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VMware vRealize

Claes Bäckström

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vRealize Suite namnförändringar

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Existing Name New Name New SaaS

vCenter™ Operations Management Suite™ vRealize™ Operations™ vRealize™ Air™

Operations

vCloud™ Automation Center™ vRealize™ Automation™ vRealize™ Air™

Automation

IT Business Management™ vRealize™ Business™ vRealize™ Air™ Business


vR Ops – New Improved UI

Powerful New “Combined” UI for

Better Visualization

• One UI to rule them all!

• Unified Mgmt

• Access to all object types

• Highly customizable

• Features and views work the same

throughout

• Alerting consolidated

• All objects are “First Class Citizens”

Technical Overview


vR Ops – Alerting and Remediation

New Alerting Drives Ease of Use

• Policy based Alerts combine multiple

symptoms to show actual issue

• Correlation across objects

• Symptoms not limited to badges

• Any Metric – Any Object

• Fix the problem

• Troubleshooting tips

• Remediation actions

• New Dashboard views of Alerts

• Shows real issues

• Allows for quick MTTR

Technical Overview

Intelligent, Actionable Alerts


vR Ops – Alert Definitions• Alerts are issues that are active on a given

object

– Alerts are assigned to an Alert Base Object (e.g. Datacenter)

– Alerts are assigned to a Major Badge (Health)

• Alert Components

– One or more active Symptoms

– One or more Recommendations in priority order

– One or more Actions

• Alerts Engine to correlate Symptoms

– Across relationships

• Symptoms can be on the Alert Base Object

• Symptoms can be related to the Alert Base Object (e.g. Children Objects, Parent Objects)

Alert Definition

Symptom(s)

Recommendation(s)

Action(s)

• Alert Defs and its components

• OOTB from VMware

• OOTB from Partner Vendors

• User Created


vR Ops – Symptoms

• A Symptom is a simple condition test

– Badge

– Metric or SuperMetric

– Object Property

– Change Event

– Fault

• Applies to any Resource Kind

– Host, VM, Datastore, Switch, OS, App…

• Test Conditions

– HT Comparison (>, <, >=, <=, ==, !=)

– DT Check (above, below, abnormal)

– Events/Fault that include specific text

• Examples

– VM: CPU Ready% > 10

– Datastore: Latency above DT

– Change: “Shares Decreased”

– Fault: “Host Disconnected”

Alert Definition

Symptom(s)

Recommendation(s)

Action(s)


vR Ops – Recommendations

• Guidance Provided to Help Resolve

Alerts

– Best Practices

– Vendor Recommendations

– Tribal Knowledge

• Displayed with the Alert

• Create a library of Recommendations

– Single Recommendation is Reusable for multiple Alerts

– Multiple Recommendations for an Alert

– Recommendation order part of Alert Definition

Alert Definition

Symptom(s)

Recommendation(s)

Action(s)


Alert Definition

Symptom(s)

Recommendation(s)

Action(s)

vR Ops – Actions

• Makes Recommendations

Actionable

– One-Click Actions to fix

operational issues

– Remediation Actions like Power

Off/On VMs, Shutdown, VM

CPU and Memory settings

• Support for actions written as VCO

workflows & Python scripts

• Role based access control

• Launch in Context

• View action results


• Current Badge Status

– Health

– Risk

– Efficiency

• Alerts on the Object

– Recommendations

• Alerts on Descendents

– Number of objects with the alert

– Recommendations

• Click alert to see details

Object Summary View

Go to Alert Details


vR Ops – Viewing Alerts

Alert Details – Summary Tab

Available Actions

Recommendations


vR Ops – Viewing Alerts

Alert Details – Summary Tab

Actions in “Action”


vR Ops – Integrated Compliance

Integrated Compliance Framework

• vSphere Hardening Content included with

vSphere Management Pack.

• Symptoms, Alerts, Views,

Dashboards

• Managed per object/group via policies

(ie, rule exceptions for group).

