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24 health through a comprehensive, centralized console, and enables best-in-class platform-wide management. Ricky Caldwell, Cornerstone's Director of Server Operations, Architecture and Infrastructure, sees the capacity planning and performance monitoring offered by vSphere with Operations Management as vital to his organization. 'I'm able to open up VMware vCenter™ and with everything in a common console, it gives me one full view to my entire environment,' Caldwell said. 'I'm not required to open up five different management consoles in order to see my server, my storage, my network. It's all in one location, which makes it very easy.' Maximizing system performance 'With vSphere with Operations Management, we get a very in-depth view of what's happening on various levels, on a day-to-day basis, a weekly basis, or a monthly basis,' added Cornerstone's Server Operations Project Lead, Stan Thampi. 'Alerts tell me right away if I have any emerging performance issues that need to be looked at, before they impact the business.' To maximize system performance, Cornerstone utilizes vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler™ (DRS) pro- vided within the vSphere with Operations Management platform. With DRS, Cornerstone can load balance resources to virtual machines by deploying new capac- ity to a cluster or automatically migrating virtual machines at any time without any service disruptions. Leveraging a holistic view vSphere with Operations Management collects the met- rics from vCenter Server to provide a holistic view of