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Sysload Releases Performance Management Solution for VMware ESX
| Source: Sysload Software
BURLINGTON, MA--(Marketwire - April 23, 2008) - As the virtualization phenomenon takes off,
IT managers are facing a new set of challenges. These challenges include
managing the performance of increasingly complex systems and determining
the real impact of virtualization on IT infrastructure. In response to
this market need, Sysload Software (www.sysload.com), a provider of
performance and capacity management solutions for data centers, announced
today that it has released SP-ANALYST for VMware ESX infrastructures.
SP-ANALYST for VMware ESX provides increased frequency and higher
granularity of data collection, the use of a single console to monitor both
physical and virtual machines, and the adding of a feature that controls
the timekeeping discrepancy on machines running the ESX Server platform.
By providing a centralized, real-time view of the data center, Sysload's
solutions make performance management easier, even on the most complex
virtual infrastructures.
Perpetual licenses for SP-ANALYST configurations start at $13,560.
Revealing the real impact of virtualization on IT systems
As more and more IT departments opt to consolidate or virtualize their
servers, physical equipment is being literally pushed to its limits. In
this context, effective management of server capacity and performance is
becoming increasingly important. At the same time, performance monitoring
in such environments is becoming more complex. It is difficult to
determine the real impact that virtual machines have on servers and/or data
centers.
In order to anticipate performance degradation, avoid virtual machine
proliferation and proactively resolve incidents, IT managers need a tool
capable of simultaneously managing heterogeneous infrastructures and
specific virtual environments.
"We have identified these technological challenges and have aligned our
strategy to provide a broad range of solutions specially adapted to
virtualized environments," said Yann Guernion, Chief Technology Officer of
Sysload Software. "We have worked to overcome the surveillance restraints
characteristic of virtualized infrastructures and in so doing, have become
unchallenged experts in the field."
From a detailed to a global view of the data center
Sysload's solutions are able to handle the complex challenges posed by
virtualized infrastructures thanks to their multi-platform functionality
and their advanced data collection technology.
Sysload's full range of solutions supports multi-platform environments in
terms of equipment, operating systems, and proprietary virtualization
platforms (e.g., VMware, SUN Solaris, HP-ux, IBM Aix, IBM i5/OS, Linux,
Windows, Novell, Citrix XenServer).
Sysload's data collection technology is based on dedicated data collection
agents deployed directly on the monitored system that allow objective
monitoring of an ensemble of physical and/or virtual servers. Sysload
agents can collect up to 300 metrics directly from the heart of the
monitored systems with very high frequency (intervals as low as 1 second)
while consuming minimal resources (less than one percent of CPU with no
continuous network traffic thanks to localized history files). This fine
data granularity ensures precise monitoring of system utilization and
allows the detection of virtualization-related micro saturation incidents
that cannot be detected by most other monitoring tools on the market.
Dealing with the timekeeping problem on VMware ESX
Users of the VMware ESX virtualization platform have reported problems
measuring virtual machine performance due to a technical issue related to
CPU timekeeping. The ESX hypervisor distributes CPU times sequentially to
each virtual machine (VM1, then VM2, then VM1, etc.) Meanwhile, a
virtualized operating system doesn't "know" that it is in a virtual
environment and functions as though it was a standalone system. Therefore,
it doesn't recognize the "micro pauses" brought about due to sharing the
CPU with other machines. This causes incoherence when measuring
performance from the virtual machines.
In an effort to strengthen its status as the world's leading expert on
performance management for virtualization platforms, Sysload has launched a
new generation of agents for virtual machines, capable of measuring the
real impact of virtual machines on host systems and also of neutralizing
this timekeeping discrepancy on ESX. SP-ANALYST for VMware ESX is
currently the only solution available on the market with this capability.
About Sysload Software
Founded in 1999 in Creteil, France with US headquarters in Burlington,
Mass., Sysload Software provides a scalable, distributed solution to manage
the performance and capacity of all types of servers found within today's
corporate environments (Windows, HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, Linux, Citrix,
I-series, Netware, etc.) Thanks to a unique agent technology for VMware ESX
3.0, IBM-LPAR, and Solaris 10, Sysload provides the solution to address the
server capacity management challenge in virtualized environments. Sysload
has forged partnerships with major manufacturers and software developers
such as Microsoft, IBM, Sun, HP, VMware, Novell and Oracle, to guarantee
the performance and interoperability of its solutions. Customers include
BNP Paribas, Calyon, Clearstream, Sanofi-Aventis, Genzyme, Trading
Technologies, British Telecom, Airbus, Essilor and Renault. Visit
www.sysload.com
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