• Users may tweak and enforce their own

compliance property symptoms

• Configuration properties and changes

assessed near real-time

• Compliance Framework will allow for

future content

Technical Overview

New, Integrated Compliance Framework


vSphere Compliance

Analysis – Compliance Tab

“Expected” vs. “Found” property

values

Violated Compliance Rules

Rule violated date


vR Ops – New Reporting and Customizations

Customizable Views, Reports and

Dashboards

• Custom Views

• Object detail visibility

• Numerous view types & options

• Build once use MANY times

• Custom Reports

• Drag and drop a view into the report

• Custom Dashboards

• Drag and drop a view into a dashboard

• Drag and drop a widget into the

dashboard (as before)

Technical Overview

Views

Reports Dashboards

Widgets(from the Old Custom UI)

View your data the way you need to

vR Ops Adv


vR Ops – Views – Reports – Dashboards• Numerous View Types

– Summary, Chart,

• Wizards Simplify Building

– View, Reports, Dashboards

• Any object of any type can be Added to View, Reported on, or used in a Dashboard

– vSphere

– Hyperic

– 3rd Party Adapters

• SCOM

• NetApp

• EMC

• Oracle OEM

• Etc…


vR Ops – Capacity Planning

Extending Capacity Planning

• Capacity modeling for all containers and

vSphere

• Capacity for Heterogeneous

environments

• Must be built into the adapter

• Improved defaults, first Default Policy

Configuration flow

• Projects - Persistent What-If Scenarios

• Extensible Views and Reports for Capacity

• Alert definitions for Capacity

Technical Overview


vR Ops – Projects

• Projects are events that model changing Total Capacity and/or Usage

• Projects have an event timestamp which can be applied now or at some point in the future

• Projects can be applied to any containers

• Projects can be

– Can be scheduled as repeating events

– Can be edited, saved, combined and compared

Now

Usable Capacity

Usage

Demand

Persistent “What-If Scenarios”


vR Ops – Projects

• Determine Capacity shortfall

• Create a project

– Plan or Commit

• vR Ops Adv


vR Ops – Policy Based Automation

Advanced Policy and Group

Management

• Group and Application creation now

performed from one UI

• New Policy creation UI

• Policies apply to vSphere and non-

vSphere object types

Technical Overview

Better management for ANY object in

your environment


vR Ops – New Access Control Options

Flexible User Access

• New User Access Control methodology

• Greater flexibility with a three pronged

approach

• vCenter only for vSphere Objects

• Active Directory and OpenLDAP for

vSphere and non-vSphere objects

• Local vR Ops for vSphere and non-

vSphere objects

Technical Overview

VC users

LDAP users

vR Ops LocalUsers

Both object and privilege access

control in one place

???


vR Ops – Access Control

WHO can do WHAT to WHAT?

Ex – ‘Joe’ can ‘Power On’ ‘Virtual Machine 1’

User Privilege Objects


vR Ops – Access Control - Authentication

• vR Ops authentication module will authenticate users from different sources: vCenter Server, Active Directory, OpenLDAP, and Local users (xDB)

FSDB

vR Ops

Authentication Module

GlobalxDB

VC users

LDAP users

vR Ops LocalUsers

Virtual Center

LDAPDelegate

Virtual CenterVirtual Center

LDAPLDAP


vRealize Operations Suite 6.0

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vR OpsStandard

vR OpsAdvanced

vR OpsEnterprise

Operations Management Platform

• Predictive Analytics and Smart Alerts

• Policy Management

• Automation and Guided Remediation

• Customizable Dashboards and Reports

Performance Monitoring and Analytics

• vSphere Performance and Health Monitoring

• SAN Storage Analytics

• Application Discovery and Dependency Mapping

• OS Monitoring (Windows, Linux, Solaris, … for Physical & Virtual)

• Application, Middleware and Database Monitoring (MS, Oracle, …)

Capacity Management

• vSphere Resource Monitoring, Planning and Optimization

• Define and Save Capacity Modeling Projects

• Commit Projects for Model-Driven Analytics

Configuration and Compliance Management

• vSphere Hardening

• vSphere change, configuration, and regulatory compliance

• OS-level Configuration & Regulatory Compliance (PCI, HIPAA, SOX…)

Architectural Features

• Multi-Node Configuration and Remote Collectors

• High Availability

vRealize Log Insight 2.5



More Control & Flexibility

• Role Based Access Control

• Assign roles to users/groups

• Control access to data sets,

dashboards, Interactive Analytics,

Admin Tasks

• Allows customers to utilize Log

Insight as a multi-tenant solution

• Native Linux Agent

• Lightweight, configurable agent

• Multiple Installation packages:

RHEL, SLES, Ubuntu

Technical Overview

Role Based Access Control



Tighter Integration

• Inventory Unification• Data Integration & mapping with

vSphere & vRealize Operations• VM & Host Log entries tagged with

vCenter ID, vC Ops ID, relationships• Launch in context to vRealize

Operations Manager • Integrated Load Balancer & HA

• No longer rely on 3rd party LB

• Single FQDN is entry for all

functionality: ingest, query, monitor,

manage

• Ingestion traffic distributed equal

among data worker nodes

Technical Overview

Inventory Unification!

