- Provides recommendations on workload placement while adhering to co-location policies
- Provides benchmarking data, results simulation, and policy framework
- Helps reduce energy and server costs via efficient, optimized consolidation Improves availability by preventing resource contention
- Provides out-of-the-box integrated view of server, storage, and network components, showing physical and virtual performance and configuration change history
- Allows for easier problem determination in complex VMware environments
- Customers can change monitoring thresholds dynamically, deriving baselines from actual performance data
- Dynamic thresholds also provide customers with the benefit of being alerted when status changes from normal, whether a threshold has been violated or not
- Helps to respond proactively to problems in the environment, spotting performance problems before they lead to service interruptions
- Broad platform coverage reduces labor and software costs of managing multiple hypervisors
- Policy-driven workload optimization ensures control and compliance
IBM SmartCloud Monitoring monitors the health and performance of a private cloud infrastructure, including environments containing both physical and virtualized components. This solution provides the tools needed to assess current capacity and model expansion, as needed.