A timely topic, very trendy, as they say, a catchy one. Many words have been said in the context of ecology, caring for the environment, cleaning up the Earth, hybrid cars, nature conservation, climate change, etc., etc… I could list and list. Many companies are betting on sustainability. The term has already entered our vocabulary, and to no one’s surprise, awareness of this topic is growing exponentially. There is also a growing responsibility to balance what we bring to the environment, economy, society and how we take care of these areas with what we take out of them.
The topic is very close to my heart, as I grew up in a beautiful place, in the land of great lakes, where two of them were heavily and successively polluted in the 1980s by a local linen plant. Over the course of twenty years it took a lot of action, i.e. the construction of a sewage treatment plant, activities of nature lovers, fishing out garbage and other actions, for the reservoirs to rehabilitate.
Nowadays, we have enough awareness and opportunities that we ourselves, can make a real impact on environmental protection to prevent such senseless destruction of nature.
At November’s VMware Partner Innovation Day, Piotr Kraś talked about green energy, savings and effective changes anyone can make in their company to go green.
Inspired by his speech, I decided to ask you: do the tools and solutions you use in your organizations contribute to environmental protection? Do you know how to effectively protect the environment with your data centers? And most importantly: what are the real savings from these actions for the company?
Do you know the answers to these questions? To show you how to make your IT resources have a positive impact on environmental protection, I’ll start with VMware Aria Operations. What does Aria have and how do you use this product? With Aria you get, among other things:
dedicated dashboards that will show energy savings,
showing where you are getting your energy from,
whether it is, for example, energy from coal,
whether the workloads you have are really optimized and whether they are the workloads the business needs,
whether there is no waste of resources there.
The less buffers we have, the less redundant infrastructure we have, the greener we are. All of this, of course, has to align with the business, because if the business has to have HA – high-availability solutions, then we will have to provide them with those buffers. What can we do for you?
With Indevops implementations you will gain:
a dashboard that, 15 minutes after installation, will show you where your business is in sustainability,
optimization, i.e.: a machine that shuts down your servers for the weekend and turns them on on Monday to save energy.
There are concrete numbers behind this solution, so real money saved. With concrete data you will gain the ability to determine which of your data centers are greener:
you can specify, for example: that you have two data centers, one of which is greener, the other is less green, and so you can implement part of the workload in this data center, where it is more beneficial,
so here we have room for automation, for orchestration of resources.
What else can you do? If you have older technology equipment in your company, it’s worthwhile for you to consider refreshing your infrastructure.
Old equipment is energy inefficient, it consumes more power because it has old processors, it has less capacity because the power supplies are old generation, and this is another input to apply our implementations:
data center analysis is important – show me “what’s that red” and what we can improve here,
we show you the data how many tons of carbon dioxide you produced, what is your impact on the environment, how many trees need to be planted to clean up what the company produced,
and we show this on a customized dashboard.
This allows you to see the real cost for electricity.
INDEVOPS, together with VMware, contribute to savings for companies that trust us and the best place to save money is #virtualization. Here are some examples:
We run many things on one server:
multiple workloads,
it is a milestone in achieving ESG goals.
free VMs,
utilized VMs,
raising server utilization.
The more virtualization we have, the less physical devices we have:
heavy networking solutions,
heavy storage solutions.
Consequently, the more virtualization, the level of “greenness” increases
we can use the devices longer,
we can move our workloads to where that energy is cheaper (thanks, for example, to VMware HCX),
if we have two data centers in different parts of Poland, we can apply the following solution: at the weekend the workload is running in one data center, and during the week it runs in the other data center.
And how do you like our solutions?
If the topic is close to you, write to us. If you would like to make the world greener for your cause. 😊
My colleagues and I will tell you how to improve your infrastructure to make you even greener.
Operations and infrastructure management, so you can see the efficiency:
free VMs,
utilized VMs,
raising server utilization.
The more virtualization we have, the less physical devices we have:
heavy networking solutions,
heavy storage solutions.
Consequently, the more virtualization, the level of “greenness” increases
we can use the devices longer,
we can move our workloads to where that energy is cheaper (thanks, for example, to VMware HCX),
if we have two data centers in different parts of Poland, we can apply the following solution: at the weekend the workload is running in one data center, and during the week it runs in the other data center.
