Business Challenge As virtualization on the server platform has matured, IT organizations have been more willing to deploy virtualization technologies as a means to maximize server resources. These virtual machines present unique challenges to the System Administrator and Operations staffs as identified below: Business Need - Customers need to understand-availability of resources across physical server and mapping to VM
- Customers need business relevance to optimize the use of their virtual machines.
- Customers want a single management interface, not a console for each unique vendor technology.
- Virtualized environment are deployed to production environment-customers need availability assurance
- Vendor supplied management tools are focused on resource management.
Our Solution BMC Performance Manager for Virtual Servers provides real-time monitoring of the virtualized environment, generating events when critical availability and performance thresholds are exceeded. In a VMware deployment, BMC Performance Manager for Virtual Servers discovers all virtual machines and maps those virtual machines to their associated VMware ESX/GSX servers and/or VMwareGroups. With robust availability, performance and capacity metrics, and enterprise reporting, customers can proactively manage a complex VMware deployment to effectively maximize availability and performance of your environment. Key Features & Benefits - Single management interface
- Discovery of all virtual machines across the enterprise
- Manage critical availability, performance, and capacity thresholds
- Map virtualized resources to physical resources
- Provide business context to the virtualized environment
- Ability to answer the resource questions:• How much do I have?• How much is allocated?• How much am I using?• Who is using it?• How much is left?
- Enterprise level reporting
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