Addressing Storage Performance Challenges in the Virtual Server Environment

Server virtualization is causing performance problems for users, especially within the storage infrastructure. The complexity and abstraction with the way server virtualization deals with storage has created a new resource problem, storage IOPS, and rendered the existing management tools less effective. In lieu of simply adding more storage, we need to be smarter with the way we address storage performance challenges, which requires cross domain information and better tools to monitor and manage this dynamic environment.