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: 4.67 [24 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: 4 [2 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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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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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: 1.67 [3 votes] - Vote
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nworks Management Pack for VMware Listing updated: May 31, 2008

The nworks Management Pack for VMware extends the reach of Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager (Ops Mgr 07 and MOM 05) into VMware Infrastructure 3. Completely agentless from a VMware perspective, the nworks solution utilizes native VMware Infrastructure 3 interfaces to remotely gather information from the ESX server farm and VMware VirtualCenter – with no agents on the Host or the Guest. The nworks Management Pack for VMware provides performance, event, state, configuration and topology – including a dynamic service map for OpsMgr 2007. If Microsoft agents are loaded in on the Guests, that data is correlated with the data the nworks MP collects.
  • Users' Rating: 1 [1 vote] - Vote
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Athene Listing updated: May 31, 2008

Athene provides ITIL-compliant capacity management, automatic performance analysis and reporting for UNIX, Linux, Windows and Mainframe Servers. Athene is a scalable Performance Management software for real and virtual environments with the Universal Capacity Planning Module interfacing with all third-party systems management products.

Athene captures and collects performance data from target systems and provides applications that exploit this data for alert management, performance analysis, Oracle and SQL Server performance reporting, trend analysis and analytical modeling for individual servers or Client-Server networks. It provides analysis of current and recent system performance to identify and investigate problems as they are reported and identify what courses of action are required to restore service levels. Drill Down facilities are available to analyze problems, plot trends and report on recorded metrics of system, database instance and session, user and command data.
  • Users' Rating: 1 [1 vote] - Vote
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Enigmatec Virtual Orchestrator (EVO) Listing updated: May 31, 2008

A portal provides end-users with self-service virtual server provisioning based on virtual machine blueprints, and provides administrators with pre-built authorization workflows and policies for virtual machine requests, provisioning, change management, leasing, expiration, and usage. The EVO Portal is shipped as a set of portlets that integrate into existing customer IT portals. Pre-built authorization schemes, service levels, and audit can be customized and extended by the customer, including integration with existing corporate governance tools such as change management and cost control/chargeback system. Simultaneously manage VI3, IBM APV/PowerVM and Solaris Zones.
  • Users' Rating: 1 [1 vote] - Vote
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