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HP Business Service Management – What’s New – Virtualization Performance Viewer (vPV)

Dan Simanaitis – HP BSM Solution Architect

February 7, 2013

[email protected]

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Discussion Topics

Agenda

Virtualization Monitoring Challenges

HP Virtualization Performance Viewer – An Introduction

Key Features & Integrations

Licensing

Demo

Q&A


What are the Virtualization challenges?

Virtualization Performance

•IT Managers struggle with the proliferation of virtual infrastructure ((Virtualized Machines, Virtualized Networks, Virtualized data store, etc)

•Virtualization creates interdependencies across silos which were traditionally managed separately and leads to new types of problems

Who owns these problems?

•A new persona has emerged in the last few years - the vSME

•Typically, this is the system performance expert who now has become the virtualization admin

What are the options for addressing those challenges?

•Traditional systems management and performance tools

•Specialized virtualization management tools


Key target persona - Virtualized data center manager Also known as virtualization Subject Matter Expert (vSME), or Virtualization Administrator (VA)

•Needs visibility of problems across large number of elements, domains

•Needs troubleshooting tools and workflows to pin-point problems

•Needs to foresee capacity issues and also identify under-utilized systems

•Needs a single console for all aspects of Virtualization Performance Management

Servers Storage Network

Status

Problems … … …

Wastage ? ? ?

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/student-career/en/us/jobs/virtualization-admin.aspx


HP Virtualization Performance Viewer – an Introduction


What is Virtualization Performance Viewer?

A diagnostic and triaging tool for virtualization specifically targeted for performance tuning and troubleshooting of virtualized infrastructure Virtualization Performance Viewer (vPV) provides: •An at-a-glance state overview of the virtual infrastructure environment

•Uses ‚TreeMap‛ technology to visualize the IT infrastructure elements and its relationships. This helps the SME to visually identify the problematic elements quickly and easily.

•Microcharts for trend identification

•A workbench view which allows for ad-hoc performance analysis and root cause analysis

•Tools and reports for further analysis of virtualization performance

•Runs as a standalone product, but also integrates with other HP Software tools to reduce costs by optimizing performance with physical and virtual monitoring from a single console

•Quick time-to-value: visualize the data in minutes from the time you start the installation


vPV – Value Proposition

Identify Problems • Diagnose issues early-on • Detect patterns amongst

instances • Top-n, bottom-n views

Drill-down, fix • In-depth counters • Real-time, short-term

reports • Relationships to guide

navigation

Heterogeneity • Single interface to monitor

multiple Hypervisors • VMware, Hyper-V

Overview • Summary • Overview: Display all

instances or sub-set • Ordered display

vPV

Simplicity • Virtual Appliance • Extractable version • Low footprint tool • Quick time to value


New go to market process and purchasing patterns provides quick time to value

Referenced from virtualization partners • E.g. VMware solution exchange

•Download and install easily as a Free tool for smaller environments (200 VMs)

• Virtual appliance or installer or extractable version

• http://www.hp.com/go/vpv

•Register with your virtualization environment

• No additional configurations needed

•Starts Providing Value • In ~15 minutes

• Low footprint

What makes vPV unique?

http://www.hp.com/go/vpv


Supported Platforms

Type

Platform/Version

Virtual Appliance ( VA)

Cent OS 6.2

Linux Installer

RHEL 6.2, 6.3 Cent OS 6.2 (Architecture – Intel 64)

Archive Extractor

Windows 7

Supported VMware vCenter version : vCenter 4.1, 5.0, 5.1 Supported SCVMM version – SCVMM 2012


Supported Browsers Browser

Version(s)

Firefox

10 (ESR), 16

Internet Explorer

8, 9

Note: Install Adobe Flash Player 10.2 or above to launch vPV in the web browser.

Localization

vPV has been localized to Japanese and Simplified Chinese languages

All documents(including release notes) have been localized


HP Virtualization Performance Viewer

Authentication module

Active Directory

Configuration module

OVPMConfig.ini

Database module

PostgreSQL DB

Datasource module

vCenter

SCVMM

Tomcat Server

User Interface HTTP(s)


Key Features


Tree-map to view environment, and problems at a glance Tree-map is commonly used in finance, stock-trading websites etc., to analyze patterns of ‘interesting’ behavior of stocks, commodity prices

•Treemaps display hierarchical data as a set of nested rectangles. The color and size dimensions used for the leaf nodes often get visually correlated to spot interesting patterns. For example, all VMs in the treemap could be sized based on number of CPUs (i.e., resource capacity) and colored based on usage percentage (i.e., utilization).

•Provides the ability to identify patterns of problems, across elements of similar type

•Ordered listing of elements based on various factors – such as # of CPU cores or size of memory for hosts, or capacity for storage

•Grouping and filtering to view hierarchy as well as ‘interesting’ subset

•Switch between hosts, VMs, storage and other views easily via a navigation dashboard


Performance workbench •Explorer view of the environment

•Visualize performance of the entities and do triage

•Navigate on a time-range and be able to assess problems that have occurred in the past

•Compare instances using performance counters

•Out of the box graphs available with golden metrics

•Save frequently used graphs as favorites

•Export graphs as Excel, PDF, CSV etc.


