The emphasis of monitoring and management in virtualization is shifting from VM management to business service management; so it's no longer sufficient to simply monitor uptime and resource usage levels. This white paper explores an approach that helps you optimize the benefits of this technology and avoid over-provisioning.

Read on to learn how to implement a virtualization monitoring and management technique that provides these capabilities:

A single view of virtual and physical infrastructures

Support multiple virtualization technologies

Track physical resource availability, configuration, and usage by VMs

Automatically establish performance baselines and norms

Scale as the monitored infrastructure grows