Transformational Analytics –
Establishing Virtualized Infrastructure

CiRBA offers the most complete virtualization planning analysis solution available. Whether analyzing for VMware, Citrix, Microsoft’s Hyper-V, Zones, IBM LPARS and WPARS or mainframes, CiRBA quickly finds the lowest risk, maximum impact transformation.

Virtualizing the Right Targets and Optimizing Initial Placements

Many organizations fall into the trap of treating virtualization as a straightforward sizing exercise. The focus becomes “do these workloads fit together on this server?” without considering “should they reside on the same server?”, or even “should this application be virtualized?” Most capacity planning oriented approaches ignore non-workload related criteria that can determine the success or failure of an initiative and lack sophistication in workload analysis that is required to accurately model workloads and virtualization technology overhead to optimally balance risk and potential savings.

CiRBA’s sophisticated multi-dimensional analysis simultaneously examines technical constraints, business constraints and workloads to determine what can and should go together, as well as what fits together from a workload perspective. This analysis provides a comprehensive view of potential targets so that organizations can evaluate multiple scenarios to truly optimize an environment. Whether leveraging new servers or consolidating on to existing hardware, CiRBA enables organizations to accurately determine how the environment will perform and which targets are suitable for virtualization. CiRBA also enables you to determine HA failover capacity requirements for a cluster and factor resource pools into the cluster design.

CiRBA’s Transformational Analytics provide the fastest and safest path to an optimally consolidated and virtualized data center. LARGER VIEW

Reducing the Risks of Virtualization

From a business perspective, CiRBA enables organizations to ensure that VM placements respect critical concerns such as business processes, security and compliance rules and that applications are far from their disaster recovery or cluster/replication counterparts. Through virtualization, administrators may now gain access to the disk images of multiple virtual servers, giving them broad visibility into applications and data and increasing the risk that regulatory and internal compliance rules will be violated. CiRBA identifies possible vulnerabilities and provides a risk matrix that enables organizations to ensure continued compliance.

CiRBA provides the most sophisticated workload analysis available to accurately model workloads and analyze an environment according to the probability of workload contention. This depth of analysis drives decisions surrounding the level of risk the organization is willing to tolerate and enables teams to establish pools of virtualized resources based on performance requirements and risk tolerance.

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Choosing the Right Virtualization Strategies and Platforms for Your Environment

As new virtualization technologies are released into the market, organizations are offered more flexibility and choice. The challenge now presenting itself to organizations is which platform is the right one? Each virtualization technology brings with it a unique set of characteristics and increasingly organizations wish to consider which operating environments provide the greatest savings without compromising risk and performance levels for a given application. CiRBA accommodates these specific features and characteristics when analyzing for virtualization and enables key decision criteria including security, costs, scalability, storage, performance, mobility, motioning, network connectivity, and advanced workload modeling to help you determine which solution best suits your unique requirements. CiRBA’s advanced quartile-based workload analysis enables organizations to plan and design virtualized infrastructure on any platform, including mainframes, according to workload personalities, risk tolerance, service level agreements and performance requirements.

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Avoid Over-Provisioning

CiRBA provides a vendor-neutral view of your organization’s potential for virtualization. CiRBA’s multi-dimensional analysis enables you to accurately assess risk, and size your environment accordingly, so that planning and investments are not based on a vendor’s hardware or software agenda.