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Virtualization is becoming the popular practice in many environments, allowing organizations of all sizes to utilize resources more efficiently. SQL Sentry Event Manager allows DBA's to more effectively manage these dynamic environments to ensure optimal performance.

Virtualization can dramatically reduce the cost of hardware and other resources needed to expand your SQL Server enterprise. It allows you to maximize your existing hardware, which often goes underutilized throughout the day, while saving physical space and maintenance overhead at the same time.

Unfortunately for a DBA, this can mean a rapidly growing virtual environment that can quickly become too large to effectively manage with current time available. Additionally, since you now have multiple virtual servers utilizing the same physical hardware, the opportunities for performance bottlenecks multiply with each new server.

This dramatically increases the importance of ensuring that automated processes that require the same physical resources do not conflict with each other. Having your backup run at 3 a.m. each night on separate physical servers may not be a problem, but having your backup run at 3 a.m. each night on several virtual servers that reside on the same physical machine can bring it to its knees.

Fortunately, SQL Sentry Event Manager allows you to create a consolidated Outlook-style calendar view of all the activity across your virtual servers sharing the same physical resources with Custom Event Views.

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