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Make sure your virtualized assets are compliant and optimized, regardless of the complexity of clustered data center environments and the types
of virtual machines in use
VIRTUALIZATION
Virtualization and clustering technologies enable organizations to do more
with less, but they also pose problems for SAM (Software Asset Management)
teams. Infrastructure and operations are similarly challenged as they undertake
optimization, consolidation or cloud migration projects. They all struggle to
understand the complex relationships between applications, database and
middleware platforms, virtual machines, virtualization environments and the
hardware that supports them.
Data centers that run a heterogeneous mix of operating systems and
virtualization technologies make it hard to calculate the demand for software
licenses or discern the most efficient way to consolidate infrastructure. Without
active management, you leave yourself open to vendor audits, expensive fines
and operational inefficiencies. Seeing through the complexity enables you to
manage demand, mitigate risk, and optimize efficiencies.
iQSonar carries out essential discovery and dependency mapping across all
physical, virtual, clustered and cloud-based hardware and software assets. By
integrating with third-party SAM (Software Asset Management), LMS (License
Management Tools) and CMDB (Configuration Management Database) solutions
you benefit from a process of continuous compliance and ongoing asset
optimization.
iQSonar ticks vital boxes for compliance in highly virtualized environments:
SUPPORTS ALL LEADING VENDORS
• VMware vSphere
• Microsoft Hyper-V
• Solaris Containers
• IBM Power Virtualization (LPAR)
• Oracle VM
UNDERSTAND CLUSTERING AND HIGH AVAILABILITY TECHNOLOGIES
• Get visibility of all the physical hardware that supports and
could support your applications
• Understand not only where the software is running now, but also
where it can run in the event of automated migrations such as vMotion
and Live Partition Mobility
• Identify virtual sprawl and build license optimized environments for
specific workloads.
Make sure your virtualized assets are compliant and optimized, regardless of the complexity of clustered data center environments and the types of virtual machines in use
INTRODUCTION
EXPOSE RICH DATA
• Consolidate discovery and dependency data from multiple data centers
in a central location as a “single source of truth”
• Automatically validate and correct data that has been miss-reported by
the environment (e.g. CPU, core and thread counts)
• Integrate data with third-party tools through APIs and solution
specific connectors
AGENTLESS
It takes less time to deploy and manage the solution because nothing needs to
be installed on the target machines, and valuable server resources are not used
up by running software agents
SELF-INFORMING DISCOVERY You don’t need to know what’s there before the scan starts and you don’t need
to worry that something will be missed.
SINGLE SOLUTION
Not only does it work with virtualization technologies, iQSonar supports
application and platform technologies from Oracle, IBM and Microsoft.
NO OBSTACLE
Designed for the most complex and secure network environments, multiple
deployment models support every conceivable configuration.
EASY INTEGRATION
APIs and connectors let you build a total solution with third-party products for
continuous monitoring and management.
AT-A-GLANCE: Why iQSonar?
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