Solutions for the VMware Admin
VMware Administrator
Changes have overtaken many IT administrators with silent footsteps. While the IT practitioner’s every day is a swim through waves of invisible bits, there has long been some comfort to be found in the “physicality” and accessibility of key devices.
When problems arise, we have always been able to identify a switch port for examination, a server at the end of a wire that might be causing problems, an HBA for inspection, or any number of other physical things we can turn to for further examination. But in today’s data center, that comfort has vanished. In part, this is due to the virtualization of technologies surrounding us, and while this trend is spearheaded by server virtualization, the variations are almost uncountable, including the likes of application virtualization, network device virtualization, IO virtualization, storage virtualization, and more.
VMware administrators are expected to continue to increase server consolidation ratios to lower the cost of computing, even while there is no real view into which specific storage infrastructure issues are impacting application performance. Isolated workload peaks can now cause resource conflicts, and the concentration of load can create new bottlenecks. Moving a workload without understanding load patterns can create resource conflicts.
Challenges that Virtual Instruments solves for the VMware administrator:
- Optimizes the virtual infrastructure by improving the utilization of virtual machines and improving the performance of the virtual infrastructure
- Allows IT organizations to successfully deploy virtualized mission-critical applications
- Reduces risk of virtualizing mission-critical applications
- Enhances the availability of virtualized mission-critical applications
- Removes the biggest performance issues with mission-critical applications
- Helps IT departments meet virtualized application SLAs, for both performance and availability
- Delivers the critical information that can be used to increase VM to ESX/ESXi deployment ratios
- Reports on the effect of infrastructure latency from the VM to the LUN
- Enables “what if” modeling to predict the effect of I/O infrastructure configuration changes on virtualized application performance
- Ensures that the SAN doesn’t negatively impact VM performance and vice versa
- Offers great insight on when to invoke vMotion to avoid performance problems
Download our Virtual Server Probe datasheet or our Eliminating VMware Storage-related Problems whitepaper.
