Monitor AIX VIO Servers to Optimize Performance
Optimize AIX VIO Servers
Monitor AIX VIO Servers to Optimize Performance
Virtualization is a hot topic in the computing industry, with many widely different technologies and solutions. IBM POWERx-based machines provide opportunities for a significant reduction in operating costs for complex environments running mission critical applications. The POWERx implementation uses advanced processor features, firmware (also known as Hypervisor), and hardware features to create efficient and flexible virtualization capabilities.
The key to this virtualization in an IBM environment is the Virtual I/O (VIO) Server.
Virtual Instruments’ VirtualWisdom supports and enhances the use of VIO and logical partitions (LPARs), by offering the industry’s only real-time Fibre Channel SAN performance monitoring and optimization solution. VirtualWisdom is the only solution that directly measures the I/O performance effect (latency, bandwidth, re-tries, errors, etc.) on AIX VIO performance. The server, application, and SAN teams will immediately see the performance effect on the application of capacity additions, configuration changes, component/device changes, failing devices, or even application changes. With VirtualWisdom, performance problems can be immediately identified and resolved, increasing overall application response times and end-user customer satisfaction.
With N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV), VirtualWisdom offers full path monitoring, from the LPAR to the LUN. VirtualWisdom increases the value of the virtualized AIX-based environment through more aggressive use of tiered storage, faster troubleshooting, eliminating switch over-provisioning, better monitoring of SLAs, and lowering the risk of deploying more LPARs per server and virtualizing mission critical applications. Even without NPIV, though VirtualWisdom does not track I/O by LPAR, it still monitors the I/O by LUN.
Product Datasheets
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VirtualWisdom® Overview | VirtualWisdom provides comprehensive instrumentation and I/O measurement capabilities that reduce application response time, increase availability, and improve resource utilization. VirtualWisdom is the only product that can non-intrusively improve the performance of applications and increase the benefits of cloud-driven virtualization in real time by analyzing actual I/O traffic data.
Whitepapers and Technology Briefs
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Technology Brief: UDCs for What-If Analysis | This Brief offers examples of how VirtualWisdom’s User Defined Contexts enable “what if” analysis, using existing metrics to help predict problems before they occur.
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Technology Brief: Optimizing an IBM AIX VIO Server with LPARS in a Fibre Channel SAN with VirtualWisdom | VirtualWisdom is an innovative solution that helps IT organizations realize the full economic benefits of networked storage and server virtualization, including environments running IBM’s AIX with VIO and LPARs.
Case Study
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Government Case Study | Learn how a U.S. Federal agency uses VirtualWisdom® and a Health Audit service to optimize their VMware vSphere environment.
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Financial Services Case Study | Learn how this financial services firm uses VirtualWisdom to help balance virtual machine loads in a VMware ESX/ESXi environment.
Analyst Reports
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APM Experts White Paper - Infrastructure Performance Management for Virtualized Systems | March 2011 | This paper describes the key role that VirtualWisdom plays in enabling enterprises to move from 30% to 80% virtualized server penetration. Infrastructure Performance Management for Virtualized Systems.
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Storage Switzerland White Paper - What is a Virtualization Performance Specialist? | March 2011 | Server virtualization is certainly widespread, but while the initial results have been promising, most IT personnel feel that the benefits of virtualization could be increased. For many, they're not seeing the performance, consolidation, and resource utilization levels they had expected.
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IT Brand Pulse White Paper - Virtual Instruments: Early Incumbents in the VIO Market | August 2010 | Privately held Virtual Instruments is a 2008 spin-out of Finisar Corporation that has established early incumbency in the nascent market for Virtual Infrastructure Optimization (VIO), the next big wave in management of information technology.
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Taneja Group White Paper - Optimizing the Virtual Infrastructure: Virtual Instruments VirtualWisdom | May 2009 | As virtualization is deployed in production, experienced users are demanding production-quality performance management and optimization solutions to maintain service levels. Taneja Group has identified a new category of powerful solutions now emerging to address these demands, which we have labeled Virtual Infrastructure Optimization, or VIO.
Webinars
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Virtual Infrastructure Optimization: What you can’t see can hurt you! — Learn How to Prevent Virtualization from Wreaking Havoc on Your SAN: Virtual Instruments/Taneja Group Webinar on Demand
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Improving Efficiency in the Virtualized Datacenter: — IDC and Virtual Instruments Webinar on Demand
