HPE Cloud Optimizer: технические характеристики и документация

HPE Cloud Optimizer

Unified performance and capacity optimization for Physical, Virtual and Cloud environments
Cloud Optimizer (CO) is a unified capacity management and performance tool that enables you to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize hybrid cloud and virtualized datacenter environments. Easy to setup and install, the unified dashboard of CO provides comprehensive insights into capacity, performance, and health. With this consolidated insight, you can optimize your infrastructure, quickly solve virtualization and cloud performance issues, and plan for future growth..

Key product highlights

Make your infrastructure more efficient: Improve workloads performance in virtual environments

• Monitoring virtual and cloud workloads is a different ask because of shared usage scenarios - improve your application and workload performance by monitoring resource allocations, entitlements and usage
• Identify unorganized growth or sprawl - many VMs created and left unused causing storage and CPU/memory resource allocation issues

Performance Monitoring: Monitor your virtual and hybrid cloud environments

• Govern and raise alert on resource usage in environments varying from vSphere & HyperV to Helion OpenStack & Amazon.
• Readily integrate with HPE Operations Bridge for event management and remediation

Real-time view inside VMs: troubleshoot performance issues faster

• Drill-down into guest OS with the HPE compute sensor (light-weight agent) to get real-time view of workload processes, logs, OS for troubleshooting

Capacity management: Fix allocation problems

• Reclaim over-allocated vCPU, memory from VMs using the right-sizing analysis reports
• Reclaim storage lost to old snapshots - usually a good 30% of spaced used in most datacenters

Waste reclamation: Detect invisible lost resources

• Reclaim orphaned virtual disks (otherwise invisible), either to delete and regain space, or to attach with a running VM and resume operations

Capacity planning: What-if modelling

• Obtain best - fit forecast trends for resource usage and activity
• Simulate expansion, additions, maintenance to identify risk to business

Business planning: Capacity planning based on business data statistics

• Analyze business data and obtain trends, correlate with usage data to predict infrastructure capacity needs for future business plans

Highly integration friendly

• Employ CO's REST APIs for usage metering data, VM placement advice, VM & cloud capacity analytics
• Integrations available with

- HPE OneView, for giving enclosure view, enclosure capacity and performance insights

- HPE Cloud Service Automation, for intelligent VM provisioning and subscription health, forecast views

- HPE IT Business Analytics, for usage metering - charge-back and show-back reports

- HPE Operations Bridge, for operations monitoring and correlation, Ops Bridge Reporter for health reporting

- HPE Operations Analytics, for big-data analytics and log-analytics based troubleshooting and cause-finding

Supported virtual and Cloud environments

Cloud Optimizer supports VMware vSphere, Microsoft Windows HyperV, KVM, OpenStack (also Helion OpenStack), Amazon EC2 and Xen (open-source). Refer to HPE Operations Center product support matrix here for details and latest updates.

Supported Virtual Machines

All (MS Windows and RH/CentOS Linux) guest operating systems supported by the hypervisor.

Installation Server Requirements

NOTE: Instance count includes the total number of VMs and hosts - both powered off and powered on - in the monitored environment.

The Installation Server must meet the following minimum requirements:

• 2 vCPU (upto 1000 instances), 4 vCPU (up to 3500 instances) and 8 vCPU (up to 10000 instances)
• 4 GB RAM (upto 1000 instances), 16 GB (up to 3500 instances) and 25 GB (up to 10000 instances)
• Disk space - 67GB or more
• Network with 100 Mbit/s or higher
• Virtual Appliance installation comes pre-sized - installation option allows setting environment size

To scale beyond 10000 instances the proposed way is to have multiple Cloud Optimizer instances connected to HPE Operations Bridge as the central console.

Software Licensing

HPE Cloud Optimizer licensing is calculated by operating system instances. A license entitlement is used for each VM and Host for which data collection is done. Licenses are available as permanent and 1-year term entitlements.

Cloud Optimizer is also sold as part of the IT Operation Management solution suites - Operations Bridge Suite and the Cloud Orchestration Suite. These may be offered alternatively for a customer who prefers the end-to-end integrated solution offerings from HPE.

When integrating with HPE OneView, CO for OneView 'server' licenses can be used for OneView managed blade and rack servers (In this circumstance, VMs are not counted). More details in the 'Licensing' section below.

Software Editions

HPE Cloud Optimizer is available in 2 editions. CO runs as a fully functional premium edition software during evaluation period of 60 days from first install.

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Licensing

OS Instance Licenses (general)

Applicable to all environments, sold in pack of 50 units.

"Cloud Optimizer for OneView" Server licenses (for OneView deals)

"HPE Cloud Optimizer for OneView" SKUs listed below can be sold with HPE OneView advanced licenses. This Server license applies for each HPE OneView managed server and covers all VMs running on the server at no additional cost entitling CO premium functionality. For all servers and VMs not managed by OneView, the regular SKUs with OS instance licensing applies.

Example

If customer has the following

-       10 HPE Proliant G8 blades managed by OneView running 45 VMs

-       2 non-HPE blades managing 20 VMs

-       2 HPE Proliant G6 rack mounts (not managed by OV) running 8 VMs

- All are ESXi servers attached to vCenter

Then from Cloud Optimizer side the number of licenses needed is -

- 10 CO physical server licenses (only OneView managed servers are counted for CO's "server" license entitlement)

- 32 CO OS instance LTUs - actually in this case, 1 50-Pack SKU needs to be taken

For more information on HPE Cloud Optimizer software go to http://www.hpe.com/software/cloudoptimizer

• Direct link to QuickSpecs with detailed product specifications, ordering information and more: http://www.hp.com/go/QuickSpecs
• Cloud Optimizer blog article search listings @ HPE Enterprise Business Community blogs
• Cloud Optimizer Youtube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtS6YX0YOX4fsM5fnJcUfDF9R9bJRaZW5

Date

Version History

Action

Description of Change:

08-Jul-2016

Version 1

Creation

Document Created, and reviewed