VMworld 2013 Hands On Labs!

Here’s a little preview of one of our two OneCloud datacenters that is running VMworld 2013 Hands On Labs. We’re using Hyperic, vC Ops and VMware Log Insight to make sure that you guys have the best labs possible! Enjoy!

Check out these awesome custom vC Ops Dashboards!

This one displays vCD information such as the current VM Consoles that each cell server is serving to clients. Most of these metrics are gathered via a custom Hyperic vCD Plugin that we built (to be posted later).

Simple but effective Lab and VM deployment stats and trending.

Shout out to my co-worker Jacob Ross who was my teammate in designing and building the monitoring for VMworld 2013 HOL. Hope you all enjoy the show!

Monitoring vCD 5.1 vAPP deployment times with SQL

Whipped up a quick set of SQL scripts that will allow me to monitor vAPP deployment times in vCloud Director 5.1. Maybe somebody out there will also find them useful.

--Finds the deployment and vAPP creation times over a set period of time which is currently 6 hours.
select distinct
     Jobs.operation
    ,Jobs.object
    ,Jobs.Task_Length_Minutes
    ,COUNT(Jobs.job_id) as VM_Count
    ,Jobs.Minutes_Since_Task
    ,Jobs.OrgVDC
from (
      select top 2500
         jobs.job_id
        ,jobs.starttime
        ,jobs.stoptime
        ,jobs.object
        ,jobs.operation
        ,DATEDIFF(MINUTE,(jobs.starttime),(jobs.stoptime)) AS Task_Length_Minutes
        ,DATEDIFF(MINUTE,(jobs.starttime),getdate()) as Minutes_Since_Task
        ,org_prov_vdc.name AS OrgVDC
     from jobs
         Join vapp_vm on vapp_vm.vapp_id = jobs.object_id
            JOIN vm_container on vm_container.sg_id = jobs.object_id
            JOIN org_prov_vdc on org_prov_vdc.id = vm_container.org_vdc_id
        WHERE jobs.operation IN (
                  'VAPP_DEPLOY'
                  ,'VDC_INSTANTIATE_VAPP')
            AND DATEPART(YEAR, stoptime) <> 9999
            AND DATEDIFF(MINUTE,(jobs.starttime),getdate()) <=360
               Group by jobs.object, jobs.starttime, jobs.stoptime, jobs.operation, vapp_vm.name, jobs.job_id, org_prov_vdc.name
      ) Jobs
Group BY  Jobs.operation
    ,Jobs.object
    ,Jobs.Task_Length_Minutes
    ,Jobs.Minutes_Since_Task
    ,Jobs.OrgVDC
    Order by Minutes_Since_Task      


--Finds the Average Deployment Time by vAPP Name over a set period of time which is currently 6 hours.
SELECT Jobs.object
        ,AVG(Jobs.TaskLengthSeconds) as AverageDeployTime
        ,Jobs.ElapsedTimeMinutes
FROM (SELECT top 500 jobs.object
,jobs.starttime
        ,jobs.stoptime
        ,DATEDIFF(MINUTE,(jobs.starttime),(jobs.stoptime)) AS TaskLengthSeconds
        ,DATEDIFF(MINUTE,(jobs.starttime),getdate()) as ElapsedTimeMinutes
     FROM jobs
        WHERE (jobs.operation = 'VAPP_DEPLOY' or jobs.operation = 'VDC_INSTANTIATE_VAPP') and DATEPART(YEAR, stoptime) = 2013
            Group by jobs.object, jobs.starttime, jobs.stoptime
                Order by jobs.starttime DESC) Jobs
WHERE CAST(ElapsedTimeMinutes AS int) <=360
    Group by Jobs.object, Jobs.ElapsedTimeMinutes
        Order by Jobs.ElapsedTimeMinutes

       
--Finds the Longest Deployment Time by vAPP Name over a set period of time which is currently 6 hours.
SELECT Jobs.object
        ,MAX(Jobs.TaskLengthMinutes) as MaxDeployTime
FROM (select top 2500 jobs.object
        ,jobs.starttime
        ,jobs.stoptime
        ,DATEDIFF(MINUTE,(jobs.starttime),(jobs.stoptime)) AS TaskLengthMinutes
        ,DATEDIFF(MINUTE,(jobs.starttime),getdate()) as ElapsedTimeMinutes
     FROM jobs
        WHERE jobs.operation = 'VAPP_DEPLOY' or jobs.operation = 'VDC_INSTANTIATE_VAPP' and stoptime not like '%9999%'
            Group by jobs.object, jobs.starttime, jobs.stoptime
                Order by jobs.starttime DESC) Jobs
WHERE CAST(ElapsedTimeMinutes AS int) <=360
    Group by Jobs.object           
        Order by MaxDeployTime

Updating, Replacing or Downgrading Hyperic System Plugins

Sometimes you have an updated Hyperic plugin that you need to replace with a different version on an agent and it will not push for various reasons. To get around this just copy the new plugin file directly to /opt/hyperic/hyperic-hqee-agent/bundles/agent-5.7.0/pdk/plugins on the agent machine and restart the agent service (service hyperic-hqee-agent restart). At this point you are good to go.