V²: Virtualization Visualizer™: Performance Management Made Easy

In a virtual server environment, tracking the performance of your applications and environment and determining the cause of performance slowdowns can become much more difficult. Further increasing virtualization penetration in your environment can save even more money, but it can be difficult to progress beyond the "low-hanging fruit" of easily-migrated low-utilization servers without impacting production application performance. In larger environments, "server sprawl" rapidly becomes an issue. Overworked IT departments must now keep track of dozens or hundreds of new virtual servers, what application or department requested them, and identifying orphaned, underutilized, and over-provisioned servers in order to shut them down or "right-size" their resource allocation.

Finally, virtual environments have a true capacity-planning and performance management tool with Netreo's Virtualization Visualizer (V²). V² provides the solution to manage real-world performance in your virtual environment, allowing for deeper visibility with detailed real-time and historical information about clusters, resource pools, host systems, and the guests and applications that run on them.

Increase your virtualization ROI by converting performance-critical servers safely
Seamlessly and automatically map virtual guests to physical hosts, clusters, and storage resources
Manage server sprawl by identifying and tracking servers, applications, and departments
Go beyond basic host stats by viewing capacity planning and resource usage reports organized into applications and departments
Reclaim underutilized and overconfigured storage, RAM, and virtual guests to improve performance

Quickly identify the cause of performance bottlenecks and slowdowns

Get beyond the "Low-Hanging Fruit"

Getting started in virtualization is easy -- almost every environment has some low-utilization servers that are easy to convert to virtual guests, allowing you to immediately realize cost savings from virtualization and benefit from the many advantages of a virtualized environment. However, converting your critical production applications to a virtual environment can be a lot more challenging. How will you monitor the performance levels of your applications, ensuring that they aren't degraded? How do you know the guests are configured with the correct amounts of memory, processor, and other resources, and that they are not causing I/O bottlenecks, or performance impacts on other applications?

V² solves that problem by providing real-time dashboards, alerts, and historical reporting for your entire virtual environment, allowing you to quickly see how much capacity is remaining, or identify bottlenecks in resources, and the guests and applications that caused them.

Getting the most ROI out of your virtual environment.

Much of the cost benefit of implementing virtualization can be realized through careful over-subscription of physical resources, yet many organizations are hesitant to do so, because they lack enough information to do so safely. V² provides the information and statistics you need to make intelligent decisions about your environment based on real empirical data. With real-time visibility into available cluster resources and capacity, you can instantly identify available resources, compare configured resources to actual utilization and available resources, and know for sure how many more guests can safely be added without impacting critical application performance. Integrated performance dashboards show exactly when new host resources should be added to a cluster, when more guests can be safely configured, and exactly how much oversubscription is possible based on existing performance metrics.

Server Sprawl Solved.

With V², server sprawl is a thing of the past, with instant visibility to identify which applications and guests are using cluster resources, identify their function, and who provisioned or requested them. By automatically identifying underutilized and over-configured systems, IT Managers and server administrators can for the first time easily and quickly identify orphaned guests and adjust configurations to better optimize performance and reclaim unused resources.

In many larger environments, virtual systems will often be proivisioned for a project or department, but no system exists to circle back and determine if those systems are later abandoned or go unused. These 'orphaned' systems continue to consume resources that could be reclaimed to increase capacity and avoid having to purchase additional hardware resources, leading to immediate ROI.

Identify I/O Bottlenecks.

V² automatically identifies datastores and collects extensive performance metrics on the hosts and guests that use them, allowing you to instantly identify I/O related bottlenecks and isolate their cause. Additionally, storage latency statistics are collected for each host using the datastore, helping you to better distribute systems across hosts and avoid storage-related slowdowns. V² also identifies storage used by inactive systems and snapshots, helping you optimize your vMotion configuration, and allowing you to reclaim expensive resources to reduce the need to purchase more storage.

No agents or clients to install. Virtually zero-administration.

Using the performance APIs built into your virtualization operating system allows V² to begin managing even complex and multi-site virtual environments quickly and easily without deploying expensive probes or complex, time-consuming agent software. V² will automatically discover your virtual environment and begin providing useful data and reports immediately, with no lengthy configuration or implementation projects required. Netreo's V² Virtualization Visualizer is provided as a virtual appliance, allowing for simple integration into any VMWare ESX, Infrastructure, ESXi, or vSphere environment.

Seamless integration into your enterprise network management with OmniCenter

V² integrates into your OmniCenter Enterprise deployment to provide control, reporting, and dashboards for your virtual hosts, guests, clusters, storage, and resource pools while simultaneously monitoring and reporting on the performance of your non-virtualized servers and infrastructure, all in a single customizable user interface.

For Additional Information

For additional information, download the Virtualization Visualizer brochure, or contact Netreo to arrange a customized demonstration.

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