Virtual environments instead need comprehensive and sophisticated performance monitoring tools that understand the whole environment – physical and virtual – and that can track, analyze, and prevent problems across the end-to-end IT service infrastructure. Such solutions need to span technologies and platforms across diverse multi-tier environments in order to deliver business goals for the CIO, service goals for the IT service manager, and technical goals for the system administrators. They need to cover key areas including discovery, physical infrastructure monitoring, virtual infrastructure monitoring, system and application monitoring, and connecting the pieces in a holistic view.

This EMA white paper investigates these issues in more detail, outlining the key drivers and outcomes of virtualization, explaining critical inhibitors to virtualization success (and how to overcome them), and describing core virtualization performance management solution requirements. It also briefly describes one such solution, the eG Enterprise Suite, and includes a short case study highlighting this solution in action.

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