Virtualization Performance Management with Consonus and Akorri™ BalancePoint®
Metrics that Advance Virtualization Efforts
As companies progress through the stages of virtualization adoption, concerns about performance, capacity planning, and control exponentially increase. Consonus and Akorri have partnered to offer a comprehensive solution that provides an effective way to manage the virtualized environment by identifying optimization opportunities, maximizing performance, isolating bottlenecks, and guiding future capacity planning.
A valuable addition to Consonus’ virtualization offerings, Akorri BalancePoint helps businesses identify virtual infrastructure issues, optimize utilization, and improve performance in the virtualized data center. Through analytics and key metrics, businesses can achieve the highest levels of utilization at the lowest possible cost.
Akorri BalancePoint software is agentless—dynamically modeling the entire infrastructure to understand how application workloads, utilization levels and resources interact. Designed to go beyond basic performance monitoring tools, BalancePoint produces statistics that provide visibility and predictability about performance and capacity growth.
Measurable Benefits that Optimize Virtualization Performance
Consonus deploys Akorri BalancePoint to optimize utilization of virtualized, significantly improving performance as it dramatically increases virtualization ROI. With Akorri BalancePoint you can:
- Visualize all IT infrastructure components
- Drill down for deep analysis to examine bottlenecks
- Troubleshoot and isolate problems in minutes
- Manage IT infrastructure from virtual and physical servers to storage disks
- Maximize performance and minimize cost
- Reduce troubleshooting time by up to 80%
- Optimize Virtual Machine (VM) densities
- Improve server and data storage utilization
- Effectively manage service levels
- Accurately forecast and plan new investments
A Unique Approach to Virtualization Analytics
BalancePoint analytics determine the optimal balance between cost and efficiency, enabling you to get more performance and scalability from your virtualized environment. The key to BalancePoint’s ability to analyze interdependencies between virtualized resources is Cross-Domain Analytics™, which provides intelligent alerts, actionable recommendations and proactive service management tools to help with remediation, optimization, and planning. BalancePoint produces performance and capacity metrics that enable IT operations teams to better communicate, collaborate and manage service delivery.
Move to the Cloud with Confidence
With Consonus, you can virtualize business-critical applications with confidence. The powerful combination of Consonus IT solutions, IT consulting, and virtualization assessments facilitate your move to the cloud and enable you to:
- Assess current virtualization utilization levels
- Perform precise quantitative analysis of opportunities for virtualization optimization
- Increase the business value of virtualization
- Maximize the potential of your data center environment, whether it is in the customer data center or a Consonus Colocation Data Center
Virtualization Consulting and Assessments
Consonus offers assistance in virtualizing services, people, and processes that support the data center. With over 10 years of virtualization expertise, Consonus ensures your virtualization investment delivers on performance, planning, and promise.
Akorri BalancePoint is an ideal complement to Consonus Virtualization Optimization Assessments. As a Consonus customer, you will gain access to this tool to assess virtualization efforts once implemented. And you can utilize the Consonus IT consulting team to make recommendations for further optimization, additional compute resources, and more, based on business requirements and data growth.
Akorri BalancePoint Specifications
BalancePoint is available as a virtual appliance, supports VMware vSphere, plugs into VMware vCenter and plans to support and all other major hypervisor technologies. It interoperates with major storage vendors including, HP, NetApp, Hitachi Data Systems.
