Virtualization is not just a sizing exercise. For production environments, it is an exercise in understanding all the constraints that govern and impact a target environment, and ensuring that these constraints are taken into account when planning and managing virtual environments.

This is especially true of VMware Infrastructure, where sophisticated features such as VMotion, DRS and HA necessitate careful planning and diligent administration of virtual environments. These features have helped make VMware the industry-leading virtualization solution, but to properly capitalize on their true power, it is necessary to combine them with accurate intelligence and focused analytics in order to safely and effectively transform existing servers into the new virtual paradigm.