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Monitoring and Managing VDI

Aseem Anwar

S.E. Channel UKI

with Veeam

� Need for real-time performance metrics

� Detailed alerting and fault finding tools

� Identification of bottlenecks

� Storage performance and sizing information

� Virtualised network utilisation statistics

� Aggregated view with the ability to deep-dive

� Resource usage and SLA monitoring

� Business centric view of resource consumption

Monitoring a VDI Deployment

Veeam Monitor

� Not another monitoring framework

� Agentless

� Automatically discovers all objects in the virtual

environment

� Requires no changes to access policies

� Includes 125+ pre-defined alarms and thresholds

Veeam Monitor

� Performance

metrics

� Events

� Workload

� Resource

consumption

� Hardware status

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The complete picture

� Multiple vCenter Servers

� All hosts, including ESXi free

� Inside VMs: running processes, guest disk space

� Storage

� Hardware status

� Real-time and historical data

� Correlated performance and event data

� Displays vMotion, snapshot creation/deletion, backup and other

activities directly on performance graphs

� Helps solve resource usage mysteries

Eliminate common problems

� Problem: Guest OS runs out of local disk space

Solution: Monitor, alert and report on free disk space on

volumes inside the guest OS

� Problem: Abandoned snapshots fill the datastore,

affecting all VMs residing on that datastore

Solution:Warn if a VM’s snapshots exceed a specified

size; display top VMs for each node in the infrastructure

tree

� Problem: Host is running out of memory

Solution: Drill down into VMs, view their running

processes, and terminate processes as needed

Low overhead

� Collect once for any number of users and

any number of queries

� Offload monitoring from vCenter Server and ESX(i) hosts

for enhanced vCenter Server and host performance

� Easily access data from remote sites

How it works

� vSphere API� Single secure connection

� Scalable architecture

� Easy to configure

� Does not require a

physical host (can run in a

VM)

� SQL Server backend

� Broad version support� vCenter Server 4.x

Virtual Center 2.x

� ESX 4.x and 3.x

ESXi 4.x and 3.x

(including ESXi free)

Admin AdminAdmin

Veeam Monitor

ESX (i)

ESX(i)

vCenter Server

ESX(i)

vSphere API

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Technology and business views

Dashboards

� Summary dashboard

for each object in the

infrastructure tree NEW!

� Infrastructure overview

dashboard NEW!

� Easily drill down

for more information

Integrated storage monitoring

� Datastores� VMFS and NFS NEW!

� I/O load: determines actual cumulative load

� Latency, read/write rates

� Disk space: free space, capacity, over-provisioning

� Issues (for example, bus resets and other conflicts)

� Displays user-friendly datastore names

� Storage paths and storage adapters� Load balancing status

� I/O, latency, read/write rates

� Virtual disks� Free space

� I/O, latency, read/write rates

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Built-in intelligence NEW!

� Embodies deep VMware expertise and best practices

� Speeds problem resolution and maximizes

tuning outcomes

� Includes 125+ pre-defined alarms and thresholds

� Includes extensive

knowledge base

with detailed information

about each alarm� Possible causes

� Suggested resolution

� Links to additional information

Alarms

� Pre-defined alarms and thresholds

� Custom alarms

� Alarm modeling

� Notification via email or SNMP traps

� Ability to manage alarms and thresholds by

SLA, server type, business unit, location, etc.

� Reporting is required for effective management

� Technical users� Configuration reporting

� Performance data for identifying trends

� Capacity planning for environment scaling

� Change management to control drift

� Managerial users� Resource consumption for chargeback

� Performance data for SLA reporting

� Capacity planning for financial budgeting

Reporting for VDI Veeam Reporter

One place to go

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Veeam Reporter

� One place to go

� Different consumers

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21

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Storage Used by Cluster, TB

Cluster 1

Cluster 2

Cluster 3

Cluster 4

Cluster 5

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7

33

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Storage Used by Department, TB

Marketing

Support

R&D

Sales

3 key areas

Enterprise reporting

Change management

Capacity planning

Enterprise Reporting

� Automate documentation creation

� Streamline management reporting – dashboard view

� Eliminate manual processes, delays and out-of-date

reports

� Supports multiple vCenters; effectively diagrams

environments with thousands of virtual machines

� Provides customizable reports; supports multiple

formats: SSRS, Visio, PDF, Excel, Word

� Provides a complete history of configuration settings for

restoration to any point in time

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3 key areas

Enterprise reporting

Change management

Capacity planning

Change Management

� Track all changes - Collects all 25 object types and ≈ 600

properties;monitors 150+ change-related events

� Provide audit data to aid in forensic analysis and

improve change workflow

� When problems arise, answers the all-important question

“what changed?”; provides data to restore settings

� Analyze configuration drift; reports on configuration at

any point in time

3 key areas

Enterprise reporting

Change management

Capacity planning

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Capacity Planning

� Performs trend analysis for clusters, hosts and VMs to

see average load, peaks and bottlenecks

� Analyzes performance and utilization trends and predicts

when additional hardware is needed

� Maximize consolidation ratios - Optimizes VM placement

and uncovers spare resources

� Control VM sprawl and facilitate chargeback -Automatically categorizes VMs; identifies unmanaged

VMs; generates reports by group

IISIIS

Veeam Reporter

SQL Server

SSRS

CMDB

Dashboard

or portalWeb

browser

Report

consumer

� Backup and DR� Veeam Backup with vPower

� Instant Restore

� SureBackup

� Monitor� Real-time performance information

� Alerting and monitoring

� Business Centric perspective

� Reporter� Configuration management

� Resource usage reporting

� Capacity planning

Recap

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� Veeam Monitor Demo� Dashboard view

� Alerting

� Drill down to VM level

Questions?