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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On Premise vs. Monitoring as a Service – Considerations and Tradeoffs

April 27, 2012
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PerformanceManagement

Monitoring as a Service is an attractive option for rapidly bringing up infrastructure and application monitoring and not having to manage the back end of the monitoring system.

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News: VMware Acquires Cetas for Big Data Analytics

April 27, 2012
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News: VMware Acquires Cetas for Big Data Analytics

By making access to big data analytics easier and cheaper, VMware is in a position to transform its approach to producing and analyzing management data.

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EMC VSPEX vs. vBlock, or NetApp FlexPod. Can VMware VARs “Refuse” the Offer?

April 16, 2012
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CloudComputing

EMC VSPEX is a converged infrastructure offering targeting private clouds offered through EMC and VMware VAR's. This focus upon the channel makes this the first "private cloud in a box" that is explicitly designed for VAR's and SI's to take to their mid-market customers. As such the potential for such an offering is huge. However…

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Hotlink SuperVISOR – vCenter for Hyper-V, KVM, and XenServer

April 10, 2012
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Hotlink SuperVISOR – vCenter for Hyper-V, KVM, and XenServer

If you are going to have more than one virtualization platform, you should not have more than one virtualization management stack. Hotlink SuperVISOR lets you use the market leading virtualization console (vCenter) to manage other virtualization platforms like Hyper-V, KVM, and XenServer. Furthermore it extends the vCenter API data used by third party management vendors…

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Can Your Cloud Impede Your Agility?

April 6, 2012
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CloudComputing

There is a difference between outsourcing layers of your infrastructure and making the organization to whom you have outsourced those layers responsible for them, and losing all rights to change those layers in support of your business and application needs. Careful contract and product decisions need to be made in order to ensure that when…

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IO IO it is off to Storage and IO metrics we go

March 29, 2012
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StorageNetworking

There are many different types of metrics pertaining to storage and IO that can be grouped into Performance, Availability, Capacity, Economics and Energy (PACE). Every application or workload has some characteristics attribute of Performance, Availability, Capacity, Economics and Energy that can be further broken down into metrics that are more detailed.

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The Windows Server 8 Hyper-V 3 Extensible Switch

March 27, 2012
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Hyper-V.Extensible.Switch

One of the areas where VMware vSphere has had a large advantage over Microsoft Hyper-V has been in the architecture and capabilities of the VMware vSphere Virtual Switch. The most important of these capabilities has been the ability to designate one or more ports on the switch as promiscuous or mirror ports. These ports make…

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The Network Performance Management vs Application Performance Management Debate

March 21, 2012
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PerformanceManagement

There is no one APM tool, be it network based or application based that can meet the needs for every constituent and every application. The tool should be chosen based upon the needs of the team supporting the application(s) in question, and the type of applications that must be supported (purchased or custom developed, and…

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News: VMware Blows Away the Image – Launches vFabric Application Director

March 15, 2012
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News: VMware Blows Away the Image – Launches vFabric Application Director

With vFabric Application Director, vFabric AppInsight and the rest of the vFabric product line we are seeing VMware's application level strategy come to life. It is clear that VMware is making an enormous and strategic investment on this front, probably second only in priority to the continued investment in vSphere's domination of data center virtualization.…

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