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Vizioncore Tools for Optimizing VMware
Larry LoucksSenior Sales Engineer
Lloucks@vizioncore.com
Vizioncore Corporate Overview• Founded in 2002
• Wholly owned by Quest Software as of December 2007
• Chicago-based HQ, Worldwide Sales Channel
• Proven – Over 15,000 customers; 2,200 partners worldwide
• 200-plus employees worldwide
• Providing management functionality for key virtualization platforms
• Strong VMware partner
Enterprise Clients
Product Strategy: High Level View
We have solutions in all of the recognized virtualization segments and continue to address customer needs.
2002 Market leading point
solution vendor for Backup/Recovery/DR
2009
Virtualization industry leader offering an end-to-end set of solutions for every facet
of a customer’s virtualization management needs
We are expanding and enhancing our product portfolio to be able to position ourselves as:
THE virtualization management vendor of choice.“Choose a hypervisor or 2, then choose us”
Performance Monitoring - vFoglight
vFoglight (formerly vCharter Pro)
• Single web-based “pane-of-glass” view monitors VirtualCenter, datacenter, resource pools, clusters, ESX Server, VM and Datastore levels
• Intelligent solution “understands” the performance of all the components of VMware platform and can “roll-up” problems at lower levels into higher level alarms.
• Drill thru virtual layers into application layers for performance and availability monitoring for SQL Server, Active Directory and Exchange
• Comprehensive Chargeback late 2008
Detailed Architectural Representations
Unique visual paradigm:• Clear, high-level visual representations which
include color coding and movements • Focuses attention on problem areas to quickly
identify problems/speed diagnosis
Out-of-the-Box Alerts / Expert Advice
4 Alarm Types• Best Practices• Future Predictions• Deviations from Normal Activity• Specific Operational Problems
Helps administrators to:• Accurately diagnose the root-cause of incidents and problems• Speed mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR)
Identify Starved VMs
• See which VMs are waiting most for CPU• Drill down in context to find out why.
Reporting
Provides out-of-the-box reports • Major Types
• Capacity• Performance• Asset Tracking• Provisioning Trends• Infrastructure Events
• Actionable Information• Current and available
capacity• VMs requiring attention• Performance/Availability
Enhancements• Changes to Assets
Chargeback
Allocate costs for the use of infrastructure• Capture resource allocation for hosts and groups of hosts• Allocate costs to the applications or services who use them• Supports both virtual and physical hosts using industry-
standard Chargeback models• Provides costs transparency to IT and business stakeholders
Guest Process Investigation
Drill-down into the processes running within VMs
• Understand internal performance
• Identify which processes are impacting VM performance
• Determine which processes are utilizing resources ineffectively or to the detriment of other work
ROI for vFoglight• Improved view into the “health” of your virtualized environments
Provides for better performance of the environment if the information is acted upon
• Baselining as a security toolCan assist in identifying security breeches and misuse of your virtualized environment
• Identify and resolve issues more quicklyView into physical network communications useful in identifying hard-to-troubleshoot physical connectivity issues
* Cost to your business may vary depending on ELA’s and discount programs
ROI for vFoglight• Better performance for DRS clusters
Information vFoglight provides allows for more intelligent use of affinity and anti-affinity
• Better performance of VMs in resource pools vFoglight provides you with the information you need to define your resource pool allocations intelligently
* Cost to your business may vary depending on ELA’s and discount programs
vFoglight Summary
• Understand performance – Real time metrics provide current performance views– Consolidated / focused view of performance metrics– Rules and alarms for each level of virtual infrastructure
• Reduce downtime– Intelligent alarms identify problems before they become critical.– Workload Migration Modeler shows the potential impact of
moving a VM before moving it.
• Customizable/scalable for any environment – Create custom dashboards and reports to show only desired data– All rules and alarms can be fully customized to suit your needs
vEssentials Package
• Package pricing for vRanger Pro, vReplicator and vFoglight
• Cost savings
• Powerful toolset for your virtual environment
• Backup/Restore
• Disaster Recovery
• Replication
• Monitoring / Reporting
Storage Reclamation & Reallocation
vOptimizer Pro
Best of VMWorld Finalist – New Technology
• Automatically resize volumes up or down to more fully utilize expensive data storage
• Create rules and apply to VMware virtual infrastructure
• 64k Block Resizing and VM Optimizations
For more information, visit www.vizioncore.com
or Email
sales@vizioncore.com
Thank You.
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