Best practices for optimising performance and availability in virtual infrastructures
Realise the benefits
Nimsoft | 06 November 2009, 15:58 | Enterprise applications
Initial virtualisation deployments are typically basic configurations that consist of a couple physical servers and a dozen virtual machines on a shared, flat network. Often, organisations find that these deployments are only suitable for testing and development, and are not able to meet the needs of demanding production environments very well. Consequently, IT teams need to invest in and effectively deploy such solutions as centralised storage, cluster technologies, networking, and systems management in order to realise successful virtualisation initiatives.
Once these IT investments are made, the many benefits of virtualisation, such as ease of management and use, are often quickly realised. After these initial successes, however, IT management often starts to be concerned about the growing sprawl of business critical virtual machines and the lack of visibility required to effectively understand the performance of these IT services.