And how do you like our solutions?
If the topic is close to you, write to us. If you would like to make the world greener for your cause. 😊
My colleagues and I will tell you how to improve your infrastructure to make you even greener.
#Friday , Friday, Friday, and we want to end this week with an event that has been #Linkedin since Tuesday – Dell Technologies Forum 2023. It was definitely worth being there and meeting you. At least for a moment, feel the atmosphere and bustle of the city of the future by Dell Technologies. We navigated Modern Technology and Workforce Transformation. The districts gathered in their avenues a lot of attractions, all kinds of surprises and opportunities to learn about new IT solutions. 😊 Panels and discussions conducted in the style of a real gala. You could listen to experts, professors and technology experts:
👌 Future of Work: About the future of work in the context of new technologies. 👌 Modern Data Infrastructure: Modern data infrastructure – the key to success. 👌 Multicloud by APEX: Get to know the multi-cloud strategy by APEX. 👌 Security by Design: Security is a priority. Learn how to design them. 👌 The Future is on the EDGE: Let’s focus on the future – the future in cloud computing.
Our immediate reality is definitely #AI and everything centered around it. Many questions and doubts have been dispelled and clarified, but some of them are still controversial, for example, does AI have consciousness? We leave you with this question.😉 Let us know what you think about it.😊
We presented ourselves in the #Apex district 😊 Marcin Rzepa, he can talk 😊, and this is only part of what he talked about.
SDDC as #NSX , #vSphere , #vSAN , and on top of it the head 🧠 that we have been specializing in for 6 years can cover the entire #Mulitcloud and give it a uniform user experience. All this requires commitment not only from us as INDEVOPS, but above all from you, so that we can best recognize your needs and help you as best as we can. Our clients already know about this and use these solutions every day. SDDC allows us to manage our #datacenter in the same way as in public clouds, and at the same time provides us with full control over the environment: 👉 building services 👉 management via IaC 👉 controlling the VMware cloud, just like other clouds.
The panel was co-hosted with our colleague Andrzej Szymczak from VMware , whom we would like to thank very much 😊 🤝 If you want more information about #SDDC and our other implementations, please contact us. ✍ ✍ Until next time. ✋ ✋
Still full of emotions, but smiles on the faces of the listeners. 🙂😉
The pains of our customers are taken very seriously by us.
How we deal with them could be heard at the panel.
Marcin Rzepa told what some of Indevops’ experiences with projects at our clients looked like.
What impact our actions have on proactivity and application performance.
How, thanks to our DevOps teams, we solved the biggest problems of the companies that trusted us and decided on our implementations.
🚩 On September 26, you are invited to the unique Dell Technologies Forum – the largest IT event in Poland.
This is a conference that will not only provide attendees with a vast amount of knowledge, but will also open the door to exploring numerous innovative solutions in practice.
As part of the Multicloud by APEX speaker series, I will have the pleasure of co-presenting with Andrzej Szymczak, Lead Solution Engineer, VMware the session “Software Defined Data Center in the on premise model and #APEX (IEVMW-P)”.
Companies are striving for full transparency, cost control, streamlined operations and increased security – the Software Defined Data Center is the answer to these challenges.
In our session, we will discuss how to realize these goals in practice and how to further optimize infrastructure delivery with APEX solutions.
Gartner September Analyst Briefing is behind us. 👌 👌 👌
September started the way we like it best – with meetings. We appreciate Gartner’s events for the relaxed atmosphere, interesting panels and networking, and Ewa Szymczak appreciates delicious breakfasts as well 😉 🙂 🙂
We also had the unique opportunity to have a 1:1 conversation with a Gartner analyst, who expanded our perspective on observability and the direction of our future path.
Thank you Martin Caren for this opportunity.
The future of IT looks truly heavenly 🙂 because, as it resounded at the meeting, “Cloud is no longer a product, but a lifestyle” and in the next few years digital transformation will go full steam ahead. ☁ ☁ 👍
MultiCloud, Observability, OpenTelemetry, applications – that’s what we’ll be focusing our attention on.
At Indevops, we are always on top of the latest trends and share them with our customers. We direct our attention to the most interesting solutions, which we are faithful to.
