VMware Monitoring & Reporting: A Unified View

VMware Monitoring, Alerting and Reporting that Deploys in Seconds

Easily monitor performance, capacity and availability changes in your VMware deployment with automated VMware monitoring and alerting that ensures visibility, fast trouble-shooting, proactive VMware management and met service levels, all with a single tool.

• Agentless, Real-Time vSync of Your VMware Environment: Save IT staff time, as up.time's vSync technology is agentless and automatically detects new VMs and applies all VMware monitoring and alerting services. Don't ever worry about holes in your VMware monitoring again.
•  Identify VMware Troublemakers and Control Sprawl: Quickly find sprawl sources and shut them down in minutes. Be alerted and set automated actions when new VMs are created. "Top 20" reports by downtime, number of incidents, and Mean-Time-Before-Failure.
• Prioritize the Worst Virtualization Performers: 100's of deep VMware monitors and metrics help pinpoint issues and monitor virtualization success, including: Memory Balloon, Percent Wait, Memory Zero, and more.
• Optimize VMware Density: Get the most out of your VMware investment by maximizing VMware density without hurting VMware performance. Know how VMs are impacting each other's virtualization performance and ensure VMs work together.
• VMware Power Awareness Intelligence: SMART monitoring understands the power state changes in DPM and never sends false alerts. Monitor power usage in your VMware environment to track energy savings initiatives, determine power gobbling applications and workloads, and map power usage to capacity over time.
• Monitor Virtual, Physical, and Cloud Datacenters From One Console: Monitor all, physical, virtual and cloud servers, applications, assets, and domains across various platforms (Windows, Solaris, AIX, Linux, HP-UX, Novell NetWare) and multiple/remote datacenters from a single dashboard.

Proactive VMware Capacity Management and Capacity Planning

Take the guesswork out of VMware capacity planning. Quickly find VMware bottlenecks and proactively manage VMware capacity so you  never run into VMware capacity nightmares again. Proactive VMware capacity planning and management keeps you informed of current VMware capacity, alerts on capacity bottlenecks, and finds VMware capacity problems long before they cause headaches.

• VMware Capacity Bottleneck Trouble-Shooting: Newly virtualized applications can sometimes behave oddly, and this can be the result of tough to find VMware capacity bottlenecks. Be alerted the minute a capacity bottleneck appears and regain control by locating the bottleneck in minutes with deep capacity metrics at your finger-tips.

• Global VMware Capacity Reports: Easily see and compare historical capacity trends across VMware (clusters, resource pools, vApps, VMs, ESX hosts, vCenters, Datacenters, and more) to help establish baselines for upgrade or consolidation projects and ensure that you never overspend on, or run out of, capacity again.

• VMware Capacity Forecasting: Never be caught begging for additional VMware capacity and storage again. Easily see accurate forecasts of when VMware capacity will run out long before it pops up and bites you. Find users and business units who are over allocating or inefficiently using storage.

up.time's VMware Monitors

up.time provides the deep vSphere monitoring, vCenter monitoring and  ESX & ESXi monitoring and reporting you need Full recognition of virtual assets including vCenter servers, Datacenters, clusters, resource pools, vApps, ESX hosts and virtual machines Support for concurrent monitoring of multiple vCenters without the need to install agents Monitor all your ESX 3.5+ VMware platforms up.time is your all-in-one solution for deep monitoring of both virtual (including vSphere monitoring and ESX monitoring) and physical (including AIX monitoring, Solaris monitoring, Windows monitoring, Linux monitoring, and Novell monitoring) environments.

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Vendor/Product Comparison Checklist:
	A  template that is easy to change and customize in order to meet your evaluation needs. This 'checklist' can be used to evaluate any systems management product, and compare it with others. >> Download PDF
White Paper: Optimizing the Virtual Environment:
	Five (5) Guidelines for choosing a Virtual Monitoring & Management Solution. Learn about the pitfalls inherent with virtual environment management and monitoring, as well as 5 guidelines to help you choose the right vendor for your systems management needs.   >>  Download Here
Product Quick Fact Sheet:
	Get a quick datasheet overview of exactly what up.time can do for you, with sample metrics and monitors included.  >>  Download Here
Quick Product Tour:
	Short Tour: VMware Monitoring and Management  (1:37 min) This short up.time tour will show you up.time's deep workload profiling, auto-discovery of VMs, tracking of VMotion, VM density optimization reporting, and much more.
	Short Tour: Server Virtualization (1:47) (1:47 min) See how our Server Virtualization reports makes your consolidation projects fast, and easy.
Short Videos:
	17-Minute VMware Monitoring and VMware Orchestrator Demo with up.time 2 parts (8:30 min each, 17-minutes in total) See how up.time's VMware monitoring and management integrates with VMware's Orchestrator to achieve powerful runbook automation capabilities to quickly reduce MTTR and avoid incidents.
	6-Minute up.time Overview (6:00 min) See how up.time provides a single tool that fits into Mid-Enterprise IT departments to deeply monitor and manage capacity across virtual, physical, and cloud infrastructure, including up.time's innovative proactive outage avoidance, automated healing actions and SLA management capabilities.

