VMware Management for Cloud-Based Computing

Feb 18 by Guest Post

In today’s competitive business environment losing your data is the same as losing your business. Your data is everything. From internal information to sales numbers to customer records and everything in between, your company lives and dies by the quality of data and your ability to manipulate and management. Moving to a cloud-based IT infrastructure doesn’t mean that you have to give up control of your data or the ability to monitor and manage the performance of virtualized applications and databases.

The biggest change when moving to a virtual environment is the separation of hardware from applications software services. This is a significant change that impacts how IT is delivered. Virtualization wasn’t a consideration when many of today’s IT management tools were designed, and, as a result, most simply don’t work in a virtual environment.

Fortunately there are a host of VMware management tools, both from VMware and third-party vendors, that are designed to work in the new world of cloud computing.

Cloud Computing and VMware Monitoring

The software and services delivered through virtualized environments requires IT groups to think about their core services in a different way than they may be used to. One area most in need of rethinking is virtual database performance monitoring. The current methods of monitoring physical machines is already quite complicated without the addition of virtual machines. Most of today’s monitoring solutions are a piecemeal stringing together of OEM services and third-party vendors. This can result in every IT organization creating their own witch’s brew of monitoring solutions that make spreading industry best practices difficult. To solve this problem, VMware and its partners have created VMware Monitoring solutions that are both robust and easily implemented.

Thanks to VMware monitoring and VMware Management tools that are similar in precision and reliability to those of physical environments, IT organizations can operate their new virtual environments with confidence and a true understanding of virtual machine performance.

Thanks to cloud-based, virtual computing, the next big movement in IT is sure to the model of IT as a service. Don’t be caught without the right VMware management and monitoring solutions that will give your company a competitive edge and the ability accurately gauge virtual machine performance.

Tags: VMware Monitoring, VMware Management