and thecost analysis that highlight how expensive the cluster is, we do not need this muchcapacity.” Perhaps we should consolidate some workloads to this cluster or repurposesomewhere else?

Lesson Conclusion

In this Lesson, we used the Assess Cost feature to determine where the most expensivecluster is in this environment. We then identified what was the most expensive resource(CPU) in this cluster and wanted to see CPU utilization. The CPU utilization was low, andwe identified that we could remove a host or implement workload optimization to use upthe expensive CPU resources.

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Cost Settings in DetailNow we dive a little deeper into the cost settings that vRealize Operations is applying toobjects.

Navigate to Cost Savings

To access the costs settings, click on:

1. Administration at the top2. Expand the Configuration section3. Select Cost Settings

Cost Settings - Financial Account Model

The costs represented in this screen are downloaded from a VMware referencedatabase. This may not be what you paid for your internal infrastructure. Lets get itmore accurate for reporting purposes. Before we start changing server costs and etc,

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we must first change how we are depreciating the assets effectively. If you do not knowthe answer to this question, please contact your leadership or IT finance department.

1. Select the Gear symbol next to Cost Settings.

Financial Account Model

Within the Cost Settings we can change the years of depreciation (How long before yourefresh your servers?). We also have Straight Line and Double depreciation calculation.

1. Modify to 4 years depreciation2. Select Straight Line depreciation model3. Click Save

Cost Drivers

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As we look at the Cost Drivers we get a breakdown of cost per infrastructurecomponent. For our Rainpole organization we want to start very simplified so we canshow infrastructure costs as new projects are planned.

Modify Cost Settings

For this scenario we are going to $0 out some of the subjects here since the Rainpoleorganization would like to focus on compute costs.

1. Select Facilities

Facilities Detail

1. Scroll Down to the bottom to enter detailed cost of facilities.

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Modify Facilities Costs

Here you can modify your facility costs for your data center. For this scenario, since theRainpole organization only wants to report Compute Costs, we will $0 these numbers.

1. Input 0 for Power and Cooling monthly cost2. Input 0 for Total Operational monthly cost per rack unit3. Select Save

Back to Cost Drivers

1. Scroll up2. Select Back To Cost Drivers

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Comparison with Industry benchmark

Now we see a new graph in the middle of the list that shows us how our modifiedchanges compares to the reference database.

1. We see an existing change with Server Hardware that is 7.55% less than industrybenchmark

2. We see our change to Facilities, which is 100% less than industry standard.

Total Cost

Now we see the total cost for all adjusted components.

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Cost Calculation Status

Now that we have changed the cost settings, we need to run a manual re-calculation topropagate these changes through the rest of the objects.

1. Click Cost Calculation Status2. Select Run

Depending on the size of your environment, this may take some time to complete. Wewill let this run in the background to propagate our cost settings. By default, vRealizeOperations will run this updated calculation everyday at 9:00PM (Appliance Time).

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ConclusionIn this module, we provided an overview and went into detail how you would use theembedded cost engine that is now part of vRealize Operations 6.7. We also went intothe cost settings, and modified the depreciation model as well as adjusted certaininfrastructure cost settings to align with the Rainpole organization.





• Module 1 - Assess Capacity of your vSphere Datacenters with vRealizeOperations





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Module 3 -PredictResource Demand and

Identify CapacityShortfalls with vRealizeOperations (30 minutes)

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IntroductionDue to the rapid velocity of demand at Rainpole in the last year, they know they haveover allocated VM(s) now that are not consuming all their resources. In parallel, withthe new capacity management initiative, they would like to start reclaiming resourcesbased on VM demand.

Another side effect of their growth has been the negative impact to their organizationalactivities. Common activities like maintaining snapshots, identifying idle workloads, andmanaging powered off systems have been forgotten. In this Module, we will show howyou can automate these activities.

This Module contains the following lessons:

• [Lesson 1] Reclaiming Capacity• [Lesson 2] Reclaiming Resources from Oversized VM(s)

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public/77115/l/932639-log-in-to-the-vrealize-operations-hvm-instance

Log in to the vRealize Operations HVMinstanceThis lab environment is running three different instances of vRealize Operations and oneinstance of vRealize Log Insight. We have the different vRealize Operations instances inorder to be able to work through different use cases that have unique requirements. Thelab instances are as follows:




In this lesson we will be using the Historical Instance of vRealize Operations.

If you are already logged into the historical (not live) instance of vRealize Operations,click here to skip ahead.




