Monitoring, Management, & Performance

eG VM Monitor Listing updated: March 27, 2009

The eG VM Monitor offers an outside view of how the VMs are using a physical server, and an inside view of what is happening inside a VM, using In-N-Out monitoring technology. This technology offers insights into the cause of performance problems in a virtual infrastructure.

A single agent for monitoring the ESX server and all its VMs. The agent license is independent of the number of VMs on an ESX server or the hardware capabilities of the server (i.e., number of processors, sockets, etc.). Support for agent-based and agentless monitoring of VMware infrastructures. And more...

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  • Users' Rating: 4.68 [25 votes] - Vote
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XTS Introspect Listing updated: March 16, 2009

XTS Introspect is an affordable, turnkey data warehouse reporting solution that enables advanced analysis to help you better plan, manage and audit your Citrix farm (XenApp, Presentation Server or MetaFrame XP).

Standard Edition: Perfect for documenting and analyzing configurations and farm policies. Enterprise Edition: Advanced configuration reporting including property matrix reports for easy visualization of server, application and user configurations. Includes report automation, integration with Active Directory and useful “diff” reports to quickly see where configurations have changed over time or after migration projects. Platinum Edition: In addition to the powerful configuration reporting available in Enterprise Edition, this Edition provides historical usage reporting that helps you identify trends, improve capacity planning, and eliminate unnecessary capital outlays for hardware and software licenses.

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  • Users' Rating: 3.25 [16 votes] - Vote
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AppManager Suite Listing updated: March 27, 2009

NetIQ AppManager delivers the productivity and visibility enterprises demand of their systems management solutions while providing the critical foundation needed for safely adopting and exploiting next-generation technologies, such as: VMware ESX Server, Microsoft SharePoint and Exchange Server 2007, BlackBerry Enterprise Server, Oracle Grid Computing, and Cisco or Nortel IP Telephony (VoIP) solutions.

The NetIQ AppManager Suite delivers systems management, including monitoring, reporting & analysis, diagnostics and resolution. It is designed to manage a variety of components – from physical hardware to server applications to end-user response time.

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  • Users' Rating: 3 [3 votes] - Vote
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VMLogix LabManager 3.8 Listing updated: February 23, 2010

VMLogix LabManager 3.8 integrates with the world’s leading virtualization platforms to empower software development and test, support and help desk services, training and education, and sales demonstrations teams so they can build, snapshot, share and deploy production-like environments on-demand. Using advanced automation capabilities, advanced team management and seamless integrations with leading build and test management solutions from HP and IBM, companies can dramatically reduce the manual effort, time and IT resources required to develop, maintain and support higher quality software applications. With VMLogix LabManager, organizations also can avoid being locked into a single virtualization platform and manage multiple virtualization platforms from companies like Citrix, Microsoft and VMware through a single console.
  • Users' Rating: 3 [2 votes] - Vote
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Change Reporter for VMware Listing updated: November 25, 2009

NetWrix Change Reporter for VMware audits all changes and enforces controlled change management processes across your virtual environment. This freeware tool sends a daily report pointing to every change made to your ESX servers, folders, clusters, resource pools, virtual machines, and their hardware, including previous and current ("before" and "after") configuration values.

NetWrix Change Reporter for VMware can be used to get an overview of configuration changes on a daily basis and to improve internal IT governance, prepare reports for your IT compliance auditors (such as SOX, HIPPA, GLBA and more) and finally to audit the creation of new virtual machines to prevent uncontrolled virtual machine sprawl. The commercial version with advanced functionality and technical support is available.
  • Users' Rating: 3 [2 votes] - Vote
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ManageIQ Enterprise Virtualization Management Suite Listing updated: March 27, 2009

ManageIQ's Enterprise Virtualization Management Suite provides the insight, control, and automation needed to manage dynamic virtual environments. EVM Insight discovers and maintains detailed configuration information about virtual resources including hosts, vm’s, storage and virtual networks, uniquely accomplishing the task regardless of the format, guest operating system, or even the power state of a virtual machine. EVM Control provides state-based management and policy-based control for virtual assets at key operations life cycle points. EVM Control ensures the enforcement of IT standards; improves reliability and availability; and reduces risk.

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  • Users' Rating: 3 [2 votes] - Vote
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vFoglight Listing updated: December 17, 2008

An enterprise-class virtualization monitoring and management solution for companies running hundreds of virtual machines in their datacenters. With built-in awareness of the VMware Infrastructure architecture, vFoglight provides layered views encompassing VirtualCenter, datacenter, clusters, resource pools, ESX Server, VM and datastore levels. It is geared towards helping VMware administrators pinpoint resource contention issues among CPU, memory, disk or NIC. Administrators can drill from the top down through lower layers to uncover problems and, by clicking on alarms, can obtain further information through pop-up windows.
  • Users' Rating: 3 [2 votes] - Vote
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Solera Networks Virtual Appliance Listing updated: June 2, 2008

With the Virtual Appliance, you can turn any server into a network packet capture and stream-to-storage appliance and use it with any number of network analysis and forensics tools to finally see what is happening on your network. The Virtual Appliance lets you see how continuous deep packet capture and stream-to-storage can benefit your organization. It includes many of the capabilities of the Solera DS hardware appliances. The Virtual Appliance lets you deploy on your hardware of choice.
  • Users' Rating: 3 [2 votes] - Vote
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Advanced System Management Listing updated: May 30, 2008

CA Advanced System Management centrally manages your multi-vendor virtual server and cluster technologies. It improves operational efficiency by adapting to changing business priorities in real time by allocating and reallocating system resources based upon set business policies ensuring IT investments are optimized.

It also enables you to dynamically address changing business demands and manage the relationships between virtual and physical infrastructure components-ensuring service reliability and availability. With CA ASM, problems are prioritized based on business impact and automatically repaired to avoid outages. It offers virtualized server management, dynamic resource brokering, unified cluster management, visualization and discovery, policy-based management and performance reporting.
  • Users' Rating: 3 [2 votes] - Vote
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Netuitive SI for VMware Listing updated: May 31, 2008

Netuitive SI self-learns the normal operating behavior and resource profiles of ESX servers and VMs – without any manually created rules, scripts or thresholds. By continuously analyzing and correlating live streaming data from all monitored components, Netuitive automatically identifies any “badly behaving” VM impacting performance of the ESX server. Plus, Netuitive understands normal hourly and daily performance variations, enabling it to forecast degradations up to two hours in advance.
  • Users' Rating: 2 [4 votes] - Vote
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