Whether you virtualize desktops or critical business applications, the dynamics and complexities of virtualized environments can cause significant performance and user experience issues that can diminish the benefits of virtualization and risk interruption of critical business processes. The toughest performance problems are the ones where users call and complain that "my application is slow". IT administrators often struggle to determine the root-cause of the problem and restore service levels: Is it the application server? The virtualization layer? Is it the network? Database? Storage ...?
Join our live webinar with virtualization experts Dave Bartoletti (Forrester Research) and Srinivas Ramanathan (eG Innovations), and find out how to deliver:
• Reliable performance assurance and user satisfaction
• Complete performance visibility across your virtualized environment
• Automatic, rapid root cause diagnosis for even the most complex performance problems
• Pre-emptive problem detection and alerting before users call
• Rapid ROI through right-sizing and optimization
7. Client virtualization brings new challenges
Which features are driving your firm’s interest in desktop/application virtualization, thin
client, or blade PC technologies?
Source: Enterprise And SMB Hardware Survey, North America And Europe, Q3 2012
Base: 977 North American and European IT decision-makers
53%
48%
48%
45%
38%
38%
23%
22%
21%
16%
14%
9%
2%
Supporting work from anywhere
Increasing manageability, patching
Lowering costs
Providing flexible remote access
Disaster Recovery
Better security
Improving compliance
Reducing PC energy consumption
Supporting access for tablets
BYOPC Programs
Enable Apple Mac computers
Don't know
Other reason
Performance Challenges:
• User experience
• Storage performance
• Network performance
• High density
10. Applications
Many places for performance problems to arise
Firewall
Network
Switch
Load
Balancer Portal
Identity
Manager
End User
Router
SAP
PSFT
Siebel
Web Services
3rd Party
Applications
Databases
Mainframe
Database
Web
Servers
Who is using
the network?
Are transactions
failing?
Is authentication
server slow?
Are the web
servers OK?
Is the Java EE
Server slow?
And why?
Are business
apps slow?
Is it a database
problem?
What is the cloud
performance?
11. The root problem? Growing complexity.
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12. Virtualization & cloud add instability to IT operations
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13. Tame the complexity
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HOW?
• End the finger pointing
• Leverage analytics
• Be proactive, not reactive
• Simplify