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Open the vRealize Operations - Historical Instance Tab


1. Click the vRealize Operations - Historical Instance link to open the UI in anew browser tab

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1. If Local Users is not the default, click the drop down as shown and click LocalUsers

Enter user credentials. Username is admin and password is VMware1!

2. Click LOG IN

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Reclaiming CapacityIn this Module, we will work on reclaiming old and oversized resources at the Rainpoleorganization. We will work on understanding the new reclaim resources page on thenew Quick Start page in vRealize Operations 6.7.

Home Screen

1. Select the Home button if continuing from the previous module.

Go to Reclaim

1. Go to Home if continuing from previous module2. Select Reclaim on the Quick Start Page

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Open All Datacenters

1. Click ALL DATACENTERS

Reclaim Settings

In the Reclaim screen, we can see a list of vSphere Data Centers, Custom Data Centers,and VMware Cloud on AWS. Just like the Capacity screen, we can sort these DataCenters by

• Time Remaining• Cost• Optimized

Reclaim Filter

In the drop down filter

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1. Select the drop down.2. Select vCenter

New Criticality View

You can see each break down by vCenter or by datacenter.

Reclaim Settings

Now go and click the gear icon next to the Reclaim screen title.

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Settings in Detail

This is where we select how long we want to look for the reclamation opportunities to bereported. Also note that you need 7 days of data for a resource to populate this list.Make sure to have cost settings enabled so you can see how much money can be saved

for each reclamation opportunity.

If you don't want to have one of the reclamation opportunities listed, go ahead anduncheck the box and click Save.

1. Click Save

Select Resource

Since the msbu-east virtual center has 0 days remaining.

1. Click the msbu-east virtual center.

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Overall Reclamation opportunity

For the msbu-east datacenter, we can see the overall reclamation opportunity. Sincethis resource has the lowest time remaining, going through reclamation opportunity isthe best way to add capacity without purchasing new hardware.

Filter Reclamation resources

In this scenario, for the Rainpole organization, rather than execute reclamation for allworkloads, the organization would like to test out the reclamation for a subset ofworkloads. For this scenario we will filter for workloads with the name "east".

1. Select the filter area and type " east "2. Hit Enter

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POWERED OFF VM RECLAMATION

Now that we have filtered for "east", we will look at the reclamation opportunitiesstarting from left to right. Notice the options near the bottom of the screen (PoweredOff VMs, Idle VMs, Snapshots and Oversized VMs). We displayed these reclamationopportunities in this order for a reason. We recommend starting with Powered Off VMs,because this is usually the easiest place to reclaim resources. In most cases, these VMsare often the result of forgotten projects. Reclaiming these will free up storage space.

1. Click on Powered Off VM(s)2. Open the Cluster east-comp3. Select the VM to delete.4. Select DELETE VM(S) button

Since this is not a real a live environment, we won't be able to actually delete the VM(s).

Delete VMs

In the Delete VMs pop up, you can see how many VM's will be deleted, how muchsavings are possible, and the disk space savings.

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Since this is not a real a live environment, we won't be able to actually delete the VM(s).

1. Select Cancel

IDLE VM RECLAMATION

Next Tab is Idle VMs. Idle VMs identify workloads that are not showing much demandinside the datacenter. In this selection, we have another action button, Power Off VM(s).If you are not sure if the user is actively using the VM(s), you can first start with the

power off option.

1. Click the Idle VMs tab2. Open east-comp3. Select all4. Select Power Off VM(s)

Reclamation Action

1. Select POWER OFF VM(S)

Note that you cannot actually Power Off these VM(s) since this is a historical instance.

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Snapshots

Next, we will look at the Snapshots tab. In this list, we are looking for snapshots thatare older than 2 days old. With the east filter we don't see any workloads that have oldsnapshots for these VM's.

1. Select Snapshots Tab

Remove Filter

1. Delete the " east " filter in the highlighted section2. Hit enter

Clear Filter

Now we see workloads in the east-mgmt datacenter.

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1. Expand east-mgmt datacenter

Select VM to Exclude

What if we want to keep Snapshot from this list? We now have a simple exclusion list.We can identify VMs that we do not want to include in the select all DELETE

SNAPSHOTS reclamation action.

1. Scroll down to the bottom2. Find the resource that has the most recent snapshot3. Select SAP-HM13

Exclude VM

1. Scroll Back up2. Select EXCLUDE VM(s)

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Review Exclude VM Message

Review the information from the Exclude message.

