Cisco Intersight: A Handbook for Intelligent Cloud Operations

Chapter 9

Workload Optimization

Introduction

IT operations teams essentially have a prime directive against which their success is constantly measured: to deliver performant applications at the lowest possible cost while maintaining compliance with IT policies.

This goal is thwarted by the almost intractable complexity of modern application architectures—whether virtualized, containerized, monolithic or microservices based, on premises or public cloud, or a combination of them all—as well as the sheer scale of the workloads under management and the constraints imposed by licensing and placement rules. Having a handle on which components of which applications depend on which pieces of the infrastructure is challenging enough; knowing where a ...