Information Technology: Tout Virtual

Virtualization technology is a key building block for next generation enterprise datacenters and infrastructure. Though several vendors (Citrix, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle and VMware) have stepped up their virtualization offerings to the market, a void remains in the undeveloped area of managing and optimizing those virtualized environments and devices once they are in place. As the number of virtual servers increases, system administrators quickly find themselves in fire-fighting mode. Existing server monitoring tools are not virtualization aware and are unable to take into account the shared resource dependency between host and virtual machine.

Though IT managers are figuring out how to support different applications and operating systems on a single server, or how to dynamically allocate resources among storage devices, or how to take device utilization from 20 percent to 70 percent, the coordinated and automated management and optimization of this virtualized infrastructure remains elusive.

The Solution: Virtualization Intelligence For Every Stage

ToutVirtual is automating and simplifying the virtualization intelligence process with its VirtualIQ software which helps enterprises move virtualization through the various stages of virtualization. There are three stages (3Ds) of virtualization – design, deploy, and deliver. At each stage, users face different virtualization management challenges.For instance, in the design stage, the issues are physical-to-virtual (P-V) migration, calculating ROI, platform selection, how to decide which applications get consolidated on which hosts, resource optimization, and so forth. In the deploy stage, the challenges are managing available server capacity, controlling virtual server sprawl, performance optimization, and resource dependency just to name a few. In the deliver stage, the hurdles are managing heterogeneous virtual environments, service-delivery optimization, policy-based actions like spinning a new virtual machine, and more. ToutVirtual provides a single, integrated console to optimize each scenario.

ToutVirtual provides a vendor-neutral perspective to your virtualization decisions. Whether you have to decide on which applications to virtualize, which hardware vendor to choose, which hypervisor to use, or how to do more with virtualization we can provide you with the virtual intelligence you need. VirtualIQ supports all the major virtualization platform vendors including: Citrix, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle and VMware.