Application performance is critical to business objectives, and data center managers are tasked with optimizing application performance to the fullest. However, application servers are typically provisioned with virtualized compute, storage and network resources, and the ever-increasing challenge to data center IT operations teams is the ability to grasp virtual infrastructure’s impact on application performance. Virtualization management teams simply do not have the real-time application level visibility and analytics required to ensure that application performance is optimized and well supported by data center virtual infrastructure and the underlying physical resources.

In this paper, we’ll look at the challenges in managing and optimizing virtualized data center infrastructure, and the requirements for a unified full stack application, virtualization, and infrastructure visibility solution.