Virtualization Lifecycle Management
While the promises of virtualization are great, many organizations are not prepared for the challenges that a virtualized data center present in managing the new environment. A virtualized data center is more complex and offers unique challenges not faced in the physical environment. Issues commonly faced include VM sprawl, poor capacity management, performance bottlenecks and difficulty pinpointing and resolving performance issues. In fact, virtualization may result in exactly the opposite of what was originally intended—too many relatively lightly used VMs causing the unnecessary consumption of server resources.
PERFMAN has developed a virtualization lifecycle management solution that eliminates these issues and ensures that both the physical and virtual infrastructure are performing at their optimal levels at all times. Based on PERFMAN’s decades of experience managing thousands of heterogeneous platforms for hundreds of clients around the globe, our approach starts before the first application is ever virtualized, and continues through the entire life cycle of systems management.
- Discovery: A disciplined approach begins with full understanding of the performance characteristics of physical and virtual environments.
- Analysis: The keystone of proper identification of server virtualization is based on performance characteristics of supported applications.
- Planning: A structured methodology for what-if modeling of planned virtualized environments eliminates risks and guess work.
- Implementation: With confidence, driven by a well informed and thought out plan.
- Monitoring: Once servers are virtualized, the real capacity planning must take place. A complete view of all available information is vital.
- Management: Virtual environments require a disciplined approach to tracking historical growth trends, planned changes, failover, etc.
Cloud Computing Readiness
Cloud computing involves the delivery of hosted or virtualized services via the Internet, on a flexible, as-needed basis. It offers enterprises a way to cut costs and avoid having to rework or grow internal IT infrastructures to meet increased business demands. It enables IT organizations to increase hardware utilization rates and instantly scale to larger capacities—without having to invest in new infrastructure, train new personnel or license new software. Cloud computing lets organizations take advantage of business applications, without significant upfront costs or the need to own the physical infrastructure to support those applications. It allows businesses to share infrastructure costs and thus reduce overhead for IT, maintenance and support.
With all these advantages, Cloud Computing is something that IT organizations will have to grapple with, just like outsourcing and virtualization. The key is to be ready, and to understand the right opportunities under which to leverage cloud computing. Just as PERFMAN provides the right information at the right times to properly exploit outsourcing and virtualization, PERFMAN offers the necessary methodologies and intelligence to best leverage cloud computing.
With PERFMAN, you have a complete “big picture” view, regardless of where your IT resources reside—physically or virtually.
To schedule an online demo or learn more about the PERFMAN solution, contact us today or call (610) 865-0300.