HP Insight
Dynamics - VSE
Bradford Nichols,
HP Enterprise Storage and Servers
Abstract
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Insight Dynamics – VSE 4.0 (ID-VSE) is the latest release in HP’s server
virtualization management software. It combines the scope and maturity of
previous Virtual Server Environment (VSE) offerings of Integrity Servers with
integration into the latest capabilities of the popular Insight Control Environment of
products for ProLiant Servers. This talk will provide an overview of the features in
Virtual Server Environment product for ProLiant and Integrity Servers, and then
include a demo of some of the significant new features in the ID-VSE 4.0 release;
Support for a Windows CMS
Virtualization Manager
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Capacity Advisor
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Logical Server
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Blade Enclosure, Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager and Virtual Machine Management
support
Consolidation scenario wizards
Power awareness
Rapid provisioning of Blade and VM contexts which can be easily moved within the
available resource pool
About the speaker
• Bradford Nichols
– Technical Consultant
– HP Enterprise Storage and Servers
– [email protected]
HP Insight
Dynamics – VSE
Optimize server utilization
in real time
Bradford Nichols, HP
September 2008
© 2008 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
The information contained herein is subject to change without notice
Agenda
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Introducing HP Insight Dynamics – VSE
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Demo
− Part 1: A Virtualized Infrastructure
− Part 2: Virtualization Manager (Vman)
− Part 3: Capacity Advisor (CapAd)
− Part 4: Server Migration Pack (SMP)
− Part 5: Logical Servers
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Wrap-up
− Answers to Q&A
Questions
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How many of you are involved in server management:
− specification, installation, provisioning and on-going maintenance?
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Which of the following are key interests where you work:
− Reducing time to roll out new servers in response to requests?
− Reducing costs by better utilizing server resources or right sizing
them in the first place?
− Increasing responsiveness to changes in server landscape: sizing,
p2v, v2p etc.?
− All of the above?
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How many of you have physical and virtual servers in
your environment?
Introducing HP Insight Dynamics - VSE
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What problem is HP providing a solution for?
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Features and Components of ID-VSE
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Relationship to Insight Control Suites
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Relationship to HP Integrity VSE
Does your infrastructure get in the way
of better business outcomes?
Too costly?
Sprawl is expensive –
virtual servers are
growing much faster
than physical servers
Too
unpredictable?
Few servers have
traditional HA clustering
Too time
consuming
73% of
consolidations took a
year or more1
Too energy
hungry?
Data center electricity use
more than doubled since
2000
1. IT executive and managers survey: Forrester Research, Inc: How Large Enterprises Approach IT Infrastructure Consolidation December 2007
HP Restricted. HP and Channel Partner Internal Use.
HP Insight Dynamics - VSE
Continuously analyze and optimize your infrastructure
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Control physical and virtual
resources in the same way
• Real-time capacity planning
for servers and power
• Ease of migration (P2P, V2P,
V2P, V2V)
• Bring the flexibility of
virtualization to physical servers
Building on the value of
HP Systems Insight Manager,
Insight Control and
Virtual Server Environment
Addressing key data center issues:
cost, speed, quality and energy
HP Insight Dynamics – VSE and VSE Suites
delivered in convenient packages
HP Insight Software
new
release
new
HP Insight Dynamics –
VSE
for HP
HPSuites
Insight Software
ProLiant and
HP BladeSystem with
ProLiant blades
HP Virtual Server
HP Insight Software
Environment
Suite
for HP Integrity
HP Insight software portfolio for
HP servers
HP Insight Dynamics –
VSE Suite
for ProLiant and BladeSystem
ProLiant• Capacity planning
(CapAd)
• Virtualization
management (Vman)
HP Insight Control Suites
for ProLiant and BladeSystem ProLiant
• Logical server
management (LSA)
• Virtualization mgmt (VMM)
• Power management (IPM)
• Server migration - P2P,
V2P, V2V, P2V
