MasterScope SigmaSystemCenter 3.5New Function overview

NEC Platform Division

Outline

① Report

② System Topology

③ Power Sequence Control

④ Self-Service Portal

① Report

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【Report Function】Health check of server virtualization

System Administrator can easily check the availability of resources by capacity report.

There is no increasing trend of resource

usage throughout the month.

The memory capacity grows

tense.

The action to add virtual hosts or

retrieve the allocated resource is necessary.

Shall we plan to retrieve the resource

because of some machine has surplus

memory capacity.

Resource usage in time series Resource remaining amount report, Depletion/surplus machine ranking

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【Report Function】Example of SSC Report

SSC outputs the report which shows resource information to manage the virtual environment. It’s possible to modify chart and table data of report.

See “Example of SSC Report.xlsx” in ITPF Portal.

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Target Machine

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Management Server PC

.xls

◆ Contents of report

• List of VM and VMS

• Ranking of resource usage

• Status of resource usage(overview)

• Status of resource usage (timeseries)

• Analysis of VM spec

2. Check report

Gather data

1. Create report by SSC

command.

VMSVMS

2 virtual hosts and

6 virtual machines.

② System Topology

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【System Topology】Visualization of IT system

Display the component of IT System visually, and also check a warning in HW fault symptom and its effects range.

before (No SSC) after (SSC has)

ApplicationVirtual

Machine

VM VMVM VM

VM VM

Server Switch Storage

Logical Disk

VM VM VM VM VM VM

Complexity of grasping IT system. Easily grasp the configuration of business system. Detect business impact scope of HW failure.

System Administrator

Solution：Quickly detect the trouble component because of visualizing IT system as topology.

Problem：Because of complication of IT system, there is a risk to specify error component.

System Administrator

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【System Topology】Topology GUI

▌Display IT system overview

The IT system runs normally.

Operation Group

Virtual Machine

Virtual Host

Logical Volume

Storage Pool

Storage Array

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【System Topology】Topology GUI

▌Error has occurred in VM host

Quickly detect the failure point and the cause.

ESX, Windows and Web group was

influenced by the VM host error

VM host Connection was faulted.

System Administrator must check the server NIC, network cable, switch port, and etc.

Power Sequence Control

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【Power Sequence Control】Control IT system properly

When failover occurs, SSC prevents from illegal operation and data lost with controlling power order.

before (No SSC) after (SSC has)

To run IT system normally, it’s necessary not only saving per virtual machine but also per business system unit.

When failover occurs, SSC controls virtual machine according to machine dependency.

SSC check service status on machine and startup next machine. To do so, reliable system start-up can achieve.

①DB Server Reboot（Auto）②Web Server Stop③AP Server Stop④AP Server Start⑤Web Server Start

Manually

Manual operation is necessary because of Web and AP server depends on

DB server.

①DB Server Reboot②Web Server Stop③AP Server Stop④AP Server Start⑤Web Server Start

Error

Automate these operation

Down time is short since the recovery action takes in business system unit.

Reboot

Web3 Tier System

Error

DBServer

APServer

WebServer

Reboot

Web3 Tier System

DBServer

APServer

WebServer

Self Service Portal

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【Self Service Portal】User friendly Interface

Reduce system administrator costs through transfer of authority to tenant and automatic operation.

Before After

Problem：System Manager becomes a bottleneck, and It’s difficult to provide resources quickly.

Solution：By Self-service portal, tenant can do operation by himself, and administrator can reduce the management cost.

VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM

Portal Portal

System Administrator

VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM

TenantA（User）

TenantB(Administrator)

SystemAdministrator

Reboot request

Create VM request

slow reaction..

Without waiting!!

Focus on infra management!

Too busy to response requests

Quickly use VM!!

TenantA（User）

TenantB(Administrator)

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【Self Service Portal】Example of portal

Tenant can request VM create/modify/delete, and power control from portal. Also They can see server information from portal.

Request to create VM

Request to create Server

Power Control

Display server information

Specify OS, Server name, machine spec , and

network.

Power on/off and reboot operation.

Server detail information.

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【Self Service Portal】Function list

▌ Request approve or reject To create VM

To modify VM

To delete VM

▌ Confirm resource usage

▌ Power Control Shutdown

Power on

Reboot

▌ Maintenance mode / notification board

▌ Send e-mail Requestor and approver can receive e-mail in request

▌ Topology Visually display VM and network structure

▌ Tenant Management To create tenant

To create tenant user

▌ Output data for billing To output VM spec and running information

Resource status in Portal

Topology in Portal