Summary at the top =

• 3 Pillars of vCenter Operations
  • Patented Performance Analytics
  • Purpose Built Capacity Planning and Analysis
  • Automated Configuration and Compliance
    • Automated Patching and Provisioning
    • Comprehensive Change Tracking to isolate root cause
• Why is capacity management challenging in a virtual environment?
  • So many layers to optimize…
  • CPU (vSMP, Shares, Reservations, Limits)
  • Memory (Transparent Page Sharing, Memory Ballooning, Memory Compression)
  • Storage (Thin Provisioning, Linked Clones)
  • Clusters (DRS, HA, FT, vMotion , Storage vMotion)
  • Workload Flux
• vSphere Admin is focused on the short-term and real-time needs.
  • Wen will I run out of capacity?
  • What resource if my capacity bottleneck?
  • What VMs should be right-sized?
• IT Manager Director is more focused on the long-term.
  • How many more VMs will fit in my current VM?
  • What if I add, remove, reconfigure capacity?
  • Can I defer infrastructure investments?
• Standard vs. Advanced
  • Standard = Capacity Dashboard, Time remaining for physical resources, Short-term capacity shortfalls in terms of physical resources, Troubleshooting Capacity
  • Advanced = VC Ops Standard + CapacityIQ. Additional capabilities are…
    • More dashboards – customizable
    • Time and Capacity Remaining for physical and virtual resources
    • Capacity Optimization
    • Capacity Modeling (“What If” Analysis)
    • Advanced is current a ‘soft’ bundle — two separate installs….changing in next release.
• Standard Feature breakdown
  • Measure CPU, Storage I/O, Network I/O, Memory
  • Rest of the session is now focused on Advanced
• Two scenarios — 1) Troubleshooting & Optimizing Capacity, 2) Capacity Planning for business growth.
  • Scenario 1
    • How to identify capacity problems
    • How to root cause a capacity problem
    • How to optimize resources and resolve capacity issue
  • Scenario 2
    • Modeling/”What-if” analysis for new projects and hardware purchases.
• Using CapacityIQ
  • Start at the dashboard — will show the days to shortfall/running out of capacity for any given category.
  • Capacity Views gives the detailed analysis.
  • Global Settings — lots of tweaks.
  • To find the capacity bottleneck, head to Virtual Machine capacity Summary View.
  • Trend Views — nice charts showing where growing usage crosses capacity.
  • Can defined hard reserved capacity and/or buffers.
  • Can exclude Powered Off VMs and adjust based on % of time powered off.
• Long screenshot walkthrough — not as many notes here..mainly config screens and sample scenarios.