Process Automation and Tool Alignment/Integration

Performance Management cannot depend on manual processes and activities in a vCloud. Given its dynamic nature, effective management of vCloud performance requires that tooling and instrumentation be in place. Manual processes and traditional performance tools that focus primarily on up or down status cannot provide the required level of performance data.

To get effective Performance Management, you must understand the impact of Metric Coverage. Having instrutmentation at all levels of the application stack enables much better insight into the overall performance of an application. This is particularly true with end-user experience monitoring that provides information to administrators about the consumer experience. Traditionally, administrators have relied on component level monitoring to approximate a service’s availability or performance. This approach provides only partial results and rarely identifies actual performance problems.

To solve this problem, an analytics tool is needed to analyze more than just the up or down status of traditional monitoring tools. An analytics tool enables an adminstrator to see the relative performance of a system based on dynamically generated baselines. By using VMware vCenter Operations Manager (part of the VMware vCenter Operation Management Suite), this level of detail in vCloud implementations is understood and can be instrumental in revealing more complex performance management issues.