VMware Infrastructure Optimization & Management

For Your On-Premises & Hybrid Clouds

Automated Optimization for Your Virtual Infrastructure

Most organizations combat risk in virtualized infrastructure by significantly over-provisioning hardware. But this inefficiency can be avoided by optimizing workload placements and rightsizing VM allocations to simultaneously reduce both risk and capacity waste. Densify leverages machine-learning-based technology to optimize your virtual infrastructure, enabling you to operate with reduced costs, less infrastructure, and better performing applications.

Densify for Optimizing Virtual Infrastructure

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The Perfect Complement to VMware vRealize

Many companies already have VMware vRealize products. If this is the case, join our customers who have proven that layering Densify on top of VMware vRealize Operations and vRealize Automation will do great things for your organization. Especially if you care about:

Dramatically reducing infrastructure costs in VMware environments

Leveraging hybrid cloud as an important part of your IT strategy

Utilizing enterprise-class governance over placement decisions

Optimization for On-Premises Infrastructure

Optimize VM density
Rightsize resource allocations

Minimize Infrastructure Costs by Optimizing Stacking Ratios

Optimizing VM density requires an understanding of intra-day workload patterns to safely place and dovetail workloads.

Ever played Tetris®? It’s a lot like that. Dovetailing workloads avoids resource contention, with no wasted space. Unfortunately, VMware solutions do not place workloads to maximize density.

In other words: They can’t play Tetris. But we can.

Our analytics proactively place workloads to safely increase density by an average of 48%, while also reducing software licensing requirements for core and processor licensing by an average of 55%, bringing a whole new level of efficiency to your VMware environments.

DRS moves dropped over 80%, AFTER Densify analytics were deployed—dramatically reducing resource contention

Proactively Prevent Resource Conflicts

VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and vRealize Operations are purely reactive. They don’t place workloads to prevent performance problems—they just react to them after they happen.

Densify gives you predictive analysis that considers time-of-day patterns to detect contention risk, and proactively moves VMs in anticipation of upcoming loads—resulting in an 80% reduction of VM movement during business hours. 

Optimize & Automate Workload Hosting Decisions

Used alone, vRealize Automation blueprints require you to manually decide where a workload is hosted.

Densify provides automated, API-driven workload routing that uses detailed capacity analysis, fit-for-purpose analysis, and cost ranking to make an intelligent placement decision. No end-user decisions or manual intervention required.

Reserve Capacity in Advance of Deployments & Control The Onboarding Process

VMware vRealize Automation doesn’t reserve capacity—it only supports basic quotas, which are not linked to actual capacity availability. You can’t guarantee resources will actually be there when it’s time to deploy.

Densify provides patented reservation technology that actually locks resources in predictive models, preventing other provisioning activity from using them. This eliminates the need to manually “repoint” blueprints if resources are unexpectedly exhausted in your VMware environments.

Densify enables you to reserve capacity for workloads in a specific environment. This ensures the capacity is held for when you need it and gives you an accurate picture of how much room you have available. In new environments, this acts like a fuel gauge that shows the infrastructure “filling up,” even before you place any workloads, giving you total control over the transformation and on-boarding process. 

Automatically Locate The Best Hosting Environments

VMware vRealize automation hard codes the hosting venue and forces you to choose between clouds manually. This can result in performance compliance issues, inflated costs, and rework to redeploy the workload.

Densify automatically determines the best hosting venue for workloads across your hybrid infrastructure, whether that’s VMware-based or not. It assesses on-prem and off-prem options simultaneously to find the best fit, based on detailed utilization analysis, business requirements, technical requirements, cloud catalogs, capabilities, performance benchmarks, and more.

Simultaneously increasing VM density & reducing resource contention

Densify analyzes historical intra-day workload patterns and uses these detailed models to predict what a workload will do in the future. This is critical to optimization. If you don’t know what a workload will do, you can’t drive higher density without incurring lots of risk. Densify uses this insight while considering all the other critical technical and business requirements to uniquely dove-tail workloads in on-premise virtual infrastructure. Think of it like a game of Tetris™ where placing the game pieces together properly will safely maximize use of the playing area. Only Densify can play Tetris with your workloads to increase VM density by 48%, reducing hardware requirements by an average of 33%. Playing Tetris also means reduced risk of resource contention, reducing VM motioning and volatility. We call this proactive automated optimization because we not only enable you to increase efficiency, we reduce your risk.

Optimize Resource Allocations

Over-sized VMs are a common area of waste in on-premise virtual infrastructure, particularly when self-service models allow users to determine allocations. With its deep analysis of workload patterns, Densify optimizes resource allocations – your workloads get exactly what they need without getting too much. These automated proactive resource allocations are supported by real-time response that enables hot-adds and bump-ups in the event of operational anomalies and resource shortfalls. Densify can also schedule and automate allocation updates (for bump ups and bump downs) when real-time changes are not allowed due to policy or operational constraints.

The most comprehensive solution available for automated optimization

Densify provides organizations with the best of both worlds—automated proactive optimization to avoid resource contention while increasing efficiency and real-time response for operational anomalies:

Rightsizing

  • Proactive VM rightsizing to ensure resource allocations are sufficient without wasting capacity
  • Real-time hot-adds in response to CPU and memory resource allocation shortfalls
  • Scheduling of resource reclamation and rightsizing when real-time changes to allocations are not suitable due to policy and operational constraints
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Placements

  • Proactive avoidance of host and environment imbalances with rebalancing actions to avoid resource contention 
  • Proactive elimination of stranded capacity due to inefficient VM placements by rebalancing VMs
  • Intelligent real-time VM rebalancing through synchronization of Densify’s predictive analysis models and integration to VMware® DRS
  • Real-time analysis of new workload placement across on-prem and public cloud infrastructure, to avoid resource imbalances at the cluster and environment levels

Densify is covered by the following patents.