1. Full visibility into virtualized environment
enables quick issue resolution and
significant cost savings
“We used Excel to manage data
about the virtual machines… but
it was difficult to assess the
extent of issues… There was no
simple way to tell if [a problem]
was due to a lack of resources or
a problem with the applications.
As a result, investigating the
causes of performance issues
took up a disproportionate
amount of our time.”
Takayuki Nagahama
Infrastructure and Network Manager,
Management and Planning Department,
Information Policy Section,
Edogawa City Council
Though the Edogawa City
Council had successfully
consolidated several
hundred physical servers and
virtualized essential
database servers with
vSphere, IT staff could not
accurately monitor and
manage resource utilization,
resulting in over-allocated
computing resources.
The Council used VMware
vCenter Operations
Manager to provide an
at-a-glance visual
representation of what’s
happening in the whole
virtual environment, assisted
by the expertise of the
vCenter Operations
Manager Jumpstart
consulting service.
At-a-glance visualization of the virtual environment
Edogawa City Council gained
Full visualisation of
virtual environments
across all locations
Easy and rapid fault
identification and
issue resolution
Better resource
utilisation enabling
further consolidation
of physical servers
Spare server resources
that can now be
earmarked for VDI
Market trends
Consolidated or simplified
physical infrastructure
> 25% of IT professionals state they
currently have no way of seeing their
entire application delivery chain from end
users to backend databases and storage.4
84% of IT professionals said they
want to significantly improve their
IT operations management.3
“Because we can now see exactly how our computing resources
are being utilised, we can plan new projects more intelligently,
and determine whether they need new resources, or can be
provisioned by reallocating existing ones… In fact, as we replace
our existing inventory with higher-spec models, we anticipate
the consolidation process will result in an eightfold decrease in
the size of our physical server fleet.”
Takayuki Nagahama, Infrastructure and Network Manager,
Management and Planning Department, Information Policy
Section, Edogawa City Council
The city covers
49 km2
Estimated population
of 671,937
To better manage the virtual environment
1
IDG Research, 2013 - 96% of companies in the Asia-Pacific region are either in early- or mid-stage adoption of virtualization technologies; 2
IDG Research, 2013 - Virtualization in Asia-Pacific Has a Compelling
Future; 3
Evolven’s 2013 IT operations OQ report; 4
APMdigest, 2013 - IT Teams Lack Real-Time Application-Level Visibility, Survey Says
Edogawa City is the easternmost and
largest of the 23 special wards that
make up the Tokyo metropolitan area.
Top three benefits respondents achieved
through virtualization of technologies:2
96% of companies in the Asia-Pacific region
are either in early- or mid-stage adoption of
virtualization technologies.1
58%
Increased business agility
or flexibility
52%
Improved systems or
applications reliability52%
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