Keeping your Network at Peak Performance as you Virtualize the Data Center

Project and Program: Enterprise Data Center, Security and Compliance

Tags: Proceedings , SHARE in Anaheim 2011 , 2011

The virtualization of services, servers, and infrastructure leads to increased service complexity and decreased environment transparency in the data center.   The network normally has more traffic heading to a single physical server (think about 5:00 PM rush hour traffic) and traffic can flow over the network or through Hipersockets, guest LANs, and other technologies consolidated within a single hardware platform.     While everyone looks at the CPU and other issues as you move to a virtualized data center, do they also look at the network?    This session will focus on the following key areas and help you avoid some network pitfalls:

 

• Lack of accurate response time metrics and SLA measurements on all network elements. 
• Inability to understand if a problem is caused by the application, the network or the configuration of the virtual environment as infrastructure metrics cannot be easily correlated with accurate response time metrics
• Lack of automated discovery – both of the dynamic infrastructure, and how applications are mapped into the infrastructure – because virtual machines and services are dynamically provisioned within a cluster based on demand
• Inability to continuously record root-cause diagnostics data of application problems 24x7 for every single distinct transaction, whose route and behavior constantly shifts due to dynamic provisioning and resource sharing

Presenter(s): Laura Knapp, AES

 

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