Why Virtual Infrastructure Optimization is Useful in Today's Data Center

Virtual Infrastructure Optimization is about optimizing the performance, availability and utilization of both the physical and virtual IT infrastructure. Virtualization, both for servers and for storage, is becoming widespread and somewhere between 30% to 40% of IT applications are now virtualized within a typical data center. For many organizations, this is where “virtual stall” enters the picture. The low-hanging fruit of IT-controlled applications (e-mail, file services, test & dev, etc.) have nearly all been virtualized. Now comes the hard part of virtualizing the business-critical, revenue-impacting applications such order processing, online commerce, CRM and ERP. These are I/O intensive applications that usually have strict performance and availability service level agreements (SLAs). To date, most IT managers have been very reluctant to virtualize this class of application since they lack the tools to ensure they can meet those SLAs. Hence, “virtual stall” sets in and aggressive deployment of virtualization stops.

 

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