VIRTUAL PROFILER, CAPACITY PLANNING
Products | Virtual Profiler | Capacity Planning
In a typical medium-to-large organization, servers proliferate as new departments and applications are deployed. Unfortunately, the freedom to deploy servers for individual or small numbers of applications often results in server sprawl. Data centers can become bloated with large 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.
Virtualization adds another layer of abstraction and obscurity. Tek-Tools Virtual Profiler provides visibility into your network storage and keeps you informed as to how your storage is growing and what's happening within your storage. In an environment with no virtualization, an array LUN is mapped to a physical server, and then carved into logical volumes for use by the operating system. The array can only see the LUN, it cannot see the size or usage of the logical volumes. On a VM server, it's the same issue. When the storage of the VM host is allocated to a guest, the VM host cannot see the size or usage of the logical volumes of the guest.
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When you put the two together, you have two layers where storage is mapped but not seen from the higher layer: array LUN to VM host, then VM host to VM guest. Tek-Tools Virtual Profiler solves this problem. From a single pane-of-glass see used, free, and total capacity by SAN, NAS, and Direct Attached. Profiler's predictive analysis and scenario simulation allows you to forecast the growth rate of file systems across all platforms enabling an organization to accurately budget for future disk space and avoid application failure due to lack of capacity.
Profiler answers questions such as:
- How is my storage allocated?
- How fast am I allocating storage?
- How much is formatted for use?
- How much is actually used?
- How fast is it growing?
The visibility into physical and virtual environments provided by Profiler not only helps to reduce physical server sprawl, but also virtual server sprawl. The ease with which VMs can be created can lead to capacity and resource allocation issues. Profiler provides modeling scenarios that demonstrate how adding another VM would impact CPU and how to plan for it. Profiler's view into all of your physical and virtual resources makes it possible to control server sprawl through physical server consolidation and recovery of virtual instances that are no longer needed or in use, thereby optimizing your physical and virtual infrastructures. |
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Tek-Tools Virtual Profiler provides visibility into:
- Top-10 busiest VM guests (CPU, RAM, Disk I/O, etc.)
- Under-utilized VM guests
- Busiest ESX hosts
- Under-utilized ESX hosts
- Wasted Storage: Start with VMDK files wasted space and end with under-utilized data stores
- File-age, user usage, duplicate files, forbidden files, etc. across All VM guests
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