Server Virtualization
According to surveys of over 750 virtualization infrastructure (VI) admins, 82% lack confidence in the tools they have to effectively manage the performance of business-critical applications like ERP, electronic medical record (EMR), Microsoft Exchange, Financials, and many more.
“The VI Dashboard was not only priced more competitively than other dashboards we looked at, it also gave us far superior functionality, enabling us to quickly identify and resolve problem areas on our infrastructure.”
- Davin Garcia, IT Manager at Innovative Technical Solutions, Inc.
Xangati’s 360° Infrastructure Performance Management (IPM) solution is uniquely suited to address this challenge, because it can track interactions and performance health of all key infrastructure components that can affect server VM experience including: datastores, network segments, server VMs, hypervisors/hosts and applications.
“[Xangati] gives you the ability to see all the information you can find at once – in one pane of glass basically.”
- Tom Hollingsworth, Senior Network Engineer
Source: Tech Field Day #5
Xangati’s 360° IPM model is especially compelling in environments where the lion’s share of business-critical applications have yet to be virtualized. Xangati works for any and all networked applications—not just a select few. The visibility that Xangati’s VI dashboard provides will greatly enhance your ability to design, optimize, and troubleshoot the VI for business-critical applications. To learn more, read the tabs below.
Design High-Performance Application Tiers
The Xangati 360° IPM solution enables higher-performing virtualized applications by discovering all application interactions across both physical and VIs/data centers to make informed virtual design decisions. Interaction information allows administrators to consider ALL necessary components for an application to perform, including, but not limited to, presentation servers, application servers (aka business logic servers), databases/file systems, and heavily allied components including DNS and Active Directory services. This insight can be leveraged to ensure necessary components are not forgotten when designing what should be in a high-availability cluster.
Optimize Performance with Automated Profiles
Xangati’s performance health engine automatically profiles the behavior of every VM, datastore and datastore path, hypervisor/host, application and network segment. These time-based profiles keep administrators abreast, in real-time, of any fundamental shifts that occur in CPU, memory, storage usage, as well as in communication activity and response time. These profiles are of paramount importance for VI administrators supporting an infrastructure where frequent upgrades/code changes occur with or without warning. Monitoring such changes is critical because they can cause a shift in activity that negates a previously high-performing cluster design. In such a case, Xangati alerts when a business logic server is suddenly more actively talking to a database on a different ESX than the one that happens to be on the same ESX. Being alerted to this information, as well as having a DVR-recording of it, helps pinpoint what shifts have occurred and provides detailed information on what has changed and its impact.
Troubleshoot 10X Faster
90% of virtual infrastructure (VI) administrators would like solutions to quickly identify and provide answers on why a virtualized application’s performance just degraded. The Xangati solution is unique in a number of ways in how it can rapidly accelerate the troubleshooting process. First, the Xangati solution provides unique live, drill-down navigation enabling an administrator to quickly follow communications between two tiers of an application and see that conversation in real-time. This live navigation provides unrivaled insights into any negative interactions that are affecting performance of the VI. For instance Xangati can track which VM slamming a datastore with too many IOPS and thereby adversely affecting other VMs affecting that datastore. Second this information can be shared as “DVR recordings” with other parts of the IT organization including network, storage and application administrators. This way for example if a network bottleneck has been identified a recording can be emailed to and then viewed by the network administrator who can then use tools at his disposal to resolve the issue.
