Make sure your virtualized assets are compliant and optimized, regardless of the complexity of clustered data center environments and the types

of virtual machines in use

VIRTUALIZATION

Virtualization and clustering technologies enable organizations to do more

with less, but they also pose problems for SAM (Software Asset Management)

teams. Infrastructure and operations are similarly challenged as they undertake

optimization, consolidation or cloud migration projects. They all struggle to

understand the complex relationships between applications, database and

middleware platforms, virtual machines, virtualization environments and the

hardware that supports them.

Data centers that run a heterogeneous mix of operating systems and

virtualization technologies make it hard to calculate the demand for software

licenses or discern the most efficient way to consolidate infrastructure. Without

active management, you leave yourself open to vendor audits, expensive fines

and operational inefficiencies. Seeing through the complexity enables you to

manage demand, mitigate risk, and optimize efficiencies.

iQSonar carries out essential discovery and dependency mapping across all

physical, virtual, clustered and cloud-based hardware and software assets. By

integrating with third-party SAM (Software Asset Management), LMS (License

Management Tools) and CMDB (Configuration Management Database) solutions

you benefit from a process of continuous compliance and ongoing asset

optimization.

iQSonar ticks vital boxes for compliance in highly virtualized environments:

SUPPORTS ALL LEADING VENDORS

• VMware vSphere

• Microsoft Hyper-V

• Solaris Containers

• IBM Power Virtualization (LPAR)

• Oracle VM

UNDERSTAND CLUSTERING AND HIGH AVAILABILITY TECHNOLOGIES

• Get visibility of all the physical hardware that supports and

could support your applications

• Understand not only where the software is running now, but also

where it can run in the event of automated migrations such as vMotion

and Live Partition Mobility

• Identify virtual sprawl and build license optimized environments for

specific workloads.

Make sure your virtualized assets are compliant and optimized, regardless of the complexity of clustered data center environments and the types of virtual machines in use

INTRODUCTION

EXPOSE RICH DATA

• Consolidate discovery and dependency data from multiple data centers

in a central location as a “single source of truth”

• Automatically validate and correct data that has been miss-reported by

the environment (e.g. CPU, core and thread counts)

• Integrate data with third-party tools through APIs and solution

specific connectors

AGENTLESS

It takes less time to deploy and manage the solution because nothing needs to

be installed on the target machines, and valuable server resources are not used

up by running software agents

SELF-INFORMING DISCOVERY You don’t need to know what’s there before the scan starts and you don’t need

to worry that something will be missed.

SINGLE SOLUTION

Not only does it work with virtualization technologies, iQSonar supports

application and platform technologies from Oracle, IBM and Microsoft.

NO OBSTACLE

Designed for the most complex and secure network environments, multiple

deployment models support every conceivable configuration.

EASY INTEGRATION

APIs and connectors let you build a total solution with third-party products for

continuous monitoring and management.

AT-A-GLANCE: Why iQSonar?

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