vCharter Pro Overview

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vCharter Pro Overview

• Larry Loucks
• Senior Systems Engineer
• lloucks_at_vizioncore.com

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Vizioncore Overview

• Founded in 2002
• Fully-owned subsidiary of Quest Software
• Chicago-based HQ, Worldwide Sales Channel
• Proven Over 7,500 customers 65,000 licenses,
  1,100 partners worldwide
• Strategic solutions extend functionality of
  virtualization platforms to solve key IT issues
• Strong VMware partner

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Enterprise Clients
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VMware Recognized
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Vizioncores Strategic Solutions

• Backup and Recovery vRanger Pro
• Performance Monitoring/Reporting vCharter Pro
• Replication vReplicator
• P2V/V2V vConverter

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Enterprise-Capable VM Performance Monitoring
Reporting
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What is vCharter Pro?

• vCharter Pro monitors your entire VMware
  enterprise
• A single pane-of-glass approach
• Scalable solution for large environments
• Fully customizable
• Role Based Administration
• Top down dashboard views with specific rules and
  metrics for each level
• Automated metrics monitoring and storage
• High-level data aggregation for simplified
  analysis

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Who Needs vCharter Pro?

• Customers who
• Are running more than 100 VMs in their
  environment
• Have provisioning of VMs handled by multiple
  administrators
• Do not have clear trending or reporting on the
  impact of higher utilization of their hardware
• Are using VirtualCenter but require more granular
  information on usage of CPU, Memory, Disk or NIC
• Are running critical applications on VMs which
  would have high impact on the company if
  performance falls short

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Why Use vCharter Pro?

• vCharter Pro works right out of the box!
• Turn it on and start monitoring
• Click on any displayed red alarms
• Alarms describe the problem and offer a solution
• Web based interface no client needs to be
  installed
• Get the data you need to support informed
  decisions

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Baselining as a Security Tool

• Contrary to popular opinion many hackers dont
  want to trash your network they want to use it
• Baselining has always been a best-practice in IT
  but few companies do it because of lack of
  readily available, easy-to-use tools
• vCharter Pro allows you to baseline your
  environment
• Misuse of the network (either internally or
  externally) can sometimes be recognized by a
  sudden shift away from normal utilization levels

Cost to your business may vary depending on
ELAs and discount programs
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Affinity and Anti-affinity in ESX Server

• DRS/HA may move VMs from one host to another
• VMware best practice is avoid placing VMs
  hungry for the same resource on the same ESX
  server in heavily utilized environments
• Charter can help you identify VMs key resources
  (disk, network, processor and memory) so you can
  define affinity / anti-affinity rules for HA/DRS
• This can result in better performance of your
  virtualized environments

Cost to your business may vary depending on
ELAs and discount programs
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What Are Advantages of vCharter Pro?

• vCharter Pro is entirely customizable
• Dashboards and Views
• Metrics, Rules, and Alarms
• Reports
• vCharter Pro offers additional layer of security
• Set up and control users, groups, and roles
• Control/read/write/no access per role
• Audit log to track product changes

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vCharter Pro Advanced Features

• VM Migration Modeling
• See the results and impact before moving VMs
• Bookmarks
• Quickly return to frequently-viewed screens
• Service Levels availability up or down?
• Online Help/Tutorials
• -- Complete training in best practices e.g.
  create a dashboard or report, add a view, use a
  grid, add a drilldown, and much more

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vCharter Pro Extends VirtualCenter

• vCharter Pro VC agents collect raw metrics about
  the following levels
• VirtualCenter
• Datacenters
• Resource Pools
• Clusters
• ESX Servers
• Virtual Machines
• Datastores
• Metrics are stored in a database over time and
  provide a history! Benefits include trend
  analysis (when will I need to buy new storage?)

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vCharter Pro Single VC Implementation
Web-based Interface
No agent installed on VC
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vCharter Pro Multiple VC Implementation
vCharter Pro Is Scalable!
vCharter Pro Agent (Virtual_VMware Agent) is
installed in multiple VirtualCenters
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Datacenter View

• Single view of all Alarms in Datacenter
• By Infrastructure level or severity
• Single view of key performance metrics
  aggregated at Datacenter level
• CPU (Ready / Used)
• Network I/O
• Disk I/O
• Memory
• Summary View of Datacenter objects
• Resource Pools
• Hosts
• VMs
• Unique Drill-Down ability to quickly isolate
  issues.

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Cluster View

• Single view of all Alarms in Cluster
• By Infrastructure level or
• severity
• Single view of key performance metrics
  aggregated at Cluster Level
• CPU (Ready / Used)
• Network I/O
• Disk I/O
• Memory
• Summary View of Cluster objects
• Resource Pools
• Hosts
• VMs
• Unique Drill-Down ability to quickly
• isolate issues.

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Resource Pool View

• Single view of key performance
• metrics
• CPU (Ready / Used)
• Network I/O
• Disk I/O
• Memory
• Summary View of Resource Pool
• Performance
• Unique Drill-Down ability to quickly
• isolate issues.

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ESX Server Host View

• Detailed view of performance metrics
• Status view of VMs and alarms
• Unique Datastore view with drill-down ability

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VM View

• VM status summary view
• Detailed display of key metrics
• CPU (Ready / Used)
• Network I/O
• Disk I/O
• Memory
• Detailed Network and Storage
• I/O metrics
• Change Control log to track
• changes to VM

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Disk Utilization

• Performance Graph
• Disk throughput
• Disk reads
• Disk writes

• Datastore Summary
• Capacity
• Used space vs free space
• Growth rate
• Est time until full

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Migration Modeler
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Service Levels
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Custom Dashboards
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Intelligent Alarms
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ROI for vCharter Pro

• Improved view into the health of your
  virtualized environmentsProvides for better
  performance of the environment if the information
  is acted upon
• Baselining as a security toolCan assist in
  identifying security breeches and misuse of your
  virtualized environment
• Identify and resolve issues more quicklyView
  into physical network communications useful in
  identifying hard-to-troubleshoot physical
  connectivity issues

Cost to your business may vary depending on
ELAs and discount programs
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ROI for vCharter Pro

• Better performance for DRS clustersInformation
  vCharter Pro provides allows for more intelligent
  use of affinity and anti-affinity
• Better performance of VMs in resource
  poolsvCharter Pro provides you with the
  information you need to define your resource pool
  allocations intelligently

Cost to your business may vary depending on
ELAs and discount programs
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vCharter Pro Summary

• Understand performance
• Real time metrics provide current performance
  views
• Consolidated / focused view of performance
  metrics
• Rules and alarms for each level of virtual
  infrastructure
• Reduce downtime
• Intelligent alarms identify problems before they
  become critical.
• Workload Migration Modeler shows the potential
  impact of moving a VM before moving it.
• Customizable/scalable for any environment
• Create custom dashboards and reports to show only
  desired data
• All rules and alarms can be fully customized to
  suit your needs

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Thank you.