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WhatsUp Gold WhatsVirtual
Virtual Server Monitoring - Monitor physical and virtual servers from a single console
Includes native support for VMware ESXi
Accurate and Integrated Virtual Server Monitoring and Management
Virtualization has changed the economics of investment in systems capacity – enabling far greater utilization rates than was safely possible in a physical server environment. As a network or systems administrator in charge of running your datacenter environment, it is likely you have already embraced virtualization or are thinking of doing so. Apart from cost, virtualization also provides you the agility to quickly provision or reallocate server capacity whenever your business or applications so demand.
However, you also realize that managing virtualized environments presents different challenges than running physical infrastructure. For one, dynamic virtualized systems typically don’ t support the standard SNMP mode of data collection. Even if they do, they provide only limited or inaccurate information. As a result you are probably compelled to use a different server monitoring software for your virtual servers than you do for your physical systems infrastructure, making your job more difficult. And typically virtualization management software that ship with the software have rudimentary capability at best. You likely miss the breadth and depth of management information and real-time alerting that a full- fledged management system can provide.
Integrated Monitoring and Management of Physical and Virtual Servers in One Single Console
WhatsVirtual is a new plug-in to the WhatsUp Gold core platform that does just that. It allows you to discover, map, monitor and manage your VMware virtual server environment exactly in the same way and from the same console as your physical server infrastructure. And with the power of WhatsUp Gold to manage network and application components as well, you have complete visibility to manage your entire datacenter environment from one management system. You don’ t need to look at multiple screens trying to figure out what went wrong or is likely to do so – since WhatsVirtual and WhatsUp Gold bring it all together.
With WhatsVirtual you can:
* Automatically discover and map VMware ESXi hosts and their associated guest systems
* Collect accurate utilization and resource consumption metrics through the VMware API
* View virtual server performance seamlessly along with information from your physical servers
* Get alerted in real-time when utilization on host systems or virtual machines breach thresholds
* Actively manage virtual machines on demand or on a scheduled basis using VMware tools
* Manage your entire datacenter infrastructure and applications from a single console
Key Capabilities Include:
VMware ESXi Role-based Discovery and Mapping
The WhatsVirtual plug-in automatic discovers, maps and documents physical servers and virtual resources --virtual clusters, vCenter server, VMware ESXi host and guest ( virtual) machine roles-- so you can fully understand your entire infrastructure. And since WhatsUp WhatsVirtual seamlessly displays the relationship between the host system and its associated VMs at all times, even when they are in suspended mode or after a live migration, you can rapidly traced back root cause of problems anywhere in your infrastructure.
Native Integration with the Powerful VMware API ( Includes support for vCenter, VMware vMotion & VMware High Availability)
WhatsUp Gold WhatsVirtual integrates with the powerful VMware API to collect performance metrics across VMs, virtual clusters and hosts, gain access to key management tasks, or oversee VMware vMotion or High Availability live migrations. WhatsVirtual offers all the tools that you need ( real-time maps, alerting capabilities and historical reports) to understand physical to VM mapping at all times, even as VMs move across servers, and simplify troubleshooting tasks. Relying on the VMware API is necessary because SNMP data collection is inaccurate when managing dynamic virtualized infrastructures, where physical resources are notionally shared between multiple guest systems through the virtualization software layer, called the hypervisor. Moreover, for next generation ESXi systems, VMware has stopped providing any performance information via SNMP.
Active Management of your VMware Virtual Environment
The WhatsVirtual plug-in provides powerful capability for controlling virtual machines and virtual clusters through a number of management actions such as: power on, power off, suspend, and reset and virtual machine backup. Further, any of these management actions can be set for recurring execution or triggered on specific device states just like for other WhatsUp Gold Action Library items. For example, new Snapshots ( configuration backups) of virtual machines can be triggered over the weekend, or a running VM may be powered down when the utilization falls below set levels.
Workspace Reports for Physical Host Servers, Virtual Machines and Virtual Clusters
WhatsVirtual adds several new workspace reports over and above existing physical server performance monitoring reports, such as Virtual Host lists, Virtual Host attributed or virtual clusters groups. Each of the entities link directly to the individual system device report – whether at a host or virtual machine level – providing exactly the same information as WhatsUp Gold does for a physical server. For example, the new Virtual Host Attributes report displays all the host server details including, the running configuration of the server and its version numbers. And hardware attributes displayed include the number of CPU cores and frequency, memory capacity and other system information.
Seamless Integration into the WhatsUp Gold Alert Center
The WhatsUp Gold Alert Center seamlessly supports alerting, escalation, threshold and response configuration for VMware ESXi hosts, virtual machines, virtual clusters, and vMotion or High Availability migrations -- just as it does for physical servers. Since the Alert Center consolidates availability and performance alert information across networks, servers, virtual resources, application and traffic metrics, WhatsUp Gold provides a single console that can be used by the operations team to manage the entire datacenter and infrastructure assets across the company.