Virtualization Reveals Hidden IT Vulnerabilities
Virtualization has played a leading role in the transition from static to dynamic data centers, requiring IT organizations to significantly retool their existing management processes.
For one thing, the speed with which VMs can be created puts extreme pressure on the scalability of virtualization management solutions. In addition, virtualization involves constant growth and change which puts significant strain on existing configuration and performance processes. Add to this the rising data volumes, lack of cross-domain visibility and shifting data center roles and responsibilities, and it’s no wonder the increased costs and complexity administrators struggle to contain with their virtualization initiatives.
Hyper9 – Discovery-Enabled Virtualization Management
- Performs deep inspection of the virtual environment
- Continually collects performance, configuration and other information from elements up and down the virtualization stack and correlates and stores data in a Unified Virtual Data Repository (includes detailed history, as well as current state data as basis for predictive analyses)
- Builds on core data by adding functionality such as:
- Instrumentation of VMs with discoverable data about business relevance
- Flexible reporting and predictive analyses
- APIs to feed virtual management data to existing management consoles for a holistic view of the datacenter
Benefits:
- Provides historical and real-time analysis of unstructured data through flexible, ad hoc search capabilities
- Indentifies the root problem through search, report, trend and alert capabilities across thousands of properties and inside guests
- Fights VM sprawl by quickly finding stale VM’s, zombie VM’s, rogue VM’s, orphaned files and more
- Detects and isolates performance problems related to CPU, memory, disk space or I/O contention
- Helps effectively plan for capacity shortfalls by answering questions such as “When will I run out of resources?” and “How many more VM’s can I add?”
- Minimizes the impact to existing IT environments by leveraging native plug-ins and API’s
