Maximize Application QoS with VMware Infrastructure

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Accelerate your application lifecycle and maximize end-user Quality of Service by running your applications on VMware Infrastructure. Test, stage, and provision your multi-tier applications quickly and efficiently to accelerate the application lifecycle. Automatically provide your applications with the right levels of scalability and availability to ensure end-user QoS. Virtualize large databases such as SQL Server, email applications such as Exchange, and enterprise application suites such as SAP and Oracle with breakthrough performance—all with the full support of hundreds of ISVs, including Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, and IBM.

Maximize Application Quality of Service

Ensuring end-user QoS for multi-tier applications is increasingly difficult. Sizing capacity to support unpredictable loads, identifying performance bottlenecks, and relying on a patchwork of availability solutions all contribute to the complexity. VMware Infrastructure enables administrators to ensure end-user QoS by automatically providing the right levels of application availability and scalability using built-in Application vServices. Application availability and scalability levels can be dialed up or down dynamically as business requirements evolve so you can meet QoS requirements in the most cost-effective way.

Scale Applications Dynamically to Ensure Service Levels

Monitor Performance and Pinpoint Bottlenecks: Get deep visibility into the performance of applications running on VMware Infrastructure with B-hive Conductor. Automatically discover business services and map the flow of business transactions through multiple application tiers and virtual machines. Monitor end-user QoS and pinpoint bottlenecks to individual applications and virtual machines. Optimize infrastructure sizing decisions to ensure end-user QoS while minimizing infrastructure costs.

Scale Applications Dynamically: Scale your applications dynamically to ensure QoS under variable load. Scale Virtual Machines up or down using VMware VMotion and VMware DRS, or scale out applications by provisioning new instances in minutes. Eliminate the need to overprovision capacity to support variable loads.

"VMware technology takes away any worries that I have about having to size the system correctly right at the start. We’ve got an environment now where we can scale up and down to meet whatever requirements come along."
— Adrian Jane, Infrastructure and Operations Manager, University of Plymouth

Protect All Applications with Simple and Cost-Effective Availability

Eliminate planned downtime: Planned downtime is typically the number one cause of downtime, and creates significant organizational overhead as inconvenient maintenance windows have to be negotiated days ahead of time. Eliminate planned downtime for hardware maintenance with VMware VMotion. When a physical host requires hardware maintenance, use VMware VMotion to move applications off that host for the duration of the maintenance, with no impact to application availability.

Protect all applications with simple high availability: Simplify application availability by eliminating the need to use complex application-specific clustering solutions. Protect all of your applications from hardware failures with VMware HA, which is automatically available to any application running on VMware Infrastructure regardless of its operating system or underlying hardware configuration. Eliminate the need for dedicated stand-by hardware and additional software.

Provide cost-effective disaster recovery for all applications. Protect all of your applications from disasters with VMware Disaster Recovery solutions. Use VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager to ensure fast, successful recovery by automating the recovery process and eliminating the complexity of managing and testing customized recovery plans for each application.

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