Your Challenge: Today’s enterprises are turning to virtualization infrastructure to reduce operational costs and improve efficiency in the data center. This virtual infrastructure provides a layer of abstraction between the computing, storage and networking hardware and the application layer, but not without management challenges. Some of these include:
- Inefficiencies in managing and orchestrating a large number of virtual servers.
- Lack of management tools for matching capacity with business demands.
- Lack of tools for automating the management of service levels.
- Operational overhead required to administer and reconfigure virtual infrastructure.
Our Solution: Virtual Iron provides a comprehensive management environment and policy-engine to automate the management of shared processing, storage and networking resources. Resources can be allocated and de-allocated on the fly to applications when needed based on business rules. Unique policy-driven automation capabilities enable rapid reconfiguration, capacity on demand, failover and recovery without increased administrative overhead. Virtual Iron’s management capabilities enable users to:
- Use policies to automatically apply resources when and where needed, so that performance is maintained regardless of usage spikes.
- Respond more quickly to changes in capacity demand with automated reconfiguration.
- Create policies for real-time resource allocation and failover using a graphical policy-builder wizard.
- Automatically maintain application availability and service levels using policies.
- Reduce human labor, errors and operational costs by automating operations.
- Trigger reconfigurations based on rules that detect exceeded user-set performance thresholds, e.g. add more CPU capacity to a virtual server when CPU utilization is greater than 90 percent.
- Migrate servers and adjust resource allocations “on-the-fly” without impacting running applications.
