Overview
If you are planning to virtualise part of your data centre or are already running a virtualised environment, Cascade can help you ensure you get the most out of your efforts. To virtualise some or all of your servers, you need to be able to answer these questions:- What services does your data centre currently deliver to users?
- On which servers do those services run?
- Who are the consumers of these services?
- Which servers are candidates for virtualisation efforts?
- Which servers should not be virtualised?
- What is the bandwidth consumption in my data centre?
- Can I eliminate unnecessary bandwidth before I deploy virtualisation?
- How can I make sure I am optimising my data centre bandwidth going forward?
- How do I ensure a smooth cut over to virtualisation?
- How do I solve problems in a virtualised world?
Planning a virtualisation effort
Cascade enables you to:- Identify all the network-based applications running in your data centre
- Identify all the servers in your data centre
- Identify all the users who access your data centre, and when
- Understand application usage patterns, consumption rates, and dependencies:
- Who uses which applications and/or servers and when
- When the applications and servers are used (most often, least often, etc.)
- What the application dependencies are (what servers and network resources each application requires)
- You will identify which servers are the best candidates for virtualisation
- You will know which applications are the most and the least important
- You will identify any unwanted applications that should eliminate prior to virtualisation
- You will know the bandwidth requirements for your virtualised environment
Deploying a virtualisation effort
Cascade enables you to:- Monitor application usage, virtualised server access, and traffic patterns in real-time
- Quickly understand which users are accessing which virtual server clusters, how much bandwidth they are consuming, and which applications they are accessing
- Compare current user activity to the activity before virtualisation to detect possible access, availability or security concerns
- Isolate areas of concern, understand the impact of possible corrective action, and verify recovery efforts are effective in real time
- You will deploy your virtualisation architecture quickly
- You will understand which users are accessing which applications
- You will resolve access and performance issues quickly
- You will identify unwanted applications that consume bandwidth that impact your deployment
- You will verify that bandwidth utilisation matches planning expectations and user demands
Operating a virtualised environment
Cascade enables you to:- Monitor application usage, server access, and traffic patterns in real time
- Identify any sub-optimal or erroneous access patterns
- Identify bandwidth issues or bottlenecks
- Create usage policies and automatically monitor application/server/bandwidth usage to ensure compliance
- Compare the results of your virtualised environment with historic values (typical, min, max, etc.) to identify issues or anomalies
- You will proactively identify and resolve incidents and policy violations
- You will have a clear picture of who is accessing what in your virtualised data centre
- You will have the information you need to optimise and control access to your virtualised data centre
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