Toward A Single Pane Of Glass - Management Consoles & Integrations

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1 Toward A Single Pane Of Glass - Management Consoles & Integrations Travis Zhao, Tushar Oza, Damon Earley Sr. Product Manager Server Systems Management

2 Server Management Tech Track Sessions Session Title Code Times Locations Dell EMC PowerEdge Server Systems Management Overview Server.02 Monday 4:30 PM Wednesday 1:30 PM Delfino 4001A Palazzo K Server Management Simplicity Series (Part 1): Deploying & Monitoring Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers Server.03 Monday 8:30 AM Wednesday 8:30 AM Palazzo I Marcello 4401A Server Management Simplicity Series (Part 2): Reducing Maintenance Through Systems Management Best Practices Server.04 Monday 1:30 PM Wednesday 12:00 PM Delfino 4001A Palazzo K Server Management Simplicity Series (Part 3): Toward A Single Pane Of Glass - Management Consoles & Integrations Server.05 Tuesday 3:00 PM Thursday 11:30 AM Marcello 4403 Palazzo L Is Your Server Infrastructure Secure? Server.07 Monday 12:00 PM Wednesday 1:30 PM Lando 4203 Lido 3001A Utilizing Mobile Devices in The Datacenter Server.08 Tuesday 8:30 AM Thursday 10:00 AM Palazzo J Lando

3 Challenges Facing Traditional IT IT is too slow to respond IT Management is inefficient Inconsistent quality Only 30% of business users consider their IT to be distributed, agile, and flexible Nearly 70% of time is spent maintaining existing IT environments Up to 75% of downtime is caused by manual and disconnected IT processes Source: InformationWeek survey of IT perception Source: Forrester Research, Inc., Forrsights Budgets & Priorities Tracker Survey Source: The causes & costs of data center system downtime Advisory Board Q&A What are your pain points and challenges in IT management? 3

4 Dell OpenManage Portfolio Simplifying hardware management through ease of use and automation One-to-many with best of breed Dell solutions Dell Consoles OpenManage Essentials OpenManage PowerCenter One size doesn t size fit all Right/lean tool for the need Dell Tools Repository Manager Standards Based APIs OpenManage Mobile Protect customer s investment Single point for stack Mgmt. 3 rd Party Integrations and Connections MS System Center VMware vcenter Other Nagios, IBM, HPE, Better together within Dell Dell Services ProSupport Plus Services with SupportAssist OME deployment Server Element Managers Lifecycle Management: Discovery/Inventory, Configure/Deploy, Update, Monitor, Maintain by interacting with PE Servers via idrac with LC, CMC, ism 4 Modular Servers Towers and Rack Servers FX2

5 OpenManage Essentials Intelligent Automation for Dell EMC HW infrastructure Travis Zhao Sr. Product Manager Server Systems Management

6 OpenManage Essentials transforms HW management Spend less time maintaining, more time innovating IT Staff Activity Traditional IT 40% less time to deploy servers* 63% faster firmware updates* IT Staff Activity with OpenManage Fewer tools* 93% lower cost* Maintenance Innovation Innovation Maintenance 6 * Results from 3 rd party competitive test

7 DELL EMC OpenManage Essentials Lifecycle management of Dell EMC Servers Monitoring of Dell EMC and 3rd party hardware Dell EMC OpenManage Essentials Anywhere, anytime HW monitoring with OpenManage Mobile Comprehensive Lifecycle Management Monitoring VRTX M1000 FX2 PowerEdge Modular Servers PowerEdge Servers TOWER RACK SERVERS STORAGE Dell EMC and 3 rd Party Hardware NETWORKING 7

8 DELL EMC OpenManage Essentials Automate key hardware management use cases Comprehensive monitoring Automated SupportAssist Agent-free firmware updates Template-based server deployment Configuration drift detection Stateless Configuration and Migration Chassis IOA and vlan management 8

9 Monitoring Health Status Overall Health Report Health status for each discovered device. Allow notification when health status changed 9

10 Event Processing and Management Policy driven alert processing Alert Filter Events you care Alert Action Actions you take 10

11 Tiered Event Management Master OME or other Monitoring Console : Create filters and rules to disseminate alerts to different Admins via Integrate with help desk systems. Site OME : Filter out non-critical and redundant alerts. Forward alerts as-is to the master OME instance. Site A Site B Site C 11

