Virtual Infrastructure Monitoring

Standardize Your Virtual Infrastructure Operations

With SevOne VM Monitoring, IT Operations teams can easily expand their services to include their virtual infrastructure, and reduce their costs and improve service levels through consolidation and standardization of monitoring and performance management tools. Any user, whether a network operations center (NOC) engineer or a more specialized server or VMware administrator, can log into any one of the SevOne peer appliances and get exactly the same dashboard and reporting interface. This all-in-one solution approach facilitates a rapid troubleshooting workflow and efficient communication amongst the NOC and virtualization teams to ensure service levels are proactively met. Furthermore, SevOne addresses the main limitations of specialized virtualization vendor’s tools by monitoring what is happening inside virtual machines (VMs) and across all devices at the network traffic level. 

Integrated VM Monitoring Capabilities

SevOne VM Monitoring enables IT operations staff to monitor and proactively manage their virtual infrastructure using the same reporting consoles and workflows used to manage their network and physical servers. VM Monitoring adds to the agent-less server and application monitoring capabilities available in the SevOne PAS via SNMP, WMI, JMX, and process monitoring. The SevOne VM monitoring plugin and VM Browser uses the VMware vSphere API to dynamically discover the ESX hosts associated with a vCenter. An administrative user can view and select the host devices and their guest VM objects for monitoring; new hosts are automatically discovered as they are added to a vCenter. Key performance indicators are then collected from vCenter and the ESX servers.  

By leveraging the SevOne plugin architecture, all of the SevOne capabilities for polling, monitoring and reporting are available for ESX hosts and VM guest, object or performance indicator. A Quick Status view as shown below can be created with the click of a button, and custom dashboards can be generated from the SevOne Report Manager.  

Through SNMP or WMI monitoring, SevOne can provide an OS-level view inside virtual and physical servers. Users can drill down into the guest OS and see statistics about the OS as well as the processes running on the guest. Using the SevOne JMX and WMI .NET monitoring capabilities, users can also monitor and drill down into the response times of individual application components and servlets, as well as application server resource utilization. SevOne stores raw performance metrics for 12 months to provide complete historical accuracy when needed to review and trend past performance levels.

For more information, download the SevOne VM Monitoring datasheet.