Monitoring and automation are becoming even more important and the sooner we realize this, the better.
Business does not like stagnation, so we keep moving forward. 😊 💪
There are more September 🍂 🍂 meetings ahead. Feel free to follow our Linkedin.
Meanwhile, see how the Gartner September Analyst Briefing looked like through my lens. 😊
Special thanks for the invitation to the invaluable Barbara Brandon. 😊
In the technologies that we implement at INDEVOPS , my colleagues are experts.
Conversation with them is always a solid portion of knowledge, sprinkled with a decent dose of good humor.
Provided that the equipment does not play tricks on us during the recording of the material. 😊😊 Unfortunately, it did.
Well, now let’s have a test from what I remember – as befits the beginning of the school year. 😊
The topic of my assignment. Why is it a good idea to implement OS agents in VMware Aria Operations?
The starting point was my understanding of what an OS or operating system is which Marcin Rzepa explained to me swiftly in a very illustrative way:
Windows, which I have installed, is my OS
the remote desktop I run on is also my OS
the difference between one and the other is that the laptop is the physical infrastructure (I can touch it, move it) while the desktop is my program, where I access and it is my virtualized laptop.
Here we come to another concept: virtualization. Well, virtualization, to put it simply, is to install, for example, multiple Windows on a single server, that is, such a much more powerful laptop.
Readers know more about virtualization than I do, so I won’t elaborate on that 🙂
Well, but what’s the deal with those Agents?
In VMware Aria Operations we have 2 types of agents. For metrics there is the Telegraph agent. For logs there is the Fluentd agent or the native Aria Operetions for Logs agent. The agents allow you to collect metrics and logs, not only from the operating system itself, (because these metrics can be collected by Aria through VMTools – an agent that is built into the vSphere platform that virtualizes OSes) but specifically from the applications installed in it. This provides an easy way to look deeply into our application, and thus we can more easily and quickly detect undesirable situations and errors in it. And since it’s faster, we save time and therefore, money.
This begs the question of why is it easier to troubleshoot by adding an agent to the OS?
On the one hand, VMware Aria Operations monitors and collects information from the physical infrastructure and virtualization software remotely through plug-ins (management packs and content packs), and on the other hand, we can get additional metrics (indicators) of application performance on that system (thanks to the agent). Meaning to monitor performance (metrics) as well as errors (logs), or even its behavior itself (logs). Behavior, because applications generate logs, you can increase the levels of accuracy of the logs in the application, and the agent captures all this and sends it to VMware Aria Operations, where it is parsed and you can build your own analysis and tracking methods out of this. On top of that, in turn, you can impose appropriate conditions and alarms that are triggered, or just tracked.
In addition, VMware Aria Operations can automatically build relationships between monitored objects. As we have an agent (Telegraf) such a relationship is also built to the OS on which it is installed. Moreover, if the agent detects application components, it also represents them in Aria. Then the operator has a visualized picture of the application’s architecture in graphical form, i.e. exactly what components the application is built of and can trace the entire path of its dependencies on the other components: databases, virtualization and physical layer. Such visualization is particularly useful when . On the one hand, when the infrastructure fails, we can see if and which applications are affected. On the other hand, when an application has a problem, we can see if and what infrastructure component can affect it.
Example of built relationships between objects
So it’s easier, because see the bigger picture. Data from all plugged-in elements “flows down” into one place. We have visibility into metrics and logs from the entire IT stack.
So what does the full IT picture look like?
By default, Aria has a number of built-in views or dashboards prepared for different types of objects and for different audiences, such as a dashboard that shows in graphical form all virtual machines depending on their CPU load, or a dashboard view of databases across the entire environment (our customer has 500 instances and sees them all on one dashboard).
Additionally, you can create custom dashboards in VMware Aria Operations. This may not be anything extraordinary nowadays, but the extraoridinary seems to us that we at Indevops specialize in listening to our Customers 🙂 and making their dreams come true 🙂
Thus, we have plenty of dashboards which we deliver during our implementations and which allow to look more conveniently and extensively at the monitorised world – from agents to infrastructure.
Example of an application dashboard
I hope I was able to capture and illustrate the topic well 🙂.
If you have any questions, let me know. Our team is ready to meet your needs.
