Brocade And Vmware Vrealize Operations Partner Brief

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PARTNER BRIEF Brocade and VMware vRealize Operations HIGHLIGHTS •• Improve collaboration with in-context network and storage insights for cloud operations teams ••Accelerate troubleshooting with storage and networking recommendations ••Optimize application and Virtual Machine (VM) performance with a resilient physical foundation ••Visualize Fibre Channel, Ethernet, and IP network resources in simple dashboards •• Use out-of-the box queries and alerts that are easy to customize Shared Accountability for Network Uptime Data center evolution promises organizations significantly better agility, flexibility, and scalability. The virtualization of the network and seamless integration of physical and virtual infrastructure is critical to this transition. It is imperative to achieve visibility across virtual and physical boundaries to enable close collaboration between IT operations teams. Without this, time and money can be wasted, leading to ineffective troubleshooting and unnecessary downtime. This need for in-context insights across the data center is where Brocade and VMware complementary technologies and integrations bring value to customers moving towards Software-Defined Data Centers (SDDCs). Brocade® fabrics help organizations easily create efficient networks that “just work.” Fibre Channel, Ethernet, and IP networks built on Brocade data center fabrics provide unmatched automation, efficiency, and VM awareness. In turn, this increases IT agility, enabling organizations to transition smoothly to elastic data center networks that can seamlessly support their mission-critical applications, VMs, and storage. Brocade Data Center Fabrics and VMware vRealize Operations Simplified operations management— including automation, analytics, and interoperability across physical and virtual resources—can ensure that service levels and cost efficiencies are maintained. VMware vRealize Operations provides automated operations management using patented analytics and an integrated approach to performance, capacity, and configuration management. This enables IT organizations to gain better visibility and actionable intelligence to proactively assure service levels, optimum resource usage, and configuration compliance in dynamic virtual and cloud environments. Figure 1: Brocade IP troubleshooting dashboard in vRealize Operations. The Brocade Analytics Packs for VMware vRealize Operations help unite the best aspects of virtual and physical networking to enable SDDCs that deliver simplicity, scalability, and efficient resource utilization. The foundation of the Brocade integrations into vRealize Operations are innovative Brocade data center fabrics, which deliver diagnostic information from the Brocade infrastructure to vRealize Operations. This data is classified based on Brocade best practices and is incorporated into risk, health, and efficiency metrics within vRealize Operations. Predefined topology views, queries, and alerts further simplify the process and are easy to customize (see Figure 1). Virtualization infrastructure teams can use these proactive insights to quickly pinpoint network problems and drive new levels of network automation, performance, and availability. Table 1: vRealize Operations management pack technical details. IP Analytics Management Pack SAN Analytics Management Pack vRealize Operations 6.0 or higher Operations Manager 6.0 ••VMware ••vRealize recommended recommended VDX devices with Brocade Network ••Brocade Network Advisor 12.3.X or later, ••Brocade OS version 5.0 or higher Professional Plus, Enterprise, or Headless ® editions (Professional not supported) ••vCenter Server 5.5 Diagnostics information from Brocade VDX devices is delivered to vRealize Operations using SNMP and NETCONF 2 Diagnostics information from Brocade Fibre Channel devices is delivered to vRealize Operations through Brocade Network Advisor Brocade Data Center Fabrics and VMware vRealize Log Insight IT infrastructure generates massive numbers of alerts on a daily basis. Understanding which are truly meaningful is a manual, time-consuming process. Prior generations of analytics solutions attempted to use complicated heuristics and rigid algorithms to improve the signal-to-noise ratio. But the dynamism of modern data centers ensures that new types of patterns will emerge over time, making predefined assumptions increasingly less applicable. Administrators need tools that can evolve with shifting infrastructure patterns and that can be fine-tuned to the specific requirements of their environment for effective root-cause analysis. vRealize Log Insight provides organizations with operational intelligence and deep, enterprise-wide visibility across all tiers of IT infrastructure and applications. The