What are the biggest challenges in managing Virtual Infrastructures?
Virtual Infrastructure brings new challenges that does not exists in physical world. If you ignore them, you might soon be facing a serious nightmare and disorder. Your neat and clean Virtual environment after 6 month of use might look like a mess.
So which Challenges you might want to deal with in VMware vSphere environment? One of them is VM Sprawl with over allocation of resources for VMs, uncontrolled growth, snapshots everywhere…. All this makes the management of your environment more difficult and can costs you money, even if some might think that VMs are free. They are not. The actually cost money, because you need to have a host with real CPU, real Memory, you need shared storage to implement HA (High Availability) etc….. You know, there are ways on how to prevent VM sprawl….
The Free E-book is Written by Eric Siebert.
A quick quote from the E-book
“Veeam ONE provides tools that can
help you identify and stop VM sprawl so your virtual environment doesn’t become
a virtual junkyard. This can be done via reports and dashboards that track resource
usage and idle virtual machines, as well as mechanisms for categorizing virtual
machines and documenting the virtual infrastructure.”
Storage Management – as a most costly part of the virtual infrastructure, you must not waste your storage. It's a daily challenge. Tracking snapshots, thin disks, datastore space…. And also the optimization on the performance with optimum alignment of your VMs, configuration and settings, correct design ans sizing.
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Another quick quote:
“Veeam ONE makes storage management much easier by providing full storage monitoring capabilities including disk space, I/O latency, disk issues and datastore monitoring. Veeam ONE also helps you keep an eye on over-provisioned datastores, provides utilization trend analysis and assists in optimizing VM placement on datastores.”
Business View might be helpful on defining the priorities and business needs and organizing your VMs by department, server role, company or business unit, geographic location…. and Veeam One can automate that.
Change Management – historical changed are tracked. If making changes without tracking, you might end up with problems without knowing what changes has been done at that time. It's possible to track the changes made to your virtual infrastructure automatically.
Monitoring and Reporting – vCenter has limited capabilities on monitoring when it comes to monitor the guest OS layer. Veeam One not only monitors the virtualization layer but also the guest OS layer.
Capacity Planning – not only the prediction for the future, but also the optimization, configuration and utilization of your VI.
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Not only this E-book, but also many others can be found on my Free Resources page here.
Enjoy.. -:)
