Virtualization

Photo of EM7 Appliance Consolidated view of performance and availability of hypervisor, virtual machines and supporting infrastructure.

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New in v5.1 – Virtualization Candidate Report provides an at-a-glance view of server utilization for virtualization capacity planning.

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EM7 Meta-Appliances provide a single tool for visibility across all the components of a virtual environment

Virtualization has come of age - growing out of its limited usage in testing environments to widespread adoption across all sizes of enterprise for server consolidation, high availability and disaster recovery. Tools vendors are scrambling to keep up with the demand for robust virtualization management and monitoring solutions.

Building upon the EM7 technology platform for centralized IT infrastructure management, EM7 Meta-Appliances deliver a complete virtualization monitoring solution by consolidating visibility, eventing and reporting for all the critical components of virtualization deployments - from the hypervisor and guest OSes to applications, hardware, clustering, network, security and storage infrastructure.

Key Features:

  • Auto-Discovery of VMWare ESX and Virtual Machines
  • VMWare Dynamic Applications for detailed performance and configuration information
    Via the VMWare Dynamic Applications, EM7 collects and displays information on the configuration and performance of the ESX server and each Virtual Machine, including:

    - # and names of Virtual Machines
    - configuration path
    - Guest OS running on each machine
    - Status of ESX hypervisor and each Virtual Machine
    - Memory allocated, Memory utilized, Share of memory for each Virtual Machine
    - Hardware statistics and ESX version information

    Dynamic Applications are easily customized to collect, event and report against just the information you need, how you need to see it.

thumbnail of server monitoring screen - click for full-size imageVMWare Dynamic Applications provide reports for trending and capacity planning.

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  • Integrated with Event Management for Automated Alerts & Notification
    Example: pre-configured alert set for memory utilized by a Virtual Machine exceeding 90% of allocated memory; autoclear of this event when utilization drops back down below the threshold; easily customizable thresholds, notification and escalation policies
  • Integrated with Systems Management for configuration, performance and availability reporting

thumbnail of server monitoring screen - click for full-size imageExtensive server monitoring features capture system availability and CPU, memory and interface usage for virtual and physical servers.

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