| When you consider just how underutilized today's | | | | that monitor your physical and virtual networks. |
| traditional servers are in a typical network, it's clear | | | | |
| how beneficial virtualization technology is to the | | | | When looking at the devices that run your virtual |
| future of the computer industry. Unfortunately, many | | | | environments, you also must try to be aware that |
| organizations fail to properly evaluate how to monitor | | | | with many different virtual machines running on one |
| virtualized networks. Some preplanning ahead can | | | | device, vulnerabilities that could possibly exist in the |
| save lots of time and headaches later on. | | | | software abstraction layer between the hardware |
| | | | | and software. You need to be able to make sure |
| In the past, a network professional might use | | | | that not only are VMs secure, but you also have to |
| security devices or monitoring servers to keep an | | | | stay aware of the machines that are running what |
| eye on network activity. This is acceptable, but | | | | could be tens or possibly hundreds of separate |
| things are changing so quickly in the technology world | | | | environments. |
| that it is best to consider other alternatives now that | | | | |
| virtualized environments are coming to the forefront. | | | | So it goes both ways, and in order to properly |
| | | | | manage all this you need to have a sophisticated |
| Traditional networks communicate from device to | | | | solution that allows you to monitor network |
| device so monitoring is relatively straight forward. In | | | | performance holistically. Network management in |
| contrast, virtual environments communicate from one | | | | this new era is both exciting and challenging at the |
| virtual machine to another across one or several | | | | same time. Of course, that's why technology is such |
| devices. Therefore, to get an accurate picture of | | | | an interesting field, right? |
| your entire network you must investigate solutions | | | | |