IT Guru Systems Planner Web-Based TrainingLevel
Introductory
Duration
3 hours
Type
Instructor-led, Web-Based training. This course is taken online, so you may attend from wherever you have a reliable internet connection. When you sign up, you will receive an email with instructions on how to log in to the session.
Prerequisites
Basic familiarity with server systems and server data collection agents.
Description
We don't talk to computers in zeros and ones; the history of computing is a history of virtualization. However, issues facing IT professionals for virtualization evolve as technologies change.
In this session, we will discuss current issues associated with server consolidation and virtualization in performance measurement, virtualization overhead, modeling, and capacity planning, and the underpinning of virtualization, that is, increasing efficiency and reducing overall IT cost. We highlight the best practices and rules of thumb that will help you understand and navigate the abstraction layers separating the end users and applications from the hardware that actually gets the work done. In addition to the lecture, there are labs that allow you to gain some hands-on experience. The labs focus on the following aspects using IT Guru Systems Planner / Virtual Machine Quick Predict (VMQP):
- Performance data collection and import
- Workload characterization
- Server consolidation and “what-if” analysis in a virtualized environment
The following topics are covered:
- Review methodologies for workload characterization and time period selection
- Performance data collection and import
- Analyzing workload combinations for consolidation
- Creating performance models of consolidated servers
- Predicting application performance after server consolidation
- Evaluating the performance impact of virtualization overhead
- Predicting the impact of upgrading server hardware in an virtualized environment
IT Guru Systems Planner Web-Based Training (3 hours, Web-Based)