Controlling Virtual Server SprawlLuigi Tiano – Luc LaforestCT Consultants Inc. & HPFebruary 23, 2010

VMware Server Management with HP Software

Business outcomes

HP Software BTO portfolio

Project & PortfolioManagement Center

CIO Office

CTO Office

SOACenter

SAP, Oracle, SOA, J2EE, .Net

QualityCenter

PerformanceCenter

Application Security Center

Application lifecycle

Business servicemanagement

IT service management

Business Availability Center

Operations Center

Network Management Center

Service Management Center

Client Automation Center

Data Center Automation Center

Business service automation

Universal CMDB

Operations Orchestration

HP Software Virtualization Management Solutions

STRATEGY APPLICATIONS OPERATIONS

The promise of virtualization

Transform IT into an efficient and adaptive service provider

Rigid SiloedManually assembled services

Dynamic SharedTransparently assembled services

VirtualServerAdmins

NetworkAdmins

Operation

Center

StorageAdmins

DesktopAdmins

Physical ServerAdmins

(VMWare, Xen, MS)

(HP, SUN,IBM, Win)

Spiraling service complexity, changesVirtual stack explosion

1

Virtualization is not living up to its full promise

IP Network

Data Center 2 Remote OfficesData Center 1

• • •

Splintered visibility, tribal knowledgePoint tool sprawl

2

No policies, standardizationMore downtime, longer MTTR

3

Management is the biggest obstacle

Ineffective, siloed management

VirtualServerAdmins

NetworkAdmins

Operation

Center

StorageAdmins

DesktopAdmins

Physical ServerAdmins

(VMWare, Xen, MS)

(HP, SUN,IBM, Win)

Spiraling service complexity, changesVirtual stack explosion

1

Virtualization is not living up to its full promise

IP Network

Data Center 2 Remote OfficesData Center 1

• • •

Splintered visibility, tribal knowledgePoint tool sprawl

2

No policies, standardizationMore downtime, longer MTTR

3

Management is the biggest obstacle

Ineffective, siloed management

Results:70%+ IT costs are labor

30-50% storage underutilization

• Uncontrollable VM sprawl• Lack end-to-end service

monitoring• Storage over-provisioning from

lack of utilization visibility• Lack controls, security

enforcement• Risk tradeoff for production apps

Turning promise into reality

From siloed virtualization management

To seamless, heterogeneous service

management Lack of visibility across virtual and physical infrastructures

Consolidated service view of physical and virtual resources

Tribal management toolsets for each virtualization technology

Common management of all physical and virtual resources

Disconnected management processes and tasks

Automated service management across physical and virtual domains

Lack enforceable security and compliance policies

Global compliance visibility and enforcement

Unifying management of your hybrid virtualized environment MOVE

Reduce Operational Cost and Risk with HP Server Automation

The complexity beneath the surface

Network

StorageServers

What must workbehind the scenes…What the users see

99%

85%

99%

99%

20 minutes

2 weeks

2 days

1 incident per week

HP Server Automation: delivering unparalleled increases in efficiencyTask

Before HP server

automationCustomer

Implement software change on 2600 servers

Provision & configure 600 Windows servers

Automate compliance of 800 servers

2 weeks

3-4 months

32 weeks

Automatic health-check of servers

80+ sev1 incidents/week

After HP server

automation

HP Server Automation Capabilities

Patching and provisioning

Application release

management

Compliance management

HP Server Automation

• Establish and enforce compliance policies and “gold” standard configurations

• Identify risks and remediate in seconds • Receive ongoing information about risks via HP Essentials

Network

Cut costs and risk by automating manual tasks

• Visualize relationships and dependencies between applications and servers, network and storage

• Eliminate manual handoffs and establish and enforce policies of who can do what at each step of the process

• Establish a baseline• Identify patch levels and create patch policies• Bare metal provisioning of thousands of servers in minutes• Provision physical or virtual servers from a single pane of

glass

Manage virtual sprawl

Standardize

HP Server Automation

• Manage servers consistently regardless of geographic location

• Establish and enforce consistent configuration policies• Establish and enforce access policies: who can do what to

which server or group of servers

Cut costs and risk by automating manual tasks

• Identify relationships and dependencies between physical and virtual servers

• Discover, create and control virtual machines• Manage physical and virtual servers consistently

Controlling virtual sprawl

Baseline• Understand physical and virtual environments • Map dependencies between apps, servers,

network devices and storage

Heterogeneous support

• Single management solution across heterogeneous virtualization platforms

• Seamless management across physical and virtual servers

Create andsecure

• Complete virtualization hypervisor and virtual machine lifecycle – provision, update, start, stop, end of life: VMware and Solaris zones

• Establish policies for who can do what to which servers

How HP server automation can help

Common use cases: Baseline,Patching andProvisioning

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Establish a baselineView servers, software and storage

View servers by name, operating system or IP address

View servers, software and storage

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Establish a baseline of virtual servers VMware

View by OS: Vmware and Solaris Zones

Establish a baseline: storage

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View the capacity and free space of my storage to make sure I have enough free space for my service

Understand if you have enough storage for your planned needs

View unmounted volumes to see if storage requested has been provisioned or if you have storage you don’t need

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PatchingEstablish and enforce patch policies by OS

Search patch

policies by OS

Drill down into patch

details

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Provisioning: Bare metal provisioning

Select the OS sequence

The key steps in

the process

Assign the server to the right server groups and

automatically apply the right

policies

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Provisioning virtual machinesVirtual and physical from a single pane of glass

Establish the virtual machines properties from SA

Configure the

network and data

store

Check the progress of the job without

leaving SA

Controlling Virtual Sprawl

Virtualization automationKey CapabilitiesKey Capabilities

Lifecycle automation for VMware ESX

−ESX hypervisor provisioning

−Create, modify, delete Virtual Machines

−Power On, Power Off, Suspend, and Reset ESX VMs

Audit VMware Trend reporting

Key CapabilitiesKey Capabilities

Lifecycle automation for VMware ESX and Solaris 10 containers

−ESX hypervisor provisioning

−Create, modify, delete Virtual Machines

−Power On, Power Off, Suspend, and Reset ESX VMs

Audit VMware and Solaris 10 Containers

Trend reporting

Expanded virtualization supportVirtualization automation

Key CapabilitiesKey Capabilities Lifecycle automation for

VMware ESX and Solaris 10 containers

−ESX hypervisor provisioning

−Create, modify, delete Virtual Machines

−Power On, Power Off, Suspend, and Reset ESX VMs

Audit VMware and Solaris 10 Containers

Trend reporting

Expanded virtualization supportVirtualization automation

The Challenge

HP Solution

Use case: virtual server lifecycle automation

Can’t manage virtualized environment end to endusing the console used to manage traditional servers

Create virtual servers,allocate resources

Provision, patch,maintain compliance

Control: Start, stop,suspend, remove

Audit vm configurations

Thank you