The market place is becoming more challenging day by day and the senior management have challenged their leadership team to reduce the cost of IT operation without compromising the quality of service delivery. To meet the growing expectations in the area of infrastructure management, virtualization has been the key initiative businesses have deployed to reduce infrastructure costs through improved server utilization, and to improve services by having the ability to rapidly scale for increases in application usage.

Gartner has stated, “Virtualization without good management is more dangerous than not using virtualization in the first place"

Key challenges in managing the virtual environments:

• How do I plan capacity needs to incorporate future growth?
• How can I account for hourly, daily, or seasonal differences in my workloads?
• How do I prevent resource bottlenecks?
• How do I demonstrate capacity improvements for upgrading our infrastructure?
• How do I isolate problems across my virtualized server, storage & network environment?
• How do ensure compliance to business policies?
• My cloud is running out of capacity – how can I optimize the environment to free up space?

Key Challenges in increasing ROI in a Cloud Environment:

• High Server Administration cost
• Power and cooling costs
• Datacenter space costs
• Hypervisor cost
• Monitoring cost
• Unused Resources cost
• OS and application licensing costs

To realize true cost savings from a virtualization or cloud investment, organization must be able to run virtual machines densely enough to maximize consolidation, yet be assured that their workloads are still running as well as they were before being virtualized—with plenty of room for expansion. To gain a complete understanding of resource trends and needs, capacity management must be integrated with resource management.

IBM Solution to address these challenges

IBM Smart Cloud Monitoring for Virtual Environment is a unique offering which helps you visualize and optimize your virtual environment. IBM Smart Cloud Monitoring is built on market leading IBM Tivoli Monitoring software and comes with best practices, built in analytics and out of the box capabilities for realizing the rapid return on cloud investment. It not only monitors the existing infrastructure but also helps you with Cloud infrastructure purchases strategically, rather than re-actively. The IBM Tivoli Monitoring portfolio offers monitoring, predictive analytics, and capacity planning tooling to help you manage your Cloud or Virtualized environment.".   Monitoring capabilities include multiple hypervisors including VMware, KVM, Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, PowerVM, and Linux on System Z.   IBM continues to invest heavily in this area to expand our capabilities, exploit new hypervisor capabilities, and improve our capacity planning capabilities.

Key Features of IBM Smart Cloud Monitoring for Virtual Environment:

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