Virtualization Use Cases

On Lee

Executive Vice President Engineering & Chief Technology Officer,

LogLogic, Inc.

The penetration of virtual servers in the data center represents at the same time great opportunities and great risks for security and availability.

From a security point of view, privileged user activity monitoring is of particular importance in the virtual server world. Hypervisor administrators have the ability to configure and re-configure the infrastructure dynamically. Regulators and industry standards require accountability through independent log monitoring.

From a performance management standpoint, business availability management and event management point of view, log management can provide a constant factor. When everything is liquid in the infrastructure, the core components of business applications and its log files don't change.

With LogLogic log management solutions, you can:

  • Monitor hypervisor administrator activity through hypervisor log monitoring
  • Monitor user and system activity of virtual applications residing and cross-correlate information from activity observed on various applications
  • Conduct fault analysis in virtual infrastructures through log alerting, reporting and search, accelerating the mean-time-to-repair
  • Collect compliance reporting and historical activity archives for Payment Credit Card industry, Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulations