Big Picture to Fine Grain: Virtualization Monitoring in System Center – #HASMUG15 October

Level:
300

Description:
Learn how to harness the awesome power of System Center to monitor virtual environments running Hyper-V, VMware or both. In this session we demonstrate capacity planning, deep monitoring and vizualisation to truly unlock heterogenous hypervisor management using System Center and the Veeam Management Pack for System Center.

Monitoring in a virtualised environment is fraught with peril. VM metrics can be at odds with host metrics, application metrics can be disparate from the virtual environment that supports them, and finding the correlation between components can be a nightmare that lasts way too long. What should you monitor? What do the numbers mean? What’s good and bad? How can you prevent finger-pointing between virtualisation and application support teams? How can I get consolidated reporting without spending a week in a spreadsheet? These are just some of the challenges that Charles Clarke, industry commentator, blogger, Veeam Solutions Architect and self-avowed System Centre fan-boy will be addressing in this session.

Presenter Name:
Charles Clarke

Presenter Bio:

Charles Clarke is a 21 year veteran of the global IT industry and has been working with Microsoft technologies for the vast majority of that time. His focus for the last five years has been on helping organisations get the most from their investment in the modern datacentre, built on storage, virtualisation and the cloud.

Charles is regularly seen representing Veeam Software at industry events around the world. Currently Charles is a Solutions Architect for Veeam North America with a focus on data protection and infrastructure optimization.