Whether you have a small or large virtual infrastructure, it's important to keep an eye on application performance and physical hardware health as well as performance, capacity planning, sprawl control for your virtual infrastructure.

1. Getting the Most from Your Virtual
Infrastructure: How to Optimize Usage
and Spend
SolarWinds®
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2. Welcome to Today’s Webinar!
» Your Host
 Amrit Babu, Sales Engineer
» Don’t Wait to Ask Questions
 This is an interactive presentation
 Feel free to interrupt and please ask away!
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3. The Customer Engagement Initiative
» Team is comprised of hand-picked, experienced professionals
 Understanding of your needs as a SolarWinds customer
 Team has the experience and focus required to understand your
objectives, existing environment, and goals
» Customer-only engagement opportunities
 Customer-only offers, trainings, webcasts, and more
 This is an example of one of our efforts
 We welcome your feedback and requests
Contact us directly at customersales@solarwinds.com.
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4. Overview
» Companies are increasingly moving production applications
into their virtual environment
» While the virtual infrastructure is increasingly robust, unique
challenges remain
» What’s needed to overcome these problems?
 Visibility
 Performance Management
 Optimization and Capacity Planning
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5. Virtualized Application Stack
CPU Memory Storage I/O Network
Shared Resources
VMware® ESX®/ESXi or Hyper-V®
Host
VM Kernel / Hypervisor
ApplicationApplication
Operating SystemOperating System
VM
What could go wrong?
•The Application could fail
•The Operating System could
have a performance issue
•The VM and its resources can
have performance bottlenecks
•The VM Host can encounter
performance problems
•The Server Hardware can
have a fault
Up
Down
ApplicationApplication
Operating SystemOperating System
VM
ApplicationApplication
Operating SystemOperating System
VM
Hardware
Status of
virtualized
infrastructure
Hardware Hardware
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6. Pain Point: Shared Resources Create
Contention
» Storage – Most difficult to diagnose from a system level
 Why? - Visibility in storage vendor tools is poor.
• You need deep visibility into the array, analyzing the performance at every
level (array, controller, RAID group, LUN and disk)
» Is the physical server, ESX/Hyper-V host, or VM hogging
storage bandwidth or other resources?
 Drill down immediately and map it to your physical storage
 Look across the infrastructure to see what else is impacted and identify
available capacity to leverage for a quick migration
» Shared Infrastructure -
CPU, Memory, Network
and Storage
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7. SAN
OS
VM
App
OS
VM
App
OS
VM
App
OS
VM
App
Hypervisor
Physical Server
Virtual
NIC
Virtual
HBA
Virtual
NIC
Virtual
HBA
Virtual
NIC
Virtual
HBA
Virtual
NIC
Virtual
HBA
HBANIC
OS
VM
App
OS
VM
App
OS
VM
App
OS
VM
App
Hypervisor
Physical Server
Virtual
NIC
Virtual
HBA
Virtual
NIC
Virtual
HBA
Virtual
NIC
Virtual
HBA
Virtual
NIC
Virtual
HBA
HBA NIC
End-to-end mapping from VM-to-spindle allows you to quickly
diagnose bottlenecks, identify resource hogs, and properly allocate
and manage your CPU, memory & storage.
* Source: Storage Switzerland
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8. “Normal” I/O Patterns are Disrupted by Virtualization
VM-1 VM-2 VM-3 VM-4 VM-5…
As VMs multiply,
customers begin to see
an “I/O Blender” effect
replacing traditional,
predictable I/O patterns.
With virtualization,
these new data
streams blend
together to create
new I/O dynamics
and hot spots.
1 0 1 1 1
0 1 0 0 0
1 0 0 1 0
1 1
I/O I/O I/OI/OI/O
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9. Capacity Planning and Optimization
» Understand how many workloads you can fit.
» Understand if applications requests can be supported.
» Determine if eliminating one bottleneck will expose another.
» Is it a compute/server/VM or storage
capacity problem?
» Understand when you will run out of
resources and when you need to buy
more.
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10. Sprawl Signs
DISK
VMs OFF or
Suspended
DISK
VMs Powered ON – not being
accessed - Zombies
CPU MEM
Thin
Provisioning
App Licenses
DISK
DISK
DISK
Unchecked Snapshots
“Orphaned” Files
DISK
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11. Demo
Meet SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
SolarWinds Virtual Manager
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12. Q&A
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13. Thank You For Attending!
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