Solutions

Utilization & Costs

According to recent surveys, most organizations are using only 20% of the capacity available from their virtualized environment which is considerably below the 70% utilization rates they had anticipated. If left unchecked, low utilization rates combined with significant virtualization growth can lead to millions in unnecessary spending as IT budgets tighten.

Organizations need to keep up with the rapid pace of change while optimizing their existing VMware deployments. If virtualized environments are properly configured and managed, organizations can safely increase utilization rates to dramatically reduce costs without placing quality of service (QoS) at risk.

The Results-Driven Solution

Systar's groundbreaking Cost Optimization for VMware solution safely delivers the increased utilization rates that optimize VMware infrastructure investments and costs. As an alternative to investing in a software license, this unique subscription-based model enables you to buy results.

This results-driven solution assesses your VMware environment and works with your team to establish measurable goals for cost and infrastructure optimization. It combines the continuous monitoring and intelligent analytics provided by OmniVison, Systar's award-winning capacity management software, with comprehensive optimization services to safely increase asset utilization.

The solution helps improve VMware capacity management at the cluster level where maximizing utilization can have the greatest impact. It recommends appropriate VMware utilization target levels to avoid capacity saturation risk, minimize unwanted migrations and strengthen high-availability configurations. It also establishes how to size and place VMs to maximize capacity thereby reducing costs for new host server purchases, software licenses and related operational expenses.

The Cost Optimization for VMware solution not only helps you keep pace with your projected growth, it helps you maximize asset utilization safely — keeping costs down while protecting QoS. Regular checkpoints ensure cost savings are sustained even as requirements and the environment change.

Low Risk, High Returns

With no requirement to buy software and the ability to cancel the subscription, the Cost Optimization for VMware solution represents a low-risk way to move from deploying VMware to maximizing its return on investment. This subscription-based solution enables your organization to:

• Establish optimization objectives and track results
• Maximize safely the utilization of virtualized infrastructure
• Optimize VMware policies for migrations and high availability
• Improve processes for infrastructure planning, sizing and problem investigation
• Apply award-winning capacity management software and expert recommendations
• Reduce VMware planned expenditures, on average between 25% to 50%

Measurable Customer Results

While the benefits of VMware are clear, maximizing them is a challenge without the right information and experience. Leading companies rely on Systar to optimize their VMware environments and reduce costs:

• A transportation corporation reduced requirements for hardware to support its VMware environment by 40%, saving over $5 million in new hardware, power and administrative costs
• A European postal service saved over $1 million by increasing VM:ESX densities 35% in production and 60% in test environments
• A giant utilities provider improved virtualized server utilization from 20% to 50% without impacting QoS

Ensuring Results-Driven Success

Systar understands that VMware teams are challenged with understaffing and demands to do more with less. With over 20 years of capacity management experience and our award-winning software, we bring the expertise to guide your organization to success. Our unique combination of software and services has delivered results to some of the world's largest VMware implementations. With no requirement to buy software and the ability to cancel, Systar's Cost Optimization for VMware solution provides a low-risk way to maximize the return on your VMware investments.

For more information, download the Optimization for VMware brochure or contact Systar today.