The virtualization of services, servers, and infrastructure leads to increased service complexity and decreased environment transparency in the data center. The network normally has more traffic heading to a single physical server (think about 5:00 PM rush hour traffic) and traffic can flow over the network or through Hipersockets, guest LANs, and other technologies consolidated within a single hardware platform. While everyone looks at the CPU and other issues as you move to a virtualized data center, do they also look at the network? This session will focus on the following key areas and help you avoid some network pitfalls:
• Lack of accurate response time metrics and SLA measurements on all network elements.
• Inability to understand if a problem is caused by the application, the network or the configuration of the virtual environment as infrastructure metrics cannot be easily correlated with accurate response time metrics
• Lack of automated discovery – both of the dynamic infrastructure, and how applications are mapped into the infrastructure – because virtual machines and services are dynamically provisioned within a cluster based on demand
• Inability to continuously record root-cause diagnostics data of application problems 24x7 for every single distinct transaction, whose route and behavior constantly shifts due to dynamic provisioning and resource sharing
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