How to solve the confusion caused by server virtualization

Server virtualization saves power and hardware costs, but at the same time creates management problems. More and more software can help to solve this problem.

The benefit of virtualization in data centers is that because virtual machines are faster than standard hardware, they can run hundreds of virtual machines on more than 10 physical servers, saving energy and hardware costs while increasing efficiency. However, due to the large size of the company's virtualization, the speed of development too fast, management problems will soon emerge. The biggest problem is that users do not know whether there will be a conflict between hardware and storage resources between an application and other application software. This will affect the enterprise's IT capabilities, while affecting service levels.

To mitigate this problem, experts recommend that users use tools that balance workloads and apply software service level management, such as the Akorri Company's newly launched Balancepoint. Balancepoint can show the time of a particular virtual machine and why performance is not up to standard; Based on this data, users can redistribute the workload to improve efficiency. This tool can perform performance analysis from the perspective of VMware and Storage Area network (SAN), thereby avoiding problems with virtual machines because of unbalanced resource allocations.

Elliot, an analyst with IDC, says that almost all companies that implement server virtualization will experience management problems, including workload balancing and "virtual machine expansion" and disaster recovery planning issues. VMware Tools and a growing number of Third-party vendors offer products to help address this problem.

Maintain the balance of enterprise workload

Workload balance is a very complex issue. One of the main benefits of virtualization is the ease with which applications can be moved from one server to another. The problem is that it's hard to know that there are too many virtual machines on a particular server. We can only see it through the operation of the application software and other factors, such as memory and additional memory. If in a virtual environment, several key applications compete for the same server resources, it is difficult to identify conflicting applications, which will affect the company's operations.

To solve this problem requires a variety of management tools, the United States, a company called Monster with Balancepoint tools to enhance its VMware two major management products capabilities, These two products are: VMotion (this tool improves hardware utilization by moving virtual machines away from low performance and downtime servers) and distributed Resource Scheduler (this tool is used in conjunction with VMotion, based on pre-set rules, You can assign resources to a high priority virtual machine.

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