nworks Smart Plug-in for VMware for HP Operations Manager software

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Future-proof solution - The nworks Collector component provides agentless monitoring of the VMware infrastructure, eliminating the risk of agent software impacting ESX host stability and performance. Because nworks uses the VI API, there is no need for agent recertification for new hypervisor versions or patches, and full ESXi support is provided. Qualified through the VMware Ready testing process by VMware, the nworks SPI is certified as VMware Ready Optimized, providing you assurance that this solution is secure, stable, safe to deploy and offers the lowest integration cost for VMware environments. The nworks SPI version 5.0 delivers native support for VMware’s latest vSphere events and capabilities, enabling an in-depth and comprehensive integration between the VMware infrastructure and HP Operations Manager.

Proactive monitoring of virtual infrastructure resources - Integrate visibility of key VI data into HP Operations Manager:

• Virtual machine metrics such as CPU ready time, swapfile usage and balloon memory
• Physical ESX host hardware sensors such as fan speed, chassis temperature, and power consumption
• ESX hypervisor metrics such as HBA I/O and latency, swapfile performance, and datastore space
• vCenter events on DRS, HA, VM deployment, licensing, permissions, configuration and more.

Comprehensive end-to-end monitoring - The nworks SPI for VMware provides integration of application and service data with the vSphere topology. In addition to comprehensive agentless monitoring, the SPI for VMware leverages data from Operations Manager agents running inside Windows VMs. This breakthrough functionality enables a fully integrated picture, with end-to-end monitoring extending all the way from VI-datacenter, to ESX cluster, to ESX host, to VM, to enterprise applications such as SQL Server, Active Directory, and Microsoft Exchange running inside virtual machines.

Enterprise-class scalability and performance - The nworks SPI includes all the components needed for secure, enterprise-ready operations with a distributed architecture, high availability, and automatic load-balancing, offering continuous monitoring of the largest ESX environments with maximum efficiency and minimal overhead.

Centralized management for licensing and configuration across multiple nworks Collector servers greatly simplifies deployment tasks and ongoing operations overhead for dynamically growing environments. The nworks Management Center manages multiple Collectors, automatically distributing licenses and monitoring tasks as required and dynamically load balancing for maximum performance and continuous monitoring for your business-critical VMware systems.

Extensive report and graph library - The nworks Smart Plug-in for VMware includes an extensive and growing library of reports and graphs for HP Reporter, Performance Manager and Performance Insight. View availability and performance data for virtual and physical servers by customer, location or groups of your own design. Chart cluster and resource pool utilization and host hardware sensor data. Customize reports and graphs to fit your VMware infrastructure needs using HP tools.

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Date last updated: 2009-12-11