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Virtualization brings many benefits to business IT environments, but it also creates additional layers of complexity that often prevent organizations from accurately determining their true license position.

Different enterprise software vendors have different licensing rules and similarly, different virtualization technologies work in different ways. Therefore it is extremely difficult to gauge the impact of virtualization on your overall software licensing requirements.

iQSonar provides the detail you need to get this overview by working across the leading virtual technologies in use today including:

• VMware ESX and vSphere
• Solaris Zones
• IBM LPARs / IBM Power Server Series
• Microsoft Virtual Server
• Microsoft Hyper-V

iQSonar gathers data from these different environments and produces the information you need to ensure your enterprise software is licensed correctly – iQSonar will allow you to:

• Map virtual servers to the physical servers they are running on
• Identify the use of dynamic virtualization technologies such as VMware vMotion
• Understand and visualize VMware Clusters
• Distinguish between soft and hard partitioning to determine accurate Oracle licensing requirements
• Identify the metrics you need to understand your VMware license requirements.
• Minimize the risk of unnecessary spend due to overstating the virtual cores in use

iQSonar provides you with a normalized overview of your virtual envri0nments regardless of the underlying technology.

Virtualization technology is constantly evolving and so is iQSonar to ensure it always delivers the most complete and accurate view of your complex, server-based virtual environments.