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VMware Enterprise Management Solutions

Otto Justinek - Sr. Systems Engineer – Enterprise Management Specialist

vCenter Application Discovery Manager

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Agenda

1 VMware Management Solutions

2 vCenter Application Discovery Manager

3 Q & A

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IT Business Management

Request Fulfillment

Asset Management

Chargeback

Service Desk

Virtualization & Cloud Management Solutions

Cloud Application

Platform

CloudInfrastructure &

Management

End User

Computing

End-User Computing Management

Administration Deployment Updating

Application Management

Discovery & Mapping

Application Performance

vApp Packaging

Infrastructure & Operations Management

Availability & Performance

Business Continuity Configuration

Capacity ProvisioningCompliance &

Security

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Visibility vCenter Application Discovery Manager

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Operational Challenge – Complex Environments

Changes80%

Other Causes20%

Causes of Outages

Source: Gartner

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Servers - Applications - VMs

Are my applications configured for high availability and performance? How do I gain visibility prior to a data migration or major consolidation without

breaking anything Are my applications communicating over secure protocols? How do I ensure I don’t break anything when I move to virtualization?

Current Visibility:

drill down virtual/physical

With vCenter ADM:

vCenter Application Discovery Manager (ADM)

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vCenter Application Discovery Manager (ADM)

Automatically discovers servers, applications and their dependencies – comprehensive visibility

Agentless discovery – easy to deploy

Visibility of Physical to Virtual relationships – essential for managing within virtualised environments

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Why increase visibility and control?

Increase Availability

Increase Flexibility – Faster Change

Lower Operational Costs

Understand IT in terms of Services

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Comprehensive Impact Analysis Drives Change Control

A change to this VM

Directly affects this App Server

Could impact these Web Servers

Potential impacted clients

Get better visibility into physical, virtual infrastructure & applications

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How does ADM collect data?

ADM Collector

ESX Server

ADM Collector

Data Center 2

ADM Collector

Data Center 1

ADM Aggregator

ADM listens to network traffic & collects data on dependencies

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Discovery Capabilities

•Discovery Modes

• Passive• Dependencies, connections and protocols• Host and application components usage• Application components and services• Application infrastructure and hosts

• Active• Software dependencies (documented)• Software configuration details• Installed software• System infrastructure

• Host Name• IP Address• CPU• Services• WMI Information• Additional App (FTP)

Example:Host Information

Passive

Active

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Inventory Screen

Inventory screen views include VMs, ESX servers and other out of

the box and custom groups

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An Integrated ITSM Solution

Building blocks for Service Catalog/CMS

Impact Analysis for effective Change Management

Faster troubleshooting

Visibility for Security

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Questions

Questions & Answers

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Thank you

Otto Justinek

ojustinek@vmware.com

+61 417 354 791