Virtual & Cloud Performance 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.

However virtualisation technologies also produce fresh challenges in management and monitoring, a problematic virtualised infrastructure can have significant impact on the performance of other VM's when issues occur. Administrators have to be mindful when deciding which physical machines should host the VM as poor allocation of resources to any VM can affect application performance that runs in this environment.

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. 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.