Server Sprawl in the Data Center: Managing Virtualized Environments
Large enterprises are looking to drive down IT costs by optimizing server utilization in their overcrowded data centers. Virtualization is seen as a key method of achieving this. However, implementing virtualization in an IT estate brings additional management complexity. Due to the ease and speed of provisioning a virtual server, virtual server sprawl often takes hold, and without a good understanding of the run-time dependencies between business applications, their software components, and their physical and virtual hosts, manageability and therefore SLAs suffer. The result is an environment in which virtualization obscures the very problem it was intended to solve: the dependencies between business applications, virtual machines and the supporting infrastructure become too complex to manage efficiently, administration costs rise, and SLAs are jeopardized.
Galen Schreck, principal analyst and virtualization industry expert with Forrester Research and Adam Kerrison, CTO of Tideway Systems, will guide participants on how to take the complexity out of managing virtual environments.
Join us to learn more about how the Tideway Adapter for BMC Atrium 2.0 meets the challenges of accurately and continually updating the Atrium CMDB through application dependency mapping.
Participants will learn:
- How to address the manageabilty issues virtualization creates
- How to index and visualize virtual machines and map their dependencies to physical hosts
- How to quickly and easily map dependencies from business applications all the way down to the underlying infrastructure
- How to use this relationship data to drive server utilization and control server sprawl within a data center
Speakers
- Galen Schreck, Principal Analyst, Forrester Reserach
- Adam Kerrison, CTO, Tideway
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