Customer Review:

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Customer: Bank of Montreal

Maximum Density and Better VMware Performance: "We've been able to stretch the hardware a lot further, and in some cases we're getting 50-to-one VMware workloads per server with up.time." - Joe Kitchen, Senior Manager of Infrastructure Development, Bank of Montreal. "We saved between 50%-70% during our implementation of 275 servers and couldn’t be happier with uptime’s solution and their service”.

Business Problem: Bank of Montreal (BMO) was looking for a server monitoring, application monitoring and capacity planning solution that could help them identify potential issues quickly and drive out inefficiencies in a cost effective manner. To guide key decisions in consolidation and virtualization, they were interested in capacity planning, forecasting, and historical trending reports. They also needed deep enterprise level monitoring that could span virtual and physical environments.

• 50%-70% decrease in IT costs
• 25% increase in productivity
• Increased infrastructure uptime and better VMware performance
• A solution that is easy to use, and senses problems proactively before they happen.

Press Reviews:

	CIO Magazine: How Mt. Sinai's IT Team Made Virtualization Easier "Mount Sinai uses uptime to monitor its own service levels, verify the SLA data that its data-center management service provides, and to help with capacity planning and migration on a virtualization project that includes both Hyper-V and VMware-based servers as well as a range of Unix servers and specialized applications," Kevin Fogarty, CIO Magazine.
	Network World: Better Efficiency in VMware Environments "up.time promises better efficiency in VMware environments with the new version of its software which provides a centralized view of physical and virtual servers, devices and applications. Tighter integration with VMware will increase virtual machine density, and make it easier to fix and avoid outages."
	InformationWeek: up.time Monitors VMWare Physical, Virtual Assets "up.time 5... (is) aimed at making the VMware's ESX Server environments more manageable. In addition to monitoring Windows and Linux on x86 servers, up.time 5 can also see servers running Sun's Solaris 10, IBM's AIX, HP's HPUX, the former SGI's Irix and the former Compaq Unix, Tru 64, now owned by HP. The Toronto firm's Web site claims its per-server, rather than per-CPU pricing makes it a less expensive approach to systems management than other virtualization vendors." Charles Babcock, InformationWeek.
	eWeek: up.time offers Deep VMware Monitoring and Management "Features include automated incidence avoidance that reduces manual find/fix by automatically heading off reoccurring problems before they happen and seamless integration with VMware vCenter Orchestrator, which the company said makes building out automated problem avoidance workflows easy, providing advanced capabilities for SMB and Enterprise companies. The updated software also brings improved visibility and manageability of the entire infrastructure from a single console, including virtual and physical infrastructures and applications, and across multiple data centers."
	CRN Tech: Turbo-Charging Virtualization - Getting the most out of Virtual Management "up.time 5 offers server monitoring, capacity planning, service-level management, virtualization management, and application monitoring, all in one product. The browser based interface is very straight forward, extending across platforms, environments, applications, and databases. Customers can create as many instances as desired on licensed servers at no additional cost. There is no need to pay for each virtual host."

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Sample of up.time's VMware Monitoring Screenshots

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		Global Scan: The "Single Pane of Glass" View Across All VMware Servers up.time's Global Scan is a consolidated, real-time view of enterprise IT health. Simply click the 'Global Scan' tab at any time in your browser, and instantly see critical metrics on the overall state of all IT services and applications, as well as the trend over the past 24 hours. Easily drill down to any number of regional groups of servers and network devices, with one mouse click, in order to get in-depth availability, server performance monitoring and metrics.
		VMware Resource Scan View Need to get a quick and accurate enterprise snapshot of all your critical virtual server resources including CPU, Memory, Disk and Network I/O? Simply click the "View Resource Scan" tab from your Global Scan view and up.time will instantly give you aggregate statistics at the enterprise, regional group or server level. Easy-to-read dials show you current CPU, memory, disk capacity, disk activity and network I/O statistics, and averages graphed over the last 24 hours. These allow you to isolate resource issues quickly, and plan accurately to ensure optimal resource capacity across your enterprise.
		Server Virtualization and Consolidation With up.time's Server Consolidation Report, you can easily identify which systems in your environment are candidates for consolidation on VMware based on such factors a CPU, memory, network, and disk I/O. Already have servers running on VMware? up.time VMware monitoring capabilities can produce workload graphs that show how VMware instances are performing on a physical ESX system. Using the information from the server consolidation utility, you can quickly determine where to rebalance the workload.
		VMware Workload Reporting Have you consolidated a number of servers using VMware? And are you noticing performance degradation with some of the instances on your ESX system? up.time can help. Run a VMware Workload report to visualize how your instances are performing on a physical ESX system. Then use this information to rebalance the workload as needed. If you are using Virtual Infrastructure to manage your physical VMware ESX v3 servers, up.time's Workload Profile report can chart the workload of both the server and the ESX servers that are being managed by it.
		Regional Group View By clicking on any regional server or application group, you get a quick and easy snapshot of all servers and applications in a specific area. This gives you a bird's-eye view of regional performance and availability. Color-coded problem identification makes it easy to identify problems that are occurring with server performance, system resources, applications and IT service outages. Problem servers 'float' to the top of your regional view to make their identification quick and easy. Once identified, simply click on the host name, or critical flag and you'll be able to isolate the root cause by drilling down to many root cause analytics, graphs and metrics.
		VMware Server Alerting, Escalation & Automated Recovery Alerting, escalation, and automated recovery options are very powerful management tools built into up.time that will improve availability and your relationship with end users. These features allow for automated reaction to problems detected by up.time monitors in response to outages, performance thresholds or whatever else is important to you. up.time will take the appropriate actions as defined by you including: Email / Pager Alerts Windows Popups Stop/Start Services SNMP Traps Logging to a File Custom Recovery Script Execution

