TeamQuest (Capacity Planning Solution)

TeamQuest (Capacity Planning Solution)

TeamQuest Overview

Data center performance management and capacity planning for proactive IT optimization TeamQuest Performance Software is a suite of four integrated products that help you optimize the performance of your data center and align IT with business priorities. You can TeamQuest software to fight fires with powerful performance monitoring and analysis capabilities, or to spot trends so that you can address problems more proactively. You can even predict the affects of configuration changes or of changes to your business workloads.

• Complete solution for Performance Analysis & Capacity Planning
• Cross-platform support for open systems (Unix, Linux, and Windows)
• Integrates with SNMP console applications
• Easy to customize and adapt to heterogeneous IT environments
• Extremely low resource consumption
• Little manual labor required for daily operation

TeamQuest Performance Software Family

Configuration of TeamQuest Performance Software

TeamQuest Performance Software products all access data from a common component called TeamQuest Manager. TeamQuest Manager collects, stores, manages and administers performance data. Each of the products then retrieves data from TeamQuest Manager for analysis.

Another component of TeamQuest Performance Software, called TeamQuest Administration Server, makes it easy to manage the configuration of multiple instances of TeamQuest Manager across the various systems in your data center.

• Optimize Utilization levels on existing on existing servers
• Predict performance problems with trend alarms and exception reports
• Test new applications, consolidate servers, and upgrade hardware with confidence
• Create workloads and know exactly how much resources are consumed by different customers
• Consolidate performance data into enterprise databases for cross-server reporting
• Spend less time monitoring your servers and more time on productive work

TeamQuest Model (Be Prepared, Plan Ahead, and Predict Performance)

• Predict application performance under varying loads
• Prepare for unexpected spikes in demand
• Avoid outages and slow response time
• Increase utilization while maintaining service levels
• Consolidate servers with confidence
• Understand which IT components are likely to be your weakest links
• Perform just-in-time upgrades

TeamQuest View (Detect Bottlenecks, Investigate Causes, and Uncover trends)

• Analyze data from every tier in your data center together
• Analyze end-to-end performance
• Track service levels
• Perform real-time and historical analysis
• Drill down to users and process active at the time of a problem
• Explore cause-and-effect relationships
• Uncover cycles and patterns in system behavior
• Be alerted to potential problems before users are affected

TeamQuest on the Web (Access and Distribute Performance Reports)

• Access system performance data from anywhere through a standard browser
• Automatically distribute performance management reports to a variety of users through the Web
• Analyze up-to-the-minute and historical performance of servers, applications, and end-to-end response

TeamQuest Alert (Manage Multiple Systems via Events and Rules-of-Thumb)

• Monitor the performance of hundreds of heterogeneous servers at once
• Use built-in rules-of-thumb to evaluate system performance
• Automatically detect performance problems before users are affected
• Send an email, call a beeper, or send an SNMP trap to your management console
• Know at a glance how servers are performing through color and text indicators

TeamQuest lets you decide how much performance detail to keep, how long to retain it, and where to store it. You can combine data from multiple local databases into an enterprise database and keep it as long as you need it. Having several systems’ data in and enterprise database makes it easy to do cross-system analysis, allowing you to include data from multiple systems in the same graph, for example. You can even summarize and combine data from multiple enterprise databases into another enterprise database.

TeamQuest Solutions for Data Center Issues

• Outsourcing: Improved service, agility, and capabilities
• Capacity Planning: Proactively align IT and business priorities
• Server Consolidation: Save money and improve IT manageability
• Cost Reduction: IT must do more with less
• Risk Management: Managing Risk in IT Service Delivery
• End-to-End Performance: The ultimate test of IT performance is end-user experience.