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Are you able to inventory and identify all of the parts of your IT infrastructure and how they relate to one another?
To meet the constant demand to deploy, maintain and grow a broad array of services and applications, IT organizations must continually add new servers. However, as a consequence of purchasing more and more servers, organizations face a growing server sprawl presenting challenges that include:
• Rising Costs.
• Poor return on investment.
• Decreasing manageability.
• Reduced efficiency.
The ease and freedom to deploy servers for individual or small numbers of applications or to add storage often results in infrastructure sprawl. Data centers can become bloated with larger numbers of machines with very low levels of utilization. This leads to inflated operating costs in terms of support, data center capital expense, and utility costs. In addition, network administrators can lose sight of how various components fit into the network and impact availability and performance.
This problem is further complicated by the entry of virtualization technologies into the picture. Organizations may find that while they have controlled the sprawl of physical devices, the number of virtual systems to be managed has exploded-virtual machine sprawl. The ease with which a virtual machine can be created is a root cause of virtual server sprawl. Once created, many machines are abandoned creating a larger storage footprint than necessary, burning valuable storage resources, and increasing backup demands. These problems often negate the original intention of virtualization: to save money and resources.
Enterprises can realize numerous benefits on a daily basis from implementing a VMware server consolidation solution. These benefits include:
• Dramatically lower costs.
• Boosted utilization and availability.
• Improved manageability and reliability. VMware Infrastructure reduces data center complexity by reducing the number of servers that IT organizations need to manage.
• Simplified server provisioning.
• Increased IT efficiency.
• Improved ability to handle future growth.
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.
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