Identify Virtualization Candidates and Validate Migrations
Pre-migration planning is critical to ensure a successful migration to the VMware infrastructure. Performance and security of virtualized servers requires a careful assessment along with post-migration validation. This can be achieved by:
- Baselining the performance and security of physical servers before migration
- Auditing the security configuration before and after migration, and evaluating changes
- Comparing both the performance and end user experience of virtual machines to their physical baselines
NetIQ’s solution supports confident migrations by providing metrics for a careful analysis of virtualization candidates. In doing so, it supports faster migrations and higher VM to physical server ratios, thereby maximizing the cost benefits of virtualization.
NetIQ Supporting Products
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NetIQ AppManager provides rich instrumentation and monitoring of both the VMware infrastructure (i.e., ESX, VirtualCenter) and other components in the application stack (networks, operating systems, databases and applications). |
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NetIQ AppManager’s ResponseTime Modules monitor service performance by emulating and measuring the end-user experience through synthetic transactions via windows-based or web-based user interfaces. |
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NetIQ Analysis Center warehouses performance data and generates reports to help evaluate candidates’ long-term performance as well as compare the performance of migrated servers to pre-migration metrics. |
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NetIQ Secure Configuration Manager NetIQ Secure Configuration Manager provides automated security configuration assessment, baselining and delta reporting of Windows, Unix, and Linux systems as well as ESX Server (based on the Center for Internet Security VMware ESX Benchmark). |