Launch in context to vR Ops!

Launch to vR Ops

vCenter and vR Ops linked tags



UI & UX Improvements

• Presentation mode: real-time charts with streaming autoupdate

• Edit Dashboard Widgets: Modify query, aggregation type and chart type inside dashboard view

• Improved Alerts Management• Hosts Overview: shows quantity of data

each host is sending to LI• Machine Learning: Compare Sources• Machine Learning Auto Manage:

Algorithms reduce resource usage of off-line jobs during peak periods

• Query Caching Policy algorithm enhancements to improve response time and analytics

Technical Overview

Update Chart Types from Dashboard

Edit dashboard widgets without leaving Dashboard

view



Technical Overview

Extensibilty Enhancements

• Integrated Content Pack Marketplace• Enhanced User Experience: search

and install content without leaving vRealize Log Insight UI

• Syslog Forwarding to 3rd party

• Customer feature request for DR,

SIEM, silos, other use cases

• Internationalization/Localization support

*Integrated* Content Marketplace

Streamlined Content Pack Install from UI

New Operations Content


vRealize Operations Content

New Operations Mgr MGMT Packs• Hyperic - Updated• NSX for vSphere – Updated • NSX for Multi-Hypervisor – NEW!• MPSD – Updated • NetApp – New• EMC-ESA – Update• vRA (aka vCAC) – New • OpenStack (All distributions) - New• vCloud Air – Update • AWS – Update• SAP – Update• Oracle – Update

New Log Insight Content Packs• NSX for vSphere• Cisco Nexus Modular• Cisco Nexus Fixed• Cisco ASA• Arista switches• IIS• Java/JRW

Technical Overview

Unified Mgmt OOTB with vRealize


vR Ops – Management Pack for Storage Devices

• New Dashboards, Views and Reports

– Provides Out of the Box Experience

• Actionable alerts with impact and

recommendations

• Capacity Details

– Provides demand and usage information for end to end devices

• Brings in key configuration “property”

information from devices/resources

– Vendor, Hardware, Firmware, driver version, etc

Technical Overview

Key configuration info


vR Ops – Management Pack for Storage Devices

New Support

• Support for FCoE Fabric

– Supports End to End FCoE Transport (Host, Fabric, Storage)

– Supports FCoE-FC Mapping

• Broadened Eco System Support

– Covers Brocade, Cisco and QlogicSAN(FC and FCoE) Fabric

– Covers VASA 1.0 Compatible native FCoE Arrays and FCoE HBA

Technical OverviewMount/LUN

HBAFabric


vRA (vCAC) Mgmt Pack

Cloud Provider Benefits

• Analytics in Context of vCAC Objects

• Reservations

• Tenants

• Policies

• Fabric Groups

• Tenant-aware Operations

• Which Tenants and LOB are impacted by an

infrastructure issue

• Which Tenants, Business Groups, VMs are

impacted

• Which Tenants are at Capacity Risk and need

more ‘vCAC Reservation’ for storage?

• Analytics Driven Insights for Provider

• Capacity Planning, Sizing, Waste, etc

Technical Overview

Tenant-aware Operations!


Tenant Overview Dashboard

List of all supported Tenants & Monitoring Policies

Top Outstanding Alerts for selected Tenant/Business Group/Blueprint

Which Tenants are at Capacity Risk and need more ‘vCAC Reservation’

for storage?


Top N Tenant Dashboard

Tenants & Business

Groups with most Wasteful

VMs

Tenants & Business

Groups with most under-

sized VMs & active Alerts

Most Popular & Most

Wasteful Blueprints

vRealize Automation 6.2Integration with vR Ops


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Improved Operational Visibility

View vRealize Operations Health Status in vRealize Automation displays

CurrentHealth: Good

In Admin List Views

In End User Item Details


vRealize Operations – Identifying Idle VMs

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Set Idle Threshold Values

View List of VMsThat meets Idle Threshold

Criteria

This list of VMs feeds vCAC Reclamation


vRealize Automation Reclamation Enhancements

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Adding vRealize Operations to identify idle resources

Any VMs that show up on the vCOps Idle Report will show up in the list of VMs that could be

reclaimed

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