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Virtualization came as a boon to the IT industry. In turn, many organizations have benefited from making investments in setting up and leveraging a virtual infrastructure. Being able to show a strong ROI & delivering consistent performance and availability of a virtualized environment is one of the top priorities for any…
What is VM Sprawl? Virtual machine (VM) sprawl is the uncontrolled growth and proliferation of VMs in a virtual environment. When this happens, the network reaches the point where you can't manage the VMs effectively and they start demanding excessive host resources. Typically, VM sprawl occurs as the result of the…
You've heard of "rightsizing," right? When it refers to an organization, it heralds a stressful time waiting for that pink slip. When it refers to a virtual infrastructure, it also heralds a stressful time, though without the pink slip. Let's say you're in charge of your organization's virtual infrastructure. Some people…
Zombies spawning and spreading like a cancer, leaving crying orphans in their wake. Rogues flitting in the background, hirable for a price and always ready to stab you in your back. These all sound like elements to a cheap, zombie apocalypse film, but spawning, zombies, orphans, and rogues are actually components of VM…
I'd like better control over my VM Sprawl widgets so I can tailor the recommendations to my environment needs. e.g. Change the consolidation ratio or remove entities from appearing in VM Sprawl.
Capacity planning is not an easy thing to do in a virtual environment as it requires significant effort to understand the demands of the constantly-evolving virtual infrastructure. Enterprises that start optimizing their virtual machine (VM) provisioning strategies can quickly see a strong ROI. If host resources are left…
The term virtualization is synonymous with being a technology that is easy, cheap and effective, amazingly packaged in one technology. But because many of the normal limitations found in deploying physical servers have been removed, it can get out of control and begin causing its own problems. VM creation is quick and…
One of the good parts of my job consists in helping customers benefit from implementing virtualization management solutions. In most cases they start looking for solutions only after they experience problems. Slow VMs, slow applications, you know…. Then what? Fire in the house. The first person to call is the “guy who…
Thursday, August 15, 2013 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CDT Register Now! This free webinar for Federal Government users of SolarWinds software will showcase the latest features of SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMan) including new features that will be released in VMan 6.0 this quarter. This release brings integration between…
Please join us for a FREE webcast, "Putting the Reins on VM Sprawl" with Eric Siebert, VMware vExpert, vSphere-Land.com blogger and published author, along with SolarWinds’ virtualization management expert, Brian Radovich. VM sprawl is a very real problem that can occur in any virtual environment and if not dealt with it…
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