IDC OPINION Enterprises are entering a phase of deep technological changes, as challenging macroeconomic conditions and shrinking IT budgets force a rethink of the way IT infrastructure works and the adoption of new strategies to optimize increasingly scarce resources. Initially deployed simply as a fix to consolidate sprawling physical servers and contain hardware CapEx, virtualization has found its place at the core of innovation in the datacenter, solving a range of issues spanning from energy waste and compatibility problems with legacy applications, to high availability and ease of management.
Server virtualization does not come without a few challenges. Top of the list is the ability of IT administrators to manage IT infrastructure resources in an integrated fashion across server, storage, networking, applications, and virtual machines. Recent IDC surveys highlighted key requirements for virtualization infrastructure, include solid, optimized hardware infrastructure, perhaps based on blade servers, adequate I/O settings, and above all the correct management tools.
Fujitsu addresses those needs with its dynamic infrastructure strategy. This offering materializes what IDC believes to be a key trend in datacenters: the convergence of servers (particularly blades), storage, networking, and virtualization. In this model, Fujitsu's system management suite, ServerView, plays a central role, in particular its ServerView Resource Coordinator VE (RCVE), the tool to harmonize the management of physical and virtual environments.
RCVE is designed to bring together the capabilities and information included in the pure virtualization management environments with those stemming from hardware monitoring and balancing tools. Through the RCVE console, administrators can remotely control x86 servers, visualize the physical and virtual infrastructure, gain direct access on virtual machines and execute basic live migrations, set up affordable high availability systems and execute automated physical server deployment.
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