Optimizing Application Performance within the Virtualized Data Centre

Sanath de Mel – ADP SE

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Agenda

• Key issues with Consolidation, Mobile Internet, Virtualisation and Capacity planning

• Brocade ServerIron ADX with Application Resource Broker

• Application Resource Broker in Action• Extending the boundaries of the Enterprise Cloud• Brocade One vision

Workflow: Financial Reporting Application

Characteristics:•Overall demand averages 66%•Cyclical requirements results large increase in demand•Difficult candidate to provision for in Real Time – Difficult and Unreliable•Lack of Visibility of machine in Active use and Manageability

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Workflow AnalysisNumber of Servers Required to Support Each Application

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50 ERP VM’s at

Peak

10 ERP VM’s Off-

Peak

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Resource Planning Remains DifficultVirtualization and consolidation don’t solve capacity planning• Resource planning

increasingly difficult in a virtual world

• Server consolidation decreases historic “over-provisioning” buffers

• Virtualization does not recapture unused resources from bursty applications

Predicted Load: Financial Reporting App

Financial Reporting Application Resource

Requirements

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Resources Provisioned (125% of Peak)

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Over-provisioning leaves costly resources

idle

Under-provisioning results in missed application SLAs

Avoiding Increased Costs and Application Outages in Dynamic ITOn Demand Resource Allocation is Needed

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Actual Load SeenPredicted LoadResources Provisioned (125% of Peak)

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Resources idle 66% of the time

Load Accurately Predicted

Load Greater than Predicted

Missed SLA

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Server Virtualization—Shared Infrastructure Concerns

Other

Compatibility With OS

Little or No Cost Benefits

Reliability

OS Licensing

Recoverability

Security

Chargeback Complexity

Application Licensing

Manageability

Performance Under Load

-10% 0% 10% 20% 30%

2009

2010

Which of these is your greatest concern regarding server virtualization?

(9/24/09): 2009: n=281. 2010: n=275 Source TheInfoPro Servers Wave 8 Report

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Critical Needs to Achieve Enterprise Cloud

• Efficient usage of resources while upholding application SLA’s

• Capacity on demand that rapidly respond to changing demand

• Reduce operational overhead and complexity with increased visibility

• Second phase of virtualization concentrates on the flexible allocation of resources to respond to business demand

Resolve these needs to deliver dynamic on-demand IT

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Virtualised Datacenter or Private Enterprise Cloud

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SAP Business ObjectsCustomer-facing PortalExtranetOnline Ordering Web ServiceMicrosoft Applications

Virtualised Datacenter or Private Enterprise Cloud

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Brocade Application Resource Broker In ActionWorkflow: Financial Reporting Application

Application Performance Metrics

Response Times, etc.

Virtualised Infrastructure Metrics

CPU Usage etc

Communications channel Power on a VM

Add VM to a Load Balanced Pool

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vSphere Client with Application Resource Broker

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Interface to the Application Resource is provided via vSphere plug-in

VMware IntegrationBrocade Application Broker inside VMware vCenter

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Application Performance Monitoring

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Viewing the Web Application

•vSphere Client provides a global view of individual workflows with the SAP Application

•Metrics provide Application and Infrastructure metrics

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Processing Tier

Intelligence Tier

Web/Application Tier

ADX Load

Balancer

Tomcat Server

Tomcat Server

Tomcat Server

Tomcat Server

CMS Server CMS Server Oracle Database

CMS Metadata

Crystal Reports

Crystal Reports

Web Intelligence

Web Intelligence

SAP Business Objects Enterprise Logical Diagram

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Measuring different metrics is the key to optimisation

Viewing the Web Application

Drill down to view which servers support the SAP Application

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Create Stand-by Resource Pools

DRS required to support On Demand Provisioning

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Policies for Resource Allocation

Logging Rule triggers an Alert when threshold is reached

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Logging Rule is triggered and Alert is sent.

Full event logging viewable via vCenter – optional export to other Applications

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Higher CPU Usage, higher application response time

Deeper into the quarter, the application receives more traffic

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On Demand Provisioning at Web Tier

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Application Resource Broker starts up a new VM and adds it to the Workflow

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On Demand Provisioning at Web Tier

Viewing resources provisioned Application Resource

Optional undeploy

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Application Resource Broker adds continues to provision resources whenever a threshold is reached.

Traffic does not fall to a level where a decommissioning rule is triggered

On Demand Provisioning at Web Tier

De-provisioning a VM from the Workflow

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Application Resource Broker gracefully shuts down the VM on the ServerIron ADX

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De-provisioning a VM from the WorkflowApplication Resource Broker returns VM to the standby Resource Pool

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On Demand Provisioning for ERP Application

Resource is available for provisioning by the Application Resource Broker to other Workflows

Global Server Load Balancing with ADX and ARB

Data Center USA

Data Center Europe

ServerIron ADX

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