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Capacity planning for virtualization

• Micro VMs can present unique management challenges

  The haphazard deployment of micro VMs can eventually lead to issues ranging from IP address depletion to serious performance problems resulting from extreme resource contention. Continue Reading

• 3 tools admins can use for private cloud capacity planning

  Admins can better manage their private clouds with capacity planning tools, such as specified quotas, resource monitoring and predictive scheduling. Continue Reading

• AIOps use cases address complexity in virtual data centers

  The ever-growing complexity of virtual infrastructures is making management a struggle, but an AIOps platform can enable admins to transform raw data into useful information. Continue Reading

• Taking charge of VM allocation, troubleshooting methods

  Long-term virtual infrastructure health leads to business growth. To achieve this, you must master virtual machine capacity planning and troubleshooting techniques. Continue Reading

• Use virtualized GPU power to boost efficiency and innovation

  GPUs enable complex graphics and boost the power of virtual environments. As resource consumption rises with compute-intensive applications, GPUs can be essential assets. Continue Reading

• Develop a solid virtualization capacity planning strategy

  Creating an effective virtualization capacity planning strategy is no small feat; it requires a great deal of careful consideration. This essential guide can get you started.Continue Reading

• Use capacity planning and VM sizing to upgrade your infrastructure

  This chapter offers guidance on how to keep virtual machines running efficiently. Critical to this process of virtualization capacity planning is appropriately provisioning resources. Best practices for capacity planning are detailed here so that an...Continue Reading

• Virtual capacity planning step one: Evaluate what you have

  Taking stock of the VMs in your environment today will lay the foundation for an effective capacity planning strategy for virtual environments.Continue Reading

• Resizing a VHDX file without missing a beat

  VHD files reigned supreme in Hyper-V -- until Microsoft came out with VHDX files. Knowing how to resize all three disk types of VHDX files can be beneficial in your environment.Continue Reading

• Memory management techniques you should remember

  These techniques offer different approaches to memory management. Remind yourself which methods are best for the use of your space.Continue Reading

• Overprovisioning VMs may be safe, but it isn't sound

  A strategy of allocating more resources than a VM needs may prevent performance troubles, but can mean unnecessary hardware additions.Continue Reading

• Virtualization management tools to boost data center efficiency

  Virtualization admins' top concern is no longer choosing a hypervisor -- it's choosing the right suite of tools that will help with overall virtualization management, improve VM performance, make capacity predictions, and enable self-service IT and ...Continue Reading

• VM management and capacity prediction

  As hypervisor features have become increasingly similar, the new vendor battleground is virtualization management software. Microsoft and VMware offer similar capabilities, and they are striving to make their products stand out by touting management...Continue Reading

• Why is virtual server capacity planning so difficult?

  Virtual server capacity planning is critical to tracking resource use to ensure peak performance and minimize downtime.Continue Reading

• Virtual data center challenges and management tools that help conquer them

  Constant refinements and upgrades can cause virtualization challenges -- such as VM sprawl -- but management tools can help smooth the process.Continue Reading

• Refresh your approach to private cloud capacity planning

  Traditional approaches to capacity planning won't work when it comes to private clouds. Third-party tools can help ease the pain.Continue Reading

• Five strategies for VM sprawl control and prevention

  Be proactive with your VM sprawl control strategies to avoid resource shortages and performance problems.Continue Reading

• Determining what type of server is a good candidate for virtualization

  There's no easy answer when it comes to deciding what type of server to virtualize, but there are important guidelines to help sway your decision.Continue Reading

• Inside the capacity management process: Resource supply and demand

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• Overcoming virtualization challenges: Capacity planning, provisioning

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• Right-sizing and capacity planning strategies for private clouds

  Without right-sizing VMs and capacity planning strategies, any private cloud will falter. You can avoid trouble with careful planning and monitoring.Continue Reading

• Virtualization pros weigh manual capacity management against automation

  To automate or not to automate? That is the question among forward-thinking IT pros and some virtualization capacity management vendors.Continue Reading

• Shedding light on Hyper-V 3.0 resource monitoring

  Hyper-V 3.0 will feature new resource-monitoring capabilities, which will be a boon for multi-tenant environments that need to calculate chargeback.Continue Reading

• Comparing configuration and change management tools: What to look for

  Configuration and change management affects capacity planning, DR and compliance. Find out which tools and features are available in the market.Continue Reading

• Improving business agility through capacity planning and VM management

  Business agility is essential for organizations looking to stay competitive in today’s economy. Server virtualization and capacity planning are two ways to address that need.Continue Reading

• Virtualization storage thin provisioning and lifecycle planning

  Thin provisioning means you can flexibly add storage and expand virtual hard disks when needs rise, but don’t overprovision. You could end up with poor performance and low physical capacity.Continue Reading

• Server consolidation planning: Easy on the memory overcommit

  When you commit to a server consolidation strategy, don’t overdo the overcommit. Memory overcommit can impair VM performance if you exhaust resources.Continue Reading

• Line blurs between capacity planning, performance monitoring

  Tighter integration between capacity planning and performance monitoring features is becoming a baseline expectation for virtualization management tools.Continue Reading

• Server cluster sizing: How many VMs is too many?

