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CHAPTER 1 VMware VSphere 4 OVerView
VMware vCenter Chargeback to automate tracking and chargeback for the cost of IT •u
services
VMware vCenter Lab Manager to create an on-demand lab infrastructure
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VMware vCenter Lifecycle Manager to automate and manage virtual machine provision-•u
ing in your virtual infrastructure
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager to automate the setup, testing, and failover of
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disaster recovery processes
In this section, we provide a brief overview for each of these solutions.
VMware vCenter AppSpeed
VMware vCenter AppSpeed enables you to monitor application-level latency, throughput, and
transaction rate and correlate the data with performance indicators at the infrastructure level.
It can monitor most multitier applications, including database traffic (Microsoft SQL, MySQL,
Oracle), any HTTP or HTTPS traffic (most application servers and web servers), and Microsoft
Exchange Server traffic. It does this without installing an agent or requiring login credentials to
the applications. AppSpeed is shipped as a virtual appliance, so it can be configured and deployed
with minimal effort. When deployed, AppSpeed monitors application traffic through virtual
switches and automatically builds application topology and maps interdependencies between
application components. AppSpeed can detect the slowest or most used application transactions. It
also allows you to drill down into individual transactions, as well as point out transaction depen-
dencies across components in a multitier application stack. This can help you quickly isolate and
remediate application performance problems in vSphere deployments. With AppSpeed, you can
also set up ongoing performance service-level monitoring based on thresholds for transaction
latency. You can either set this threshold manually or let AppSpeed automatically select the values
based on the historical information it has.
We discuss how you can deploy and use AppSpeed in Chapter 5. For more details, you
can also check the vCenter AppSpeed product page at www.vmware.com/products/vcenter-
appspeed/.
VMware vCenter CapacityIQ
VMware vCenter CapacityIQ adds capacity management capabilities to your vSphere deploy-
ment. It enables ongoing, real-time tracking of capacity utilization in your environment and
analyzes this information to perform capacity trending and forecasting. With CapacityIQ, you
can tell how long your capacity will last and when it’s time to add more capacity. CapacityIQ can
also help you optimize current capacity usage and size your infrastructure correctly by identify-
ing idle, powered-off, over-provisioned, and under-provisioned virtual machines. CapacityIQ also
provides “what-if” modeling to help you understand the impact of adding or removing virtual
machines or vSphere hosts to your deployment. You can model the virtual machines or vSphere
hosts based on expected usage or even base them on existing VMs. CapacityIQ is shipped as a
virtual appliance, so it can be configured and deployed with minimal effort.
For more details, check the vCenter CapacityIQ product page at www.vmware.com/products/
vcenter-capacityiq/.
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