VMware Infrastructure

Virtualization is changing the way organizations plan and execute IT operations. VMware Infrastructure (Virtual Infrastructure) is at the forefront of delivering solutions to help companies scale operations in a cost effective manner. Virtualization initiatives enable broad benefits such as Green IT, CAPEX (Capital Expenditure) savings, and OPEX (Operating Expense) reductions. The promise of these benefits is driving companies to make virtualization a big initiative.

Big initiatives are accompanied by major changes; and like any other major change in the data center, implementing a virtual infrastructure can impact end user experience. As virtualized projects roll out, it's critical for companies to ensure consistent, or improved, performance. Unfortunately, traditional monitoring of physical system resources is not a good indicator of application health performance or end user experience. In fact, the dynamic, black box nature of virtualized environments hides most physical system resources, so there isn't much data to see - making solutions using system and/or application agents inefficient and incomplete.

To take advantage of advanced VMware Infrastructure 3 features such as Dynamic Resource Allocation, High Availability or disaster recovery solutions, it's critical for operations teams to monitor real-time performance - both end-to-end user experience performance and the performance of each virtual machine and each component within each virtualized area. It's also important to know how the application components and virtualized components interact.

B-hive Conductor for VMware solves the visibility problems in virtualized environments. Conductor sees inside the black box of VI3 and learns which servers and components work together for each specific request. With this visibility, and automated problem resolution, Conductor helps companies maximize their return on virtualization technology investments throughout the operations lifecycle. This combination of real-time transaction monitoring and automated problem resolution makes Conductor the first and only Service Level Control solution for VMware Infrastructure 3 environments, helping companies ensure superior end user experience while minimizing the overall cost of operations.

B-hive Conductor for Virtual Application Infrastructure features:

• Migration Performance Assurance
  Measure baseline service levels before and after virtualization implementation to enable accurate sizing of the virtual environment to achieve comparable or improved performance.
• Service Level Visibility and Control
  Understand how virtual servers are utilized by applications. Maintain the end-user experience by identifying and overcoming performance bottlenecks and outages.
• High Availability and Disaster Recovery Enablement
  Automate the execution of VMware's built-in capabilities (i.e. image rollback, new server provisioning, etc.) when problems occur - in real-time - to resolve performance and availability problems as they occur.
• Dynamic Resource Allocation
  Provision and de-allocate new resources as needed - automatically - so that virtualized resources are sized accurately, based on application performance and usage patterns.

Next: Download a Product Brochure for B-hive Conductor™ for VMware Infrastructure today. Learn more about B-hive's solution for Service Oriented Infrastructure.

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