  Even server clustering has its limits. Hypervisors and hardware can restrict how many hosts and VMs a server cluster can hold.Continue Reading

• Veeam readies capacity planning for virtualization management battle

  Experts say the release of VMware vCenter Operations means the race is on in the virtualization management market to deliver the most comprehensive products at the best price.Continue Reading

• VMware vSphere 5 storage management features pique interest

  Expected advances to Storage DRS and policy-driven storage delivery in VMware vSphere 5 have turned heads among virtualization pros. But the devil’s in the details.Continue Reading

• VMware to release vCenter Operations for operations management

  At Partner Exchange 2011, VMware previews a new product, vCenter Operations, for performance monitoring and capacity management.Continue Reading

• Storage resource management tools simplify capacity management

  Storage complicates capacity management, but using storage resource management tools to monitor I/O and prevent resource contention can make things easier.Continue Reading

• Using the capacity management process to eliminate bottlenecks

  When it comes to host resources, there’s a fine line between too many and too few. That makes the capacity management process especially important.Continue Reading

• Inside the capacity management process: Resource supply and demand

  Keep your servers up to snuff by ensuring that resources have been optimally allocated. Understanding resource supply and demand is the key to a strong capacity management process.Continue Reading

• Overcoming virtualization challenges: Capacity planning, provisioning

  The abstraction of virtualization makes resource provisioning tricky. Without proper capacity planning, over-allocation can affect performance and waste resources.Continue Reading

• FAQ: Devising a server consolidation plan

  A server consolidation plan should optimize server capacity. A well-devised server consolidation project eliminates physical servers that waste resources and rack up hardware costs.Continue Reading

• New VMware products add workflow, storage views to management lineup

  VMware vCloud Request Manager improves workflow and software license tracking, while a new version of vCenter CapacityIQ sees disk and I/O resources.Continue Reading

• CA Technologies to acquire Hyperformix for automated capacity planning

  Hyperformix's self-learning algorithms can handle physical, virtual and public cloud infrastructures, much like the data center management products VMware is trying to build.Continue Reading

• Virtualization performance and server resource management guide

  Virtualization performance is dependent on meticulous server resource management. So protect your investment, and find out how to optimize server resource pools.Continue Reading

• A command line tutorial for server virtualization management

  Do yourself a favor, and learn how to execute commands from a prompt. This command line tutorial will help you simplify and speed up certain aspect of your job.Continue Reading

• Command line basics for open source virtualization management

  To effectively manage an open source virtualization environment, you must learn the command line basics. Commands and scripts can streamline your efforts.Continue Reading

• Managing Hyper-V from the command line prompt

  Administering a Hyper-V environment through the command line prompt saves time and reduces mistakes. These resources demonstrate how to run commands and cmdlets in Hyper-V.Continue Reading

• Users prefer third-party management tools over VMware management

  While VMware tries to boil the ocean with its vCenter suite, IT managers often still turn to third parties for virtualization management.Continue Reading

• Server consolidation and virtualization project planning guide

  Combining server consolidation with virtualization can boost server utilization and reduce power consumption. Here are strategies to maximize server consolidation project benefits.Continue Reading

• Virtualization capacity planning strategy guide

  If a lack of strategic capacity planning or an ever-expanding virtualization environment has taken a toll on virtual server performance, it's time for a capacity planning strategy. This guide covers tools, tasks and best practices for virtual server...Continue Reading

• Using virtual systems management to define server ownership

  Business-unit squabbles over server ownership and allocation are complex in virtual environments. But using virtual systems management principles, such as chargeback and capacity planning, can help.Continue Reading

• Capacity planning for virtual environments

  Effective virtual environment capacity planning requires taking inventory of applications, allocating computing power and organizing disaster recovery resources. An expert outlines capacity planning considerations in this tip.Continue Reading

• Capacity planning for virtualized Microsoft environments

  Without capacity planning, you may allocate more virtual machines than a host can sustain and create performance problems. This tip outlines capacity planning practices for Microsoft environments.Continue Reading

• Storage management in virtual environments

  Consolidating workloads onto virtual servers can increase performance, but a poorly executed strategy will only augment your storage management woes. This tip helps you keep your strategy on track by outlining how to estimate capacity needs, assign ...Continue Reading

• Managing Microsoft Virtual Server performance

  Microsoft Virtual Server provides two ways for managing the priorities of virtual machines: weight-based and constraint-based resource allocation. This screencast provides a live demonstration of how you can manage these resources on your test and ...Continue Reading

• Old management styles don't work with blades, virtualization

  Virtualizing servers can spawn any number of unexpected IT management problems. In this Q&A, CiRBA CTO Andrew Hillier explains why these problems occur and how to mitigate them.Continue Reading