Virtual Infrastructure Monitoring: Maintaining Application Performance Visibility in a Virtualized Environment

For the first time in history, new servers purchased in 2012 are more likely to be virtualized than not, making it nearly impossible to find an enterprise who hasn’t made an investment in virtualization. Despite the spend, few IT organizations effectively baseline application performance pre, post and during a virtualized application’s lifecycle.

Compuware APM is purpose-built to deliver full visibility and management of applications in virtualized environments. Where other solutions cannot monitor the dynamic nature of applications in these environments, Compuware APM dramatically reduces the time necessary to identify, isolate and remedy inevitable performance problems.

Compuware APM supports the unique needs of virtualized application troubleshooting through support for all major infrastructure environments:

• Cisco: To enable interface virtualization required in modern datacenter architectures, traffic internal to Cisco datacenter fabrics will be tagged with VN-tags (Virtual NIC tags). Without any additional configuration, a Data Center Real User Monitoring Agentless Monitoring Device (AMD) can analyze transactions to produce actionable application performance reporting.

HP and VMWare: Compuware has worked with VMware, the market leader in x86-based virtualization, to create a VMware-certified DCRUM solution that works seamlessly across both physical and VMware environments. It presents meaningful, actionable information via dashboards and reports that are tailored to executives, service managers, IT operations staff and other IT team members to help them make better, faster decisions

• Citrix XenApp: Citrix XenApp is popularly used to enable secure remote access to applications but how do companies ensure the quality of an end-user’s experience with apps that cost over a million dollars to build and deploy? Compuware has pushed the boundaries of packet capture analysis end-user experience monitoring technologies to support server-based computing (Citrix XenApp) scenarios.

Learn more about Compuware APM for virtualized environments by reading: Virtual Network Infrastructure Server virtualization is transforming infrastructure and operations. Learn how dated network monitoring tools cannot measure user experience, leaving many businesses without the ability to optimize it. Who Moved My App? How to Achieve Effective Application Performance in a Virtualized World Optimizing Infrastructure Updates Server Refresh New physical and virtual server technology is transforming application monitoring. Outdated network monitoring tools must extend beyond technical parameters such as errors, latency, and bandwidth to include end-user experience (EUE).			73 percent of respondents to a Forrester survey rated consolidating and virtualizing their servers as a high or critical priority, presenting new challenges in refresh projects. Monitoring errors, latency, and throughput at a component level may have sufficed with small deployments of physical servers, but virtualization especially demands subjective monitoring of the end-user experience (EUE) to ensure that it does not degrade post project. — Forrester’s Forrsights Hardware Survey, Q3 2010