Workshop APM in a Cloud & Virtualized environment
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The document outlines the services and capabilities of Performance Vision, a European vendor specializing in Application Performance Management (APM) and Network Behavior Analysis (NBA). It discusses the challenges faced in monitoring applications due to virtualization and cloud computing, highlighting the benefits of their virtual appliance solutions for capturing and analyzing network traffic. The presentation also emphasizes the importance of user experience and performance troubleshooting as key components of effective APM.
Workshop APM in a Cloud & Virtualized environment
- 1. Performance Vision March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 2. Agenda • Corporate presentation • What’s the use of an APM? • The different APM approaches • Challenges raised by virtualization and cloud • Two responses from Performance Vision • Why a Virtual Appliance? • Questions / Answers March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 3. Agenda • Corporate presentation • What’s the use of an APM? • The different APM approaches • Challenges raised by virtualization and cloud • Two responses from Performance Vision • Why a virtual Appliance? • Questions / Answers March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 4. Corporate profile Leading European vendor on: Application Performance Management (APM) Network Behavior Analysis (NBA) Strong footprint in Western Europe 500 customers 30 certified resellers Based in Paris Innovative, fast growing Listed in Deloitte’s Fast50 Red Herring Global Award winner March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 5. Performance Vision Key References March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 6. Performance Vision Concept Show the Performance of applications and infrastructure as Users Experience it! IT Troubleshooting Monitoring Intelligence March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 7. Performance Vision Core Functions • Usage trends • Network Quality Indicators • Who does what • Congestion & degradations • Bandwidth • ICMP / TCP / non IP • Traffic mapping anomalies • Top reports • Packet capture Usage Network Application SIP • QoE Reporting • Troubleshooting workflow • Quality of Service (MOS) • DNS performance & • Volume reporting errors • Diagnostic at call level March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 8. Performance Vision Top Down = Successful & Faster Resolution • Fast resolution • Retrospective analysis • Answers to « where is the pain coming from? » • Usable by whole IT team (Collaborative vs. Expert) March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 9. Performance Vision Fast & non-intrusive Implementation All-in-one Appliance Capture traffic through SPAN or TAP (3-16 listening port per apliance) 100% non intrusive: • No traffic overhead • No network change • No downtime • Agentless Distributed capture support March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 10. Agenda • Corporate presentation • What’s the use of an APM? • The different APM approaches • Challenges raised by virtualization and cloud • Two responses from Performance Vision • Why a virtual Appliance? • Questions / Answers March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 11. Performance Vision Before the Cloud… March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 12. Survey 2011: the issue with application performance… • 96% of the respondents have experienced « slowdowns » • For 49%, they are permanent or frequent… • 78% of the incidents have a significant impact on the end user productivity. • Despite traditional monitoring tools, 94% of the network administrators do NOT have a satifsactory visibility on network activities. – (71% have a SNMP monitoring console, 60% a packet analyzer, 64% a WAN optimizer) March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 13. Performance Vision What are the Challenges around APM? Performance is subjective. March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 14. Performance Vision March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 15. Performance Vision You don’t Know Where it Comes From March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 16. Performance Vision What can APM bring? Measure end user experience Reduce time to solve performance degradations Implement collaborative problem solving in IT Facilitate Continuous Improvement Manage changes, deployments and migrations with the right info March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 17. Performance Vision You have a performance problem, You do not know where it comes from… You can… FIND OUT IN 4 CLICKS! March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 18. Performance Vision Be Informed! Some users suffered from a performance degradation On the application Labo RD1 at 10:44 am this morning. March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 19. Performance Vision Yellow: Network RT The blue peak indicates there was Blue: Server RT a server response time issue Red: Data transfer time Only one server and one user group were involved. March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 20. Performance Vision We can see that only one user was impacted. March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 21. Performance Vision For that specific conversation we can see the degraded server response time. By clicking on « PCAP »… You can view the exact query that caused the slowdown. March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 22. Performance Vision Now… You can fix your problem! March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 23. Agenda • Corporate presentation • What’s the use of an APM? • The different APM approaches • Challenges raised by virtualization and cloud • Two responses from Performance Vision • Why a virtual Appliance? • Questions / Answers March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 24. Performance Vision APM: Three Different Approaches 