Keeping Fit in the VI (Virtual Infrastructure)

David Messina, VP Marketing and Product Management, Xangati

Fitness is about keeping things in top form, so that everything operates as it should.  Being fit means being healthy and strong. While it may also conjure up an image of dragging oneself to the gym, in Xangati’s case, we—naturally—think of fitness in terms of the virtualized infrastructure. (Besides, we’re already in pretty good shape!)

At Xangati, we know that ensuring the fitness of the VI is fundamental. If you are not able to achieve this, you are not able to benefit from your virtualization efforts—in any way, shape or form.

Our Performance Health Engine—recently introduced with the Xangati VDI Dashboard—has generated a lot of positive attention. Its ability to frame all VDI operations and immediately alert administrators to any performance issues allows businesses to more confidently undertake and actually benefit from their desktop virtualization initiatives.

The Performance Health Engine is also being incredibly well received for its ability to ensure performance of mission-critical applications as part of the Xangati VI Dashboard. This has historically been a major stumbling block for many virtualized initiatives. Before a business is willing to put its line of business (LOB) applications on the line (no pun intended), they need absolute assurance about the availability and performance of the virtualized infrastructure. Xangati’s Performance Health Engine brings you that assurance. 

The Performance Health Engine is a live and continuous barometer that reveals—in an easy-to-understand way—the continuous status of all the moving infrastructure parts that affect the performance of applications running in a virtualized environment. By giving a complete picture of the infrastructure—spanning applications, end-user devices, servers, network and storage—you can immediately see the infrastructure’s impact on application performance and, conversely, an application’s impact on the infrastructure.  

With this type of comprehensive insight, you can expand your virtualization efforts to include LOB applications—without any of the residual fear, uncertainty or doubt. 

Xangati’s memory-driven architecture powers the Performance Health Engine—allowing it to track all virtual and physical infrastructure components across a broad spectrum of performance metrics to a scale of 250,000 objects! What that means is that the Xangati system is comparing the real-time data feeds it takes in versus the performance profiles for each object within the course of four microseconds! In this manner, the system is keeping watch for you on any major performance shifts that can have a ripple effect all the way out to your line of business users. You will know immediately and be able to take action to remediate the issue.

This is because the Performance Health Engine will signal the change in the VI dashboard and trigger a real-time alert that is paired with a DVR-recording which shows you which interaction is responsible for the performance shift. Having this health data means that you can guarantee the same application performance and availability you currently have for your mission-critical applications in a completely virtualized environment.  And it does all of this without requiring any guest agents.

Xangati customers are already raving over the value of our new Performance Health Engine and its ability to frame their virtualized infrastructures.  Xangati recently provided a national non-profit with 4,500 employees the confidence to successfully deploy its virtualized infrastructure—achieving 98 percent virtualization in less than one quarter!

As a further testament, since the introduction of this feature, Xangati also achieved its best month ever for customer acquisition—yet, of course!

By slashing the time to problem resolution, Xangati enables your VI performance to skyrocket. And this high performance is critical to obtain the total business value from your VI initiative.

Think of the Xangati Performance Health Engine as the ultimate power drink for your VI—giving it the energy it needs to keep moving forward and reach 100% virtualization. Go on. Take a sip. Experience total VI fitness today.