VMware Toronto User Group
Michael Bailey (Director PM) and I presented at the Toronto VMware user group on Tuesday in the Glen Gould studio at CBC to an audience of about 110 people. We discussed the management challenges faced by IT that are caused by virtualization.
There are very clear and obvious benefits to introducing virtualization into the datacenter, the obvious being consolidation and rationalization. It's estimated that by 2012 over 90% of large enterprises will consolidate their IT assets through virtualization.
VM growth in the marketplace (not just VMware, but LPARs, LDOMs, Containers, etc.) is rapidly increasing with the VM installed base to hit 4.1 million VMs in 2009. That's almost an 8x increase from the 540k installed in 2006. The good news is that we are building dynamic services that can easily adapt to constantly chaging business drivers and pressures. The bad news is that a whole new basket of problems are introduced by virtualization.
In general the tooling around VMs have not kept up with this growth. Which is where up.time comes in. While up.time is not a "silver bullet" for every single VM related challenge today, we do address what the industry sees as key problems being faced today. Specifically
There are very clear and obvious benefits to introducing virtualization into the datacenter, the obvious being consolidation and rationalization. It's estimated that by 2012 over 90% of large enterprises will consolidate their IT assets through virtualization.
VM growth in the marketplace (not just VMware, but LPARs, LDOMs, Containers, etc.) is rapidly increasing with the VM installed base to hit 4.1 million VMs in 2009. That's almost an 8x increase from the 540k installed in 2006. The good news is that we are building dynamic services that can easily adapt to constantly chaging business drivers and pressures. The bad news is that a whole new basket of problems are introduced by virtualization.
- Problem Isolation
- Licensing and Compliance
- Change Management (Tracking, Automation, Control)
In general the tooling around VMs have not kept up with this growth. Which is where up.time comes in. While up.time is not a "silver bullet" for every single VM related challenge today, we do address what the industry sees as key problems being faced today. Specifically
- Determination of VM candidates
- Controlling Sprawl
- Identifying VM Configuration Information
- Problem Isolation
- Workload Trending
After our "slideware" presentation, we gave a "software" product demo presentation to show up.time in action. We specifically showed the following stories
- The big picture from 10,000 feet : "Managing from above"
- Trending the workload of my guests : "Am I growing, shrinking or steady state?"
- Identifying overresourced VMs : "Where did my memory go?"
- How do I look from a data center capacity perspective : "Am I well utilized or under utilized?"
- Automated & Ad Hoc Virtualization Reporting : "Become the ESX superstar"
The presentation went well and we actually ran out of time at the end due to the number of questions. The stage lights came up, the band started playing and the big long cane scooped us off the stage.
Labels: Monitoring, Server Reporting, Virtualization, VMware
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