Performance Management

Performance Management covers monitoring the physical infrastructure, the virtual infrastructure and applications for end-to-end performance and service levels.

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The Beginning of the the End of the Era of Windows?

February 16, 2011
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While we may well be on the road towards VMware becoming the layer of software that talks to the hardware in the data center - removing Microsoft from that role, this is not the end of Windows. If Windows were just an OS, it would be severely threatened VMware insertion into the data center stack.…

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Exploring a Limitation of VMware DRS

February 9, 2011
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I have been a big fan of VMware’s Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS). VMware DRS is a service or feature that will dynamically allocate and balance computing resources across the hosts in a cluster. In all of the environments I have work with so far, DRS has been a fantastic tool for getting and maintaining that…

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SolarWinds Acquires Hyper9 – The Implications

January 31, 2011
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SolarWinds is betting that due to the size of its existing administrator community (the over 1M users of its free tools, and the 97,000 paying customers) that it can cost effectively reach the admin's at the 225,000 VMware customers that are being under-served by the vendors targeting larger customers and larger VMware environments.

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Monitoring from the Cloud

January 28, 2011
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Monitoring from the Cloud

I have started the year 2011 out by looking at some of the different monitoring solutions available for us to have an insight into the health and welfare of the systems that we support. In your typical monitoring solution you would install the monitoring server in your environment and let the system discover all the…

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VNXe More than Just Storage

January 25, 2011
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Given the VNXe's expandability to include fibre channel cards in the future. This storage looks very attractive to those SMBs who have made the investment previously to move towards fibre. Making use of your existing infrastructure whether fabric or Ethernet would lower the cost of adoption for the low-end EMC product. The VNXe's expandability is…

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Monitoring Virtualized Application Performance – Looking Outside In

January 24, 2011
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If synthetic transactions are dead as an approach for determining availability and performance from the perspective of the end users of an application then something has to take their place. The two candidates are approaches that analyse data on the IP network, and client side agents. Both will likely rise in prominence as more applications…

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A Look at VMTurbo Monitoring

January 19, 2011
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A Look at VMTurbo Monitoring

It is the start of a new year and the time to start taking a look at some of the 3rd party products that are available to help us manage our virtual infrastructures. To start the New Year off I am going to be looking at what VMTurbo has to offer.

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Performance Monitoring for IT as a Service

January 18, 2011
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Monitoring the performance of the infrastructure, applications and services in IT as a Service environments will require that monitoring solutions become multi-tenant, can be instantiated by ITaaS management tools without any further configuration, and that they automatically "find" their back end management systems through whatever firewalls may be in place. These requirements will probably be…

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NetApp to Acquire Akorri

January 12, 2011
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The acquisition of Akorri by NetApp demonstrates the importance of Infrastructure Performance Management solutions as virtualization progresses into the realm of business critical applications, and as public clouds hope to do the same. However rather than signaling a "game over" this acquisition really raises both the visibility and the importance of both the problems that…

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