managing your virtual environment
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Managing Your Virtual Environment
Barb GoldwormPresident & Chief Analyst
www.focusonsystems.com
Panel Members
• Moderator – Barb Goldworm, President and Chief Analyst, FOCUS
• Jonathan Reeve, Director of Product Management, Hyper9
• Rich Bourdeau, Vice President of Product Marketing and Management, DynamicOps
• Alex Bakman, Founder and CTO, Vkernel
• Stephen Elliot, Vice President of Strategy, CA
Virtualization Implementation Pain Points
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%
Other
None
Advanced management requires networked storage
Trouble moving from a test environment to a …
Difficulty managing security
Performance degradation
Difficulty tracking and managing virtual machines
Networking challenges
Difficulty predicting storage requirements/growth
Difficulty troubleshooting performance …
Storage challenges
Backup challenges
Percentage of responses 2009 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com
Barriers to Virtualizing Business Critical Apps
4© 2010 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35%
Not applicable
Networking issues
Don't have the necessary management tools
Available management products aren't …
Compliance/auditing concerns
Security concerns
Other (please specify)
Storage issues
Lack of skilled people
Concerns about meeting SLAs
These apps are harder to virtualize
Lack of budget
Performance concerns - DB, I/O, etc
Application/vendor doesn’t support …
Source: FOCUS Research Series – Managing the Virtual Environment
Virtualization Management
• Fast Growing Ecosystem – Hypervisor Vendors
– Virtualization Mgmt Startups
– Traditional Mgmt Players
– Systems/storage vendors
• Hypervisor specific vs. hypervisor agnostic
• Innovations from startups
• Many mergers and acquisitions
Virtual server
sprawl
Troubleshooting
Backup
and
storage
pain
Virtual switches
to hypervisor
level concerns
SLAs
Resource
optimization
Challenges• Management tools and processes needed to ensure
successful growth to next phase of virtualization
• Management of both physical and virtual infrastructure for complete view from application through OS and virtual layers to associated hardware resources
• Rapidly changing landscape with many choices
– ESM toolsets, Hypervisor vendor tools, virtualization management startups, RYO
– Best of breed, integrated suites, frameworks
• How do you deliver best service at least cost
Panel Members
• Moderator – Barb Goldworm, President and Chief Analyst, FOCUS
• Jonathan Reeve, Director of Product Management, Hyper9
• Rich Bourdeau, Vice President of Product Marketing and Management, DynamicOps
• Alex Bakman, Founder and CTO, Vkernel
• Stephen Elliot, Vice President of Strategy, CA
Questions?
Contact Barb Goldworm, President, FOCUS
Interop Virtualization Track Chair
www.focusonsystems.com
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