Infrastructure Performance Management for Virtualized Systems

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Most enterprises that have deployed it have realized substantial hard dollar savings from virtualization, driven primarily by the benefits derived from server consolidation. These enterprises have also discovered that management activities like provisioning, recovering from server failure, or providing for disaster recovery can be accomplished in a more agile and consistent manner across a variety of systems using virtualization as the underlying technology. However, most large enterprises are only 30% virtualized, with virtualization occurring only on the application systems that are under the direct control of IT Operations.

To extend virtualization to the business-critical and performance-critical applications that are under the ownership of dedicated application support teams, the IT Operations group who owns the virtual environment must provide accurate and credible performance assurances for the virtual infrastructure that will be supporting these applications. Without these assurances, the application support teams and their business constituents have the political power to prevent these systems from becoming virtualized, and will exercise that power.

The IT Operations group needs to put tools in place that can measure the performance of the virtual environment and provide verifiable service-level data to the owners of these key applications. With the right tools collecting the right metrics, application owners can then in turn offer assurances to end-users. The management tools selected to support virtualization are essential to the ability of IT to grow the virtual environment without proportionately increasing the staff required to manage all of the new physical host servers and their guest VMs.

Vendor:
CA Technologies.
Posted:
Feb 8, 2021
Published:
Jun 1, 2010
Format:
PDF
Type:
White Paper
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