Virtualization

With organizations worldwide moving towards digitization and remote working models, there is an increased need for more computing power and server resources. But not everyone can afford to host state-of-the-art, well-maintained servers in their premises. And that is why virtualization technology is so popular today. 

Virtualization technology enables organizations of all sizes to make use of IT services without the hardware resource constraint. Are you thinking about how virtualization can help you?  Here is a simple guide to help you understand what virtualization is, its key metrics, and how to monitor virtualization for efficiency. 

If you use Microsoft Hyper-V every day, you may want to spend some time producing and analyzing reports. Reports can help you find where the virtualization software is lagging and how it’s behaving. Monitoring and reporting can help optimize virtual machines, especially if you run many of them on a single system. 

What is Hyper-V? It’s virtualization software that specifically provides hardware virtualization. You can create virtual machines with different operating systems on a single desktop. Developers, network specialists, data specialists, and testers all use virtualization tools to run different OS on the same machine. 

The dawn of virtualization and virtual machines or VMs have brought about massive changes in the industrial and commercial sector. Every organization, be it large or small, are now implementing virtual machines on different scales, and it’s saving them a lot of money and resources. 

But while virtualization is an incredibly powerful computing technology, it is by no means simple to handle. That’s why when you’re dealing with virtual machines, you need to monitor them regularly just as you would with a physical machine. Monitoring a virtual machine is a highly technical task, so you also need VMware monitoring software. 

No matter the application or strengths of your Virtual Machine, it must rely on the resources you provide. In such a scenario, it is common to run into bottlenecks and performance issues that can undermine your operations’ productivity. Often, these bottlenecks present challenges to the team as frequent issues pose risks to the operation’s health.

Bottlenecks can occur due to various reasons: misconfiguration of resources, processing limits, memory deficiencies, or storage space issues, and resolving such bottlenecks requires a careful and deliberate approach. As each factor is interconnected, the changes we make to one resource will impact all others’ performance and activity.