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Virtual Instruments VirtualWisdom Optimizes Virtual Infrastructure Performance, Improves Data Center Efficiency
VirtualWisdom Adds SAN I/O Visibility to VMware; Enabling IT Organizations to Realize the Full Benefits of Virtualization
| Source: Virtual Instruments
SCOTTS VALLEY, CA--(Marketwire - February 23, 2009) - Virtual Instruments, provider
of the award-winning NetWisdom SAN
(storage area network) optimization solution, today announced
VirtualWisdom. VirtualWisdom is a new solution that provides comprehensive,
real-time instrumentation and measurement capabilities that enable IT
managers to optimize the performance and availability of their virtualized
IT infrastructure. VirtualWisdom adds SAN I/O intelligence to VMware
environments, enabling administrators to better balance the deployment of
virtual machines based on real-time measurements of I/O performance.
Deployment of VirtualWisdom results in significantly higher virtual
infrastructure utilization and significantly lower capital and operational
costs associated with an IT organization's systems and storage
infrastructure.
"There's urgency in enterprise data centers today to deploy virtualization
to improve server utilization and reduce overall IT expenditures. However,
broad deployment of virtualization for mission-critical applications has
been limited by the lack of visibility into how the networked storage I/O
affects the performance of applications deployed on virtual machines," said
Mark Bowker, Enterprise Strategy Group Analyst. "The best way to overcome
that hurdle is to implement instrumentation and measurement tools within
the networked storage infrastructure that extract real-time transaction
performance information. Virtual Instruments can provide this view with a
comprehensive, real-time performance analysis solution designed to enable
virtualization technology to be deployed with confidence across all mission
critical workloads."
VMware Monitoring and Auto Correlation
Targeted at enterprises looking to broadly deploy virtualization,
VirtualWisdom includes network instrumentation, measurement and analysis
tools that are the basis for performance and resource optimization.
VirtualWisdom provides real-time and historical insights into application
latency and bandwidth consumption, as well as early detection and advanced
notification of device failures, congestion, and errors. VirtualWisdom
provides real-time performance information from the virtual machine on the
server through the host bus adapter (HBA), out through the SAN switch and
right to the LUN on the storage array. This unique monitoring and analysis
capability allows a baseline characterization before VMware deployment,
subsequently improving data center efficiency and eliminating bottlenecks
in virtualized and heterogeneous environments.
The new Virtual Instruments ProbeVM collects information specifically about
the utilization and performance of virtual machines within the VMware
environment. VirtualWisdom correlates information from the ProbeVM with
performance data measured directly from the SAN infrastructure to enable IT
managers to also consider the storage dimension to proactively balance the
provisioning of virtual machines for maximum application performance. This
broader and deeper level of visibility makes fine-grained optimization
possible, allowing for accelerated VMware infrastructure and higher server
consolidation ratios.
New Reconfigurable Dashboards
VirtualWisdom contains a new easily customizable widget-based dashboard
that allows system administrators and SAN managers to focus on the specific
virtual machine, server, and application I/O data points that matter most
to them. The dashboard includes user-definable associations that let
administrators easily monitor and correlate key performance metrics among
all of the components (including CPUs, memory, Host Bus Adapters, switch
ports, storage arrays) that make up the complete I/O path for a specific
application. This new dashboard is a dramatic improvement in ease of use
and will significantly reduce administrator problem identification and
resolution time by enabling true real-time root-cause analysis.
"Over the last two years, enterprises have made significant investments in
building out their storage and virtualization infrastructures. In 2009,
the focus will be on optimizing the performance of that investment and
improving overall data center efficiency with less staff than they had in
2008," said Mark Urdahl, CEO, Virtual Instruments: "VirtualWisdom will be
an essential component in enabling IT organizations to deploy
virtualization on a broad scale and achieve significantly higher server
consolidation ratios. VirtualWisdom will provide unprecedented visibility
into their virtualized infrastructure to ensure optimal application
response time and maximum data availability."
Product & Service Availability
VirtualWisdom will be available as a software solution for deployment on
the customer premises and also included in the two new Virtual Instruments
service offerings: Virtual Infrastructure Optimization & Best Practices
Service; and Virtual Infrastructure HealthCheck and Scan Service. The
service offerings are available immediately and the VirtualWisdom software
solution is targeted to be available by June 2009. With these new
capabilities, VirtualWisdom is the only solution that delivers the deep
infrastructure and I/O visibility needed to optimize storage, server and
network resources, detect costly problems before they occur, accelerate
virtualization deployments, and help organizations meet their SLA and
compliance requirements.
Virtual Instruments will be discussing the new VirtualWisdom solution in an
upcoming webinar in conjunction with IDC on March 18th titled "Improving
Efficiency in the Virtualized Data Center." Attendees can register for the
webinar at www.virtualinstruments.com/webinar.html.
About Virtual Instruments
Virtual Instruments' NetWisdom and VirtualWisdom solutions monitor
application-to-SAN transaction performance -- with deep insight and data
not available from other solutions. Customers such as Barclay's Card
Services, Kaiser Permanente and McKesson Corp. achieve significant cost
savings in virtualization and SAN deployments by optimizing utilization,
performance and availability. Leading system and storage vendors including
IBM, HP, HDS and EMC leverage NetWisdom to design SAN solutions for
enterprise customers. Virtual Instruments was founded in June 2008 via the
spin-out from Finisar Corp. It has headquarters in Scotts Valley, Calif.,
and can be found online at http://www.virtualinstruments.com.