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10 Best Practices for Effective Application Management in a Virtual Environment

Edgardo Salinas Contreras
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Edgardo Salinas Contreras
Virtualization has changed the world of IT, as it provides significant cost savings and business flexibility. It also brings new and difficult challenges to application management, making the traditional, physical performance monitoring tools and approaches insufficient for the virtual world.

Virtualization slows down resources and may create conflicts at the physical level that will impact application performance. Other challenges facing IT include monitoring the health of the virtual machines, analyzing data, alerting staff to problems, and performing additional administrative tasks. All of these issues require both a new approach and new generation of solutions to ensure continuous service delivery and support.

Virtualization facilitates increased business continuity, disaster recovery, flexibility, and agility; reduced downtime and cost, operational efficiencies in backup, high availability and storage. Savings come from the consolidation of hardware, including maintenance, hardware upgrades and additional application-driven hardware purchases that no longer are necessary, as well as elimination of multiple software purchases for all the hardware. Reduced man power and less power consumption also means reduced utility costs.

Many organizations don’t fully reap the benefits of virtualization because their virtual infrastructures are hindered not just by the challenges, but also by poorly performing applications that don’t meet SLAs or end-user needs. End users need to stay productive and satisfied with the performance of the system, so an effective application management plan should, first and foremost, consider their perspective and eliminate performance issues that hinder their productivity.

Good planning and a set of best practices are the keys to a well-developed virtual environment that achieves optimal performance, contains costs and provides significant ROI to the organization, and ensures the virtualization initiative effectively supports end-user objectives and business-critical applications.


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