Workload Management.

Todays datacenters are full of inflexible platforms. By helping to dissolve the bonds between software and hardware, virtualization encourages organizations to see the data center in a different way – not as a heterogeneous mix of different servers, operating systems, applications and data, but as a set of portable workload units. At the most basic level, a workload encapsulates the data, applications and operating systems that reside on a physical or virtual host.

The workloads cannot be easily re-hosted across platform boundaries. Workloads and Resources operate unbalanced: Either servers with many resources are handling small workloads (under-utilization / wastage) or servers with small resources are handling large workloads (over-utilization / risk). What if you could measure workloads and resources effectively? If you could move workloads easily in your datacenter then you could optimize resource supply and workload demand saving money and reducing risk!

The ability to profile, move, copy, protect and replicate these aggregated workload units between physical and virtual hosts is rapidly emerging as a key enabler for operational and business success.

The workload concept enables data centers to take a singular approach to solving seemingly dissimilar challenges.