ca management software and sun virtualization solutions
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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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Sun Microsystems: Solution Briefs
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,
Sun Microsystems: Solution Briefs
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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SystemAdministrators
HardwareResources CPU
ResourcesMemory
Resources
Applications Applications
Solaris 9 OSSolaris 10 OS
Solaris 10 OSGlobal Zone
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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.
Sun Microsystems: Solution Briefs
CA and Sun—The Power of Two CA Management Software and Sun Virtualization Solutions
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
CA and Sun—The Power of Two CA Management Software and Sun Virtualization Solutions
Sun Microsystems: Solution Briefs
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.
CA and Sun—The Power of Two CA Management Software and Sun Virtualization Solutions
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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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