CiRBA’s Database - Unified Repository for Utilization, Configuration,
and Business Data
CiRBA’s database acts as a centralized repository for all the critical information about your workloads including utilization, configuration and business related details. Only CiRBA provides flexible multi-dimensional analysis against technical, business and resource constraints to determine optimal workload placements and resource allocations.
- Technical Constraints
Through flexible rules-driven analysis, CiRBA analyzes deep hardware, OS, application, middleware and database configuration data so technical fit is accurately assessed.
- Business Policies & Constraints
CiRBA's editable rules factor regulatory requirements, maintenance windows, geography, service levels, and other key considerations into the analysis of whether applications or content should reside on the same server.
- Resource Constraints & Utilization Analysis
It’s critical that utilization analysis goes beyond a comparison of peak utilization and server capacities. CiRBA considers peak and sustained activity, as well as the nature of workload patterns and personalities to accurately determine what fits together. To complement its rules-based analyses, CiRBA offers the most powerful utilization analysis available, to accurately model workloads enabling organizations to achieve an optimal balance between risk, service levels, and consolidation ratios.
Populating the Database
CiRBA provides the most flexible data acquisition options available including:
- Integrations to popular third-party systems including HP OpenView, IBM Tivoli, TADDM or HP DDM.
- Import data from popular third-party systems to leverage existing investments in systems that track business attributes, such as a CMDB, or utilization data, such as performance monitoring tools.
- Native data collection options such as scripts, agentless capabilities or read-only agents.
Streamlined Data Validation with Analysis Data Coverage Reporting
Many consolidation initiatives fail or encounter major stumbling blocks because analyses and plans were based on insufficient or poor quality data. CiRBA leverages its intelligent analytics to assess the quality of data available with the Analysis Data Coverage dashboard that analyzes the suitability of collected data for a specific type of analysis. This benefits users throughout the entire data collection phase of an initiative as it enables a fast assessment of the quality of business attribute, configuration, and utilization data for the chosen analysis strategy.
Data Normalization Leveraging Industry Leading Benchmarks
CiRBA provides users with access to Ideas International Relative Performance Estimate (RPE2) benchmarks, as well as CINT benchmarks from SPEC.org for transformation and ongoing efficiency analyses. These options ensure maximum possible coverage of server models available through industry standard benchmarks, streamlined processes surrounding benchmark lookup and accurate data normalization.
Template-driven, Rules-based Analysis for Faster, More Accurate Answers
CiRBA’s analysis templates employ best practices for transformational and efficiency management analysis so that you get better answers, faster. CiRBA’s technical and business constraint analysis is driven by packaged and editable rules that are incorporated into each template. To complement its rules-based analyses, CiRBA templates incorporate the most powerful workload analysis available to accurately model workloads enabling organizations to achieve an optimal balance between risk, service levels and consolidation ratios.
Weighting & What-if Analysis
In addition, CiRBA provides several options for quickly and easily performing what-if analysis to compare different scenarios such as adjusting resource capacities or evaluating different server models or virtualization technologies.
Viewing Analysis Results & Actionable Answers
CiRBA provides actionable answers to the critical questions surrounding transformations and the efficient management of capacity within data centers. Users can view answers and analysis results in a variety of ways including:
Graphical Dashboards to Summarize Results
CiRBA provides summary views of its sophisticated analytics enabling the results of the advanced analysis to be easily understood and utilized by a broad base of users within IT.
Compatibility Maps
Trained users can drill down into CiRBA’s unique detailed compatibility maps from the dashboards. These maps offer an intuitive way of visualizing your environment and the impact of potential changes on it. After completing a rigorous analysis of your environment given the constraints and rules chosen, the software renders a series of compatibility maps related to key configuration, business, workload constraints and overall compatibility.
- Color coding and scoring within the maps to show the compatibility of servers
- Drill down to a detailed compatibility report
- Auto-fit Transfer arrows that calculate the best opportunities for consolidation based on heuristic optimization algorithms
- Detailed actionable consolidation roadmap reports
Detailed Reports for Taking Action
CiRBA also provides detailed analysis summary reports that act as an action plan and audit record for the consolidation initiative. These reports detail placements, required resource remediation and allocations giving you an actionable roadmap.
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