Smart Data Centers Feature Editorial

 

The expanded survey findings revealed that most of the respondents favored visibility in aspects like server performance and wanted improved understanding of how their virtualized applications behaved. They felt that these points were critical to gain confidence and to succeed in deploying mission-critical business applications

 

While 88 percent of the experts highlighted the fact that server performance metrics were insufficient to manage the performance of business applications on a virtual infrastructure, 89 percent of the respondents believed that increased visibility into VM communications would be very useful. Only 73 percent seemed to think that understanding the behavior of virtualized multi-tier applications was essential.

 

Alan Robin, CEO of Xangati (News - Alert), seemed to agree with the respondents viewpoints and said that without understanding what a VM was supposed to, managers would not be in a position to address the performance concerns of application owners. He added that Administrators had now woken up to the fact that visibility was the key to capitalize on the promises of virtualization with its simplified application management, decrease IT burdens, and enhance operational efficiencies.

 

A colossal 97 percent of the respondents demanded immediate access to data in order to accelerate the process of problem identification. This clearly indicated that the present virtualization management system were woefully inadequate.

 

"Because virtualization management solutions are server metric-oriented by nature, they leave blind spots into application communication on the virtual infrastructure," Robin, said, adding that the results of the survey merely reinforced the blind spots. The only way out was to enhance understanding of how to effectively support business critical applications.

 

In a further drill down, data showed users believe that a lack of knowledge about how application tiers interact with each other is the biggest challenge in virtualizing multi-tier applications. Others indicated that

knowing the top communications pairs to put on the same ESX server was the most useful data point for creating an effective cluster design to support business critical applications.

 

Complete details of the survey results are available at the Web site. 

 

Xangati, the provider of the industry's first management solution to deliver VM-to-Anything visibility, accelerates virtualization by providing critical VM visibility previously unavailable, enabling superior design, optimization and troubleshooting for the virtual infrastructure.

 

In a related news item, Xangati released two groundbreaking new products, Xangati for ESX and the   Xangati Management Dashboard. Designed to decrease the management burdens of virtualization experts, Xangati's new line of virtual appliances offers extensive monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities like no other solution on the market today and does so at a fraction of the cost.