• Rapid server deployment (RDP)
(SMP Universal)
• Performance management (PMP)
• with Insight Control
• Patch management (VPM)
Suite
• Remote management
(iLO Adv for ML/DL / iLO Select for blades)
• Central management (SIM)
HP VSE Suite
for Integrity (incl. blades)
• Capacity planning
(CapAd)
• Virtualization
management (Vman)
• Logical server
management* (LSA)
• Workload management
(GWLM or HP-UX WLM)
• Soft partitioning (HP
Integrity VM or vPar)
* Q109 for Integrity
HP Virtual Server Environment
for HP Integrity
HP Virtual Server Environment
Intelligent control: including Insight Dynamics – VSE functionality
HP Systems Insight Manager
HP Capacity
Advisor
HP Virtualization
Manager
HP Global
Workload Manager
HP-UX Workload Manager
Integrated
by design
Virtual servers
Partitioning
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nPars
vPars
HP Integrity
Virtual Machines
HP Secure Resource
Partitions
Availability
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HP Serviceguard
• HP Serviceguard
Storage Mgmt Suite
• HP Metrocluster
• HP Continentalclusters
• SGeRAC/SGeSAP
Utility pricing
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HP Instant Capacity
HP Temporary
Instant Capacity
HP Global
Instant Capacity
HP Pay Per Use
Virtual fabric: HP Virtual Connect
HP Restricted. HP and Channel Partner Internal Use.
HP Systems Insight Manager
HP-UX Central Management Server
HP-UX CMS
Integrity
Integrity Servers
Can
Manage
Integrity Blades
Managed from a
common console
Integrity Essentials
HP Systems Insight
Manager
Note: no plans to support VCEM, logical server capability or RDP from HP-UX-based CMS.
Note: HP 9000 servers are also supported.
HP Systems Insight Manager
Windows Central Management Server
One common
console
ProLiant ML/DL
ProLiant Blades
Can
Manage
Windows CMS on
ProLiant
Insight Essentials
HP Systems Insight
Manager
Note: HP 9000 servers are also supported.
• New: Windows
CMS supports all
current Integrity
tools
• Note: VCEM and
LSM will be only
supported on
Windows CMS
Integrity Servers
Integrity Blades
Demo Part 1: A Virtualized
Infrastructure
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System Insight Manager
(SIM)
− BladeSystem Integrated
Manager
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Virtual Machine
Management Pack (VMM)
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Virtual Connect Enterprise
Manager (VCEM)
Questions
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How many of you are currently using HP c7000
blade enclosures?
− Virtual Connect?
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How many have deployed VMware virtual
machines?
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How many of you use HP System Insight
Manager?
HP Insight software portfolio for
HP servers
HP Insight Dynamics –
VSE Suite
HP VSE Suite
for Integrity (incl. blades)
for ProLiant and BladeSystem
ProLiant• Capacity planning
• Capacity planning
(CapAd)
(CapAd)
• Virtualization
• Virtualization
management
(Vman)
management (Vman)
HP Insight Control Suites
for ProLiant and BladeSystem ProLiant
• Logical server
• Logical server
management (Vman)
• Virtualization mgmt (VMM)
management* (Vman)
• Power management (IPM)
• Server migration - P2P,
• Workload management
V2P,
V2V,
P2V
(GWLM or HP-UX WLM)
• Rapid server deployment (RDP)
(SMP Universal)
• Soft partitioning (HP
• Performance management (PMP)
• with Insight Control
Integrity VM or vPar)
• Patch management (VPM)
Suite
• Remote management
(iLO Adv for ML/DL / iLO Select for blades)
• Virtual Connect Enterprise
Manager (VCEM)
• Central management (SIM)
* Q109 for Integrity
Demo
HP Insight Dynamics - VSE
Continuously analyze and optimize your infrastructure
•
Control physical and virtual
resources in the same way Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
• Real-time capacity planning
for servers and power
Capacity Advisor (CapAd)
• Ease of migration (P2P, V2P,
Server Migration Pack (SMP)
V2P, V2V)
• Bring the flexibility of
Building on the value of
Systems Insight Manager,
Logical HP
Servers
virtualization to physical
Insight Control and
servers
Virtual Server Environment
Addressing key data center issues:
cost, speed, quality and energy
Demo Part 2: Virtualization Manager
(Vman)
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Graphical hierarchical
View of Infrastructure
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Enclosures
Blades
Virtual Machine Hosts
Virtual Machine Guests
ProLiant and Integrity
Status
− Event icons
− Performance meters
− Power meter
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Quick launch of relevant
tools
Questions
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What do you currently use to visualize the state of
your server infrastructure?
