New solution adds machine learning analytics to VMware environments
With virtualized environments performance issues can be hard to pinpoint. IT departments can find it difficult to spot whether the cause is in the application, network, storage, or virtualization layer of the infrastructure.
Software optimization specialist SIOS is bringing machine learning to bear on this problem with the latest release of SIOS iQ, its analytics software for VM environments.
The new release integrates SIOS iQ with SQL Sentry Performance Advisor, bridging a critical gap between IT infrastructure administrators and SQL Server administrators. For the first time, IT staff can easily identify and resolve the root causes of performance issues based on analysis of both the VMware infrastructure and the SQL Server application environment.
Other advances enable users to accurately predict and forecast performance and capacity utilization, improve efficiency by identifying and resizing under- and over-provisioned VMs, and save datastore capacity by instantly identifying rogue disk files (VMDKs). New information visualization in the latest release enables IT to instantly see the health of operations across their infrastructure so they can correct issues immediately.
"Data is the foundation on which critical business applications are built. The need to continuously monitor, diagnose, and optimize the SQL Server platform is fundamental to meeting service level requirements." says Greg Gonzalez, president and CEO of SQL Sentry. "Integrating SQL Sentry Performance Advisor with SIOS iQ allows IT operations to access actionable event details from the SQL Server platform in the context of the virtual infrastructure. This greatly reduces time spent on problem resolution, and promotes effective cross team collaboration between operations and database administrators".
SIOS iQ 3.7 which incorporates SIOS iQ and SQL Sentry event correlation, performance forecasting and an environmental topology view via a dashboard, will be available from June 10. Version 3.8, released at the end of July will add a cluster topology view, efficiency reports and the ability to identify rogue VMDK disk files. For more information and to start a free trial you can visit the SIOS website.
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