Increasingly, application developers leverage virtual infrastructure more and more to support software development lifecycle and production applications.
Before virtualization, applications were often tied to the hardware they were deployed on, with real detriment to the application developers. In today’s virtual environments, there is no longer a need to couple the application so tightly with the hardware. But that advantage comes at a price: it is increasingly difficult to understand how the physical – and virtual – server and storage environment is affecting application performance. This makes it difficult to assess resource needs for application deployment, and increases technical risk. It can also obscure the root cause of performance issues. In the worst case, it might take a great deal of time to assess the key drivers for application performance and identify the right groups that need to take action to address them.
The prevalence, and advantages, of virtual environments make them vital to modern application developers. In order to adapt to this environment safely, and ensure that valuable development time isn’t lost identifying and addressing issues specific to the virtual environment, you need tools that tell you how your application is doing in the virtual environment.
VMTurbo gives you the information you need to confidently deploy even the most mission-critical applications into the virtual environment, along with tools to quickly identify and address any issues that do arise.
Developers need the assurance that the infrastructure their applications rely on is healthy, and is sized correctly to accommodate workload demands. In this context, it is important when applications experience performance issues that the root cause can be quickly identified (e.g., vCPUs stuck in the ready queue, storage I/O, cpu and memory bottlenecks, etc.) -- and fixed.
The VMTurbo suite provides the capability to proactively assure application service levels by preventing bottlenecks through intelligent workload management. It also provides application developers with visibility into key performance indicators through dashboard and reports so that they can eliminate the virtual infrastructure as the cause of degradation. Reports and dashboard also provide data and recommendations to ensure virtual machine configurations are correctly sized to meet the performance requirements of the workload they support.
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