Your Challenge

Today?s enterprises are turning to virtualization infrastructure to reduce operational costs and improve efficiency in the data center. This virtual infrastructure provides a layer of abstraction between the computing, storage and networking hardware and the application layer, but not without management challenges. Some of these include:

• Inefficiencies in managing and orchestrating a large number of virtual servers.
• Lack of management tools for matching capacity with business demands.
• Lack of tools for automating the management of service levels.
• Operational overhead required to administer and reconfigure virtual infrastructure.

Our Solution

Virtual Iron provides a comprehensive management environment and policy-engine to automate the management of shared processing, storage and networking resources. Resources can be allocated and de-allocated on the fly to applications when needed based on business rules. Unique policy-driven automation capabilities enable rapid reconfiguration, capacity on demand, failover and recovery without increased administrative overhead. Virtual Iron´s management capabilities enable users to:

• Use policies to automatically apply resources when and where needed, so that performance is maintained regardless of usage spikes.
• Respond more quickly to changes in capacity demand with automated reconfiguration.
• Create policies for real-time resource allocation and failover using a graphical policy-builder wizard.
• Automatically maintain application availability and service levels using policies.
• Reduce human labor, errors and operational costs by automating operations.
• Trigger reconfigurations based on rules that detect exceeded user-set performance thresholds, e.g. add more CPU capacity to a virtual server when CPU utilization is greater than 90 percent.
• Migrate servers and adjust resource allocations "on-the-fly" without impacting running applications.

NEW: LivePower

LivePower optimizes Data center power consumption by monitoring resource utilization in the virtual data center. When there is excess CPU capacity, LivePower consolidates virtual machines onto fewer servers and shuts down physical servers that are not running virtual machines, based on pre-defined policies. When virtual machine load increases beyond pre-defined thresholds, LivePower turns on physical servers and LiveMigrates virtual machines to rebalance the virtual data center and ensure that resource requirements and service levels are met.