DLS Technology Corporation

Delivering High Performance Secure Virtualization Solutions
DLS Technology Corporation has partnered with leading technology companies to help build a Virtualized infrastructure to improve security and performance. In the last 11 years, we have delivered over 120 virtualization projects for our clients.
  • Reducing TCO by up to 40%
  • Accelerating Web Applications by 5X Better
  • Making End-to-End Virtualization Integration and Reality 

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Virtualization Planning

Posted Fri, 09/11/2009 - 16:13 by admins

Capacity planning is a critical issue any customer embracing virtualization may have to face immediately.
In any computing infrastructure, the right sizing of hosting hardware is a mandatory requirement to grant reliable and efficient services. But in virtual infrastructures deciding the right size of the virtualization host is much harder than usual, because of virtualization software overhead and its limitations in hosting virtual machines.

In virtual infrastructures a new factor becomes critical to grant a successful implementation and satisfactory performances: correct workloads placement in every single virtualization host.A wrong placement of virtual machines and their workloads usually leads to waste of physical resources, performances bottlenecks and in some cases failure of virtualization projects.

Identifying the right placement for existing, planned and unplanned virtual machines is a complex task which requires continuous assessments and adjustments. These adjustments are also impacted by virtual machines mobility and live migrations capabilities of virtualization platforms. In order to successfully implement a virtualization technology, companies are required to develop a new class of tools that are capable to identify workloads, to recognize the best arrangement for each virtual machine and to suggest steps for optimized configurations.

  • Virtualize production environments faster while maximizing efficiency and minimizing risk.
  • Virtualization holds the promise of reducing costs, improving efficiency and utilization, and reducing power consumption within the modern data center. The potential benefits are great. The challenge, of course, is how to leverage this new paradigm in such a way that enables organizations to realize those benefits without incurring significant cost, risk, and complexity.
  • Virtualization and consolidation in production environments requires sophisticated, in-depth analysis of the business, configuration and workload constraints unique to your environment. DLS Technology is working on the partnership with CiRBA that offers the most complete virtualization planning and analysis solution available. Whether analyzing for VMware, Citrix, Microsoft’s Hyper-V, Zones, IBM LPARS and WPARS or mainframes, CiRBA quickly finds the lowest risk, maximum impact transformation.  
  • More than Just a Sizing Exercise – Reducing the Risks of Virtualization
  • The complexity that hides beneath the covers of today’s data centers poses a serious threat to the success of any consolidation initiative. Many organizations begin by assuming virtualization and consolidation planning is an exercise in fitting virtual servers together on physical infrastructure. These capacity-centric approaches don’t consider various strategies, technology options or platforms. Not only are the wrong purchase decisions made, artificially inflating the costs of virtualization, but often the wrong servers and applications are virtualized and incompatible servers are placed together.
  • CiRBA is the only solution that analyzes all the critical configuration and non-technical constraints within the environment in addition to utilization patterns and personalities. CiRBA’s multi-dimensional analysis ensures that workload placements respect critical concerns such as business processes, security and compliance rules, and applications are far from their disaster recovery or cluster/replication counterparts. CiRBA identifies possible vulnerabilities and provides a risk matrix that enables organizations to ensure continued compliance.