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

2. 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

3. Who are Veeam?

4. The Green Veeam Teeam

9. Simplify and Standardize VMware Monitoring

10. 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 Copyright © 2003-2011 Shutterstock Images LLC

12. High-Level Anatomy of a Monitoring Solution What needs monitored - Database layer - Application Layer - Presentation Layer -

13. System Center Operations Manager What needs monitored - Database layer - Application Layer - Presentation Layer - - Monitoring Console - Notifications - Reporting -Management Server - OpsMgr Agents - OpsMgr Database - Data Warehouse Management Packs

14. Another monitoring framework What needs monitored - Database layer - Application Layer - Presentation Layer -

15. Why not simply extend Operations Manager? Have a single ‘pane of glass’?

16. Veeam Management Pack for VMware What needs monitored - Database layer - Application Layer - Presentation Layer - - Monitoring Console - Notifications - Reporting - Management Server - OpsMgr Agents - OpsMgr Database - Data Warehouse

17. 1 Veeam Management Pack for VMware

18. Integration

19. Complete integration For all VMware components –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

20. Detailed health model  Standard metrics, such as: –Cluster memory % –Host CPU % –VM CPU ready % –Snapshot Age  Advanced metrics, such as: –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: ●Power supply failure ●Temperature sensors ●Fan status ●RAID disks

21. Full and Integrated Knowledge base ► VMware “guru in a box” Copyright © 2003-2011 Shutterstock Images LLC

22. Complete Integration Demo’s

23. Tour of the Management Pack

25. Topology View

27. Reporting

29. Service Level Dashboards

31. Deployment Considerations

32. 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

33. Microsoft System Center Operations Manager nworks Management Pack VMware vSphere 4 and VI3 Agentless Scalable Centrally managed Fault-tolerant Ops Manager Agentnworks Collector  Scalable

34.  X nworks Management Pack VMware vSphere 4 and VI3 Agentless Scalable Centrally managed Fault-tolerant Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 MOM 2005 Management Server [standby] Fault Tolerant

35. Advanced Scenario’s

36. SCOM Gateway SCOM Agent Veeam Collector TCP 5273 Certificate- based Auth n

37. Case Study Michael Pell –

38. 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

39. 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

40. 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

41. 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

42. 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

43. ETSA Monitoring Solution

44. Case Example – HBA Issue ► Alert generated ► Datacenter Topology view ► Health Explorer ► Fix underlying issue

45. Alert generated to console and SMS

46. Datacenter Topology

47. Health Explorer View

48. In-built Knowledge

49. Case Example – Reporting ► All reports can now utilise Veeam objects ► Can see the whole environment

50. In-built Knowledge

51. 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

52. Unity in Business Continuity

54. Veeam Backup & Replication for Hyper-V 1: Image-based backup and replication 2: Changed block tracking 3: Deduplication and compression

55. 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

56. 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)

57. 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)

58. Changed Block Tracking

59. 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

60. De-duplication and Compression

61. Demo Hyper-V VM Recovery

63. DEMO Hyper-V file-level recovery

65. DEMO Hyper-V Failover and Failback

67. 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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69. 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

70. Thank You! ► Booth 22 and 39 ► Live Demo’s of Management Pack ► Recorded demo’s of Hyper-V failover and failback ► X-Box Giveaway V for

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