Issue link: http://hub-fr.insight.com/i/532074
22 Performance Monitoring IT lacks the tools to aggregate and analyze performance data quickly enough to take proactive action and reduce downtime. Legacy monitoring tools used by IT are based on low-level metrics and static thresholds. This leads to a lack of understanding on root cause, alert storms, and false positives. It can be difficult in a virtualized data center – in any data center, for that matter – to get to the root cause of performance problems. Sometimes performance simply degrades slowly over time. And like the frog in the slowly heated pot of water, businesses may not notice a problem in the data center until it's too late. Performance problems might be tracked to a change in virtualization policy, a network performance issue, a memory bottleneck, under-provisioning, power outages – countless culprits come to mind. Good luck finding the root cause in a hurry if you need to launch multiple management consoles and want to compare what you're seeing across server, storage and network environments. No wonder performance problems are so hard to fix. Performance monitoring: What is it? The advanced performance monitoring solutions of Virtualization 2.0 provide a 'world view' of the IT environment on one dashboard. Bottlenecks and performance issues can be traced to the source. There are two key features of an effective solution: • Predictive Analytics analyze server performance data, establishes dynamic thresholds that adapt to the environment, and provides Smart Alerts