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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.
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