Overview
Today's enterprises and service providers want to transform the way their large server farms are being managed. Uncontrolled growth in server assets over the past decade left companies with many dispersed resources that are underutilized, and a diversity of equipment—hardware, operating systems and agents—that makes maintenance and problem resolution reactive and painstaking. Under these conditions, companies are hampered in their ability to roll out new services and to align computing capacity with both short—and longer-term needs of the business.
Though the typical environment contains many purpose—or vendor-specific management tools, these provide limited value in helping IT organizations rationalize the overall use and management of these resources and better support the needs of the business. The adoption of virtualization—largely in response to “server sprawl”—has itself brought on new management challenges and can significantly impede services and applications if not managed properly.
Key Benefits
VistaInsight® for Servers, InfoVista’s network performance management solution for data center optimization, empowers large enterprises and service providers to:
- Control and rationalize the growth in server resources through support for consolidation activities and improved capacity and business planning
- Increase the efficiency of system administration teams through ability to proactively identify and address performance degradations before outages occur
- Improve agility and responsiveness to the business through better ability to prioritize remedial tasks, plan and manage deployment of new services, and maintain optimal allocation of system resources
- Ensure the success of consolidation and virtualization projects through best-of-breed capacity planning, real-time change monitoring, and ability to manage the highly dynamic environment
- Build confidence and improve communications with internal and external customers and other stakeholders through service-oriented reporting
Key Features
VistaInsight® for Servers provides:
- Unified visibility presenting the health of all servers—physical and virtual—through one top-down management console with flexible grouping by application, OS, business group, customer, geography, and more;
- Vendor-agnostic data collection utilizing any common agents or agentless data collection capabilities already deployed in the environment
- Support for virtualization through integration with the leading virtualization products
- Performance management best practices embedded in Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for proactive problem resolution and capacity planning
- Service-oriented presentation through association of physical and virtual resources with the applications, customers and business units they support
- Flexible reporting to enable customers and users streamlined access to only the information relevant to them
- Ability to integrate with VistaInsight® for Networks to build cross-domain solutions sharing the core VistaFoundation, or with existing network and systems management tools from other vendors
