We’ve released version 9.2 of ManageEngine Applications Manager and the main highlight of this release is VMware monitoring. We now provide out-of-the-box support for monitoring VMware ESX/ESXi host servers as well as their guest virtual machine instances. In fact, we had previewed this capability in the Best of Interop 2010 show and was a finalist in the Virtualization category.
As you probably know, server virtualization offers many benefits and many enterprises are undertaking virtualization of their IT infrastructure in order to make the most of these benefits. VMware is probably the leading vendor of virtualization software. VMware ESX and ESXi servers are the most widely deployed hypervisors. So it makes good sense to monitor the performance and health of your VMware ESX and ESXi servers in order to ensure your virtual infrastructure is performing as expected.
What do we monitor?
Apart from monitoring the availability and overall performance of the ESX/ESXi servers, we provide in-depth metrics for performance indicators such as
CPU Utilization – get combined CPU usage of ESX server, CPU used by the virtual machines configured to the server, CPU utilization of cores, etc.
Memory Utilization – including metrics such as consumed memory, active memory, granted memory, overhead memory, shared memory, reserved memory, etc.
Metrics pertaining to the data stores of the server
Network utilization stats such as Data transfer/receive rate, packets received/ transmitted, etc.
Disk I/O stats such as disk read/write rate, health
You can also get an idea of the top ESX/ESXi servers in your network in terms of resources consumed. Metrics provided include Top CPU consumers, Top Memory Consumers, Top Disk I/O consumers and Top Network consumers.
While these metrics give you insight into the performance of the server, we also provide a lot of meaningful metrics for the virtual machines associated to each of these servers. This makes troubleshooting easier as you can quickly identify which component is having a problem. These along with powerful reports such as the one shown below can help you analyze VMware server performance trends, and maintain optimal performance of your VMware infrastructure.
The VMware monitoring capability is available as an add-on to Applications Manager and works with both Professional and Enterprise editions. You can download a 30-day free trial of Applications Manager to check out the new VMware monitoring capabilities. If you already use Applications Manager, you need to install the latest service pack to gain access to VMware monitor.
