TotalStorage Productivity Center for VMWare Environments

Many customers have adopted VMware® ESX as their server consolidation and virtualization solution. This IBM® Redpaper publication details how to plan for TotalStorage® Productivity monitoring of your VMware ESX environment. The tasks required to successfully configure TotalStorage Productivity Center to monitor VMware servers and then produce reports are documented. Several scenarios that show you how to use TotalStorage Productivity Center to monitor your VMware environment are included.

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Publish Date
30 March 2009

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Author(s)

Mary Lovelace is a Consulting IT specialist at the International Technical Support Organization. She has more than 20 years of experience with IBM in large systems, storage and Storage Networking product education, system engineering and consultancy, and systems support. She has written many IBM Redbooks publications on TotalStorage Productivity Center and z/OS storage products.

• Mary Lovelace

Harsha Gunatilaka is a Software Test Engineer for Tivoli Software. He is currently part of the IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center test team in Tucson, Arizona. He has experience with IBM storage products and software. He holds a degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona.

• Harsha Gunatilaka

Hector Hugo Ibarra is a VMware Architect and Consulting IT Specialist based in Argentina and currently works in the IBM Argentina Global Delivery Center. Hector has been designated as ITA Leader for The VMware Center of Competence. He specializes in virtualization technologies and has assisted several large IBM clients to deploy virtualized infrastructures across the world.

• Hector Hugo Ibarra

IBM Form Number
REDP-4471-00

Number of pages

96