The elimination of IT silos, brought about by the emergence of virtualization, creates an opportunity for interference among mission-critical VMs -- interference that impacts performance, availability, and efficiency.
"Virtualization 2.0" drives a stringent set of requirements: assuring service levels, minimizing interference, avoiding bottlenecks, handling dynamic peaks (rather than just averages), handling multiple load types, and optimizing capacity. And the costs of workload mis-management are significant: IO bottlenecks, memory congestion, interfering peaks, vSMP stuck in Ready Queues, performance problems, SLA violations, capacity waste, power waste, and underutilized resources. The result is often an over-provisioned environment; and/or a poorly performing one.
VMTurbo is the ONLY real-time management solution for the virtualized data center -- using our Economic Scheduling Engine to assure the quality of service delivered while right-sizing the environment by:
- Continuously monitoring the environment;
- Proactively detecting degradations and anomalies as they evolve;
- Recommending and executing the actions to resolve and prevent these problems;
- Maintaining the environment in a healthy state.
(Here's a bit about how we are different.)
The following presentation illustrates some of the data center management challenges driven by virtualization.
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And, in the following presentation we make the case for data center planning as a systematic activity: