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Virtualized servers are used to solve a number of data center problems:

• Server sprawl,
• Growing power consumption,
• Cooling requirements,
• Underutilized servers, and
• Expensive disaster recovery solutions.

TeamQuest Model is a capacity planning tool that can help you find the most cost-effective solutions to any of these problems. You can predict how long service levels will continue to be met by a proposed configuration, and find ways to keep your IT infrastructure total cost of ownership low. You can accurately predict the performance of configurations in advance, making it possible to find the best configuration for optimizing delivery of business and IT services.

Don't be fooled into thinking that performance trends are generally linear. Other tools can track trends or a few key performance indicators to provide rough estimates, but TeamQuest Model is an analytic tool based on queuing theory that can account for non-linear behavior.

Simple workload stacking can be precarious when consolidating servers. With TeamQuest Model you can quickly predict when response times will become unacceptable, when your proposed configurations will run out of gas, and what you should change in order to have an optimal configuration for both physical and virtual servers. You can make sure that your systems will handle the incoming work without wasteful over-provisioning.

You can determine:

• How many servers you will need to handle forecasted (or un-forecasted) future business,
• What is the best hardware configuration for each physical server,
• How many virtual servers you can expect to run well on each physical server,
• Which workloads are likely to play well together on the same physical machine, and
• When your servers are likely to run out of capacity.

TeamQuest Performance Software adds powerful workload and IT Resource analysis capabilities to your VMware environment, telling you how much of each infrastructure component is being consumed by each application, department, business unit, or user. TeamQuest software can also integrate your unique business-relevant application and performance data as part of one federated capacity management database. These powerful IT service optimization capabilities complement management tools from VMware, facilitating business-aligned management and reporting of IT infrastructure performance.

TeamQuest's solution is highly scalable, designed for customers with hundreds or thousands of servers. You use policy-based tools to manage and administer TeamQuest software and with TeamQuest it is up to you how much, if any, of your performance data is centralized. We have extensive capabilities for summarizing and centralizing performance data according to your particular needs; we do not insist that performance data be centralized before it can be analyzed.

TeamQuest's solutions can be used to manage performance across the technology silos that often exist within larger companies. Our products cover many operating systems and virtualization platforms, such as VMware, Solaris Containers, and AIX LPARs. This allows customers to use our tools to manage performance and capacity across technology silos.

TeamQuest is a VMware Technology Alliance Partner and a member of the VMware Validation Program. Our performance & capacity management software has been validated to run on multiple versions of VMware ESX Server. TeamQuest is committed to continue this strategic partnership in order to bring best-of-breed performance and capacity management solutions to VMware customers.

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