Veritas Operations Manager 4 and Veritas Operations Manager Advanced

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Veritas Operations Manager

Veritas Operations Manager 4 and Veritas Operations Manager Advanced

May 3, 2011

Key Data Center Challenges

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• “Top challenge on Virtual Environments is Ensuring Application Availability”1

• “Thin Provisioning, De-duplication, Compression. How does storage consumption increase risk?”

Meet Increased Expectations and Reduce Downtime

Improve IT Asset Use by Eliminating Storage Waste

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

• “Storage Utilization rate is only 40.8%”4

• “Virtualization will lead to an explosion in storage capacity requirements”6

UnscheduledDowntime

ScheduledDowntime

• “Key challenge to IT cost optimization is the complexity and the diversity of applications.”3

• “Private clouds rely on highly automated and repeatable capabilities”3

Automate and Orchestrate to Increase Agility

Storage and Availability Resource Management for Physical, Virtual & Private Cloud Environments

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Achieve Visibility & Control Across Physical &

Virtual

Take the Next Step to Storage as a Service

Get Results Faster with Quicker, Customized

Deployment

• Deploy apps faster with on-host storage provisioning service catalog

• Deliver chargeback reporting

• Easier agentless deployment

• Use a single storage & availability tool across platforms

• Reduce risk with out-of-the-box & customizable health checks

• Understand app dependencies across physical & virtual

• Provide in-depth reporting

• Automate start/stop of complex business services


Identify Dependencies for Applications Running on Virtual Servers to Eliminate Risk

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ESX

VM

EXCH

VM

DB2

VM

ORA

Application

Virtual Machines

Virtualization Server

ZONE ZONE

DB2 ORA

GLOBAL Zone

• Navigate from the application to the physical server

• Identify all applications and services groups running on a virtualized server

• Reduce potential unexpected outages due to maintenance


Group and Orchestrate Operations for Business Services Across Physical and Virtual Servers

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• Group objects across platforms according to your needs

• Ordered start/stop all service groups and underlying virtual machines

• Automate manual operations to reduce downtime

eCommerceVirtual Business Service

Veritas Cluster Server

Application Server


Storage Foundation Storage FoundationCluster File System HA



Scale Operations with Automated Storage Provisioning Using Service Levels

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TIER 1

TIER 1

Operate based on services levels

Create your service catalog w/ templates

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Identify Waste Along the Storage Provisioning Process

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• Multi-vendor and multi-platform support on a single tool

• Find waste at each stage according to teams’ perspectives

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Remediate to Optimize Storage

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Reduce Storage Waste by Making Users Accountable

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• Define storage cost using tiers

• Aggregate by geo, business unit or application

• Control private cloud and virtualization costs

Quarterly Chargeback Report for Retail Services

Division Allocated Capacity (GB)

Total Charge($USD)

Retail Banking 8,652 $ 165,963

Home Loan 5,889 $110,414

Credit Cards 3,472 $ 65,092

Small Biz 57 $ 1,070

Total 18,070 $ 342,539




• Get Virtual and Physical Visibility and Control

• Deliver Storage as a Service

• Get Results Faster and Easier


• Veritas Operations Manager

– Storage and high availability management and operations

– GA: May, 2011

– Free with Veritas Storage Foundation and Cluster Server

• Veritas Operations Manager Advanced

– Deep reporting and insight into storage consumption

– GA: Summer, 2011

– Free with Veritas Storage Foundation Enterprise

– $995/ managed host

Thank you!

Copyright © 2010 Symantec Corporation. All rights reserved. Symantec and the Symantec Logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Symantec Corporation or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

This document is provided for informational purposes only and is not intended as advertising. All warranties relating to the information in this document, either express or implied, are disclaimed to the maximum extent allowed by law. The information in this document is subject to change without notice.

Thank you!

11Veritas Operations Manager 4 and Veritas Operations Manager Advanced

Veritas Operations Manager 4.0…Visibility and Control Across Virtual, Physical and Cloud Environments

• Action-based Storage and Availability Management

– Visibility into underlying dependencies for applications running in virtual environments to reduce risk of outages

– Centralized management console to provide storage and server info and the ability to take action

– Allocate storage to servers based on business requirements, utilize thin storage capabilities and implement policy-based storage tiering

– Automate the start and stop of multi-tiered applications running in physical and virtual environments to increase uptime and administrator efficiency

• Next Step to Storage as a Service

– Deploy applications faster with simpler on-host storage provisioning

– Obtain deep chargeback reporting across multi-vendor storage to drive better storage utilization

• Faster Agentless Installation and Reporting Capabilities

– Single tool to manage a wide array of operating systems, server, virtualization, and storage platforms

– Tools for scripting your own health checks, patch management, and custom reporting


Key Data Center Challenges


• “Top challenge on Virtual Environments is Ensuring Application Availability”1

• “Thin Provisioning, De-duplication, Compression. How does storage consumption increase risk?”

