Transcript Session code: SEC317 Charles Clarke [t:@chas_clarke] Veeam Software – Lead Pre-Sales Engineer APAC Michael Pell ETSA Utilities - Server Support Engineer Virtualization Monitoring and Management with.

Session code: SEC317
Charles Clarke [t:@chas_clarke]
Veeam Software – Lead Pre-Sales Engineer APAC
Michael Pell
ETSA Utilities - Server Support Engineer
Virtualization Monitoring and
Management with Veeam and
System Center
Agenda
► Who are Veeam?
► Why is unity of monitoring important?
► What do Veeam and System Center deliver?
► Case study – ETSA Utilities
► Unity in business continuity
Who are Veeam?
The Green Veeam Teeam
Simplify and Standardize
VMware Monitoring
Multiple monitoring tools can be expensive...
• Duplication of training costs
• Duplication of management teams with different
methodologies and processes
• Disparate servers and systems for management
infrastructure and software
• Often have ‘tunnel vision’
• Longer time to resolution
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High-Level Anatomy of a Monitoring
Solution
Presentation Layer -
Application Layer -
Database layer -
What needs monitored -
System Center Operations Manager
Application Layer -
Database layer -
What needs monitored -
- Monitoring Console
- Notifications
- Reporting
-Management Server
- OpsMgr Agents
- OpsMgr Database
- Data Warehouse
Management Packs
Presentation Layer -
Another monitoring framework
Presentation Layer -
Application Layer -
Database layer -
What needs monitored -
Why not simply extend Operations Manager?
Have a single ‘pane of glass’?
Veeam Management Pack for VMware
Presentation Layer -
Application Layer -
Database layer -
What needs monitored -
- Monitoring Console
- Notifications
- Reporting
- Management Server
- OpsMgr Agents
- OpsMgr Database
- Data Warehouse
Veeam Management Pack for VMware
Integration
Complete integration
For all VMware
components
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vCenter
ESX(i) hosts
Clusters
Virtual machines
Storage
Hardware
vShield
VSA
…enable all Ops Manager
functionality
– Alert on performance and
events
– View service maps &
dashboards
– Get detailed reporting &
auditing
– Integrate notifications,
responses
and automation
Detailed health model
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Standard metrics, such as:
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Cluster memory %
Host CPU %
VM CPU ready %
Snapshot Age
Advanced metrics, such as:
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Memory Pressure
Memory Compression
Memory swap file I/O
Disk IOPS
Disk Queue Latency
Total network traffic
Packet Loss
 vCenter events, such as:
● HA/DRS cluster status
● VMotion issues
● Storage connectivity
 Hardware alerts, such as:
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Power supply failure
Temperature sensors
Fan status
RAID disks
Full and Integrated Knowledge base
►VMware
“guru in a box”
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Complete Integration
Demo’s
Tour of the Management Pack
Topology View
Reporting
Service Level Dashboards
Deployment Considerations
vSphere API
 Secure
– AD-integrated authentication
– Encrypted data traffic
 Scalable
– Supports hundreds of ESX(i) hosts from one vCenter
connection
 Easy to configure
– One port to open, one user to configure
 Rich data source
– Provides hundreds of events, metrics and properties
– Very granular
Scalable
Microsoft System Center
Operations Manager
nworks
Management Pack
VMware
vSphere 4 and VI3
nworks Collector
Ops Manager Agent
Agentless
Scalable
Centrally managed
Fault-tolerant
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Fault
Tolerant
Management Server
Microsoft System Center
Operations Manager 2007
MOM 2005
nworks
Management Pack
VMware
vSphere 4 and VI3
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[standby]
Agentless
Scalable
Centrally managed
Fault-tolerant
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Advanced Scenario’s
OpsMgr DB DW DB
Hosted Environment
Management Servers
Unified Monitoring Console
SCOM
Gateway
TCP 5723
SCOM
Gateway
TCP 5723
SCOM
Gateway
TCP 5723
DataCenter
DataCenter
DataCenter
Advanced Scenario’s
TCP 5273
SCOM Gateway
SCOM Agent
Veeam Collector
Case Study
Michael Pell –
ETSA Utilities
► Electricity Distributor for South Australia
► Delivers power to more than 800,000 homes and
businesses
► Employ around 1800 people
► Head office in Adelaide
ETSA Computing Environment
► 400+ Windows servers
► 65% virtualisation using VMware
► 35 ESX servers
► SQL and Oracle databases
► 35 remote offices
► 2 data centres
► 24x7 support
Previous Monitoring Strategy
► Numerous disparate existing solutions
► Reactive
► No single view of the environment
► Root cause analysis difficult
► No common alerting methodology
► No integration into Service Desk
► Lack of historical information
► Management reporting difficult
Why Operations Manager?
► Best of breed Windows monitoring
► Holistic view of the environment
► Single interface
► Common alerting
► MS products managed immediately
► Specific application monitoring
► Improve service availability
Why Veeam Management Pack?
► Integrates seamlessly into SCOM
► Integrates seamlessly with vCenter
► Utilises SCOM database
► Look and feel same as SCOM
► Correlation of events
► Quick install
► Simplicity
ETSA Monitoring Solution
Case Example – HBA Issue
► Alert generated
► Datacenter Topology view
► Health Explorer
► Fix underlying issue
Alert generated to console and SMS
Datacenter Topology
Health Explorer View
In-built Knowledge
Case Example – Reporting
► All reports can now utilise Veeam objects
► Can see the whole environment
In-built Knowledge
Summary
► Single view of the environment in SCOM
► Simple installation
► In-built knowledge
► Faster resolution time - proactive
► Improved service availability
► IT as a strategic asset
Unity in Business Continuity
Veeam Backup & Replication for Hyper-V
1: Image-based backup and replication
2: Changed block tracking
3: Deduplication and compression
Image-based Backup and Replication
► Single solution for backup and replication:
– 1 approach, 1 license
► Includes file-level recovery and failover to
previous restore points
► Includes Failback
► Restore to any Hyper-V host
Scalability
► Enhanced distributed architecture
– Before: Backup Server
Now: Backup Server + Proxy Server + Repository Server
– Also allows backup to remote storage/over WAN
(e.g. cloud-based backup)
► Intelligent load balancing—within and across jobs
– Not just round robin—considers connections,
parallel tasks, etc.
– Eliminates backup storms and target saturation
(problems reported by users of other backup tools)
Changed Block Tracking
► Veeam technology that maintains a list of blocks that
have changed
– Works with cluster shared volumes (CSVs)
► Facilitates incremental backup and replication
– Only transfer changed blocks
– Eliminates need to perform a comparison
► Reduces backup window: 10x faster
Enables near-continuous data protection (near-CDP)
Changed Block Tracking
De-duplication and Compression
► Same proven technology Veeam has for VMware
► Leverages existing storage
► Optimizes hardware utilization
– Only transfer (and store) unique blocks
► Minimizes cost and complexity
– Everything is built-in
De-duplication and Compression
Demo
Hyper-V VM Recovery
Hyper-V file-level recovery
DEMO
Hyper-V Failover and Failback
DEMO
Compliments DPM
► Data Protection Manager will still perform
application-level backup and item restore
► Veeam Backup and Replication jobs can be
daisy-chained to DPM
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Summary
► Unity in monitoring and business continuity
– Easier
– Faster
– Cost-effective
► System Center provides a compelling platform
for monitoring and management
– Veeam fills the VMware monitoring gap
Thank You!
► Booth 22 and 39
► Live Demo’s of Management Pack
► Recorded demo’s of Hyper-V
failover and failback
► X-Box Giveaway
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