The scope of most infrastructures' performance and capacity management challenges go beyond one single platform.  A comprensive data center management strategy in these complex cross-platform environments will guarantee success in terms of functionality and operating expense.

Major Difficulties Include:

• No global visibility
• Common resource sharing complications (databases, physical resources, etc.)
• No interoperability with third party management products such as HP OpenView, IBM Tivoli, BMC Performance Manager and CA Unicenter
• Additional configuration management difficulties  

How to React

• Reduce management complexity by implementing an overall performance management solution for IT administrations

• Ensure interoperability monitoring and analysis; especially with the proliferation of virtualization and having to manage applications in different environments and on different OSes

Why Sysload

Sysload stands out from the competition thanks to its ability to monitor complex heterogeneous platforms from one single and simple console (AIX, VMware, HP-UX, Windows, Linux, Solaris, Citrix, Netware, etc.).

• Sysload’s data collection technology is based on dedicated data collection agents deployed directly on the monitored system that allow objective monitoring of an ensemble of physical and/or virtual servers.
• Sysload agents can collect up to 300 metrics directly from the heart of the monitored systems with very high frequency (intervals as low as 1 second) while consuming minimal resources (<1% CPU usage with no continuous network traffic).
• This fine data granularity ensures precise monitoring of system utilization and allows the detection of virtualization-related micro saturation incidents that cannot be detected by most other monitoring tools on the market.