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vCenter Application Discovery Manager
Application Discovery and Dependency Mapping

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With VMware You Can…
 Agentless, continuous dependency
mapping across physical & virtual
application infrastructures
 Quickly gain an understanding of
your service dependencies
• Achieve your virtualization goals on
time without adding risk or
complexity
Get & Maintain a Fast & Accurate Data Center View
Industry’s most comprehensive application dependency mapping
4x
Faster
Time
Dependency Map from vCenter Application Discovery Manager (ADM)
Example: VMware Blueprinting Services
7x More
Accuracy
0
10 months
VMware ServicesManual
4 months
60%
Faster

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vCenter Application Discovery Manager (ADM) – Use Cases
 Change Management
• Key part of any change management and
configuration & compliance management initiatives
• Understand the business impact of your changes
• Example: Integration with vCM
 On-going discovery and audit of Data
Center Application Infrastructure
• Periodic audit assessment
• Plan and implement Data Center Consolidations,
Moves, Virtualization roll-out, Business Continuity
• Visualization into your virtual app environment
• Maintain Data Centers to IT Operational Best
Practices
• Discover unexpected or unwanted relationships,
connections, and configurations
• Example: Blueprinting services
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Application Discovery Manager – Discovery Overview
 Passively discover your virtual and
physical infrastructure without
agents
• Hosts, application services and dependencies
• Relate virtual machine (VM) infrastructure to
the different application components
 Actively collect configuration detail
• Hardware, OS
• Installed software
• Leverage Virtual Center
 Customize discovery scope and
methods to suit user requirements
 Analyze discovered configuration
items and dependencies
• Virtual and physical dependencies
• Application Patterns, Groups, Reports
 All Delivered on VMs!
Description and Capabilities

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Application Discovery Approach
 Hybrid discovery model
• Passive, active, agent-less, analytic
• No agents required
 Passive network traffic capture
• Statistical sampling
• Uses core switch mirror ports
• Extracts details for packet structure
 Active discovery adds high
definition configuration details
• WMI, SSH, Telnet, SNMP and VI-SDK
 Discovered data analysis
• Flexible grouping definitions
• N-Tier business application pattern
definitions
• Reporting
DATA CENTER
WAN
ADM

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ADM Passive Discovery
 Passive Discovery
• Used to build application topology
• Hosts
• Services
• Connections / Dependencies
• Connects to Span ports
 Non-Intrusive
• Span, mirror port connection
• Sampling of packets
• Copies packets to ADM VM Collector
• Not in line, not resident
 Continuous Discovery
• Continuous visibility, not polling dependent
• Quick recognition of new apps, new servers, new dependencies
• Quick recognition of changes
• Real dependencies based on actual network communications
• Between application services
• Between servers
• Even discover unclassified applications running on specific ports
Offers quickest time to value of IT Cost
saving and IT efficiency projects
Aggregation
Switch
Aggregation
Switch ADM

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ADM in a Virtual Environment : Dependency mapping
ESX server
Virtual to Virtual
Dependencies
ESX to VC Dependencies
Virtualized On Relationship
Physical to Virtual
Dependencies
VMs
Discover instances of DBs,
Application servers, etc
Visibility into P –P, V – V, P – V Dependencies

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Discovery and Dependency Mapping Taxonomy
Application
Infrastructure
Passive Discovery Active Discovery
Application CI
Dependencies
CI Usage and
Details
Application
Components CIs
Core Application
Infrastructure CIs
Dependencies, Connections and protocols
Time-based relationships, protocols, network
services (e.g.,MQSeries, SOAP, Citrix ICA,
JBoss RMI, DB2, SQL, HTTP, TCP)
Host and Application Component Usage:
Time-based usage, server and application usage
Application Components and Services:
Including JBoss, Apache, Weblogic App and Web
servers, SQL, Oracle, FTP, DNS, DHCP Servers,
VirtualCenter
Application Infrastructure and hosts:
Servers, IPs, VMs
Software Dependencies:
Documented dependencies,
deployed-on, runs-on relationships,
virtualized on relationships
Software Configuration Details:
Installed path, vendor, version,
database instances, configuration
files and contents, URLs, changes
Installed Software:
Including MySQL server, Tomcat,
Ruby, Weblogic, Samba, Python,
Checkpoint VPN, Java 2 SDK
System Infrastructure:
Hardware, OS, memory, CPU, ESX
servers, VirtualCenter

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Deployment Options: Standalone vs. Distributed
ADM Collector
ESX Server
ADM Collector
Data Center 2
ADM Collector
Data Center 1
ADM Aggregator
ADM Stand-Alone
Local
Deployment
or Roving

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ADM Screenshots

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Discovery Dashboard

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Detailed Discovery Dashboard

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Inventory Screen
Inventory screen views include
VMs, ESX servers and other out of
the box and custom groups

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Host Detailed Properties
Physical Host with Virtual
Machines on them
Configuration details of VMs

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Configuration Comparison
Web application
running slow on
Oracle server1
Same application
running at spec
on staging server
Patch levels out
of sync
Memory std’s
out of sync