− A viso diagram
− VMware Virtual Center
− HP System Insight Manager
− Other
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How many windows or tools do you have open to
get events, performance management tool
access?
Demo
Physical and Virtual Perspective within Vman
Demo Part 3: Capacity Advisor (CapAd)
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Profiles: Historical
Utilization Data of Servers
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Scenarios: Projections and
Hypothetical
Configurations
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Servers and Workloads
Forecasting
Limits
Solvers
Questions
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How many of you have server consolidation
projects to virtual machines planned or inprogress?
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Of those doing consolidations, what do you
currently use size replacement systems:
− A spreadsheet?
− A service from a vendor?
− Other?
HP Capacity Advisor
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26
31 July 2017
Utilization Calculator
− moving workloads adds and
subtracts
− workloads can be multiplied by a
constant to reflect expected
growth
Simple data collection
− Uses standard WBEM
− Automatic nightly data collection
Integration with VSE features
− SG failover planning
− VM planning
− gWLM estimating
Smart Solver
− Automatically generate plans for
consolidation and load balancing
Power Planning
− Estimate the power consumption
of different configurations
Easy to use
HP Insight Dynamics – VSE:
Capacity planning to optimize utilization
The new math: 8+8 = 12
8 Core Peak
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Peaks for different workloads do not
all happen at the same time.
12 Core Peak
+
=
8 Core Peak
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Two workloads each have an 8 CPU
peak demand but the peak of their
sum is 12 CPUs.
Demo
Demo Part 4: Server Migration Pack
(SMP)
Questions
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How many of you see a use for
− P2V?
− V2P?
− V2V?
− P2P?
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Anyone see V2P2V?
The New Server Problem
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Replacing an old server with a new physical
server?
• How long, and how many experts does it take to:
− lay down an operating system?
− implement security?
− install application and configure?
− quality assurance and validation?
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Replacing old servers with virtual machines?
− Does your migration tool support multiple virtualization
platforms?
− Can it migrate a VM back to physical if needed?
− Do you have time to learn multiple tools?
HP Server Migration Pack – Universal
Edition
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SMP Universal meets all your HP ProLiant and
BladeSystem migration needs
− Physical to ProLiant (P2P)
• New HP ProLiant or HP BladeSystem
servers
− Virtual to ProLiant (V2P)
• Migrate VMs back to standalone servers
− Physical to Virtual (P2V)
• Supports multiple virtualization platforms
− Virtual to Virtual (V2V)
• Convert VMs between virtualization
platforms
SMP Universal – How it works
Source Server or VM
Destination Server or VM
SMP Universal Application Station
SIM Integration or Standalone
Demo Part 5: Logical Servers
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Definition of a Server that
can be mapped
dynamically to a Blade or
Virtual Machine
Rapid response to the
request for a new server
Templating commonly
requested server configs
Flexible migration of
servers
New use cases leveraging
activation and deactivation
Questions
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What is the longest aspect of rolling out new
servers for you:
− Closing on requirements?
− Searching to see if resources already exist that can be
re-provisioned?
− Cabling and wiring into the infrastructure (virtual or
physical)?
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Is efficiently managing Physical servers as well
as Virtual ones a concern?