Brocade Content Pack for vRealize Log Insight eliminates noise Figure 2: Brocade Network OS tunnel events in vRealize Log Insight. from millions of events and amplifies critical alerts to accelerate troubleshooting (see Figure 2). Faster troubleshooting provides increased productivity and utilization of IT resources. Leveraging Brocade data center fabrics provides deeper knowledge of behavior and health over time to identify and remediate patterns affecting VM performance and application responsiveness. The Brocade Content Pack for vRealize Log Insight provides prepackaged regular expression (regex) filters. For example, vRealize Log Insight uses strings to match to alerts of a certain type. These filters can be combined to troubleshoot through a rapid process of elimination, using prepackaged policies. Filtered summaries are presented in Log Insight dashboards to provide VMware administrators with a complete view of network health and behavior. Table 2: Log Insight integration. IP and SAN Content Pack. SAN Prerequisites IP Prerequisites vCenter Log Insight (2.5 or greater vCenter Log Insight (2.5 or greater ••VMware ••VMware recommended) recommended) SAN Switches with Brocade Fabric VDX Switches with Brocade ••Brocade ••Brocade OS (FOS) version 6.4 or above Network OS version 5.0 or above ® Optional: •• Using Brocade Network Advisor is optional. If used, please use version 11.0 or above Optional: Brocade Network Advisor is optional. ••Using If used, please use version 11.0 or above Diagnostics information from Brocade Fibre Channel devices and Brocade VDX devices is delivered to vRealize Operations using syslog messages Brocade Network Advisor Professional Plus, Enterprise, or Headless editions are supported Accessing and Using the Management Packs All the Brocade Management Packs can be downloaded at no cost from VMware Solutions Exchange, where you can also find technical specifications and user documentation. Note that third-party management packs are supported in vRealize Operations Insight and the advanced versions of vRealize Operations. Brocade vADC Integration into vRealize Orchestrator In addition to hardware integrations, Brocade also integrates into vRealize Orchestrator with the Brocade Virtual Traffic Manager (vTM). The Brocade vTM plugin for vRealize Orchestrator brings load balancing functionality to the vCenter environment through workflows and actions using a SOAP API. The plugin, in addition to automating the configuration aspects of load balancing, prevents misconfigurations. This helps businesses to accelerate and reduce IT costs while retaining quality. Visit the Brocade community website for details. 3 Learn More About VMware Brocade partners with companies of all sizes to deliver innovative solutions that help organizations maximize the value of their most critical information. To learn more, visit www.vmware.com.. VMware is radically transforming IT with technologies that make your business more agile, efficient, and profitable. A pioneer in virtualization and policydriven automation, VMware simplifies IT complexity across the entire data center. VMware delivers value to more than 500,000 customers through virtualization software, professional services, and a robust ecosystem of more than 55,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world. Learn more at www.vmware.com. About Brocade Brocade networking solutions help organizations transition smoothly to a world where applications and information reside anywhere. Innovative Ethernet and storage networking solutions for data center, campus, and service provider networks help reduce complexity and cost while enabling virtualization and cloud computing to increase business agility. VMware, Inc. 3401 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94304 USA vREALIZE OPERATIONS INTEGRATION Visibility and actionable intelligence is provided to ensure service levels, optimize resource usage, and configuration compliance in dynamic virtual and cloud environments. ••Visualize VM-to-storage network connectivity ••Proactively troubleshoot to maintain application availability ••Access built-in best practice recommendations for issue remediation vREALIZE LOG INSIGHT INTEGRATION Access deep insights into Brocade fabric health and behavior over time, for proactive network troubleshooting and maximum VM and application performance. ••Intelligent classification of network events ••Predefined, customizable dashboards ••Powerful event filtering for rapid troubleshooting Corporate Headquarters San Jose, CA USA T: +1-408-333-8000 [email protected] European Headquarters Geneva, Switzerland T: +41-22-799-56-40 [email protected] Asia Pacific Headquarters Singapore T: +65-6538-4700 [email protected] © 2016 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. 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