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EMMA HARUKA IWAO: Are you managing
large business-critical workloads
such as SAP with dozens, hundreds,
or even thousands of resources?
Are you struggling to apply best practices consistently
across the workloads in your organization?
Is the thought of a potential misconfiguration
keeping you up at night?
My name is Emma, and I'm going to introduce Google Cloud
Workload Manager today, the latest Google Cloud Product
for managing your workloads.
Managing business-critical workloads such as SAP
can be complex, toilsome, and error prone.
Staying up to date on latest best practice
is time consuming and cognitively burdensome.
Configuration drift happens and can
be extremely difficult to detect in the midst
of recurring system patches, upgrades, and code changes.
Additionally, maintaining a strong feedback loop
is challenging without significant manual toil.
Remnant misconfiguration introduced after a late night
troubleshooting session can lead to business disrupting issues
down the line.
Google Cloud Workload Manager is a new Compute Engine service
that bakes awareness of your workloads
directly into the platform experience.
Workload Manager, available in Google Cloud
Console, intelligently detects what
workloads you have running, analyzes them
against Google Cloud best practices,
and provides detailed guidance and recommendations
to improve reliability, performance, and overall system
quality.
Workload Manager is a guided service
in the Google Cloud Console.
After you enable the service, Workload Manager
provides a ground truth view to examine exactly what you
have deployed on Google Cloud to identify potential reliability
issues such as misconfigured high availability or disaster
recovery or inconsistencies in application settings
across all applications in your organization.
Workload Manager analyzes your deployments
fastly across the infrastructure,
operating system, and application configuration
settings.
It evaluates configurations against SAP
on Google Cloud best practices.
What's even better is that the evaluation rules
are added and updated as the best practices
change, so you can catch up with the latest updates and changes
easily.
You can use Workload Manager to proactively identify
causes of issues affecting performance or availability.
Workload Manager provides an ongoing customizable validation
tool.
You can use it for pre-go-live checks for new deployments
to validate your workloads are configured against Google
Cloud best practices; ongoing detection against configuration
drift that may be introduced during system updates, patches,
and troubleshooting; and continuous notification
alerting of changes in your workload best
practices on Google Cloud.
As an example, a database admin might
want to use Workload Manager to ensure
all of the deployed databases they manage
across different projects and folders follow
a specific set of standards.
As an architect, you may want to receive notification
of new best practices to enforce across the systems you
manage in your organization.
Using Workload Manager is three simple steps.
First, select workload scope, such as projects and resources.
Second, customize best practices.
Select from a curated list of best practices
for your specific workloads.
Third, you're ready to gain insights.
Over the next few minutes, I will demonstrate
how to use Workload Manager to find an issue,
correct it, and re-evaluate to ensure the configuration
is compliant with recommendations.
Let's open the Console.
We start by navigating to Workload Manager
in the Compute section of Google Cloud Console.
In the subsequent screen, we choose
to create a new evaluation.
We enter a name for the workload evaluation,
such as production-databases.
We can also add an optional description.
I'll do "This is production and it's important!"
We'll leave the workload type as a SAP on GCP for now.
Let's continue.
Now we select projects we want to evaluate.
Let's select our test project.
You can also filter by resource names, labels,
or service account to further customize the scope.
In the next screen, we see a list
of recommended best practices.
You can choose to run everything or opt into a select few.
In this demo, we choose the best practices for Pacemaker--
deactivate maintenance mode.
This checks for common problems in an SAP application
where a software cluster is left deactivated due to operating
system or database maintenance.
Let's continue.
In the schedule screen, you can choose
it to run it once or regularly.
Let's choose every week and continue.
In the final screen, you can review the configuration
we have created.
If everything looks good, click Create.
Now it's creating the evaluation.
We wait and reload the screen.
Now the evaluation is ready.
Let's choose it and run it.
The evaluation needs a few more minutes to finish,
so let's see what it looks like when you have the problem.
I'll open a prepared evaluation and see what
it looks like in real world.
In this evaluation report, you see the number
of evaluations and issues.
So we have one total issue and one new issue.
In the report, you see "Pacemaker--
Deactivate maintenance mode."
When you open up details, you see the description
and recommendation to fix it.
What's great with this report is you can jump straight
to the section in the Google Cloud Docs
so you know exactly how to fix it.
Now let's SSH into the database machine and try to fix it.
I'll run the commands I just found in the documentation.
First, turn off maintenance mode.
And it's confirmed it's actually configured.
Now you see maintenance mode equals false.
Now let's see if Workload Manager sees the change.
It takes a few minutes again.
So I'll just show you what it looks like in real world.
Here, in the evaluation report screen
you see that the issue is fixed.
So you have one fixed issue.
You can also see the evaluation history
and compare results over time.
That's it for the demo, As you just saw,
Workload Manager improves overall system quality,
saves you time during troubleshooting,
and lowers operational overhead associated with managing
business-critical workloads.
Get started with Workload Manager today.
If you want to learn more, check out the product page
and documentations, all linked in the descriptions below.
Thank you for watching.
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