SevOne Virtual Performance Appliance Solution

Virtual Appliance Solution

With the rapid growth of server virtualization and cloud computing, virtual appliances have become popular for their flexibility, low cost, and ease of deployment in production, development, and demonstration environments. The SevOne product line includes a virtual appliance, the SevOne vPAS, that provides a simple, flexible, and fast deployment option. The SevOne vPAS provides the same rich feature set and web console user interface as the hardware appliance versions - it can be used as a standalone solution or it is fully peerable with other SevOne PAS models.

Virtual Appliance Advantages

A virtual appliance provides many advantages to large and small enterprises, cloud and managed service providers, and to our solution partners. A SevOne vPAS provides additional deployment flexiblity, including into remote sites and areas of the network that have limited physical and operational resources.  Further, it can be configured to support small or medium businesses, or small or standalone deployment configurations for service providers.

Rapid Deployment

A key benefit of SevOne’s appliance based deployment has been the speed and ease with which customers and service providers can deploy and get up and running. Relying on existing VMware infrastructure in your organization, the SevOne vPAS extends this benefit — a SevOne PAS is distributed as a single file that is installed via a VMware centralized management application. A simple console-based menu allows for basic system configuration including naming and addressing of your system. 

Remote or Branch Office

Many businesses and service providers struggle to maintain a consistent level of monitoring and service level assurance for remote sites, while also maintaining or reducing their operational cost. Deploying a SevOne vPAS addresses these concerns because it can be remotely deployed and managed as a virtual machine. Further, the monitoring and alerting functions are remotely managed through the distributed SevOne PAS user interface. The result is that your remote office users and applications will have the same level of monitoring and performance reporting with a minimal footprint and a cost model that meets your requirements.

Centralized Management

Centralized operations monitoring requires that traffic generated from the monitoring system to traverse multiple network connections. The additional network utilization is a required cost of centralized architectures, which can lose visibility into remote networks during a WAN outage. Inherent to the SevOne architecture is q single web-based interface that provides reporting and alerting on the data collected by any and all of the appliances, whether virtual or physical.

System Requirements

A SevOne vPAS that is configured to support 5,000 elements or objects requires: two virtual processors (x64), 150GB disk (which support one year of raw metrics), 4GB RAM, and VMware ESX 3.5 or greater.