Assessments & Virtual Capacity Management
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Assessments
Data center infrastructures are getting more complex by the day, and IT organizations are more and more having to support physical and virtual infrastructures side by side. Achieving a holistic view of the infrastructure including both physical and virtual servers—as well as other storage and network hardware—is critical to optimizing the data center and getting the expected ROI for virtualization and consolidation products.
Virtual Capacity Management
The first wave of server virtualization began to transform the data center with the promise of greater cost savings and new IT efficiencies. However, virtualization brought with it some interesting new problems. At this point, most of the enterprises that have adopted virtualization are facing the complex management challenges that come with an ever-evolving virtual environment. Diminished visibility and control have exposed organizations to new service level risks, inhibiting adoption and impairing IT's ability to justify the virtualization strategy to the business.
With server virtualization now a critical part of the overall IT strategy, the challenge becomes how to control and manage the ongoing growth of your heterogeneous virtual environment while ensuring existing virtual resources are fully optimized and balanced. Today's powerful servers are able to easily handle 10 virtual machines with little risk and no additional technology; however, average server consolidation ratios are only 5 to 1, which means that your company is probably not enjoying all the cost benefits that virtualization offers.
Virtual capacity management allows you to identify exactly how your virtual resources are being utilized, correct any configuration issues, and adjust server resource allocation to fit the workload. This approach allows you to maximize the performance of your servers, and defer the cost of new server purchases as well as the power, cooling and management costs needed to maintain new servers.
Additionally, you can identify over-utilized workloads that require greater server resources than the current host can provide. You can then easily migrate the workload to another virtual host or back to a dedicated server for optimal performance.
The PlateSpin® Virtualization Capacity Management solution is ideal for large and very large enterprises that have a virtualization-first policy and are looking to maximize their IT investments by realizing greater savings and performance benefits though ongoing virtual resource optimization and reclamation.
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