- Decreases support, capital, & utility costs by reducing physical server & VM sprawl
- Supports recovery of virtual instances that are no longer needed or in use
- Automates the collection & presentation of VMware® capacity planning & forecasting data
Are you maintaining VMware hosts and virtual machines that aren’t being fully utilized? If so, your support, capital, and utility costs are probably inflated. Don’t worry—you aren’t alone. VM sprawl is a common, costly problem that has spiraled out of control as the cost of hardware has decreased and the tendency to virtualize has increased.
But controlling VM sprawl is difficult when you don’t have full visibility into the relationship between elements in the infrastructure and their capacity. In an environment with no virtualization, an array LUN is mapped to a physical server, and then carved into logical volumes for use by the operating system. The array can only see the LUN; it can’t see the size or usage of the logical volumes. On a VMware ESX® host, you encounter the same visibility issue. When the storage of the VM host is allocated to a guest, the VM host can’t see the size or usage of the logical volumes of the guest. When you put the two together, you have two layers where storage is mapped, but not seen, from the higher layer.
By providing visibility into both physical and virtual environments, Virtual & Server Profiler helps reduce both physical server and VM sprawl. For example, Virtual & Server Profiler provides modeling scenarios that demonstrate how adding another virtual machine would impact CPU utilization so that you can make informed decisions regarding the capacity of your hardware resources. With Profiler’s comprehensive views into physical and virtual resources, you can control sprawl through physical server consolidations and by recovering instances that aren’t needed anymore.
- VMware capacity planning
- View the Top-10 busiest VM guests (CPU, RAM, Disk I/O, etc.)
- Identify under-utilized VM guests
- Spot the busiest VMware ESX hosts
- Indentify under-utilized VMware ESX hosts
- Eliminate wasted storage: Start with VMDK file’s wasted space and end with under-utilized data stores
- View file age, user usage, duplicate files, and forbidden files, across all VM guests
Combine Virtual & Server Profiler with the power of Storage Profiler to answer questions such as:
- How is your storage allocated?
- How fast are you allocating storage?
- How much is formatted for use?
- How much is actually used?
- How fast is it growing?
Profiler even automates the collection of forecasting data and makes it easy to view growth rates, project when capacity will be reached, and forecast costs and budgetary requirements.