Sample of up.time's VMware Server Reports

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See Virtualization Candidates with the Server Virtualization Report

Do you have production servers that are not being used to their full capacity? Then use the Server Virtualization report to pinpoint the physical servers that can be consolidated in a virtual environment, for example, using VMware. This is an essential server reporting tool for companies that depend on server virtualization. A full green star means that a server is a prime candidate to virtualize. A gray star means you should think twice before virtualizing a server.

End Virtual Sprawl with the VMware vSphere VM Sprawl Report

Easily determine the extent of sprawl across your virtual infrastructure, and acquire the right information needed to reduce it. Identify underused VMs, VMs that have not been powered on recently, or VMs that have been powered on but never used. Audit VM creation and destruction balance. Plot VM population trends to see if sprawl is growing or being reduced.

Maximize Your VM Density with the VMware Infrastructure Density Report

Quickly identify sprawl and on which physical ESX servers it is occurring. Get a quick bird's-eye view of VM density to better plan VM instance distribution. Help reduce VM contention. This is a must have virtual server report.

Get Visibility of Your vSphere Workloads with the VMware vSphere Workload Report

Get a broad view of workloads across your entire virtual infrastructure. Start with a resource usage overview for vCenters, ESX hosts, and all types of vSphere objects: datacenters, clusters, vApps, and resource pools. Compare resource usage from past timeframes. Then, focus on resource usage for specific vCenter elements to pinpoint how they are contributing to overall usage patterns.

VMware Workload Report

Do you use Virtual Infrastructure (VI or VirtualCenter) to manage multiple, physical VMware ESX servers? If so, then the VMware Workload server report can help you keep track of the workload of both the server on which VI is running and the ESX servers that VI manages. Use this virtual server report to help you to manage and monitor virtual servers, as well as allocate resources among virtual machines.

VMware Metrics

This is a small sample of the VMware metrics up.time collects. For a full list, please contact us.

Counter	Agentless	Agent-Based (up.time Agent)
CPU
CPU Reservation/Entitlement
Memory
Network I/O
Disk I/O
Disk Latency (Total, Kernel, Device)
Disk Commands Aborted / Issued
Disk Bus Resets
% Ready
% Used
% Wait
Memory Balloon/Target
Memory Overhead
Memory Swap In/Out
Memory Swap Used/Target
Memory Zero
Memory
Network I/O
Power Usage
Power States
NIC/vNIC Error Rate
NIC/vNIC Transmit Rate

VMware Monitors

VMware Performance Monitors

Create performance checks for all your VMware vCenter deployments by monitoring CPU and memory usage thresholds, and enforcing hard ESX host or VM limits for your clusters, datacenters, resource pools, and vApps.

VMware vSphere ESX Server Performance Monitor

Create alerts on host-level metrics for your ESX servers. As the workhorses of your virtual infrastructure, your ESX servers' uptime is crucial. Monitor performance thresholds related to CPU, memory, disk I/O and error rates, and network I/O and error rates. Use performance warnings to perform root-cause analysis, and identify resource capacity problems and bottlenecks.

Power State Monitors

up.time's smart power state awareness allows you to stay on top of the array of powered on, suspended, and powered off VMs that are managed by your VMware vCenter server. Smart power state management means avoiding false alerts. In cases where power states do matter, such as a mission-critical VM, the VM Power State and Host Power State monitors ensure you know when you do need to act.

ESX (Advanced Metrics) Monitor

For more detailed ESX host metrics, the ESX (Advanced Metrics) monitor offers greater visibility into your ESX environment by expanding on the high level usage metrics for a virtual machine’s CPU, memory, and disk activity.