Advanced Tuning and Configuration for the nworks MP for VMware. Alec King, Director, Product Management

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1 Advanced Tuning and Configuration for the nworks MP for VMware Alec King, Director, Product Management

2 Housekeeping Questions can use the virtual Q&A panel. This webinar is recorded and available for replay after a few days. At the end of the webinar, raise virtual hand for interactive questions. Stick around until the end of the webinar! Winners will receive a choice of books!

3 About Veeam Veeam Software develops innovative products for virtual infrastructure management and data protection. Reduce costs, mitigate risk, and fully realize the promise of virtualization with Veeam.

4 Agenda The nworks MP for VMware Overview Initial Configuration Enterprise Manager settings MP Discoveries MP Monitors MP Metric Collection Toolkit & resources Questions and answers Drawing and wrap-up

Collector VMware VI3 / vsphere 4/ vsphere 5 (GA) Ops

5 Overview Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1/ R2 /2012 (GA) nworks Management Pack nworks Collector VMware VI3 / vsphere 4/ vsphere 5 (GA) Ops Manager Agent Agentless Scalable Centrally managed Fault-tolerant

6 Initial Configuration Add Enterprise Manager UI to Ops Mgr console Add Enterprise Manager UI to VI-Client

7 Enterprise Manager Global Collection Settings Collection interval Enable/Disable Objects Interval Multipliers

8 Enterprise Manager Global Settings Candidates for customization Collection interval Default 5 minutes is usually preferable Enable/Disable Objects Virtual Machine Disk Space Details Virtual Machine Network Details The above may be duplicate data from in-guest agent Interval Multipliers Defaults are relatively aggressive (e.g. VM vnic IO = x8)

9 Enterprise Manager Failover Groups HA Failover Groups Controlling Failover e.g. Production is HA, Test&Dev is not

10 MP Discoveries 3-Stage (cascade) topology discovery Large Scale Discovery groups for VMs

11 MP Monitors Features Consecutive Samples Using Overrides Alert Priority, NumSamples, Threshold(s)

12 MP Monitors Candidates for customization Very environment-dependent! Check the Knowledge Base entries for metric explanations Note NumSamples is usually <2 memorypressure Custom nworks metric, shows (realtime) memory overcommitment Customer design decision but visibility is critical! memoryballoon Can be viewed as normal operations until swapping is forced Consider using the host rollup instead of the VM-level Monitor cpuready Review with end-user experience and other cpu-stress metrics Consider using the host rollup instead of the VM-level Monitor Disk latency Performance varies by storage type (iscsi, NFS, SAN) Consider using Groups for threshold overrides

13 MP Collection Rules Features Optimized Performance Collection Using Overrides Tolerance, MaxSampleSeparation

14 Optimized Performance Collection

15 MP Metric Collection Rules Candidates for customization Default optimization is not very aggressive Remember that Interval Multipliers are also a factor Metrics that drive Monitors usually 1 for both MaxSampleSeparation & Tolerance Non-Monitor metrics vary - Up to 6 for MaxSampleSeparation (usually <6) Up to 10 for Tolerance (usually 5 or less)

16 Toolkit resources Visit DB Sizing Calculator Collector Deployment Calculator Documentation Deployment Guide Installation Guide Operations Guide Release Notes Reference documents

Powerful Management Pack customization, testing/tuning, version control, auditing and documentation Benefits of MP Studio: Minimize complexity of managing MPs throughout the

Increase productivity by allowing application groups to document, test and tune MPs, while still maintaining control of the MP change management process Adhere to corporate

17 Powerful Management Pack customization, testing/tuning, version control, auditing and documentation Benefits of MP Studio: Minimize complexity of managing MPs throughout the lifecycle, with no XML skills required Save time and eliminate alert noise with pre-deployment MP testing and tuning to determine resulting alerts without impacting production Increase productivity by allowing application groups to document, test and tune MPs, while still maintaining control of the MP change management process Adhere to corporate standards, including MOF/ITIL, and satisfy compliance reporting requirements with central MP version management and audit history of all MP changes For more information on MP Studio, visit us at

18 Questions and Answers Winners receive a choice of the following books Thank you for attending! Resources: Facebook: VeeamSoftware Blog:

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