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vRealize Operations in-depth analysis

Pedro Mendes da SilvaComputer Scientist

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VMware vCloud Suite components● VMware terminology can be confusing

○ this presentation tries to clarify some names and analyse vRealize Operations in-depth

● the vCloud suite includes almost all VMware products○ Hypervisor: vSphere (ESXi + vCenter)

■ ESXi: Single-machine Hypervisor■ vCenter: Handles multiple ESXi’s

● Handles vMotion, High Availalability, Load Balancing○ vCenter Site Recovery Manager

■ Policy-based disaster recovery and testing for all virtualized applications

VMware vCloud Suite components

● vRealize○ Includes 3 different components for managing a data

center■ vRealize Operations

● Unified IT Management■ vRealize Automation■ vRealize Business

● Log Insight○ this is a smaller and cheaper product to help

managing a data center

vRealize Operations (vROps)

● “Intelligent IT Operations”○ “identify and solve emerging issues with predictive

analytics and smart alerts”○ multi-cloud compatibility

■ across ● vSphere ● Hyper-V● Amazon● physical hardware

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vRealize Operations (vROps)

● Unified IT Management○ centralized management

■ application and infrastructure health can be monitored in a single place

■ Application-Aware Infrastructure Management○ across applications, storage and network devices

■ applications can include multiple VMs■ there are conectors for 3rd party products

● Microsoft, SAP, …● there is an SDK for developing these

vRealize Operations (vROps)● “Application-Aware Infrastructure

Management”○ insight into application-to-infrastructure

dependencies○ map your running compute, storage and network

resources○ detect variances from the norm○ quickly identify root causes○ view health, risk, and efficiency status at the group

or component level

vROps - Home Dashboard

vROps - Alerts

vROps: Predictive Analytics, Dynamic Thresholds, and Smart Alerts

● Self-learning algorithms and predictive analytics○ correlate monitoring data○ intelligent alerts on underlying performance issues○ clear recommendations for corrective action○ dynamic thresholds adapt to your environment○

vROps: advanced features● Views: Health and Workload, Workload

Details and Heat Maps● Capacity Trending, Analysis and Right-

Sizing● Advanced Capacity Modeling with Capacity

Planning and Project Management○ “what-if” scenarios○ capacity planning○ projects

Log Insight: relation with vROps● vROps is much more powerful

○ using data mining to correlate events and suggest actions

● Log Insight just ○ stores logs (in a structured format)○ performs queries/aggregations over logs○ show dashboards over queries○ exports content packs/development tool

● vROps can drill-down to Log Insight to check detailed event data