TMC (News - Alert) recently presented a complimentary Webinar, “Monitoring Habits to Keep Your Virtual Environment Healthy,” in late March.

The Webinar, sponsored by VKernel, offered what webinar officials described as “an overview of VMware best practices and VM performance optimization and resolution.”

In the pre-virtualized data center, Jackson said, it wasn’t exactly easy, but “it was simpler than what we’re dealing with today.” Applications and resources pretty much mapped one to one, yes their were multitier apps, but they were still single apps running on single servers, and problems were all localized. Sound like the good old days? Maybe some days you’re nostalgic for such simplicity.

Aimed at those who are concerned that VM performance problems might occur unexpectedly, the webinar reviewed how to assess how healthy your environment is and how your virtualized infrastructure will react to growth.

Presenting was Eric Jackson, VP of Product Management at VKernel. Moderating the discussion was Patrick Barnard, Senior Web Editor TMC.

A 25+ year high-tech veteran, Jackson serves as VKernel's vice president of Product Management and joined VKernel from Lab Escape, a private company that provides visual analytics for large enterprises, where he led the creation of application-specific offerings through customer collaboration.

Previously, Jackson co-founded Ibrix, a venture-backed company offering a scalable file system  that was acquired by HP in 2009, and served as vice president of Products for XOsoft, a disaster recovery and high availability software firm which was acquired by CA (News - Alert) in 2006.

This 60-minute webinar introduced and discussed the top monitoring best practices all VM administrators should implement, Jackson said, in order to gain visibility into the state of their environment, spot existing as well as future performance problems, and resolutions without impact to application delivery.