Pete Zerger, MVP – OpsMgrCEO and Managing Consultant, WinWorkers USAand Co-founder of SystemCenterCentral.com

Identifying VMware Performance & Capacity Problems and Trends

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Agenda

• Identifying Issues Through vSphere Component Health • Spotting Trends Through vSphere Key Performance

Indicators • Reading Signs of VM Sprawl• Leveraging Reports for Performance and Capacity Trend

Analysis• Maintaining Awareness of the Monitoring Footprint• Using Data to Drive Infrastructure Improvements• Management challenge – and solution

– A little nworks + Veeam history– nworks MP and PRO Pack architecture– Advanced features– Q&A

Takeaways

• Tips on how to use views and reports OpsMgr with nworks MP to identify trends in performance

• Guidance on how to interpret vSPhere KPIs with OpsMgr views reports to identify probable cause (likely suspects)

• Separate performance / configuration problems from capacity issues

• Learn the #1 habit of highly effective OpsMgr administrators

• How to use your evidence to drive positive change

The vSphere Monitoring Challenge

Scenario:• You’re an OpsMgr administrator at a new company• Existing OpsMgr installation • vSphere performance issues abound • Nobody knows quite when the problems started or exactly

what might be causing them

Your Mission:• Armed with only an OpsMgr console and data collected by

the Veeam nworks 5.6 MP:– Identify the monitoring trends – Separate capacity-related from configuration-related

issues– Make the call on VM sprawl– Identify the right move to improve the situation

Identifying Issues Through vSphere Component Health

At-a-glance insight into acute problems

Likely causes Sudden increases in VM

density (new deployments)

Configuration changes Hardware running at a

deficit due to component failure (e.g. – disk failure in an array)

State and Performance View in Monitoring pane provide short-term perspective

Drilling down on short term performance trends

Demonstration

Spotting Trends Through vSphere Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• KPIs for vSphere can provide immediate insight into probable source cause

• Challenges – Which counters to watch is not common knowledge

amongst OpsMgr administrators – Understanding how to interpret vSphere host and guest

KPIs requires some training and practice– Separating performance issues related to configuration

versus capacity problems can be difficult

• Understanding how to leverage this data to drive change is key

Bottom line: The answers are in the Operations console if you know what data to focus on