1. Select EXCLUDE VM(S)

Show Excluded VM's

Now we will review the Exclusion List.

1. Scroll Down2. Select SHOW EXCLUDED VMS

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Review Excluded VM's

Note that we now see the SAP-HM13 machine again in the exclusion list. But if wechange our mind, we can add it back to the Snapshot Reclamation list by following theprocedure below.

1. Select SAP-HM132. Select INCLUDE VM(s)

Back to Snapshot List

1. Scroll Back down2. Open east-mgmt Cluster

East DC List of Snapshots

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1. Select Snapshots2. Select the box to select all VM's3. Select Delete Snapshots

Savings for Snapshot Reclamation

When we select Delete Snapshots, we now see...

• How Many VM's• Costs Savings for this reclamation• Storage Space Saved by deleting these snapshots

Note- If you select Delete Snapshot there will be an internal error since this is ahistorical instance of vRealize Operations.

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Reclaiming Resources from OversizedVM(s)In this scenario for RainPole organization, rather than execute reclamation for allworkloads, the organization would like to test out the reclamation for a subset ofworkloads.

We made some enhancements in regards to the Reclaiming of resources as well as howwe identify reclamation inside of vRealize operations 6.7.

Automated Right Size Actions

As you will see in this module, it is much easier to perform rightsizing capabilities easilyat scale, with enhanced filtering, and automated actions.

New Right Sizing Capabilities

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In this version, we now investigate OS Metrics for Right Sizing recommendations withoutan agent!

To automate and speed up reclamation, we have implemented a stepped approach forRight Sizing.

Total Reclaimable Capacity

In this scenario, for RainPole organization, rather than execute reclamation for allworkloads, the organization would like to test out the reclamation for a subset ofworkloads.

1. Type east to filter2. Press Enter to initiate the filter

Select Oversized VM(s)

For our final reclamation opportunity, we will look at...

1. Select Oversized VM's

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2. Open up the east-mgmt data center3. Select the selection box at the top and click resize VM's.4. Select Resize VM(s)

Review Reclamation Changes

Now we get an overview of the recommended changes for the selected VM's. If weselect the pencil, we can edit the actual recommendations inside this screen.

1. Click the pencil to edit the recommendation.

Edit Reclamation Recommendation

1. Change the size of the memory from 4 to 6GB and press Enter.

Understand Reclamation Changes

At the bottom of Resize VM's overview we understand

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1. How much resources will be reclaimed2. A disclaimer that states if you continue the VM will be restarted3. Click Cancel to close the dialog

Note - since this is a historical lab, the reclamation will not work. If you would like to tryresizing, you can repeat this process in the live instance of vRealize Operations.

Navigate to Overview of Optimize Performance

Now that we have reclaimed some VMs and we like how the new features perform invRealize Operations 6.7. Let's run a report for the Rainpole leadership that summarizeshow much resources can be reclaimed.

First, let's look at other areas where vRealize Operations lists oversized VMs, OptimizePerformance.

1. Click to open Optimize Performance2. Click Overview

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Review Total Reclamation List

Scroll down to the bottom of the page where we see the Oversized Virtual MachinesView. This is the same view used for the Oversized VM report.

Back to Dashboards

1. Click on the Dashboards link at the top of the menu.

Reports

1. Select Reports on the left side menu.

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Filter for Oversized Report

1. In the filter section on the right type in oversized

Run the Report

1. Run the report by clicking Run Template

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Configure Source

1. Select vSphere World, which is an aggregate of all vCenters2. Select OK

Generated Report

1. Click on Generated Reports

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Review the Report

When the Report status changes to Completed...

1. Review the report via pdf or csv on the links to the right

Report Formats

1. Save to default location

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Open the Reports

1. Click the download link at the bottom of Google Chrome.

Review Reports

1. Scroll down to review your results as well as the sum total at the bottom of thereport.

Close the HVM Instance

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1. Close the tab in Google Chrome

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ConclusionIn this module, we learned how to effectively reclaim resources with ease using vRealizeOperations. We saw that, with the Capacity Management module, we can reclaim theseresources while decreasing the potential for mistakes. We also learned that, with thenew Cost Engine now included with vRealize Operations, we can more quickly focus ourefforts on workloads that are costing us the most money.










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Module 4 - CapacityPlanning with vRealize

Operations (45 minutes)

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Introduction

In this module, you will use the new Workload Scenario feature which is integrated withour new Capacity Engine to understand how a new project inside your organization mayimpact capacity. Additionally this tool will provide guidance for workload Placement inyour data center.