12 Automated Support via SupportAsist Dell OpenManage Essentials Hardware discovery Hardware inventory Hardware health status Customer site Dell SupportAssist Diagnostics and logs Dell ProSupport Remote Services Auto-case creation Data analysis Hardware monitoring Dell Support Remote remediation and parts dispatch 12

13 Firmware Update Process Deploying Planning We manage primarily from a central console Dell.com Monthly Catalog of Dell Updates Dell Repository Manager Update Repository OME for 1:many We frequently do management one server at a time. Qualified Firmware Stacks idrac with lifecycle Controller 13

14 Managing Server Updates as Compliance Report servers and components need updates Based on lastest Dell releases (ftp.dell.com) Compare with customer defined local repository (Dell Repository Manager) Select and authorize scheduled updates 14

15 OME v2.x Server Configuration Management ($) Create Template and Profiles Export from source server Import from existing template Server Template Replicate bare metal configuration Guided wizard for massive replication of HW Support deployment of compute nodes, chassis and chassis fabric for modular platforms Deploy OS. Boot into OS installation media to finish OS installation Monitor Configuration Drift Detect drift from user defined configuration template Remediate misconfigurations Initial Deployment Operation Management 15

16 Server Template and Profile Server configuration profile is a software definition of a entire server HW configuration settings. It is a logical representation of a physical server. There is a one to one relationship between the profile and physical server. Server configuration template is used to simplify the creation of new profiles, helping ensure consistent policies within the system for deployment of servers. Server Configuration Template BIOS RAID NIC idrac 1:M Server Configuration Profiles BIOS RAID NIC Virtual I/O identities Virtual MacAddress WWN, WWPN iscsi Name idrac 1:1 16

17 Deploy with logical building block Server Template BIOS RAID NIC idrac Elasticity is achieved by simply adding or removing physical servers. Deployment is done by associate profile with a physical server 17 OS Image Location of bootable OS deployment image Virtual I/O Pool Virtual MAC Address WWN, WWPN iscsi Name This is needed when setting up boot from SAN Compute Pool A set of servers typically share the same characteristics. Model Memory HD, etc Disaster Recovery/Mobility is accomplished by moving server profile from one physical to another physical server. Server Configuration Profiles BIOS RAID NIC Virtual I/O identities Virtual MAC Address WWN, WWPN iscsi Name idrac

18 Configuration Drift Management Define Server Configuration Baseline Security settings Management settings Configuration settings Configuration settings Drift Remediation. Report configuration drift Servers drifted from baseline Settings drifted from baseline 18

19 Dell EMC OpenManage Essentials (OME) New v2.3 with 14 th generation SNMP v3 support for secure alerting Scalability improve from 5500 to 8000 nodes with 20% performance increase. Windows 2016 Support Configuration profile capture for backup Auto-discover new idrac s after IP provisioning Manage the entire chassis infrastructure configuration as a whole including the IOA/IOM fabric inside Wizard-based guides to quickly build server templates to simplify boot options and NIC configuration Discover Dell EMC hyper-converged solutions 19

20 Managing VxRail and XC series Dell EMC Hyper-Converged Appliances Grouping HCI nodes separately SDS cluster aware Context Sensitive Link & Launch 20

21 Announcing OpenManage Enterprise (RTS late 2017) - the next generation OpenManage Essentials A fresh look at what it means to be simple Built for IT professionals who refuses to be limited by management complexity and wants to add more value to the business 21 SIMPLE Modern HTML5 GUI Delivered as Virtual Appliance Engineered on CentOS with PostgreSQL. No more addition OS/DB license. UNIFIED User authentication with centralized role based access control Rack and Modular with same management paradigm Solution aware management within the same umbrella AUTOMATED North bound API to enable customer automation and solution integration Policy driven management

22 OpenManage Integrations Tushar Oza Sr. Product Manager Server Systems Management

23 Benefits of the OpenManage Integrations Reduce complexity and save time Achieve efficiency and control costs Empower productivity Use fewer tools to manage your infrastructure. Streamline operations with low-touch processes. Improve asset manageability. Optimize utilization of IT resources. Protect investments in existing systems management solutions. Eliminate time-consuming tasks. Automate to increase availability and reduce human error. 23

