Solutions: Data Centers

If you are a data center administrator, you are likely under constant pressure to meet aggressive service level targets while adhering to an ever-tightening IT budget. At one time it was standard operating procedure to over-provision server capacity and take applications down for maintenance. These practices have no place in today’s data center, and operations have a very small margin for error.

Proactively manage your virtualized infrastructure

If you use Xen and KVM to host production applications, you know the difficulties of managing these platforms manually. Or perhaps you’ve wanted to deploy open source virtualization, but haven’t because you know it brings on new management overhead. With ConVirt, you centrally monitor and configure your Xen and KVM virtual machines, and proactively manage your virtualized infrastructure. Armed with a consolidated view across all your Xen and KVM virtual machines, you can keep apprised of server utilization and easily respond to changes in application demand by re-allocating resources.

An IT Operations Manager responsible for hosting employee-facing applications said:
“We no longer spend our days reacting to user complaints about application performance. ConVirt allows us to detect changes in server utilization and prevent them from affecting users. We can immediately add more memory or CPUs to a virtual machine, or migrate the machine to a different box. All from a single ConVirt console.”

Quickly build out internal clouds and provision applications

ConVirt lets you quickly designate a shared pool of physical resources for an internal cloud deployment and rapidly provision and de-provision applications and services in the cloud. If you are a Xen or KVM administrator, prior to deploying ConVirt you had to spend hours, and sometimes days, provisioning new virtual machines using custom scripts. Moreover, it was nearly impossible to track where images were deployed, update existing images, or ensure that all images complied with corporate standards. In the words of a hosting provider who uses ConVirt extensively to create and manage provisioning templates that include shared storage configuration, network settings, and resource allocations:
“ConVirt let us standardize our provisioning operations, and has reduced the time it takes to deploy a new server from hours to minutes.”

Get the best of both worlds: cost savings and management ease

Data centers large and small are using ConVirt to manage their mission critical applications running on Xen and KVM. As one Fortune 1000 business relayed:
“In order to reduce costs we deployed open source Xen to host our production databases. We were satisfied with Xen itself, but we didn’t want to eat up our cost savings by having to manage the virtualized infrastructure manually. ConVirt lets us easily manage our Xen virtualized infrastructure, sense and respond to issues before they become problems, and meet our service level targets.”

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