Bring flexibility of virtualization to
Available for
physical servers
Integrity Q1’09
Logical server
HP Logical Server technology
OS Image
reference
• A server profile that is easily
created and freely moved across
physical and virtual machines
Configuration
requirements
Unique IDs
Logical servers can be:
• Active physical blade servers
Server
Server
• Active virtual machines
• Offline templates
Virtual Fabric
OS image
Logical server management
Logical servers can be provisioned via templates
and freely adjusted and migrated
• Bring logical servers online quickly for
increased capacity, new
projects or server
recovery
• Shorten maintenance
window by rapidly
moving server profiles
• Drag and drop
capabilities to move
logical servers
Demo
Wrap-up
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/www.hp.com/go/idvse
HP Insight Dynamics - VSE
Continuously analyze and optimize your infrastructure
•
Control physical and virtual
resources in the same way Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
• Real-time capacity planning
for servers and power
Capacity Advisor (CapAd)
• Ease of migration (P2P, V2P,
Server Migration Pack (SMP)
V2P, V2V)
• Bring the flexibility of
Building on the value of
Systems Insight Manager,
Logical HP
Servers
virtualization to physical
Insight Control and
servers
Virtual Server Environment
Addressing key data center issues:
cost, speed, quality and energy
Questions? ( 1 of )
• What Operating Systems are supported with
SMP-U?
– The currently released version of SMP-U is 3.5. In this version
the supported source system OSs are Windows variants, in the
case of a VtoX the source VM hosts are VMware, Xen and MS
Virtual Server.
– The OS on the target server (if it exists) is not important
because SMP provides a bootable image for its agent on the
target. In the case of a migration to VM the supported target
VM Hosts are VMware, Xen and MS Virtual Server.
– For specific details, the quick spec for the v3.5 version of the
product is online at
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12855_na/1
2855_na.html
Questions? (2 of
• Are integrity blades supported as logical
servers?
– In the current ID-VSE 4.0 release they are not. But
the plan is to support them in the next release which
is planned for Q109. See you can contact your HP
rep for a formal NDA roadmap if you need more
details.
– Note that today Integrity Blades, HP-UX and HP
Integrity Virtual Machines are fully supported in the
Virtualization Manager and Capacity Advisor
components of the ID-VSE 4.0 product
Questions? (3 of
• Can Capacity Advisor work for an all Dell installed base?
– Used in an on-going fashion CapacityAdvisor is not intended for
use with non-HP platforms. The licensing scheme is based on
HP platforms and a platform-type check is made in the SIM
CMS licensing mechanism when licenses are applied.
– That being said, CapacityAdvisor does have some low-level
mechanisms to import historical performance data that is in
ascii format independent of any platform-type labeling. These
could be used to do a one time import of historical for purposes
of a consolidation project of non-HP platforms to HP servers.
Typically in this case, the tool would be used by HP services as
part of a project on behalf of a customer. If this is of further
interest I suggest you contact me or the local HP services
delivery contact in your area.
Questions? (4 of
• Can virtualization manager be utilized w/o SIM?
– Virtualization Manager is only available as a plug in
to SIM. The support SIM Server OS options are HPUX or x86 Windows.
– Vman itself has no real dependencies in the Insight
Control Suite other then SIM. So if you are
concerned about a lot of complexity to set Vman up
due to the Insight Suite’s size, it isn’t necessarily
so. But Logical Servers requires VMM and
VCEM. Also CapAd would utilizes VMM when gather
information about VMware hosts.
Questions? (5 of 5)
• How would be an answer to customer's question - what VSE does
offer which is not in Vmware's Vmotion/HA?
– The short answer is ID-VSE is not a replacement for VMware and its
features.
– ID-VSE adds additional features to a customer’s ProLiant environment
with VMware;
• The ability to view and manage both physical and virtual aspects of your
environment from a single interface (Virtualization Manager). From this
tool integrated in SIM you get low-level server hardware characteristics
and events right up through Virtual Machine visibility and control and
everything in between.
• An integrated full featured, directly accessible to the user capacity
monitoring and planning tool – Capacity Advisor. The Capacity Advisor tool
works for physical bare-iron server, vm host servers and vms.
• The ability to “Virtualize” physical blades in an enclosure much in the same
way as vms are virtualized on a vm host. This is done using ID-VSE logical
servers. When blades are logical servers, they (their context or settings like
SAN and MAC addresses) can be templated, assigned, moved, much like a
Virtual Machine.