Key Features

CiRBA’s Data Center Intelligence (DCI) software provides cross-platform, multi-dimensional analysis that enables organizations to optimize virtualized infrastructure, both during the planning stage and on an ongoing basis despite constantly changing constraints.

Cross-Platform Data Acquisition

CiRBA offers unmatched flexibility in acquiring data for accurate analyses. Organizations may choose to leverage existing management frameworks and import existing data via a universal importer, deploy simple data acquisition scripts, or utilize CiRBA’s agentless capabilities or read only CiRBA agents.

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Multi-Dimensional Analysis

CiRBA combines the detailed analysis of all critical constraints that impact the success of virtualization initiatives. CiRBA simultaneously analyzes:

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 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.

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Rules-based Analysis & Control over VMware DRS

CiRBA’s technical and business constraint analysis is driven by packaged and editable rules. Rules are chosen depending on the desired strategy for a given analysis. Some of the rulesets provided with CiRBA include:

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CiRBA also provides integration to VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), enabling rules defined within CiRBA to control DRS and the motioning of virtual machines so you can take advantage of the workload balancing benefits while respecting critical constraints.

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Workload Analysis

To complement its rules-based analyses, CiRBA offers the most powerful workload analysis available to accurately model workloads enabling organizations to achieve an optimal balance between risk, service levels and consolidation ratios.

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• Quartile-based views of utilization patterns
• Complementary pattern detection using like-time as well as time-shift what-if analysis
• Probability analysis for workload contention
• Workload scoring for both peak and sustained activity types
• Advanced benchmarking supporting metrics from SPEC, Ideas International, and others
• Accurate modeling of virtualization technology workloads including CPU overhead
• Historical utilization and workload personality analysis
• Modeling for iSCSI workloads from both a bandwidth and CPU overhead perspective
• Network interconnect tracking and latency analysis

Weighting & What-if Analysis

CiRBA enables you to modify rules and the weighting of certain criteria.
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.

Visual Maps of the Optimal Paths to Consolidation

Through its unique compatibility maps, CiRBA offers an intuitive way of visualizing your environment. 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

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