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Use Case: Enabling Change Management
Understanding the Impact of Changes

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Use Case: Enabling Change Management
 Change is pervasive in any environment
• Planned Changes
• Patches/Vulnerabilities
• Regulatory Changes - PCI, SOX, HIPAA, CIS …
• Best Practices – VMware, CIS, NIST, Internal …
• Virtualization
• Software Updates
• Passwords/Permissions
• Unplanned Drift – Caused by users
• Remediate Security Problems
• Troubleshooting User Issues
 Change Management
• Impact Analysis is a Critical Step
• Understand the business impact of your changes
• ADM becomes a key part of any change
management and configuration & compliance
management initiatives
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Use Case: Enabling Change Management
Uses
Relationships
Used by
Relationships
Degrees of
Dependency
Dependencies : Understanding Degrees of Dependency

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Use Case: Enabling Change Management
App Demand
CI: Connection Protocol
Interactive map shows
drill-down dependency
relationships
Relationships (1-way)
Drill down to Oracle database instances
CI: Server with Resident Apps
Time
Analysis
Dependency Maps and App Demand

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Use Case: Enabling Change Management
Virtualized On Relationship
VMs and Application
Components
ESX servers
Discover instances of DBs,
Application servers, etc
Dependency Maps : Across VMware Environments

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Understand the Impact of Change
Ensure SLA’s by Knowing the Service Dependencies
A change to
this VM
Directly
affects this
App Server
Could impact
these Web
Servers
Potential
impacted
clients

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ADM integration with vCM
Use Case: Enabling Change Management
 Launch ADM’s Application Topology in-
context from vCM
 Two launch types:
 Details
 Map
 Provides instant access to relationships &
dependencies
 Import ADM Application group
awareness into vCM
 Builds vCM Machine Group hierarchy that
reflects ADM Application Groups
 Key Customer Use Cases
 Extend visibility into application services and
dependencies
 Change planning
 Troubleshooting impact dependencies

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Use Case: Enabling Change Management
VCM
ADM
1) Collect Data
2) Check Compliance
Job
3) Understand
Impacts
Compliance
Issue
4) Enforce &
Schedule Job
Leverage ADM Data from VCM

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Use Case:
Ongoing Data Center Application Discovery
and Dependency Mapping

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Use Case:
Ongoing Data Center Application Discovery and Dependency Mapping
Servers - Applications - VMs
?
 Are my applications configured for high availability and performance?
 How are my servers configured before a major consolidation?
 How do I gain visibility into server settings prior to a data migration
 Are my applications communicating over secure protocols?
 How do I ensure I don’t break anything when I move to virtualization?
Before VMware:
WAN
drill down virtual/physical
With vCenter’s ADM:

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Use Case:
Ongoing Data Center Application Discovery and Dependency Mapping
Customer Challenges
 Tracking application and server environment for ongoing cost
saving and IT Efficiency initiatives
 Adhering to IT Operational Best Practices for Data Centers:
Configurations, Software Versions, Security
 Prepare for merger and acquisition events
 Maintain accurate disaster recovery sites
 Plan & executing data center moves, consolidations & migrations
while minimizing manual and time consuming activities
vCenter Application Discovery manager
 Customers purchase ADM to do periodic audits for moves,
consolidations
 Continuously know what you really have in your Data Centers:
applications, servers and real dependencies
 Analyzing application discovery and dependency mapping data for
saving costs and staying in line to IT Best practices
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Use Case:
Ongoing Data Center Application Discovery and Dependency Mapping
 Where are the components in my Landscape?
• Where are my applications and services ?
• What are the dependencies?
• What’s physical, what’s virtual?
• What has changed in the Landscape?
• What is the impact
 Is my Data Center configured right ?
• Discover unexpected or unwanted relationships, connections, and configuration
• Are there connections between Development and production?
• Are we running older versions of software ?
 Are we geared for maximum IT efficiency while minimizing costs ?
• Are there unused applications consuming server resources?
• Can I consolidate by reducing to fewer servers ?
• Are we virtualizing the right servers factoring applications criticality ?

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Use Case:
Ongoing Data Center Application Discovery and Dependency Mapping
 Need ongoing Upgrade Planning
• Virtualization / Consolidation
• Unicode conversion
• Netweaver Platform Roll-out
 Need Discovery and Dependency Mapping for Data Center Environments
include SAP
• View and Group regions and interfaces: Production , QAS, Pre-Production, Test
• Between SAP Solutions & Modules
• ECC – FI, SD, MM, PP, HR
• Between SAP and other applications infrastructure
 Leverage Continuous Discovery
• Revise Plans
• Build Intelligent Site Recovery Workflows
• It’s 10PM – Your Landscape Crashed
• Do you know where your applications are?
EXAMPLE: ADM in Data Centers with SAP

