Infrastructure Operations teams must ensure the availability and performance of the end-to-end IT infrastructure in order to support the service level requirements of applications. Identifying the cause of problems and determining what steps to take to minimize the impact to production services is critical in fulfilling this role.
Virtualization introduces new complexities for Infrastructure Operations teams. Pinpointing the cause of performance degradation and identifying the correct resolution is challenging, because virtual machines share physical server and storage resources. Furthermore, dynamic fluctuations in workloads can create interference which drives the utilization of these resources beyond safe boundaries -- creating problems which directly impact application performance and end user experience.
Many organizations have attempted to adapt the toolsets they used for operations management in their physical environments to support virtualization, but in reality these provide an element-centric view of individual physical and virtual servers, with little or no understanding of the dependencies and interactions that must be considered to accurately detect and resolve problems. This can lead to a significant drain on resources, across multiple technology groups, needed to support the triage of problems and result in failure to meet goals defined in Service Level Agreements for infrastructure performance and availability.
To successfully fulfill the role of operations management in virtualized environments your management toolset must have the following characteristics;
- A deep understanding of the complex dynamically changing relationships that exist between physical and virtual server and storage resources
- The intelligence to detect the cause of performance degradation & its impact on service so that resolution can be prioritized appropriately
- The intelligence to compute the specific workload management & resource allocation actions required to resolve these issues
- The ability to proactively optimize the environment in real time, on an ongoing basis, to prevent workload interference and the impact this can have on application performance
Based on these characteristics Infrastructure Operations will be able to operate more efficiently and sustain service levels as the virtual infrastructure scales out.
Assuring Performance
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- Do I have problems impacting applications
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- How do I resolve & prevent problems?
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- How do I share key metrics with stakeholders?
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Optimizing Your Environment
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- How do I optimize resource utilization?
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- How do I reduce operating expenses?
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- How can I support more classes of workloads?
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Planning
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- How do I virtualize more applications?
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- What is the impact of changes in demand?
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- What is the impact of hardware changes?
- How do I reduce capital expenses?
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