1. End User Experience Monitoring 2. Network based APM 3. Agent based APM 1. EUE Montiroing 3. Agent Based Network 2. Network Based March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 25. Performance Vision APM Working Methods End User • A robot replays predefined scenarios to evaluate the overall end user transaction time. Experience Agent based • Agents on all servers in the application chain monitor the execution of the application at code APM and system resource level. • A set of probes captures the application traffic Network over the network (between clients and front server and eventually within the application based APM chain). March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 26. Performance Vision Benefits & Drawbacks APM Type End User Experience Agent-based Network-based Is there a slowdown? What part of the application What is the evolution of Quality Which applications and users are chain is causing the slowdown? Questions of experience for the standard impacted? What transaction is slow? answered operations of my key What is causing the slowdown What part of the code is application? (network ,server, data transfer) executed slowly? For which transactions? No vision of application delivery Not in line with real use on the network No vision of the root cause when Limits Not explanatory (does not tell No vision of application server led degradation (code, you why or what is failing) environment (network, other server resources…) applications…) Agent deployed on each server Agent deployed on each client or Impact on server performance Traffic capture by SPAN or TAP Constraints robot Pricing per server or application Configuration of each scenario chain All applications distributed over Scope One or few critical applications One or few critical applications the network Helpdesk, reporting for Main Users Development teams, Q/A. Infrastructure team, helpdesk management March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 27. Agenda • Corporate presentation • What’s the use of an APM? • The different APM approaches • Challenges raised by virtualization and cloud • Two responses from Performance Vision • Questions / Answers March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 28. Virtualisation Challenges • Which Virtual machine can talk to which other? • How can I make sure the Security policy is applied? Issues Virtual Networks Dynamic • Loss of visibility: how to Resource capture virtual traffic? • Specific network Allocation performance issues • What’s where and when? • A data center is not a physical place anymore… March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 29. Cloud Challenges • Variability: where are my servers now? • No vision of application Lack of chain Visibility No Control on Servers • No Check/Performance measurement is The Impact of possible on the servers. WAN Transmission • Quality of transmission • Name resolution (DNS) performance March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 30. Agenda • Corporate presentation • What’s the use of an APM? • The different APM approaches • Challenges raised by virtualization and cloud • Two responses from Performance Vision • Why a virtual Appliance? • Questions / Answers March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 31. Performance Vision What’s the Issue with APM Virtualization? SRV SRV SRV SRV SRV SRV ESX SRV SRV SRV SRV SRV SRV Servers SRV SRV SRV SRV SRV SRV Server Switches Core Switches Network March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 32. Performance Vision Key Success Factors SRV SRV SRV SRV SRV SRV ESX SRV SRV SRV SRV SRV SRV Servers SRV SRV SRV SRV SRV SRV Server Switches Core Switches Make sure you capture traffic Make sure you capture traffic Network within the virtualization whichever network path is chassis. used: distributed capture. With no architecture Easy to deploy change Low impact on network Limited impact on Affordable infrastructure load March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 33. Performance Vision How does Performance Vision Respond? SRV SRV SRV SRV SRV SRV ESX SRV SRV SRV SRV SRV SRV Servers SRV SRV SRV SRV SRV SRV Server Switches Core 0,2-05% reporting flow Switches Distributed solution: Network Several options to monitor All APS-1000+ appliance virtual traffic with support external pollers. Performance Vision: Only 0,2-0,5% reporting Virtual pollers flow Virtual TAPs support A new poller is installed in < 1 hour. You go distributed from 24k€; 2012 March pollers from <6k€. © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 34. Performance Vision 3 ways to monitor virtual traffic SRV SRV SRV SRV SRV SRV SRV SRV SRV PV Virtual Express PV Virtual Poller SSH (0,2-0,5%) GRE (100%) HTTPS PV (Virtual) APS PV (Virtual) APS PV Virtual Express: PV Virtual Poller: Virtual TAP: Promiscuous mode or Promiscuous mode or No promiscuous mode, SPAN on Virtual switch SPAN on Virtual switch neither SPAN HTTP access to the SSH export to an APS prerequesites Virtual Express for appliance (0,2-0,5%) GRE export to an APS queries appliance (100%) March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 35. Performance Vision Synopsis - Intra-ESX Capture Promiscuous Alternative Switch Alternative Switch Configuration Native Vswitch Virtual TAP Mode Openvswitch Nexus / Connect Change VSwitch allows Openswicth is an A Virtual TAP enables You can change the These Cisco & HP activation of open-soucre filtered traffic capture VLAN configuration (to products are Native vswitch does « promiscuous » alternative to vswitch. (for specific VMs and force the traffic alternatives to not offer any port mode. It enables It is used by Xen of ports for example) and between VMs to be Description Vswitch. They offer mirroring feature. forwarding all packets Citrix. It offers local to send a copy of the routed through the extended features of to all the VM within a and remote port traffic through a GRE physical switches) or port mirroring (SPAN, portgroup (including mirroring features Tunnel to the analysis the affinity