In order to effectively implement or expand a virtualization initiative, organizations must have an intimate understanding of their environment, including which servers have the highest utilization, which application servers often have peak traffic periods at the same time, and which servers have traffic loads that are essentially unrelated to one another. Such understanding enables organizations to make informed decisions about which VMs should be run on the same physical hosts.
View Enlarged Image The VMDK Files view within Profiler provides a detailed accounting of all VMDK files: their names, location, size, and last modified date indicating the age of the files.
View Enlarged Image Profiler provides an inventory of physical hardware that could be consolidated and virtualized with VMware.
Tek-Tools Profiler provides file analysis and data classification features that offer users a complete view into their IT infrastructures to identify virtualization candidates. With the visibility provided by Profiler, users realize the benefits of virtualization such as increasing the level of utilization of system resources, thus eliminating waste and helping organizations to realize additional savings.
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 a view of all your physical and virtual resources, making 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.