Lesson 1: Make a New Workload Scenario

Lesson 2: Public and Private Cloud What-If Scenarios

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Log in to the vRealize Operations LiveInstanceThis lab environment is running three different instances of vRealize Operations and oneinstance of vRealize Log Insight. We have the different vRealize Operations instances inorder to be able to work through different use cases that have unique requirements. Thelab instances are as follows:




In this lesson we will be using the Live Instance of vRealize Operations.

If you are already logged into the live (not historical) instance of vRealize Operations,click to skip ahead.




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Open the vRealize Operations - Live Instance Tab


1. Click the vRealize Operations - Live Instance link to open the UI in a newbrowser tab

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vRealize Operations is integrated with VMware Identity Manager which we will use foruser authentication in this lab.

VMware Identity Manager should be pre-selected as the identity source. However, if it isnot you will need to choose it.

Click the drop-down arrow

1. Select VMware Identity Manager2. Click REDIRECT to take you to the user login page

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VMware Identity Manager Login

The user and password information should already be filled out. However, if neededtype them in.

USER: hol

PASSWORD: VMware1!

1. Click Sign in

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Make a new Workload ScenarioRainpole has recently experienced some issues managing their capacity for their virtualinfrastructure. Due to the increase of demand for capacity and workload placement,they have seen “hotspots” inside their infrastructure, and they need a way to monitorwhat areas need additional capacity based on workload demand.

Another issue in addition to forecasting capacity management is which clusters shouldthey land the additional workloads? Rainpole has experienced contention issuesbecause they do not know holistically which cluster these workloads should land.

In vRealize Operations 6.7 since we overhauled the new capacity engine there are newenhancements in how we calculate capacity from the Guest OS perspective. With thatchange, we have added new scenarios for adding VM workloads. In this scenario, wewill replicate all workloads.

Navigate to Plan

1. Click the Plan link to go into workload planning

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New What-if Analysis

In the workload scenario screen, you can work out scenarios to see if a certain projectcan fit in any of your clusters inside a data center. For this example, we are first goingto create a new scenario that will include expected utilization for a certain size.

1. Click Select inside the Add Workload box

Add Workload Scenario

1. New Rainpole Project2. Select the Datacenter RegionA01 (vcsa-01a.corp.local)3. Allow this workload to be on Any cluster

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New VM Configuration Scenario

Now we will build out the configuration

Make a VM configuration

1. 1 vCPU2. 2 GB Memory3. 20 GB of storage

Expected Utilization

Since the capacity engine bases capacity statistics from demand, we should add whatthe expected utilization is for this project. If you don't have that information, you couldalways select 100% to be on the safe side. However, since we rarely experience thatlevel of utilization, for this scenario, we will set our expected utilization to 20%.

1. Change Expected Utilization to 20%

Advanced Configuration

1. Select ADVANCED CONFIGURATION

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Advanced Utilization

When you think of demand again, you rarely have a consistent demand utilizationacross all compute resources. In the Advanced Configuration dialog, you granularly setutilization for each compute resource. In this scenario, we will modify utilization to thesettings below. You can also configure the scenario to reserve storage space based onthin or think provisioning.

1. Click the radio button for Thin.2. CPU = 50%3. Memory = 20%4. Storage = 20%

Save Scenario

1. Click Save so we can come back to this scenario

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Open Scenario

1. Select the New Rainpole Scenario2. Click Run Scenario

Will it fit?

A screen will appear that will indicate the impact of this What-if Analysis. As you willsee, there is NOT enough capacity in RegionA01-COMP01

Will Additional Cluster Fit?

There is also an option to look at other clusters that could fit the project.

1. Click the drop down arrow to view additional clusters

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Review detail on other clusters

Additionally, we can see that the cluster 'RegionA01-COMP02' also does not appear tohave enough capacity for this workload.

Change the capacity forecasting settings

We do not have enough capacity in either cluster. In Module 1 of this lab, we used aninteractive simulation to show how setting Risk Level to Aggressive would allow for morecapacity while adding some additional risk for contention. Let's go back and change itto the aggressive setting to see if any of the clusters will now have capacity.

1. Select Overview on the left Menu screen

Open Datacenter

1. Click RegionA01

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Edit Risk

1. Click the Edit button next to 0 days remaining until Memory runs out.

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Change Risk Level

Change the Risk level to Aggressive.