Meet Increased Expectations and Reduce Downtime

Improve IT Asset Use by Eliminating Storage Waste

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

• “Storage Utilization rate is only 40.8%”4

• “Virtualization will lead to an explosion in storage capacity requirements”6

UnscheduledDowntime

ScheduledDowntime

• “Key challenge to IT cost optimization is the complexity and the diversity of applications.”3

• “Private clouds rely on highly automated and repeatable capabilities”3

Automate and Orchestrate to Increase Agility


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Achieve Visibility & Control Across Physical &

Virtual

Take the Next Step to Storage as a Service

Get Results Faster with Quicker, Customized

Deployment

• Deploy apps faster with on-host storage provisioning service catalog

• Deliver chargeback reporting

• Easier agentless deployment

• Use a single storage & availability tool across platforms

• Reduce risk with out-of-the-box & customizable health checks

• Understand app dependencies across physical & virtual

• Provide in-depth reporting

• Automate start/stop of complex business services


Identify Dependencies for Applications Running on Virtual Servers to Eliminate Risk

15

ESX

VM

EXCH

VM

DB2

VM

ORC

Application

Virtual Machines

Virtualization Server

ZONE ZONE

DB2 ORC

GLOBAL Zone

• Navigate from the application to the physical server

• Identify all applications and services groups running on a virtualized server

• Reduce potential unexpected outages due to maintenance


Group and Orchestrate Operations for Business Services Across Physical and Virtual Servers

16

• Group objects across platforms according to your needs

• Ordered start/stop all service groups and underlying virtual machines

• Automate manual operations to reduce downtime

eCommerceVirtual Business Service


Application Server


Storage Foundation Storage FoundationCluster File System HA



Scale Operations with Automated Storage Provisioning Using Service Levels

17

TIER 2

TIER 1

TIER 1

Operate based on services levels

Create your service catalog w/ templates

TIER 25

Tier 1







Storage and Availability Management for Virtual and Physical Environments

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Accelerate operations with standardization and automation

Maximize storage utilization with end-to-end reporting and remediation

Minimize risk with alerting, reporting and end-to-end visibility

Site 1

Storage Foundation & Cluster Server

Native OS

Site 3

Site 2

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•File Systems•Volume Management

•Clustering•Hypervisors


Step 1: Understand an Applications Storage Usage and Configuration

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FreeVirtual Storage Pools

File System/Volume

DB

Tablespace

ARRAY

RAID5 ReplicationSnap

• Detailed application-to-storage Information

• Virtualization support

• Detailed device information


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Step 2: Identify Waste Along the Storage Provisioning Process

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• Multi-vendor and multi-platform support on a single tool

• Find waste at each stage according to teams’ perspectives


Ap

p

Usa

ge

OverheadUn-provisioned

Un-claimedUn-consumed

Over-provisioned

Misused

Ph

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Co

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Storage Team

ServerTeam

DBA/AppTeam

End Users


Step 3: Remediate

Disks/LUNs

File System

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Volumes

Volume



Storage Foundation

SERVER• No downtime for

remediation operations:o Reclaim to thin

poolo Shrink file systemso Migrate from Tier

1 to Tier 2 storageo Deport or

reallocate unused LUNs





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Step 4: Reduce Storage Waste by Making Users Accountable

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• Define storage cost using tiers

• Aggregate by geo, business unit or application

• Control private cloud and virtualization costs

Quarterly Chargeback Report for Retail Services

Division Allocated Capacity (GB)

Total Charge($USD)

Retail Banking 8,652 $ 165,963

Home Loan 5,889 $110,414

Credit Cards 3,472 $ 65,092

Small Biz 57 $ 1,070

Total 18,070 $ 342,539



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• Find Storage Foundation and Cluster Server applicable patches

• Inspect your datacenter using built-in or custom health checks

• Visualize HA and DR readiness

Health checks

High Low

Proactively Address Risks to Prevent Downtime


Thank you!

Copyright © 2010 Symantec Corporation. All rights reserved. Symantec and the Symantec Logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Symantec Corporation or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

This document is provided for informational purposes only and is not intended as advertising. All warranties relating to the information in this document, either express or implied, are disclaimed to the maximum extent allowed by law. The information in this document is subject to change without notice.

Thank you!


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Veritas Operations Manager 4 and Veritas Operations Manager Advanced