Posts Tagged ‘ Virtualization Performance Management ’

Who’s Who in Managing your Virtual Infrastructure (vSphere, Hyper-V, etc.)

February 17, 2012
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Virtualization is such a profound change to how systems operate that it not only creates new management requirements, but it also breaks legacy management solutions. For these reasons, enterprises should look outside of traditional legacy management vendors for their virtualization performance and capacity management solutions. The focus should be on the richness of the virtualization…

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News: VMware vCenter Operations Suite 5.0 Now Available

January 25, 2012
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News: VMware vCenter Operations Suite 5.0 Now Available

The delivery of vCenter Operations 5.0 to the market by VMware represents several important milestones in Operations Management for virtualized environments. The tight integration with vSphere and the integration of the Integrien analytics with real time configuration change detection and application mapping put a nail in the coffin of legacy solutions that rely upon periodically…

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CA Starts the Race To Self-Destruction Among the “Big Four” in Virtualization Management

November 15, 2011
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Virtualization and cloud computing have changed the requirements for management solutions in a way that no innovation in the history of our industry ever have. Previous innovations created new requirements, but did not break existing management approaches or business models. Virtualization breaks both the existing legacy approaches to managing applications and systems, and breaks how…

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Virtualization Performance Management and Misleading Averages

July 8, 2011
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What is still missing here is any kind of an end-to-end view of infrastructure latency that is also real time, deterministic and comprehensive. The marrying of the SAN point of view with the IP network point of view is the obvious combination. The hard issue here will be the identification of the applications so that…

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News: VMTurbo Raises the Bar for Free vSphere Monitoring – Again

July 7, 2011
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News: VMTurbo Raises the Bar for Free vSphere Monitoring – Again

VMTurbo's unique Service Assurance capabilities (and the ability to charge for them in the paid products) allows VMTurbo to make baseline performance and capacity management for vSphere environments available for free. This represents a significant redefinition of where the value is and where the value is not in the virtualization performance management business.

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News: Compuware acquires dynaTrace

July 6, 2011
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The news today is that Compuware has acquired dynaTrace. This is an extremely significant development as this is the first example of one of the "traditional" systems management vendors (IBM, HP, CA, BMC, Compuware, Quest), stepping up their game to acquire one of these new innovators that address these new use cases and requirements.

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Should VMware Administrators Care About Applications Performance

June 30, 2011
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Applications Performance Profiling is an essential step in the process of virtualizing business critical and performance critical applications. In this case "performance" means response time not resource utilization. The virtualization team should go even further and commit to meeting response time based SLA's for business and performance critical virtualized applications.

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Monitoring SQL Server Performance on VMware vSphere

May 18, 2011
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Monitoring SQL Server Performance on VMware vSphere

Attempting to infer the performance of a database server by looking at resource utilization metrics will fail technically and organizationally. In a shared and dynamic environment, the only way to truly assess the performance of an element of the infrastructure or an application is to measure how long it is actually taking to do its…

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Virtualization Performance and Availability Monitoring – A Reference Architecture

March 3, 2011
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Virtualization Performance and Availability Monitoring – A Reference Architecture

In “A Perfect Storm in Availability and Performance Monitoring“, we proposed that legacy products from the physical environment should not be brought over into your new virtualized environment and that you should in fact start over with a horizontally layered approach, choosing a scaled out, and highly flexible product that can integrate with products at…

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