1. Click the little lock icon2. Select Aggressive3. Select Save

When set to Conservative, capacity forecasts for our clusters are made per the peakdemand levels of our resources. If this was a non-prod environment, we could possiblyfit more workloads in the clusters by changing the Risk Level to Aggressive, sincevRealize Operations would forecast available capacity per the mean level of demand foreach cluster.

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Go back to What-if Analysis

We will now go back and run the analysis and see the results again.

1. Select What-if Analysis

Run Scenario Again

1. Select New Rainpole Project2. Run Scenario

View Details

Now that we changed the capacity settings, we now have adequate capacity!

Lets view the details with the new capacity scenario.

1. Click View Details

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Detail on Demand Growth

In the Scenario Results we see:

• Cost Impact of the project• CPU Demand Increase• Memory Demand Increase• Storage Demand Increase

Forecasted Demand Growth

1. Continue to scroll down to the bottom

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2. Hover your cursor over the line so we can see the Projected Utilization with andwithout the Scenario.

Click the Home button to return to the Quick Start page.

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Private and Public Cloud What-IfScenariosIn this lesson, we will get more advanced with the capabilities of the What-if Scenariosthat are possible in vRealize Operations 6.7. By adding existing workloads to a What-ifscenario plan, we can quickly compare costs of cloud providers.

For the Rainpole organization, they are experiencing real frustrations on how long ittakes to deploy new infrastructure capacity. Currently, there is a long lead time toprocure hardware, as well as getting it racked and stacked in their environment. This, inturn, has had an impact on the ability to start new projects that were important to theirbusiness of developing new services. With new technologies like VMware Cloud on AWS,vRealize Operations can help their organization to understand capacity and the costs forbursting out to the Public cloud providers.

Plan

1. Select Plan

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Add Advanced Workload Scenario

1. Click Select

Add Advanced Workload

1. Add Rainpole Advanced Project in the Scenario Name2. Select RegionA013. Keep Any cluster in the drop down

Configure the Application Profile

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1. Select Import from existing VM

Select VMS

1. Select VMS

Make a full App Tier Scenario

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Double-click

1. Double Click "app-01a", "db-01a", and "web-01a".2. Select OK

Review the Selections

After we have selected the workloads for the project, we can see the actual demand ofthe workloads. On the right side of this screen, we can also select the pencil button toadd to the quantities for each of these workloads.

Run Scenario

Select Run Scenario

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Scenario Results

As you see, we do not have enough capacity for this project scenario.

Utilize Public Cloud Modeling

1. Scroll Down

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VMWare Cloud Capacity

We will now explore the Public Cloud Modeling capabilities.

1. Click on LEARN MORE within VMware Coud.

While exploring the new vRealize Operations, the Rainpole organization was able to finda potential solution inside of the new Public Cloud capabilities. Perhaps the Rainpoleorganization would like to burst out to a cloud provider and research what that wouldcost? With the embedded cost engine, and our integration with VMware Cloud on AWS,and AWS EC2, we can understand those differences.

Public Cloud Demand

After selecting LEARN More, we get a breakdown of the costs and the impact thisworkload scenario would have on the VMware Cloud on AWS solution.

We see...

1. What the project utilization will be (note that your values may vary in the labenvironment)

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2. The demand for this project per host3. The Capacity overall on each host

Please keep in mind that the overall cost is for a minimum of 4 hosts in AWS. There willbe much more capacity to consume after your first project.

Total Cost for VMC on AWS

Now we have a breakdown on the different consumption models you can deliver withVMware Cloud on AWS. Here is a breakdown on each consumption model.

1. On Demand - Use this for adhoc builds that you do not have capacity for, butdon't need very often.

2. 1 Year Subscription- You know you have a lot of demand but want to evaluateVMware cloud for 1 year and plan to utilize these resources to fill up the 4 hostsrequired.

3. 3 Year Subscription - You decide you are making management of yourinfrastructure easier with VMC on AWS and are planning to move workloads tothis offering in scale and you want to get the best price by subscribing to the 3Year agreement.

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Understand costs between different subscription models

Please take note of the guidelines for these What-If Scenarios, particularly if you have aspecial discount that needs to be applied.

1. Select Edit Discount to enter your discount.

Add Discount Percentage

1. Enter your discount as is appropriate2. Click save

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ConclusionIn this module we went deep into the new Capacity Planning What-If scenario. Weexplored the new enhanced capabilities within vRealize Operations 6.7 and alsomentioned some of the items that are not available compared with earlier versions ofvRealize Operations.










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