Virtualization Management Overview

Virtualisation is right at the top of the newest technologies to impact the network infrastructure. A virtualisation strategy brings obvious benefits to the enterprise such as provisioning speed, reduced power costs and using space more effectivley, all these things added up help the overall day to day IT operation.

Virtualization and private cloud platforms like VMWare & Microsoft Hyper-V have created new challenges in performance management and monitoring. Monitoring shared pools of CPU, RAM, network, and storage resources is now mission-critical because a failure can potentially have a much broader impact, affecting many applications running on the same virtual infrastructure. The complexity of a virtualized environment makes it increasingly difficult to identify the source of performance problems in your applications and workloads.

Virtual Infrastructure Monitoring needs to give us help in these areas:

• Monitoring Storage Performance and disk capacity
• Information on cpu and memory resources
• The impact between virtual computer and storage infrastructures

Virtualisation Manager from SolarWinds provides end to end visibility on your VM environment and reduces costs by predicting issues that ensure failures are prevented. Virtualisation Manager assists in the most common issues such as identifying VM sprawl or insufficient capacity, giving us the information we need to forecast data requirements accurrately.SolarWinds Virtualization Manager delivers integrated VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V capacity planning, performance monitoring, VM sprawl control, configuration management, and chargeback automation; all in one awesomely affordable product that’s easy to download, deploy, and use.

 In turn this helps us identify where the technology needs to be used, SolarWinds VM Manager also gives us out of the box health summaries and the ability to generate policy based alerts, so you never get caught unawares when allocating resources again.