unlock the intelligent data center with vmware & zenoss

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Unlock the Intelligent Data Center with VMware and Zenoss

August 27, 2015


Scott McIntyreSenior Product Manager

Andy HartTechnical Marketing Engineer

Chet Luther Principal Engineer

Josh Wilmes Senior Engineer

Presenters


Agenda

1. Zenoss Service Dynamics

2. Zenoss and VMware

3. Demonstration

4. Q&A


Zenoss at a Glance

• Founded in 2005

• Headquarters in Austin, TX

• Widely adopted unified monitoring and serviceanalytics platform for enterprise IT and MSPs

• Provide IT Ops the application infrastructurevisibility and intelligence required to avoidservice disruptions

• Modern technology for modern infrastructures

• Offered on-premise and as a cloud service

• VMW, CSCO, Lenovo, Accenture, NOW, AWS


• We have too many tools and they’re expensive to maintain

• Our ability to correlate across domains is near non-existent

• We need flexibility to adapt to evolving monitoring needs

• We want to monitor services from apps to the infrastructure

• With so much noise it’s difficult to prioritize our response

What We Hear

Mandates• Improve service quality • Lower operating costs• Do more with less• Respond faster

Challenges• Increasing complexity• Higher rate of change• Business alternatives• Demanding SLAs


Zenoss Service DynamicsUnified Monitoring and Service Analytics

Servers & Operating Systems

Networking Components

Storage Systems

Databases & Applications

Converged Infrastructure

Virtualization& Cloud

SaaS or On-Premise

Zenoss Helps IT Operations Optimize Service Delivery and Provides the Actionable Intelligence Required to Quickly and Cost-Effectively Avoid

Service Disruptions

VirtualPhysical Public / Private Cloud

Integrated / Converged Infrastructure

Network Storage ServersVM’sOS Apps & Databases


Unified Monitoring and Event ManagementScale Out Monitoring, Scale Back Costs

• Automate performance and availabilitymonitoring and event management foryour entire application infrastructure

• Agentless monitoring for multi-vendorphysical, virtual, cloud, converged

• Proven extensibility – 400+ ZenPacksbuilt by Zenoss, customer community

True end-to-end visibility

Lower operating costs

Maximum flexibility Use Ours | Leverage the Community | Build Your Own

Commercial ZenPacks

Open Source ZenPacks

Custom ZenPacks

Community ZenPacks

Extend to meet business needs

Breadth and depth for legacy and modern IT infrastructures


Service Impact and AnalyticsAvoid Service Disruptions

Reduce costs and improve IT operational efficiency by expediting root cause identification

93%

Root Cause Confidence Ranking

Prioritize and respond to IT issues based on service criticality and business SLAs

Service Health Dashboards

Identify service issues before they impact the business and users start calling

Service Impact Graphs

Optimize infrastructure performance, control costs, and proactively predict future service capacity needs

IT Operational Analytics


Integration and AutomationRespond Quickly to Business Demands

UNIFIED PLATFORM

COLLECT COLLECT COLLECT

INTEGRATIONS & EXTENSIONS

CMDB

PROBLEM & INCIDENT

PORTALS, TENANTSACCESS, REPORTS

CO

NTR

OL

CEN

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Integrate

Integrate and automate with ITSM, DevOps, and orchestration workflows

Scale

Scale horizontally and vertically at the speed of business

Adopt New Technologies Faster

Move quickly and avoid monitoring blind-spots

Focus on the Future

Stay focusedon strategic IT initiatives vs. firefighting and finger-pointing across silos

Open APIs


• Understand relationships between IT services and physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures

• Track changes in dynamic infrastructure

• Determine likely root cause when problems occur

• ZenPack for VMware vSphere

• ZenPack for VMware NSX

• ZenPack for VMware vCloud

Zenoss and VMwareGuaranteeing Service Delivery

Zenoss Support for VMware


• Integrated view of events, faults, alerts (including vMotion alerts) on a single screen, with event correlation and deduplication

• Real-time availability and performance metrics for all virtualized resources• Health, Utilization, Capacity Trend reports help optimize VMware deployments• Monitor multiple vCenters, ESX hosts, NSX Managers, vCloud cells from a single console

• Automatically discovers and provides unified view of complete VMware infrastructure• vSphere VMs, resource pools, clusters,

hosts, datastores, and more

• NSX controllers, virtual switches, edges and interfaces

• vCloud VDCs, vAPPs, VMs, Organizations

• Real-time vMotion detection

Zenoss Service Dynamics Support for VMware


• Automatically identify, build, and maintain a model of relationships between VMware components and the services they support with patented Service Impact model

• Patent-pending confidence-ranking engine identifies likely root cause of performance and availability events

Service Impact Analysis


Questions

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