CA Management Software and Sun Virtualization Solutions

Virtualization is a wave sweeping through the world of corporate comput-ing today. Many enterprises are near-ing full capacity as far as availability of physical space and power in their data centers. At the same time, they are often using less than a third of their computational resources. The benefits of using virtualization to consolidate IT applications onto fewer, more power-ful, energy-efficient servers are widely understood. Even so, the use of virtual-ization technologies has not yet become as widespread as might have been expected.

A joint offering that addresses the risks

Sun Microsystems and CA offer a strong suite of combined solutions to ease this transition. The offerings include Sun’s leading open server virtualiza-tion products along with a range of CA software management solutions that are designed specifically for virtualized envi-ronments to enable better understand-ing and control of the entire network and computing environment. This makes it simple to perform timely problem resolution in complex, hybrid physical and virtual environments.

Why virtualization is not pervasive yet

Despite the general agreement on the virtues of virtualization, only 27% of applications were running on virtual machines in 20091. In the same survey, almost half of respondents indentified virtualization as their greatest emerging technology challenge. This is mainly due to the potential associated risks, such as virtual server sprawl and concerns about security. In addition, there is a perceived lack of control over where applications are running and where critical data is stored.

Customers greatly reduce their risk by being able to control virtualized environ-ments as securely as they control access to their physical platform. Proactive per-formance monitoring to identify emerg-ing issues and the ability to pinpoint the root cause of problems and resolve them quickly leads to improved service quality. The deep visibility offered into business transactions and the reliability made innate by the automation of routine activities leads to improved operational excellence. Critical applications can be put in production much faster, leading to much improved agility and faster time to market.

• Cost savings through built-in Solaris virtualization

• Complete control of complexity through an integrated software suite that offers deep visibility into business transactions, root cause analysis, and the automation of formerly manual, error-prone activities

• Improved service levels through dynamic resource brokering and comprehensive performance monitoring through simply set up dashboards

“We’re making use of container virtualization in Solaris 10 Operating System and embedded virtualization features, so we can actually expand our IT infrastructure without having to physically grow the datacenter space.” –PaulBartle,SeniorManagerofTechnicalServices,BCFerries

Highlights

Sun Microsystems: Solution Briefs

CA and Sun—The Power of Two

CA Management Software and Sun Virtualization Solutions

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CA and Sun—The Power of Two CA Management Software and Sun Virtualization Solutions

Thought leadership in virtualization

Sun has redefined virtualization with a broad

range of open, scalable products and services

—from desktop to server to storage. These

open virtualization solutions allow customers

to consolidate their applications on Sun serv-

ers with no additional licensing costs. Logical

Domains (LDoms) technology is built in as

standard on Sun systems based on the Ultra-

SPARC® T1 and T2 processors. Solaris™ Zones

(also called Solaris Containers) technology

is built into the Solaris 10 operating system.

Solaris Zones have also been open sourced

through the OpenSolaris™ project.

Logical Domains

LDoms let customers consolidate their ap-

plication tier by dividing Sun servers into

multiple logical servers so that they can

securely isolate application instances yet eas-

ily reallocate re¬sources across domains. Each

Logical Domain is an independent, discrete

system, separated from the others, with its

own OS and system resources. One can even

run multiple different operating systems

simultaneously in different domains.

Solaris Zones

Solaris Zones offer a low-overhead partitioning

approach that combines fine-grained resource

controls with the ability to securely isolate

application workloads in separate partitions

on the same instance of the Solaris 10 OS.

Branded zones also allow the running of appli-

cations against an older version of the Solaris

OS without incurring the overhead of another

complete OS instance. By reducing the number

of OS instances to be managed, Solaris Zones

can help minimize administration costs.

CA management software for Sun

virtualization

CA has a history of strong support for multi-

platform, multi-vendor server technologies

across the entire infrastructure. Its decade

long partnership with Sun leverages CA’s

expertise in simplifying management of

complex IT environments.

CA has a range of products in its portfolio

that are geared to Service Assurance, cover-

ing network, physical and virtual system,


Figure 1. Sun virtualization technologies and CA VPM software work

together to enable flexible virtualization while enforcing strict control

and performance monitoring.

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HardwareResources CPU

ResourcesMemory

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Applications Applications

Solaris 9 OSSolaris 10 OS

Solaris 10 OSGlobal Zone

Zone #1 Zone #2(Branded)

CA Virtual Performance Management

applications and database domains. Business

services cross these domains, and CA has con-

tinued to increase and tighten the integration

between these management products so that

a single, cross-domain view of all infrastruc-

ture components is possible.