24 Integration with Microsoft System Center

25 OpenManage and Microsoft System Center Transform IT management: Spend less time maintaining, more time innovating Faster server configuration and Hyper-V deployment Faster firmware updates 96% less time* Simplified and Unified Management for: Applications including SQL Server Windows Server and Hyper-V PowerEdge tower, rack, and modular servers OpenManage Integration Suite for Microsoft System Center enables management of Dell EMC hardware directly through the System Center console 39% less time* Fewer tools and interfaces 50% less* Easier system discovery 50% fewer steps* 25 Results from 3 rd party competitive tests, Oct. 2015*

26 OpenManage Integration Suite for Microsoft System Center Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration (DLCI) Server AutoDiscovery helps eliminate human errors; Reduces time/steps in asset discovery Configure and prep hardware for OS+Workload deployment Deploy OS+ hypervisor; Join server to cluster of choice Maintain Deploy Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration Update Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration (DLCI) Plan and baselines updates based on datacenter policies (Dell.com OR generate custom catalog) Perform Cluster Aware Update to avoid workload downtime Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration (DLCI) Automate remediation of failed parts or motherboard replacement to increase server RoI Collect and parse lifecycle controller (LC) logs to identify failure patterns in a datacenter Monitor Dell Server Management Pack Suite Deep health and alert based monitoring to help predict and remediate hardware failures OS agnostic monitoring of server hardware Health roll up & correlation to OS + Apps 26

27 OpenManage Integration Suite for Microsoft System Center Key Benefits Enable sales of DellEMC hardware in customer environments that are already invested in Microsoft OS and System Center Comprehensive hardware monitoring of DellEMC servers, legacy Dell storage, and Dell client devices through customers choice of console (Microsoft System Center) Unified management of Dell EMC rack and modular servers in multi-vendor operating system and hypervisor environments while protecting customers existing investment in Microsoft System Center Automation of basic IT management tasks resulting in reduced risk of operational errors, increased productivity, and preservation of business continuity with agent-free management via idrac with Lifecycle Controller Single Software Appliance for end-to-end server management helps simplify install process of Dell s integration on System Center for consistent look and feel; enhanced features for converged infra admin 27

28 OpenManage Integration Suite for Microsoft System Center 28

29 14G: OM Integration with Microsoft System Center (SCOM, SCCM and SCVMM) Single Software Appliance for end-to-end end server management Virtual software appliance integrates seamlessly with SCCM/SCVMM to provide infrastructure management Benefits Simplify install process of Dell s integration on System Center Common appliance; consistent look and feel; enhanced features for converged infra admin Monitoring done your way Monitor Dell servers your way; agent-based, agent-free or via idrac Service Module (ism) Benefits OS agnostic monitoring support with enhanced scalability when monitoring via ism Monitor headless server OS Agent-based monitoring for legacy server support 29

30 OpenManage Integration Suite for Microsoft System Center Feature Description Benefit Unified licensing DLCI Common Appliance Auto alert-resolution Server Network connectivity to ToR switch idrac-alive ping A single per-node license SKU from Dell to be used with any of the SCOM/SCCM/SCVMM console integrations from Dell A single appliance for DLCI applicable to both SCCM and SCVMM consoles Auto resolve outstanding alerts in SCOM when a unit monitor returns to normal Color coded network connectivity diagram within a rack to ToR switch A SCOM task to check idrac availability over the network Simplifies the acquisition and licensing of System Center integrations from Dell for a customers datacenter without need for subscription or bundle approach Same feature/functionalities with customers console of choice when managing physical or virtual/private cloud enabled datacenters Eliminates the need to manually match and close hardware alerts when the probe returns to normal operations. Helps avoid alert cluttering Provides a way for admin to customize their network connections view in the datacenter per the local policies. Color coding in SCOM simplifies the ability of technicians to identify exactly what network cable in which port is affected Provides customer with a way to check idrac availability (no inventory/health needed) without needing credentials 30

31 OpenManage Integration Suite for Microsoft System Center Feature Description Benefit Latest WSSC and RHEL, ESXi support Support for latest and greatest Windows Server and System Center as well as RHEL and ESXi OS Enables customer datacenter to be on latest and greatest OS with Dell hardware and OM integrations with MSSC Lifecycle Template for server provisioning Dell EMC Branding Complete bare metal provisioning using Lifecycle Template Consistent Dell EMC branding of OM Integrations Enable complete provisioning of the server configuration as well as choice OS Deployment for simple, easy and automated installation Provides a consistent look and feel of Dell EMC portfolio 31

