VMware has without a doubt become the standard solution for server virtualization as it promises to reduce costs and improve operational efficiency.  However, using VMware leads to new challenges which must be addressed to ensure optimal performance in increasingly complex hybrid physical/virtual environments.

 Major Difficulties Include:

• Unexpected resource consumption in VMs
• Incomplete metrics collection
• Virtual Center's problem's measuring VM performance due to timekeeping issues
• Intentional changes in the configuration of the physical infrastructure supporting the virtual infrastructure or malfunctions that provoke a reconfiguration of the same

How to react? 

Proper server virtualization management requires a performance management tool that fulfills the following needs : 

• Easy applications monitoring from within VMs
• Unified view of the data center (Host and guests)
• Granularity of analysis providing unrivalled precision
• Real-time correction of timekeeping discrepancies
• Early detection of VM micro saturations
• Increase VM Density but avoid VM proliferation  

  Why Sysload?

   With its specially adapted performance metrics, Sysload provides the necessary tools to master VMware virtualization projects, from the initial planning stage, up through production and on to maintenance, ensuring performance optimization and resource efficiency throughout the process.

  •  A logical add-on to Virtual Center
  • Increases VM Density instantly
  • Unified view of the data center (physical and virtual resources)
  • Granularity of analysis providing unrivalled precision
  • Real-time correction of timekeeping discrepancies
  • Automatic detection of micro-saturation incidents.

  Related Product

  1. SP Analyst for VMware VI
      
  2. SP Analyst for Virtualized Environments