1. Managing Your Virtual Environment
Barb Goldworm
President & Chief Analyst
www.focusonsystems.com

2. Panel Members
• Moderator – Barb Goldworm, President and Chief
Analyst, FOCUS
• Jonathan Reeve, Director of Product Management,
Hyper9
• Rich Bourdeau, Vice President of Product Marketing
and Management, DynamicOps
• Alex Bakman, Founder and CTO, Vkernel
• Stephen Elliot, Vice President of Strategy, CA

3. Virtualization Implementation Pain Points
Backup challenges
Storage challenges
Difficulty troubleshooting performance…
Difficulty predicting storage requirements/growth
Networking challenges
Difficulty tracking and managing virtual machines
Performance degradation
Difficulty managing security
Trouble moving from a test environment to a…
Advanced management requires networked storage
None
Other
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%
 2009 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com Percentage of responses

4. Barriers to Virtualizing Business Critical Apps
Application/vendor doesn’t support…
Performance concerns - DB, I/O, etc
Lack of budget
These apps are harder to virtualize
Concerns about meeting SLAs
Lack of skilled people
Storage issues
Other (please specify)
Security concerns
Compliance/auditing concerns
Available management products aren't…
Don't have the necessary management tools
Networking issues
Not applicable
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35%
Source: FOCUS Research Series – Managing the Virtual Environment
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5. Virtualization Management
Virtual switches Virtual server
to hypervisor sprawl • Fast Growing Ecosystem
level concerns
– Hypervisor Vendors
Resource
– Virtualization Mgmt Startups
optimization
– Traditional Mgmt Players
– Systems/storage vendors
Backup • Hypervisor specific vs.
and
storage
hypervisor agnostic
pain SLAs • Innovations from startups
• Many mergers and
acquisitions
Troubleshooting

6. Challenges
• Management tools and processes needed to ensure
successful growth to next phase of virtualization
• Management of both physical and virtual infrastructure
for complete view from application through OS and
virtual layers to associated hardware resources
• Rapidly changing landscape with many choices
– ESM toolsets, Hypervisor vendor tools, virtualization
management startups, RYO
– Best of breed, integrated suites, frameworks
• How do you deliver best service at least cost

7. Panel Members
• Moderator – Barb Goldworm, President and Chief
Analyst, FOCUS
• Jonathan Reeve, Director of Product Management,
Hyper9
• Rich Bourdeau, Vice President of Product Marketing
and Management, DynamicOps
• Alex Bakman, Founder and CTO, Vkernel
• Stephen Elliot, Vice President of Strategy, CA

8. Questions?
Contact Barb Goldworm, President, FOCUS
Interop Virtualization Track Chair
Barbgoldworm@focusonsystems.com
www.focusonsystems.com

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