SolarWinds and Kenson invited National Health Service (NHS) IT professionals to join us in London, at the Marriott London County Hall, on October 18th, for a SolarWinds event focused on getting more value from their SolarWinds implementations, including support for their IT product consolidation efforts.
Opening (30)
SolarWinds Overview (Anna)
Kenson Overview (Glen)
NHS Case Study (??)
Network Management Products (45) (Jamie)
Technical Updates
Scalability and HA
Break (15)
Systems Management and Security Products (45) (Jamie)
Technical Updates
IT Consolidation (30) (Anna)
Wrap-up and Q&A (15) (Jamie)
[reminder to speaker- VNQM is getting covered in more detail during the “Other SolarWInds Products” section at the end of the day]
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This is a logical view of the platform architecture, with web services on the top and devices and pollers on the bottom.
There are 9 products fully integrated into the Orion Platform (formerly known as “Orion Core”); the products on the right side are integrated, but to a lesser degree.
The Orion Platform comes with any/all of the products and includes the Primary Web Server, Main Polling Engine as well as Common Services.
Additional users can be supported by adding additional web servers [refer to light blue box, upper right]
Additional devices can be supported by adding additional polling engines [refer to light blue box, middle bottom]
There are also high availability options.
We’ll shift over to more of a physical architecture as we explore scaling your SolarWinds solution.
We are simplifying the Orion Server instances on the bottom of slide; Orion Servers require a SQL Server, and potentially a NetFlow Storage Database.
Affectionately been referred to as the "AppStack". The Application Stack, or "AppStack" for short, is a term used to describe all the various moving parts that make up today's complex application delivery infrastructure. This begins at the bottom with the backend storage arrays where data is housed, through the various different virtualization layers, up to the server that hosts the application, until finally we reach the application itself. The AppStack Environment View shown below accompanies the SAM 6.2, VMAN 6.2, and SRM 6.0 beta releases.
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There has been a clear trend towards data center consolidation for years. It’s time to modernize your monitoring and management tools. Why now?
Standardization of networks and systems means that you don’t need proprietary, customized or expensive monitoring solutions.
Having a broad set of tools from different vendors creates unneeded challenges. First off, these tools can be difficult to integrate. Other challenges include duplicate or underutilized tools, potential blind spots, higher training costs, and security concerns.
We’re seeing a trend with our government customers to promote consolidation and reduce costs.
Let’s have a look at the benefits of modernizing you IT tools
Jamie will be covering some of the technical aspects of these in a few minutes, but these are some of the key drivers towards consolidation.
I hope everyone is ready to consolidate their IT tools and here’s why SolarWinds would be the best choice-
[review the bullets in your own words]