Server Virtualization
According to a survey 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.
“Xangati has taken virtualization management beyond simple data collection from vCenter to the next level, providing a comprehensive approach that both understands infrastructure performance — across servers, network and storage — and offers visibility for devices spanning both the physical and virtual worlds.”
— Vanessa Alvarez, Industry Analyst at Frost & Sullivan
The Xangati solution is uniquely suited to address the challenge of performance assurance for virtualization/cloud infrastructures. Xangati is the only live, second-by-second solution that continuously tracks the performance health of all the critical infrastructure components impacting performance 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
Xangati’s cross-silo model is particularly compelling in environments where it is has been difficult tracking down contention storms impacting the performance of line of business (LOB) applications. There are a considerable number of business benefits to the Xangati sever virtualization solution. To learn more, read the tabs below.
Proactive Performance Assurance
The challenge for administrators as they move solutions from an overprovisioned, dedicated hardware infrastructure to one that is dynamic and shared is the lack of insight into how all the cross-silo moving parts are interacting together at any moment in time. The majority of virtual environments suffer from intermittent performance issues that are plaguing the performance of applications running in that virtual infrastructure. This results in IT being reactive vs. proactive in addressing complaints from LOB application owners. Xangati is the only cloud infrastructure performance management solution that can tackle these issues with a live and continuous pulse on the health of all the moving parts in this virtual infrastructure.
Leveraging Xangati’s memory-driven performance health engine, the Xangati VI Dashboard solution knows to the second about the health of VMs, datastores, hypervisors, networks in your virtual datacenter. The solution will immediately notify an administrator when a performance shift occurs and pinpoint which specific cross-silo element is suffering a contention storm. This is in direct contrast to other performance management solutions built on a database-driven model which alerts when users have begun to be impacted by performance shifts.
Problem Resolution
According to industry analyst firm, The Yankee Group, 90% of the time-to-problem resolution is in identifying the source of the problem. Xangati’s unique live and continuous UI with visual recordings is the solution to this challenge. When there are shifts in performance health of the environment, the Xangati solution is the only solution that couples the alert with a precise multi-dimensional visual recording of the contention storm(s) impacting a specific object e.g. a VM, a datastore, etc.
Only through these recordings can the problem silo (e.g., network, storage, server, desktop) be clearly identified along with the set of interactions driving the contention which are presented second-by-second. These visual recordings can also be shared outside of the virtualization administrator team through the unique “share a recording” feature that allows recordings to be viewed without requiring a login to a the full Xangati dashboard. This collaborative capability allows the right team to see the issue as it is happening and take the appropriate remediation steps as quickly as possible.
Capacity Management
Virtualization teams have done a tremendous amount of consolidation of physical servers into VMs sharing common hardware across vSphere clusters, however, at some point environments can become hardware constrained. This capacity management challenge is further constrained in organizations that are trying to manage across multiple datacenters/vCenters. What these administrators need is a solution that is going to track their server, storage and network capacity comprehensively across all environments.
The Xangati VI Dashboard has integrated capacity management capabilities that include a capacity health index that will alert administrators when and where they will need capacity.
These capacity alerts detail the growth patterns for key infrastructure components and forecast specifically when critical thresholds will be hit and when the environment will specifically run out of capacity. The predictive capabilities are coupled with capacity optimization features that allow you to identify areas for optimization including which resources are most underutilized.
