As a DBA or IT executive, you are under more pressure than ever before to maintain service levels and to justify any new expenditures. Their jobs require them to perform the tactical tasks of maintaining current systems and the strategic tasks of planning for future requirements. And all of this, of course, must be done at minimal expense and within ever-shrinking budgets.
One solution that helps with both of these tasks is to go virtual. Ease of maintenance and performance reliability are two key feature of cloud-based, virtual environments. Most IT groups make the switch to virtual with VMware, the leader in virtualization and cloud computing solutions.
Going Virtual with VMware Converter
Migrating from physical to virtual machines is made easy with VMware Converter from VMware. VMware converter enable you to make hassle free P2V and V2V conversions of both local and remote machines. It can also manage simultaneous conversions of multiple machines. Operational cost savings and efficiency are quickly realized once systems are migrated to the VMware platform.
VMware Monitoring Tools Ensure Reliability
Once a jump to cloud-based virtual solutions is executed, it is imperative that a robust VMware monitoring solution is implemented as well. Virtual machines require the same, if not more, vigilance in monitoring performance than their physical counterparts.
A traditional problem for monitoring virtual machine performance has always been virtual layer visibility, or lack of it. This means that the DBAs assigned to monitor database performance are shielded from critical virtual machine performance data typically only available to VMware administrators. This is no longer the case as a new breed of VMware monitoring tools are providing virtual layer visibility to DBAs monitoring database performance.
VMware Monitoring tools are indispensible for DBAs that need to see into virtual layers to measure the performance of databases and applications hosted on virtual machines. Virtual machine performance issues can be easily tracked enabling restorative measures to be taken to increase end-user performance. VMware monitoring tools should not be left out of any cloud-based computing solution.
