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ESX Monitoring and Reporting, vSphere Monitoring and Reporting
VMware vSphere/ESX server software enables a single host to run multiple virtual servers and their applications as individual instances. up.time can monitor both the server on which VMware ESX is running, and the instances that are running on that server.
Using up.time, you can not only monitor vSphere/ESX servers and their instances, but you can also determine the optimal SAN deployment for you environment. Keeping track of the performance of a virtual server farm is easy using up.time's monitors, graphs, and reports. Or, use a report to zero in on physical servers that are good candidates for virtualization on a VMware server.
- Real-Time vSync of Your VMware Environment: Save loads of time, as up.time's vSync technology automatically detects new VMs and applies all VMware monitoring and alerting services, so you never worry about holes in your VMware monitoring plan.
- 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 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 and multiple/remote datacenters from a single dashboard.
Support for vSphere and Driving VMware Performance
up.time provides deep monitoring across one or multiple vSpheres, with global level reporting and monitoring that covers your entire vSphere environment. up.time works in conjunction with vSphere to gather workload data from multiple ESX servers and their instances through a single entry point. up.time maintains un-aggregated historical data for root-cause or forensic analysis for a configurable amount of time up to two years.
vCenter Orchestrator Integration
With up.time, you can easily integrate with vCenter Orchestrator to trigger workflows based on up.time’s application and infrastructure monitoring capabilities. Additionally, using the up.time Orchestrator plugin, enable bi-directional communication between up.time and Orchestrator to dynamically adjust your VMware infrastructure to avoid outages.
ESX Workload Monitoring
The ESX Workload monitor gathers a set of metrics from each of the instances running on an ESX server. The monitor compares the highest values returned by the instances to the thresholds that you have set. If the values collected from the instances exceed your thresholds, up.time issues an alert.
To give you 100% visibility and control, up.time deeply monitors & alerts on capacity bottlenecks at the Datacenter, Cluster, Resource Pool, vApp, ESX Host or VM level.
ESX Performance Reporting and Graphing
Once up.time has collected metrics from an ESX system, what do you do with all of that information? Use up.time's reports and graphs to visualize the performance of both the ESX server and the instances that are running on that server.
Using the "vSphere Workload Report," you can pinpoint which VMware instances are using the most system resources, or whether or not you are using a particular VMware ESX server to its optimal capacity. The report will also chart the workload of both the physical server and the VM guest instances.
If you regularly use the VMware VMotion utility, which enables you to move ESX instances from one server to another without any downtime or loss of data, then up.time's Instance Motion graph is an essential tool. The Instance Motion graph tracks where a VMware instance relocated with the VMware VMotion tool has been running on over a given time period.
Consolidation and Density Optimization
Many organizations have a number of production servers that are not being used to their full capacity - servers that are running one or two applications which are not using the hardware to its potential. Instead of wasting resources, you can consolidate these applications in a virtual environment using VMware. Consolidation enables you to run applications on distinct servers, but without using as much hardware.
up.time's Server Virtualization report can help you to pinpoint physical servers that can be combined on a single virtual server. The report highlights servers that do not fully use their CPU, memory, or disk resources. The report factors in CPU, memory, network, and disk I/O over a period of time and calculates an appropriate mix of workloads. Instead of wasting time with guesswork, you can efficiently virtualize servers in your network using actual data.
With the Virtual Infrastructure Density report, up.time can display VM guest density of the VMware server farm and quickly help identify sprawl. The density report, in conjunction with up.time’s deep VMware metrics allow you to optimally mix VM guest workloads and behaviours.
Licensing
A standard server license can be used to monitor an ESX server with any number of CPU sockets and virtual machines. Licensing for up.time's VMware monitoring features is flexible and is not based on the number of instances that you are monitoring. Instead, you can monitor an unlimited number of VMware instances.
VMware Performance Metrics
up.time proivides 100's of metrics to help you monitor your VMware environment better. In addition to system performance metrics from the ESX platform, up.time also collects metrics for each instance running on an ESX server. Below are just a few of the metrics up.time collects, monitors, alerts on and reports:
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