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Virtualization enables organizations to save money, simplify management, and improve their IT infrastructures with its enhanced high availability and disaster recovery capabilities. But, there are many differences between physical and virtual environments and IT managers should keep that in mind before deployment.
The many benefits of virtualization, such as fewer servers to manage and less energy consumed are just a few examples of the benefits that an organization can see. Don’t let server sprawl and platform dependencies prevent your organization from achieving its goals. Take control of your IT infrastructure, cut capital and operating costs while increasing IT service delivery.
While virtualization reduces the amount of hardware in the data center, you still need tools and solutions for managing workloads. Make sure you have the tools and power to manage your entire virtual infrastructure. Tek-Tools Virtual Profiler provides agentless, cross-domain visibility, management, and intelligence from applications through servers, network, and storage. Virtual Profiler allows organizations to reclaim the visibility into their IT environments that was lost when OSs were decoupled from physical servers via virtualization. Profiler enables users to visualize and manage both physical and virtual systems from a single console, using a unified view of the entire environment, to track and respond to utilization of physical resources and offer predictive alerting.
Profiler’s robust monitoring and reporting capabilities enhance control over virtualized environments. Virtual Profiler enables users to maximize availability, track system configurations, and manage the utilization of system components such as processor, memory, and hard disks, helping lower costs and increase IT agility. Profiler is designed to be tailored to the needs of any size business, and it can be integrated seamlessly into many industry-leading enterprise-management solutions.
The Tek-Tools Profiler Suite provides end-to-end visibility into both physical and virtualized infrastructure, all from a single pane-of-glass view. This visibility enables users to reclaim wasted and under-utilized resources that they have lost track of. Profiler allows users to optimize their investment in technology by saving time and money, as well as by streamlining network operations.
Today, SolarWinds, a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, announced that it has acquired certain assets and personnel of Tek-Tools.
SolarWinds plans to continue investment in many of the Tek-Tools Profiler products that customers and partners rely on. Specifically, the company is interested in extending the network and application management foundation that they have built in their award-winning Orion product suite to include Tek-Tools’ storage infrastructure and virtualization management offerings.
The press release supporting the announcement is available here, as well as FAQs, which are available here.
Kenny Van Zant, SolarWinds’ SVP and chief product strategist, offers some additional insight into SolarWinds’ interest in Tek-Tools and how the two companies’ offerings will work together on SolarWinds’ corporate blog, the Whiteboard.
Learn more about SolarWinds’ IT management products at www.solarwinds.com.
The newest innovations in virtualized environments offer key benefits for businesses. A virtualized storage area network (SAN) gives you the bandwidth you need for intensive business applications and streaming video technologies. With the right infrastructure to support a virtualized environment, you can both simplify operations and reduce costs. The SAN’s biggest benefit may be its enhanced availability.
One drawback is that SAN performance can be adversely affected when storage runs low, resulting in application performance problems and service level issues. Many IT organizations guard against this threat by overbuying and over provisioning storage, but this frequently results in wasted capital since the additional storage investment is not necessarily utilized. Organizations are embracing performance and capacity planning practices to avoid unexpected storage costs and disruptive upgrades. The goal is to predict storage needs over time and then budget capital and labor to make regular improvements to the storage infrastructure.
In actual practice, SAN performance and capacity planning can be extremely difficult. For IT staff it can be virtually impossible to predict the storage needs of an application or department over time without a careful assessment of past growth and a comprehensive evaluation of future plans. Many organizations forego the expense and effort of a formal process unless a mission-critical project or serious performance problem demands it. Organizations choosing to sustain an ongoing performance and capacity planning effort will need comprehensive storage resource management.
The benefits of SAN Management outweigh the negatives, especially when you have a virtualization plan in place and the provisions your IT staff need to implement that plan. Tek-Tools’ Profiler Suite goes beyond the basic functions of other tools at a fraction of the cost. The Profiler Suite provides end-to-end visibility into both physical and virtualized infrastructure, all from a single pane-of-glass view. This visibility enables users to reclaim wasted and under-utilized resources.Storage Profiler, one of the components of the Profiler Suite, is the only intuitive web-based application that combines reporting, monitoring, and notification across the entire storage stack for DAS, NAS, and SAN management.For the virtualized environment, Profiler for VMware allows organizations to reclaim the visibility into their IT environments that was lost when OSs were decoupled from physical servers via virtualization.Profiler enables users to visualize and manage both physical and virtual systems from a single console, using a unified view of the entire environment, to track and respond to utilization of physical resources and offer predictive alerting.