32 Integration with VMware vcenter and vrealize Operations Damon Earley Sr. Product Manager Server Systems Management

33 OpenManage Integration for VMware vcenter A vcenter plug-in that streamlines tools and tasks associated with management and deployment of Dell PowerEdge servers in your virtual environment Monitoring and alerting Deployment and provisioning Deep level detail for inventory, monitoring and alerting Recommended vcenter actions based on Dell hardware alerts Zero-Touch bare-metal hypervisor deployment without PXE, leveraging Dell Lifecycle Controller Firmware updates Ability to deploy BIOS and firmware updates from vcenter Hardware management Online access and renewal of hardware warranty 33

34 OpenManage vrealize Operations Management The Pack vrealize Operations Management Pack delivers Dell EMC hardware context into vrealize Operations (vrops) analytics Monitoring and alerting High level reporting Adds hardware health metrics, performance data, and events from managed servers / chassis into vrops Provides detailed reports and views of server and chassis information across the OMIVV v4.0 managed environment Hardware contextual mapping Maps physical relationships with vrops objects to streamline and speed trouble shooting processes Extending OpenManage functionality Includes OpenManage vrop Management Pack with the licensing of Integration for VMware vcenter 34

35 Hardware health and alerting in vrealize Operations Objects for server and chassis components to allow deeper drill down on health badges for more granular troubleshooting Hardware relationships available for drilldown 35

36 Rapid ESXi host deployment Go from multiple tools and dozens of steps to automated ESXi deployment OMIVV compliance checks on new servers before adding them to the cluster Connect server power and server / idrac network Run the deployment wizard The new ESXi host is monitored and visible in vcenter 36

37 Enable intelligent and automated updates Schedule Clusteraware firmware and BIOS updates that work with vcenter to minimize risk and downtime OMIVV sets server in vmotion enabled cluster in maintenance mode Take host out of maintenance mode and move onto the next host in the schedule Deploy firmware / BIOS updates, reboot as needed 37

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39 Server Management Labs, Code Track, & Birds of a Feather Sessions Session Title Code Times Locations Infrastructure Automation with PowerEdge Servers Customer Best Practices CODE06 Thursday 11:30AM-12:30PM Zeno 4702 Redfish: The Next Generation Of Server Management Automation CODE14 Monday 12-1PM Zeno 4702 Best Practices for Managing Dell PowerEdge Servers BOF10 Tuesday 1-2:30PM Palazzo M Best Practices in Leveraging idrac for Management BOF11 Tuesday 1-2:30PM Marcello 4403 OpenManage Essentials HOL09 Monday 12:00-1:00PM Wednesday 8:30-9:30AM Hands on Lab Zone Overview of new idrac9 Features HOL11 Monday 2-3PM Tuesday 3-4PM Hands on Lab Zone 39

40 Birds of a Feather Sessions: Meet the System Management team and speak with other PowerEdge customers Best Practices In Managing Dell PowerEdge Servers Join this session to learn innovative and practical best practices for getting the most out of your server environment. We will discuss how to leverage the OpenManage portfolio to make management easy and simple. When? Tuesday at 1:00 2:30 Where? Palazzo M Hosted by: Enrico Bracalente, Director of Systems Management for 1:M Products Best practices in leveraging idrac for management In every PowerEdge server, there lives an intelligent and vigilant manager waiting to help you. Join this session to chat with server professionals from around the world about how to get the most out of the embedded capabilities in every PowerEdge server. When? Tuesday at 1:00 2:30 Where? Marcello 4403 Hosted by: Jeff Krebs, Product Manager of Systems Management for Embedded Products 40

41 DLCI/SCVMM evaluation (Trial) licenses A 5-node evaluation (Trial) license is available as a software download following completion of the registration form available here: The evaluation (Trial) license supports 5 managed nodes (perpetual licenses) per a single instance of the DLCI for SCVMM Virtual Appliance The 5-node evaluation (Trial) license includes a single instance of the SCVMM Virtual Appliance The SCVMM Virtual Appliance included in the 5-node evaluation (Trial) license becomes a fully licensed SCVMM Virtual Appliance when incremental production environment node licenses are added 41

42 Obtain a free evaluation version of OMIVV Supports 5 hosts for 90 days Upgrade from the trial to a licensed version No additional install Keep the trial appliance Just install the license file to get going with the full commercial version A video for getting started is available here: Download a free evaluation license here: Download the free evaluation software license here:

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