CA Virtual Performance Management

(CA VPM) is an add-on capability to CA’s

IT operations and management solutions

and is optimized to run on Solaris.



CA’s virtualization management solutions are

comprised of the following products:

• CA eHealth® Performance Manager

• CA Spectrum® Infrastructure Manager

• CA NSM

• CA Insight™ Database Performance Manager

• CA Spectrum® Service Assurance

• CA Spectrum® Automation Manager

The CA eHealth® Performance Manager

proactively monitors the performance of net-

works (both data and voice), systems (both

physical and virtual), databases (DB2, Oracle,

SQL Server, and Sybase), and client/server

applications. With this visibility into perfor-

mance within the infrastructure, any threat

of performance degradation to the business

service is identified, allowing for corrective

action to be taken before internal and external

customers are impacted. Extensive reporting

includes trending analysis so IT operations can

be informed and proactive on how to plan and

prioritize remediation of performance issues.

CA Spectrum® Infrastructure Manager offers

deep visibility, rapid fault isolation and out-

of-the-box root cause analysis for virtualized

environments, based on a patented, real-time,

operational model of the infrastructure. CA

Spectrum provides an automated approach

to discovering, monitoring and managing

host physical servers and their guest virtual

machines, and extends the value of an exist-

ing infrastructure management solution to

eliminate the need for a domain- or vendor-

specific tool.

Figure 2. CA eHealth Performance Manager with CA VPM

allows examination of resource utilization per Zone Host.

“If you don’t have visibility into what’s going on, and the ability

to think through sophisticated service levels, the risk goes up.

You must have an aggregated view of elements that takes into

account all policies, service levels and metrics dealing with both

virtual and physical resources. CA’s decades long partnership with

Sun enables us to provide management of Sun Solaris Zones and

Sun Clusters in addition to comprehensive support for

Sun operating systems.”

–StephenElliot,VPofBusinessUnitStrategy,CA



Figure 3. CA Spectrum Infrastructure Manager with CA VPM

provides a highly graphical view of the Solaris global and

non-global zones.

CA NSM provides automated management

of diverse physical and virtual environments

through a single, consolidated console. NSM

makes the connections between people,

processes and the various management tools

being used. It helps identify operational issues

before end users or critical services are impact-

ed, allowing IT organizations to establish their

priorities according to business requirements.

Through clear visualization and policy-driven

self-management, NSM effectively monitors

and optimizes critical system resources ensur-

ing availability and performance levels, dynam-

ically meeting the variable demand of today’s

most complex business-critical processes.

CA Insight™ Database Performance Manager

monitors databases such as DB2 LUW (Linux,

Unix, Windows), Oracle, SQL Server and Syb-

ase. It fully supports management in Solaris

zones based environment. It keeps track of and

triages performance issues seamlessly across

hybrid database environments. The software

is designed for proactive management of issues

in order to allow the monitoring of conditions

over time before they reach a point of critical-

ity. Because the precise information is provided

in an appropriate context and at the right time,

database administrators can collaborate with

IT Operations for effective problem resolution.

CA Spectrum® Automation Manager responds

to rapidly changing business demands with

automated policy-based provisioning of physi-

cal, virtual and cloud resources to provide the

capacity that business services require. Using

repeatable processes, automated provision-

ing permits greater control and compliance

of physical and virtual resources and better

management over change control and drift.


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Benefits of CA virtualization management

solutions

CA Virtualization Management helps organiza-

tions confidently deploy and run virtualization

to gain a competitive edge and to plan for

growth. Customer benefits include:

• Faster Time-to-Market: Accelerate the time

taken to get critical applications into pro-

duction and reduce the manual, error-prone

activities that compromise agility.

• Operational Excellence: Discover, classify

and manage change across physical and

virtual assets, enabling enterprises to gain

visibility and operational control into their

business transactions and end customer

experience.

• Improved Predictability: Customers gain

greater visibility into their performance

which allows them to optimize computing

resources and plan for growth.

Conclusion

Joint solutions from CA and Sun deliver

proven, mature, end-to-end management for

both physical and virtual environments across

systems, networks, databases and applica-

tions. Virtualization can be transformed from

being a back-room experiment to a front-line

business asset for enterprises.

CA leadership in virtualization management

“With strong innovation, heterogeneous

support, highly capable, proven solutions,

and a customer satisfaction rating of 4 out

of 5 CA is stepping up to the virtualization man-

agement challenge like no other vendor, taking

a well-deserved solo spot on the Virtual System

Management All Star First Team.”

–EMAReport,2008.

Figure 4. CA Spectrum Service Assurance provides a real-time view of service status.

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CA Management Software and Sun Virtualization Solutions