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.
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The agentless architecture of Profiler’s VMware module provides a view of how each virtual disk is growing and when it will reach a critical point, for planning and forecasting.
View Enlarged Image Profiler provides a comprehensive, ESX Host-level report including resources allocated and important statistics like the number of VM guests currently running.
Virtualization adds another layer of abstraction and obscurity. Tek-Tools Profiler for VMware 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.
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 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 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.
Tek-Tools 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 datastores
File-age, user usage, duplicate files, forbidden files, etc. across ALL VM guests (using agent technology)
