Virtualisation optimisation, the cloud and beyond

Virtualisation Optimisation The Cloud and Beyond

Presenter Adam Nash – SolarWinds Product Manager

What is Virtualisation?

Virtualization, in computing, is the creation of a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, such as a hardware platform, operating system, a storage device or network resources

In the UK server virtualisation is where the majority of virtualisation takes place – desktop is increasing

Application and storage virtualisation is gaining momentum

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Virtualisation is the future

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Why Virtualise?

Reduce hardware costs Reduce hardware support costs

Reduce energy consumption

Improve availability

Run multiple platforms

on one server

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The Virtualisation Market

At the end of 2009, only 18% of enterprise data centre workloads that could be virtualized had been virtualized, according to Gartner. The number is expected to grow to more than 50% by the close of 2012.

Up to 50% of SMBs were expected to move partially or completely to a virtualised environment over the next 2-3 years

VMware dominates the server virtualisation market with around 80% of market share

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The Virtualisation Market Cont.

IDC (Global Market Research firm stated ‘IDC believes that automation tools increasingly represent the battleground in determining the winners and losers in a marketplace which is rapidly reshaping itself’

Recent study by Forrester Consulting of 257 virtualization decision-makers in the U.S., U.K., France, Germany and Japan include:

» Moving to internal clouds requires changes to processes and automation management

» Understanding of performance all of the components involved in virtualisation is critical

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What and where is the Cloud?

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The Cloud can be defined as delivery of computing resources like backup and storage and applications like email and antivirus via a computer network.

Clouds can be private in companies or public via the web

There is an expansion of private clouds offering shared resources to companies

There is an expansion of private clouds offering shared resources to companies

The Cloud is Virtualisation and Shared Storage

High availability of cloud services is delivered through the resiliency offered by virtualisation.

Without virtualisation it is not possible to offer real-time failover and resource sharing for scalability

Without shared storage you cannot failover to replacement servers should your primary server fail

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Issues migrating to a Cloud environment

Who, what, where and when? Keeping track of expanding virtual resources is a mission

Resource bottlenecks as architecture changes rapidly

Difficulties planning capacity and rightsizing resources allocated to virtual machines

Who is using your virtual infrastructure? making the right department pay for the resource they use

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What does this tell us? Virtualisation is still a buzz technology with massive scope for new sales

» Datacenter migration will drive new virtualisation projects» SMBs set to move quickly to virtualisation

Management and monitoring is key to a successful move to a virtual environment

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Monitoring + Virtualisation = Happy customers

Beating Cloud and Virtualisation Management Problems by monitoring and optimising

Introducing SolarWinds Virtualisation Manager

Virtualised infrastructure grows fast Management complexity increases over time To keep up you have to automate and simplify Traditional platforms not designed for this

This is where Virtualisation Manager steps in...

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Key Features of Virtualisation Manager

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As Virtualisation becomes the Cloud

VMware customers follow a common maturity model of 3 phases moving towards the Cloud and vSphere Technology

In Phase I, the focus is on cost efficiency and capital expenditures (CAPEX) benefits.

Phase II typically where organizations virtualise business-critical applications

» This phase really requires tools to help you understand how your applications are performing

Phase III leverages investments from the first two phases. This is a move to self-service IT and the private cloud model – delivering IT and infrastructure as a service.

» Resiliency & performance essential

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The Journey to the Cloud

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Phase 1 Difficulties addressed

SolarWinds answers key questions at each stage of

vSphere adoption:

Phase 1: IT Production Phase

1. How many VMs do I have?

2. How many have I added in the last 6 months?

3. Do I have rogue or orphan VMs?

4. What OS do they run?

5. Where’s the bottleneck?

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Phase 2 issues understood...

Phase 2: Business Production Phase

1. When will I run out of resources?

2. How many app servers will fit in my virtual infrastructure?

3. How much more do I need to buy?

4. “What-if” I add more hosts or VMs?

5. Where should I place these new VMs?

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Phase 3 problems managed...

Phase 3: IT-as-a-Service

As virtualisation becomes the Cloud

1. How do I show or chargeback virtual resources?

2. What departments are over-allocated or under-allocated?

3. How much would it cost to run certain workloads on Amazon EC2?

4. How can I automate private cloud resource allocation?

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Managing virtual apps with SolarWinds

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SolarWinds Helps Cloud Migration

The leading virtualisation technology is VMware

SolarWinds Virtualisation Manager helps customers to adopt VMware and the advanced features within VMware needed to support Cloud Services

Without tools to help you manage Cloud technology and push to Cloud services will not be successful

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Who is interested in Virtualisation Optimisation?

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Role Description

Virtualization Administrator (VI admin, VMware admin)

• Responsible for virtual infrastructure• Part of the Infrastructure and Operations organization in IT

System Administrator • In small & mid-size organizations, System Administrators perform the role of virtual infrastructure administration

Storage Administrator • Often involved as a peer/influencer in the purchase • Sometimes are users, since virtualization & storage issues are highly interrelated

Capacity Planner • Some larger organizations have a Capacity Planning function • Can leverage the product’s advanced capacity analytics in this group

Problems We Solve: Key Virtualization Pain Points

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1. VM Sprawl

“Not sure what some of my VMs do or who they

support - abandoned

snapshots and corrupted VMs are killing me”

2. Resource Bottlenecks

“I’m getting more

information on the state of my

VMware environment

from end users than vCenter

itself.”

3. Capacity Chaos

“I’ve got over-allocated

resources – I know some VMs aren’t using the CPU, & memory

we allocated them”

4. Configuration Drift

“There are 100’s of changes a day – but when I ask

users what changed, the

answer is always…nothing”

5. Application Anxiety

“I’m the new “network” guy –

the app guys now blame

virtualization when their app

performance goes down.”

Key Differentiators: Why SolarWinds?

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Unified Approach• Advanced 4G

analytics• Search-driven

Application-Awareness• Map application

dependencies to virtual infrastructure

• Virtualize critical apps with confidence

Enterprise Integration• Decision engine for the

dynamic datacenter

• Open APIs - Integrate to NOC, Service Desk, CMDB, Workflow

Enterprise-Scale• Manage 10,000+ VMs

• A user interface designed for cloud scale

Enterprise-Scale• Simple & powerful

dashboards & reporting

• Create content on the fly – adapt at virtual speed to business demands

• Flexibly share and publish content with stakeholders

Competitive Landscape

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= Not present= Partially present= Fully present

Ease of Install /Use

Application Scale Integration Capacity Performance Virtual Aware / Reporting

Hyper9

vFoglight(Quest)

Akorri

CapacityIQ(VMware)

Veeam

vKernel

Cloud Adoption Made Easier

• Explosive growth in Virtualization Management market – SolarWinds is a market leader

• Virtualization Manager/Hyper9 brings significant competitive differentiation & market success

IF ONLY… someone made a tool more powerful, easier AND less expensive than VMW CapacityIQ, VEEAM Reporter, vKernel, Quest vFoglight, etc to manage my end users environment… my end user would buy Virtualization

Management!!!Welcome SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (Hyper9).

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