Reports for monthly trends and summaries

•Available in HTML or PDF format

•Inventory reports

•Datacenter Summary Report

•Monthly trends of usage, activity

•Top and bottom Utilization

•Pie-chart of usage

•Group and individual reports

•Storage reports

•Storage used by VMs breakdown


Data Retention

Granularity

Default Retention Period

5 minutes 1 Day

Hourly 7 Days

Daily 30 Days

The retention periods can be modified in the Data Management tab of the vPV Admin UI


Database •vPV uses PostgreSQL database for storing the data

•Installed with the product - No separate maintenance required

•vPV doesn’t support any external database

•Version of PostgreSQL – 9.1.3

•PostgreSQL installation creates a user - ‘pv_postgres’.

•Automatically started and stopped as part of ‘pv start/stop’ command

•PostgreSQL Install directory - /opt/OV/OVPM/pgsql

•PostgreSQL Data Directory - /var/opt/OV/databases/pv

•If there is a port conflict, vPV will automatically start the database in a different port number that is available


Data Collection - VMware •vPV collects data from VMware vCenter

•Versions of vCenter supported – 4.1, 5.0, 5.1

•vPV uses the VMware SDK for collecting data from vCenter

•Data is collected every 5 minutes

•When vPV connects to the vCenter for the first time, it collects 1 hour historical data

•Administrative credentials not needed – Read-only user is also sufficient


Data Collection – Hyper-V •vPV collects Hyper-V data from System Center Virtual Machine Manager

•Minimum version of SCVMM needed is 2012

•Download the lightweight collector (zip file) and extract the files on the SCVMM server

•Start the collector using the batch script – Start-Collector.bat

•This creates a scheduled task in the SCVMM server which would be triggered every 9

minutes to collect data

•User credentials should be entered the first time you start the collector (Collector should

stopped and started if user password is changed)

•SCVMM entry is automatically added in vPV server


Data Collection – Hyper-V •Data is pushed from the SCVMM server to the vPV server using REST web service APIs.

•To stop the collector, run the batch script – Stop-Collector.bat. This will not remove the

SCVMM server from vPV Admin Page. It needs to be manually removed from vPV admin UI.

•CI Types from SCVMM - Host Groups, Host Clusters, Hosts and Virtual Machines.

•In case of failure during data collection, the GetSCVmPerfData.log will contain the trace of

the error which lead to the failure.

•GetSCVmPerfData.log can be found in the same folder as Start-Collector.bat

•A subsequent ‚Connection Error‛ message will be displayed in the vPV Admin Page

against the SCVMM server, in case of Data Collection failure.


Integrations


vPV in BSM

•vPV can be embedded in BSM

•A MyBSM page needs to be created using the vPV URL (http://<vPV-HostName:port/...)

•If vPV is not configured with LDAP authentication, no other changes needed

•If vPV is configured with LDAP authentication, copy the ‘Token Creation Key’ from BSM UI and set it in the vPV admin UI for vPV to trust the BSM setup

•vPV within BSM would be a self-contained dashboard with cross launch graph/report options within the page


Integration with HP Performance Manager

•You can launch HP Performance Manager

graphs from vPV

•For e.g., from the ‘Overview’ tab in vPV, select

a problematic VM and launch a ‘Process Drill

down’ table to get the list of processes running

on a VM – This can help you figure out the root

cause of the performance bottleneck

•This can be used for VMs/hosts that have ‘HP

Operations Agent’ installed

•Multiple PM graphs can be launched from vPV


Active Directory Integration

•Microsoft Active Directory Integration for authentication.

•Option to add a user as administrator

•Users belonging to the specified user group can access vPV

•Only Administrator has permissions to modify details on vPV Administration

page

•Normal users can view the information, but cannot make changes

•Simple configuration in the OVPMConfig.ini file


Active Directory Integration

•Add the following details in the <data-dir>/conf/perf/OVPMConfig.ini file

•Restart vPV with the command - <install-dir>/bin/pv restart

•Accessing URL opens login page

•The login data transfer happens over HTTPS communication


Virtual Appliance Management Web Interface

VAMI – Virtual Appliance Management Interface

• The VAMI web page for the vPV VA can be accessed from

the Data Sources tab under the Administration page.

• The login credentials for this interface are same as that for

the Virtual Appliance.

• This web interface can used to change Time Zone, Network

Settings etc. for the vPV Virtual Appliance.

• This can also be used to reboot the vPV Virtual Appliance.


Licensing


Features Free Paid

OS Instances 200 2000+

Data Retention 1 Day 30 Days+

Authorization No Authorization Microsoft Active Directory Integration

Reporting No Reporting Operational and Status Reports

DRAFT

HP vPV is licensed by the number of OS Instances being monitored, including both Hosts and Guest VMs. 60 day evaluation license available to try out the licensed features.

Features/Functionality: free versus paid versions


•vPV is available in zip file format for quick time to value

•Light weight download ~ 40 MB

•Just extract the zip file and start using vPV

•Only prerequisite – JRE should be installed

•It uses a light-weight database

•Cannot be upgraded to licensed version

•Primary use case is to provide administrators quick access to performance data in their

virtualized environment

•Features similar to the free version

Archive Extractor


Community based support for the free version

•The free version of vPV will be supported via

the HP Enterprise Community Portal

•Anyone with HP Passport can join the

community and post/respond to queries

•R&D team will be actively monitoring the

forum

•Tried and tested during the EPR program for

vPV

•Link to community portal available in vPV

admin UI


Demo

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