SecurityRatty: How do you Manage Virtualization if you cant see Performance?

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How do you Manage Virtualization if you cant see Performance?

2008-08-29 01:15:41 by Julia Lim in ScienceLogic

NetIQ, which seemed to drop off the planet not long after being bought by Attachmate, is back with the results of a very interesting virtualization survey. Now, you know that you need to take all surveys with a big grain of salt (e.g., the majority of respondents to this one were less than 10% virtualized), but it’s still good to take temperatures whenever possible.

The numbers we found interesting:

- only 21% currently deploying virtualization have any kind of systems management solutions for their virtual infrastructure

- about 27% are managing performance/ability of virtual systems with same tools they use for physical servers (Nothing wrong with that as long as they’re seeing what they need to see but…)

- 40 percent of those surveyed do not report the performance of their virtualized applications, hardware, operating systems, or their virtual machines in any measureable way (which rather undercuts the whole point)

Get the full results here.