EMC White Paper Sample

As organizations transfer more mission critical Tier 1 applications into virtual environments, it is imperative that the infrastructure be able to dynamically deliver the requisite performance and availability. Equally important, operations teams will need the appropriate management tools to deliver the visibility and control required for these environments. Additionally, as organizations consolidate multiple application tiers, the infrastructure will need to dynamically differentiate service levels to optimize performance, share resources, and reduce overall costs. In order to do that, innovative solutions are needed to drive higher levels of automation at every level.

In the server domain, companies like VMware have created technology like the Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) to detect when a VM’s host resources are being overloaded and automatically move it to another host with better performance characteristics.