Analytics for the Virtualized Data Center

The overwhelming complexity of the modern data center compounds the problem of how to safely virtualize IT environments.  The subtleties of production environments in particular are simply beyond the grasp of the human mind, and existing systems and management tools are not designed to aggregate or process information in a way that alleviates the issue.

CiRBA’s Data Center Intelligence software is designed to pull together all the technical, business and workload data required to analyze and manage the transformation and operation of virtualized IT environments.

Transforming an Environment

CiRBA offers the most complete virtualization analysis solution available, whether analyzing for VMware, Citrix, Microsoft’s Hyper-v, Zones, LPARs, WPARs, or mainframes, CiRBA quickly finds the lowest risk, maximum impact transformation.

CiRBA’s Transformational Analytics enables organizations to successfully plan for large scale virtualization by simultaneously analyzing workloads, business and technical constraints. Leveraging CiRBA’s powerful analytics, teams can evaluate multiple opportunities for consolidation and determine which strategies offer the lowest risk and maximum value. Through CiRBA’s analysis organizations can:

• Virtualize the right things
• Choose the right virtualization strategies, technologies and platforms
• Optimize placements of virtual machines
• Establish a manageable infrastructure
• Avoid over-provisioning
• Ensure security and compliance requirements are respected
  
  

Optimizing Virtualized Infrastructure

Achieving a good initial placement for your virtual machines is critical, but so is maintaining the order of the environment.  The fluid nature of virtualized infrastructure poses significant management challenges in maintaining order and optimizing utilization. Motioning virtual machines to make better use of capacity, rebalancing workloads and controlling virtual sprawl all present challenges that are new to IT departments. CiRBA provides greater control over these dynamic environments on an ongoing basis to:

• Mitigate risk
• Maintain compliance and security zones
• Optimize utilization
• Control VM motioning through integration to VMware’s Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
• Avoid virtual and physical sprawl