Virtualization
Many organizations are beginning to understand the significant benefits that Virtualization in its many forms can bring. Unfortunately, not all of these organizations have enough information available to fully exploit these benefits or fully understand the problems virtualization can cause for accurate IT asset inventory.
Virtualization has been implemented in most environments, however, rarely are the full savings and potential of virtualized computing realized, or even known. That is because of shortcomings in the network inventory data available to managers.
Put simply, managers require more accurate, detailed and up-to-date IT intelligence, in order to fully exploit the opportunity for virtualization, or to manage all aspects of the new virtualized network environment.
Specifically, Managers need to know:
- What PCs and Servers are ideal candidates for virtualization (as well as those not suited)
- What PCs and Servers, if any, can be retired when others are virtualized
- What software is operating in virtualized environments and consequential licensing requirements
- What software is operating in virtualized environments and consequential licensing requirements
- What critical business processes could be interrupted during virtualization
Managing a virtualized network requires up-to-date, detailed and accurate IT inventory data. This is not a once off exercise, but one that has to be repeated continually.
License Compliance Issues
Unless there is an accurate and reliable way of mapping virtual machines to physical machines, it is impossible to be truly confident of having an accurate view of your license compliance exposure. iQSonar has been proven to provide the accuracy you need to be fully compliant in a virtualized environment.