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Beyond VMware vCenter: Assuring Performance of Virtualized Apps (1.77 MB)
Published by APM Experts
While there are resource monitoring and performance management tools available from VMware, meeting the true needs for infrastructure performance management requires looking at management tools that have depth and breadth beyond the tools offered by VMware itself.

The Secret to Maximizing VMware Performance in the Dynamic Data Center (978.16 KB)
If IT has a requirement to maximize infrastructure (maximizing use of resources) while the business requires an assurance of performance and sufficient capacity, how can business-critical applications be successfully virtualized? Akorri’s BalancePoint™ software provides unique cross-domain analytics and IT Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that enable virtual infrastructure optimization, or the optimal balance between infrastructure utilization and delivered performance at the lowest cost. This paper reviews these analytics and how to apply them to get the most value out of your virtual infrastructure.

The Business Case for Virtualization Management: A New Approach to Meeting IT Goals (512.66 KB)
This paper discusses the 2 to 4 month ROI seen with Akorri's BalancePoint.

BalancePoint Product Review: Virtual Infrastructure Insight (46.4 KB)
BalancePoint is an excellent program that will assist you in getting a better grasp of your infrastructure by helping you plan, optimize and choose best practices. BalancePoint takes the thinking out of server management by simply presenting the detailed facts.

Next Generation Data Center Visibility (69.15 KB)
Published by The Taneja Group
We’ve long held that solutions that can understand application interactions across all layers of
the infrastructure and bring sophisticated correlation engines to the table will pave the way to
the future of the next generation data center. Such tools are simply a key component of the
management layer required in an increasingly complex, dense, consolidated, virtualized, and
ever-changing data center. Today, BalancePoint, plugged into VMware’s vCenter management console, reaches well beyond any virtual or physical data center silo, and paints a picture of end to end infrastructure performance, tracing performance events, capturing changes, and correlating it all for total data center visibility.

Managing Virtualized Systems – Pinpointing performance problems in the virtual infrastructure (106.32 KB)

published by Application Performance Management Experts

This paper explores one of the important issues that IT Managers and Directors must deal with after the virtualization of important business applications. What is the issue? How does IT defend itself against claims from the business and user communities that the virtual infrastructure is causing applications performance and end user experience issues? Why is this important? Virtualization stops many existing Performance Management tools from solving this problem, and creates new problems that require new tools and new approaches to be dealt with.

Akorri BalancePoint and Network Appliance: Managing Application Performance Across Server and Storage Domains (1.25 MB)
This application note describes how Akorri BalancePoint™ software and Network Appliance (NetApp®) storage solutions work together to troubleshoot application performance issues in complex IT environments.