Organizations that have deployed or are deploying server virtualization in a production environment have come to a rapid and crucial conclusion: it is nearly impossible to realize the full efficiency gains of virtualization — or to build the confidence required to transition business-critical applications — without utilizing effective performance and capacity tools.
Many projects are deemed successful even when low virtualized capacity utilization rates reduce cost savings and ROI. IT managers tasked with deploying virtualization find themselves "flying blind", lacking the necessary insight to optimize their virtualized environment. Some organizations remain conservative in transitioning core applications to a less familiar environment while others may be putting themselves at risk by adopting overly aggressive virtualization polices.
Systar bridges the gap between promises and results by delivering comprehensive and reliable capacity management capabilities for virtualized environments. Systar's solutions enable you to reduce investments in virtualization hardware, software and operating costs by safely optimizing virtualized capacity and improving resource utilization. They ensure you have the level of visibility required to roll out business-critical applications into production virtualized environments with full confidence.
With Systar's capacity management for virtualization solutions, organizations can:
OmniVision is Systar's award-winning global performance and capacity management software that delivers a seamless view across virtual and traditional systems. It provides intuitive, exception-based reporting that makes it possible to simultaneously maximize ROI and minimize risk.
OmniVision assists physical to virtual migrations by identifying virtualization candidates, sizing the virtual infrastructure and comparing QoS before and after virtualization. It optimizes existing virtualized environments by enabling you to:
Where most capacity management solutions require very specialized skills and take years to master, OmniVision makes the practice accessible to any IT organization. Three characteristics help OmniVision deliver results quickly for its users:
Automation: OmniVision automates data collection, aggregation, analysis, and reporting. By continuously collecting information, OmniVision never misses a capacity or performance fault. With reporting perspectives available from seconds to months at the click of a mouse, investigations can begin sooner and proof of problem resolution can be delivered faster to key IT and business stakeholders.
Intelligence: OmniVision moves beyond presenting raw data points that need to be interpreted by your team. OmniVision automatically analyzes and assesses capacity saturation risks, historical and forward-looking trends, and pinpoints where resource configurations can be optimized to improve capacity.
Scalability: OmniVision is suited for environments with a few hundred servers to tens of thousands of virtual and physical servers. It is designed to meet the scale of the most demanding and complex operations, economically and efficiently.
Unlike other solutions that deliver the hope of improved management, OmniVision is consistently delivering real-world results for Systar clients. Here are just a few examples:
"OmniVision showed us that, on dedicated machines, requests from application architects used about 20% of CPU power. With this in mind, we were able to systematically perform overbooking in a virtualized environment. The metrics provided by OmniVision enabled us to reduce resource requests by half: CPU occupancy now reaches 50% with no drop in performance, and we are preparing to raise this rate up to 70%."
— Francoise Barist, Head of Virtualization, EDF
» Download EDF customer story"Now with virtualization, we are able to put two applications on and increase the utilization and get more efficient use of the power we are buying. OmniVision can give much more information than other management alert systems to help the operations unit make better purchasing decisions, well in advance, to avoid the danger of slowing systems."
— Enda Quain, Head of Infrastructure, Allied Irish Bank
» Download AIB customer story"We had planned to have an average density of 12 VMs per server. But we noticed that we can reach up to 20 VMs per server in development environments and up to 16 VMs on production ESX servers — with no qualms whatsoever."
— Jean-Yves Herman, Head of Architecture & Infrastructure Services, La Poste Group
» Download La Poste customer story
For an organization seeking to optimize its virtualized environment, OmniVision delivers a global view of virtual infra-structure that allows IT managers to:
OmniVision-VCR
Virtual Capacity Report
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Virtual Performance Report
