Managing Application Servers in Today's Compute Environments

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Application Performance Monitor (APM) is now Server & Application Monitor (SAM) For more information on SAM, visit: http://www.solarwinds.com/products/seum/web-application-monitor.aspx Watch this webcast: http://www.solarwinds.com/resources/webcasts/managing-application-servers-in-todays-compute-environments.html The traditional application server has been deconstructed and redefined. Components of today’s applications run on distributed systems which have been virtualized across clusters of physical hosts that sharing network bandwidth to storage and other resources. Additionally, today’s hyper-dense computing environments, made possible by innovations by companies such as Cisco, EMC, and VMware, have placed more servers per square foot in our data centers than ever before. These changes cause us to revisit IT management philosophies and in many cases to re-tool ourselves for this generation of data center. Join SolarWinds Head Geek Josh Stephens as we discuss the changes that these trends have caused and how they affect application management best practices. Some of what he’ll cover will include: Understanding today’s application server technologies Best practices for managing next-gen application servers Key elements of successful monitoring in hyper-dense computing environments Management system recommendations and what to watch out for Also during this webcast we’ll demonstrate key technologies from SolarWinds that help conquer these challenges and ensure application management success in these environments.

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The Deconstruction of the App Server “Deconstructed” Traditional app servers were all in one “box” Today App servers are virtualized Physical servers are clustered Storage is across the network Access to resources and I/O is shared: Storage CPU Memory Network

Distributed Applications Many applications, and what used to be called an “application server” are now distributed Components can be distributed: Across multiple VMs Across multiple ESX hosts Across multiple clusters In multiple data centers ,[object Object],[object Object]

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