Key Points:
- Reduce the costs and risks of deploying and managing a shared virtual IT infrastructure
- Get visibility across heterogeneous virtual machines, physical servers and storage
- Balance performance and utilization to optimize capacity and reduce CAPEX
- Leverage predictive analytics to manage service levels and meet business requirements
Like a GPS, Balance provides directions to optimize the performance and capacity of your virtual and physical data center infrastructure providing a stepping stone to the private cloud.
Use Balance to:
- Manage virtual infrastructure end-to-end from virtual and physical servers to storage disks
- Reduce troubleshooting time by 80%
- Optimize VM densities
- Improve server and storage utilization
- Manage service levels
Balance agentless software dynamically models and analyzes the entire infrastructure to understand how application workloads, utilization levels and resources interact bringing much needed infrastructure-wide intelligence to the data center. Designed to go well beyond basic performance monitoring tools, Balance is a powerful optimization solution that enables organizations to operationally advance virtualization, assure performance of business critical virtualized applications, and meet storage needs.
Balance collects the raw data from individual elements and applies powerful analytics. It’s the analytics that provide the intelligence giving you actionable information and direction beyond that of a dashboard. Unique performance and capacity metrics including Infrastructure Response time, Performance Index, and Disk Utilization enable IT operations teams to better communicate, collaborate and manage service delivery.
Get immediate and measurable value through a Balance evaluation in your IT environment. The installation process typically takes only a few hours and can provide actionable guidance from day one. Contact your NetApp account manager or NetApp authorized reseller to request a Balance evaluation.