rules with RSPAN, ERSPAN). your analysis device). (SPAN & RSPAN). device. the same objective. Enables the traffic analysis through a Enables fine tuned Enables the analysis of Enables fine tuned Enables fine tuned virtual poller / traffic capture. inter-VM traffic on the Benefits None traffic capture. traffic capture. appliance without any Filtering on traffic physical network. No license cost. architecture change. capture. No License cost. No license cost. Licence Enterprise Plus Creation of portgroups Architecture change in License cost. is necessary. Prerequisites Native Activation of the the ESX. Support of ESX4 (and Configuration change. Architecture change in promiscuous mode not version 5) the ESX. The analysis device has to be inside the ESX. If the analysis device is Security consideration The analysis device The analysis device outside of the ESX, Load on the network Limits - around the has to be in the ESX. has to be in the ESX. beware of the traffic interfaces of the ESX. promiscuous mode load on the interfaces. (even if limited to a portgroup). March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 36. Performance Vision What’s the issue with AppPerf in Cloud Provider DC1 the Cloud? SRV Cloud Provider DC2 SRV SRV SRV SRV LAN SRV DNS Questions raised: • Bandwidth & internet transmission quality are key. • DNS response times have a stronger impact. • Cannot recognize a Cloud App per IP addressing URL based recognition. • Change in the Cloud architecture impacts distance latency EU Experience. • No vision of Application chains. Agent based is not an option. March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 37. Performance Vision Cloud Provider DC1 SRV Cloud Provider DC2 SRV SRV SRV SRV LAN SRV DNS Performance Vision: Network based Reports quality of network link to the Internet Reports DNS performance Recognizes applications based URL Regex March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 38. Agenda • Corporate presentation • What’s the use of an APM? • The different APM approaches • Challenges raised by virtualization and cloud • Two responses from Performance Vision • Why a Virtual Appliance? • Questions / Answers March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 39. Performance Vision Why a Virtual Appliance offering? Virtual Appliance ≠ Virtual traffic capture 3 benefits in Virtual appliances: 1. TCO 2. Deployment 3. Virtual Traffic March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 40. Performance Vision What’s a Virtual Appliance? Exact copy of the physical appliance • Product • Features In a software appliance March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 41. Performance Vision 3 main use cases Easier test drives • No logistics • Anyone will be able to download from the web Entry level product • Low TCO probe • Low cost • No logistics • Fast & remote deployment Virtual network capture March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 42. Performance Vision How does it work? Capture modes • Physical interfaces in promiscuous mode • Virtual machines in promiscous mode • Receive traffic through a GRE tunnel (Virtual TAP) Supported platforms • VMWare ESX, ESXi (VMPlayer with restrictions) • Supported configurations: • RAM: 500Mb, 4Gb, 6Gb, 8Gb, 12Gb or 16Gb; • CPU: 1, 4 or 8 Deployment methods • Stand alone appliance • Poller for an external collector (physical or virtual) • Collector for other poller appliances (physical or virtual) March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 43. Performance Vision Benefits and limits Benefits Limits • Reduced acquisition cost • VMWare configuration • No logistics for remote installation prerequesites • Virtual traffic capture • Performance for high volume • Backup facility collectors due to I/O performance March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 44. Performance Vision Product set Trial Virtual Virtual Virtual Express Appliance Poller Appliance Supported APS NPS | APS APP NPS | APS modules Interfaces 3 3 3 - 10 3 – 10 Retention time 15 days 15 days N/A 360 days Reporting No No No Yes | Yes Collector for No No No No | Yes distributed poller Telephone No Option| Option Yes Yes | Yes support included in maintenance Listprice Free for 15 days 3 900€ | 6 900€ 5 900€ 9 900€ | 17 900€ March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 45. Performance Vision Possible implementations March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 46. Performance Vision Single Node Performance Vision Appliance Central Site Local Performance Vision March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 47. Performance Vision Single Node Performance Vision Appliance Internet Firewall Admin Port Core Switches Monitoring Port(s) Performance Vision Applications, Databases, Intranet, Files, Mails... Users Users March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 48. Performance Vision Single Node Virtual Performance Vision Internet VMWare ESX Firewall Virtual Switch Admin Port Virtual Performance Monitoring Port(s) Vision Core Switches Physical Virtual NIC NIC Applications, Databases, Intranet, Files, Mails... Users Users March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 49. Performance Vision Virtual Poller Remote Site Remote Site Remote Site Virtual Poller Appliance Poller Appliance Poller Network Central Site Local Appliance Collector March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 50. Performance Vision Distributed Environment Performance Vision Mix Remote Site Switches Internet WAN SPV Virtual Pollers or Firewall Appliances Admin Port Core Switches Monitoring Port(s) Appliance Collector Applications, Databases, Intranet, Files, Mails... Users Users March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential
- 51. Agenda • Corporate presentation • What’s the use of an APM? • The different APM approaches • Challenges raised by virtualization and cloud • Two responses from Performance Vision • Why a Virtual Appliance? • Questions / Answers March 2012 © 2012 SecurActive. Proprietary and Confidential