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Use Case:
Ongoing Data Center Application Discovery and Dependency Mapping
 vCenter ADM: Continuous
discovery of the application
infrastructure
• Active and Passive Discovery
• Configurations
• Dependencies and mapping
• SAP Landscape Discovery (physical or
virtual)
• SAP landscape interactions with rest
of applications Infrastructure
 Fingerprints and application
patterns
• SAP Built in Application Pattern
template
EXAMPLE: ADM in Data Centers with SAP

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Use Case:
Ongoing Data Center Application Discovery and Dependency Mapping
EnqueServer
MessageServer
Central Instance
Windows
VM
Physical ESX
host
Database
Instances
GUI clients
Dispatcher
EXAMPLE: ADM in Data Centers with SAP

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Use Case:
Ongoing Data Center Application Discovery and Dependency Mapping
 Make informed decisions in vCenter, Site Recovery Manager about
protection groups, DR plans, VM startup order / dependencies, etc.
 ADM shows applications inside the VM’s or their dependencies /
involvement in the SAP landscape.
These 3 VM’s run SAP.
Keep them in your SRM
protection group.
This host and the physical VCenter server
Also need to be failed over for a complete
landscape recovery
EXAMPLE: Map Physical to Virtual layers, ESX to VC server

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Use Case:
Data Center Blueprinting Services
• Migration
• Disaster Recovery
• Consolidation

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Data Center Projects
Challenges and Requirements
 Must start with a strong foundation of information at the start of any Data
Center project: Migration, Consolidation, Disaster Recovery, etc.
 Manual information gathering process is time consuming, laborious and
error prone
• Tribal knowledge may not always be accurate, up-to-date or reflect recent
changes to the application infrastructure
• Inaccuracies in knowledge increases the the risk of faulty decisions
• Faulty project decisions result in service outages!!!
 REQUIREMENT: Need to understand the interdependencies of the
business applications and their relationships to the underlying servers,
network and storage prior to undertaking any major data center project
• Automated
• Accurate
• Constant ad up to date in the face of an ever change infrastructure

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Data Center Migration
Challenges
 Creating safe “Move Groups”
• Identify groups of servers to move and properly prioritize the
migration
• When can I move the servers?
• How do I group the servers together to ensure there are no
service outages?
• WHEN is the best time to move a server based on the USAGE of
the applications on the servers
 Move Group Determining Factors
• Dependency - Applications that are tightly dependent on each
others should be bundled together
• Environment (logical) - Test, Development, QA, and Production
environments should be segregated in environment -specific
bundles
• Interdependency - Application interdependencies (2-tier, 3-tier
architectures) should move together
• Shared Database - Applications that share a database may be
bundled together to minimize application outages and impact to
increased latency
Group A
Group B

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VMware Blueprinting Services for Data Centers - Migration
Value Proposition
 Ensure Accuracy and Completeness
• Gain visibility into your server, storage and network
device inventory and the associated low level
interdependencies
• Understand how your virtualized environment
interacts with the physical
• Enhance your view of your business application
structure and associated service interdependencies
 Mitigate the risk of the migration
• Guarantee that applications are not severely
impacted during the move
• Minimize the downtime of applications by including
the associated servers into a single move group
• Ensure you do not leave anything behind
 Optimize your resources
• With a more comprehensive view of your
infrastructure, you will manage more effectively the
creation of server move groups and their respective
priorities

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VMware Blueprinting Services for Data Centers - Migration
Service Overview
 Requirements Gathering
• Collect pre-requirements for the
discovery tools (e.g. authentication
credentials)
 Implementation
• Install and configure the tools in the
data center(s)
 Discovery
• Initiate automated discovery
• Faster and less laborious that manual
process
• Accurate and up-to-date results
 Analysis
• Analyze discovery data and generate
consolidation reports
• Reports help drive move group
determination

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Business Application Mapping
Inter-Dependency Maps
 Provides a detailed and
accurate infrastructure
layout of a given
business application
• Virtual and Physical
servers
• Services
• Interdependencies
 This is first step to
understanding the
business application is
to map out its internal
dependencies
 Required for any major
data center project (i.e.
DR, Migration,
Consolidation)
Application
Layers
DB Layer

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Business Application Mapping
Intra-Dependency Maps
 Shows the dependencies
between business
applications
 Understand know how the
migration (or failure) of
one business application
might impact a separate
business application
 Dependencies between
business applications will
affect the order in which
they are brought up at a
remote data center after a
disaster

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Communication Company
Data Center Migration Project
 Challenge:
• Move current datacenter network off of parent company network
• Need to move IP addressing and physical systems from parent company
network and datacenters under SEC penalty before July 2008
 How did VMware help?
• Discovery, analysis and validation of application interdependencies
• Mapped critical business application and discovered the dependencies for their
data warehouse backup
• This was a previously unknown application dependency
• Assisted in building over 50 move groups both physical/virtual servers and
network
 Results:
• Reduced manual overhead in determining cross network dependencies
• Service deliverables accepted by SEC for proof of network independence
saving fines of over $1.5M/month
• Discovered dependencies for data warehouse backup that would have cost the
customer over $1.5M ($260,000/hour x estimated 6 hours to resolve) in service
outages during the move if they had remained unknown.

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