Sprawl Management

The Challenge: How do I grow but keep VM sprawl under control?

The value of virtualization is transforming today’s data center for the better but the burden it places on IT staff is causing even true believers concern. As enterprises deploy virtual machines for consolidation and disaster recovery projects, the management burden of simply tracking servers is multiplying as scads of VMs are being added to corporate IT environments.

With their mobile, transient and reproductive nature, VMs today are causing an undue burden on IT staff to maintain accurate and useful information on virtual machines. Because they are so easy to build, deploy, move and duplicate, the cost savings many organizations realized from server consolidation are now negated by the costs of VM sprawl.

The Solution: Fortisphere Virtual Insight™

Virtual Insight is an operational management product that enables enterprises to automate the process of identifying, tagging, tracking, and reporting on all virtual machines as they move throughout preproduction and production environments. Virtual Insight provides IT staff solutions to today’s most pressing concerns, including VM sprawl.

>>Contact Fortisphere at (888) 339-7775 or info@fortisphere.com to speak to a representative about the Virtual Essentials suite of policy-based virtualization management solutions.