Veeam Software, a provider of VMware data protection, disaster recovery and VMware management solutions for virtual data centre environments, has released a research showing that almost half of organisations using virtualisation suffer from delays resolving IT problems due to a lack of visibility into the IT estate.
According to an independent survey of 253 chief information officers (CIOs), 48% of organisations are selecting a hypervisor based on ease of management instead of depth of functionality.
The research found 80% currently using specialist tools to manage their infrastructure would prefer to use their traditional enterprise-wide management tools but can’t due to a lack of functionality.
Veeam President and CEO Ratmir Timashev said, "When organizations first adopted virtualization, its attraction was clear: the ability to implement large IT environments without the need for a corresponding huge physical infrastructure."
"However, with these larger and increasingly complex virtual infrastructures have come management challenges that traditional tools cannot cope with. As a result, rather than a single, overarching view of their entire IT estate, organizations are receiving a progressively more fractured picture. Left unchecked, this lack of visibility will impact the IT department’s ability to effectively manage its virtual infrastructure and consequently limit the true potential of this technology."
In the research, 45% of those surveyed stated that management concerns are actually slowing their adoption of virtualisation.
In addition, of those organizations that are using both VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V, 71% are currently facing difficulties managing both hypervisors from a single console. Moreover, 68% of all companies believe that it will become important to manage both VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V from a single dashboard.
