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VM Monitoring | Virtualized Application Monitoring
"With this product introduction, OPNET is addressing an important challenge and risk to data center operations that comes along with the deployment of virtual computing technologies. OPNET is taking a unique approach that will be appealing to many."

Enterprise Management Associates



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VM Monitoring

More and more enterprise IT organizations are consolidating their processing infrastructure by leveraging server virtualization. This offers significant benefits, including reduced operating costs, faster application deployment, and greater flexibility in optimizing resources. Ultimately, server virtualization can enable organizations to do more with less.

These same organizations know that it is critical to ensure good application performance, regardless of what new technologies are employed to deliver those applications. This requires effective application performance management. However, vital application performance management functions can be hindered because most management solutions lack visibility into communications among virtual servers residing within the same physical machine.

AppResponse Xpert VMon restores visibility of all the communications for the applications that are hosted on virtual servers, including communications within the physical server as well as traffic to and from systems outside the physical server. It offers the same industry leading real-time monitoring and troubleshooting as OPNET’s hardware-based AppResponse Xpert appliances, with analytics that automatically identify the root cause of application performance problems. AppResponse Xpert VMon offers a lower total cost of operation (TCO) than other solutions that require an external appliance for analyzing data, including reduced power consumption and a smaller footprint.

AppResponse Xpert VMon restores visibility into communications into virtual machines by spanning traffic from the virtual switch. VM Monitoring with AppResponse Xpert VMon

Key Features

  • No additional physical footprint - runs within the VMware host
  • Continuously monitors applications end-to-end from within the virtual machine
  • Advanced analytics automatically identify the root cause of application performance problems end-to-end, for fast mean-time-to-repair (MTTR)
  • Restores visibility for server-to-server communication within virtualized environments
  • Auto-discovers applications and application dependencies
  • Baselines behavior and sets dynamic thresholds to aid in rapid problem identification
  • Automatically generates alerts based on over 60 performance metrics
  • Provides real-time SLA dashboards
  • Runs on VMware’s ESX and ESXi platforms

Benefits:

  • Restores lost application performance visibility that results from migration to virtualized environments
  • Reduces complexity often associated with server virtualization
  • Provides a unified view into application performance for both the network and server teams
  • Provides unified view of all application communication flows over the WAN, LAN and among virtual machines
  • Provides a lower total cost of operations than hardware-based solutions
  • Integrates with AppInternal Xpert's industry leading application component level monitoring