Keeping Your Network at Peak Performance as You Virtualize the Data Center

Project and Program: Enterprise Data Center, Security and Compliance

Tags: Proceedings , 2011 , SHARE in Orlando 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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